While the Sumo’s may have relatively good feel for a super game improvement iron, coming from the 67s, you will probably find too much of a drop off in that department. I could be wrong though. You could find these pretty cheap on ebay these days, so might be worth picking up a set to try out for a couple of weeks. At this point, the price probably does not fluctuate much, so if you find you don’t like them and need to sell them again, probably won’t take much of a loss.

Interesting that you would say that you feel it may hurt your iron game. I find that practicing with an iron with little to no feel (relatively speaking) does nothing to help my game. If I cannot ‘feel’ where I hit the ball on the face, how am I ever going to get better? I used to play with MP-33 irons, and made the switch to game improvement irons like yourself. While my scores went up in the short term, I certainly noticed my swing getting a little ‘lazy’ and felt like my ‘good’ shots, were not as great. So, I started hitting the range every now and then with the 7 iron from the MP-33 set. Hit 50 balls with that, and I usually tightened things up.

I would check out some of these clubs at a local golf store, you may find these somewhat closer to the feel and trajectory of the 67s, but far more forgiving: Mizuno MX-300, Mizuno MP-52, Mizuno MP-57 or PING i15.

We reviewed the MP-52s and the Ping i15s a while back. The shaft in the iron is certainly going to have some impact on the feel and trajectory as well, so keep that in mind. Here are the reviews:

MP-52 Review

PING i15 Review

Geesh, this has turned into a blog post in itself! Thanks for the inspiration and let me know how it goes!

Sean

Great for high handycapper, but if you are boggie player, go Mizuno MX

My father is around your handicap and is playing these sumo irons, he absolutely loves them. If you are comfortable at the 25 handicap, do not have a ton of time to practice, they are very forgiving and shot be a very ‘straight’ club. Pair it with some Top-Flite D2 golf balls, and you should be golden!

Replay10, thanks for the mini review, great stuff!

-Sean

and what a good decision I made!!!

I am so pleased I bought these clubs and I highly recommend them to anyone in the mid-high handicap range.

I went to a fitting/demo day and tried out the callaway big berthas, taylormade burners, king cobra SZs and ping g10s

The sumos for me felt the most forgiving – and definitely provided the most distance and loft. They are truly outstanding – especially for them to be better than the more established co’s such as callaway, ping and taylormade.

The driver, 11.5 dymo2, refuses to fade/draw – it’s such a great driver for those that struggle to get some good loft and frequently hit fairways – I thoroughly recommend this driver too.

Try out all the clubs – and you’ll see what I mean!

i am just wondering what would be more suited to me as i am upgrading my irons. these will be either nike sumo or the r7 taylormade.
my handicap is 25 would much appriciate any suggestions ??

rob

My handicap is 30+

thanks

Adam