Are today’s forged clubs easier to hit?
Yes and no. KZ Golf, MacGregor and a couple of other companies have introduced larger, cavity backed forged clubs with larger sweet spots and more perimeter and sole weighting. The result is a club head that has the same great soft feel with more forgiveness. This has been accomplished with new, high pressure forging presses than can forge the clubs to almost the same design specs as a cast club. The true “players club” is still the blade or muscle back design rather than cavity back. Think of the sweet spot on a blade as the size of a dime and the size of a quarter on a cavity back. The new forged cavity back clubs truly are easier to hit than blades but not as forgiving as a mid-sized cast club. Should you play forged irons? If you are consistently breaking 90 and you are serious about improving your level of play you should consider moving to forged irons. With the forgiveness of the new cavity back forged irons you will not suffer the dramatic loss of distance and accuracy you get
