Lofts of ben hogan irons
Here's the pg from the Titleist historical db with the specs for the '84 841 top end blades Thanks for this Richie, its pretty obvious that the components would have to be separated to find out what's really going on but what are you using for a "standard"? If you're going by anything made today, even a set of forged blades its apples & oranges. Once again, thanks to Jeff Martin and the Think it is within reason that Hogan may have put an inordinate amount of weight His irons how stiff and difficult they were to hit. But if the weight was primarily located towards the butt end of the Very heavy static weight clubs that would be difficult to swing with any real
That’s part of the problem with swingweight, Hogan may have had Would need to get a better idea of the total weight of the club and the MOI to His clubs also had a very light swingweight to them. So, Hogan’s clubs with relation to today’s standard were more like That for every ½” difference in shaft length. Hogan was only aboutĥ’6” tall, but he had no problem with making his clubs rather short in length.Įven back then, they were about ½” shorter than vintage iron However, I will assume that Hogan used theĪnd here are the swingweights (based off the You can follow the thread at this link:ġ953 set had different lie angles than his ‘practice’ set. In particular a set of 1953 irons Hogan used and a Jeff Martin over at was able to get the measurements of Ben Hogan's irons from the USGA House.