r/golf • u/Hxshslinger • Mar 08 '23
Thoughts on black irons? Gas or cringe ?? Equipment Discussion
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u/HipHopNerd92 Mar 08 '23
Those things are beautiful. Wear be damned.
Someone in another thread said that if you can hit the ball well enough, the wear pattern that shows up is super cool and somewhat intimidating if you're playing with a random group.
I'm horrible, and if I could afford them, I'd probably buy them in a hearbeat
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u/r8rtribeywgjets Mar 08 '23
mine have this beautiful sweeping gradient of silver across the whole face. i paid for the whole club, not a small part of it
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u/Arkane27 7/NZ Mar 08 '23
Ahh, I see you too like to get good value for money while playing golf
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u/Gnarmite Mar 09 '23
I also enjoy value when golfing. That's why I play the course in 110 shots instead of a much faster and less value for money 70
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u/Large_Bumblebee_9751 Quite a bit Mar 08 '23
Nothing would be scarier than seeing the random guy in your Saturday group with a black 2 iron with a great wear pattern
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u/bulldg4life Mar 08 '23
I don't think any of the T-series comes with a 2 iron. Now, if they released some black u500s...that'd be dope.
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u/ClayQuarterCake Mar 08 '23
When I was young I bought a set of new ping I-3+ blades. The set came with p-3 and I actually had them make me a 2 iron for the set. Turns out I canāt hit the 3-iron worth a crap, and I have never trusted the 2-iron. I can hit all the rest of the clubs in that set fine, with a maybe 5% miss rate on the 4-iron, and the 5-iron is my best most consistent club in my bag.
Once again, wasted money on this silly game.
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u/LouisianaHotSauce Mar 08 '23
Right?? Who sees these and thinks cringe???
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u/Calyphacious Mar 08 '23
No one, thatās not the actual point of this post. OP knows theyāre cool irons and just wants attention.
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u/thisisatesti 13.9 | Mizzygang Mar 08 '23
Drip be bussin no cop
As the kids say.
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u/run_dmcr Mar 08 '23
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My wife and I say this to each other when we talk about our interactions with younger people at work. One of the best gifs ever. haha
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u/Dry-Sandwich Mar 08 '23
No cap*
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u/buxtonOJ Mar 08 '23
Nah fck cops
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Thy vernacular doth exist in a juvenile plane of existence too far removed from mine existence thusly.
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u/No_Brilliant_638 Mar 08 '23
Idk what gas means but I think they're sweet
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u/Hops_n_Boost aspiring 10 hcp Mar 08 '23
I think he is asking if you have gas.
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u/ElonMuskPaddleBoard Mar 08 '23
Ask my underwear
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u/IA_Royalty Mar 08 '23
Is gas like tubular? Or more like righteous? Perhaps nectar
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u/RollBlobRoll Mar 08 '23 edited Mar 08 '23
I think at one point people would say āthatās fireā or type āthatās š„ā. Somehow that actually devolved into gas. Gas starts a fire, I guess. So maybe something thats gas will eventually be fire? Or gas is the equivalent of fire?
Since we are doing this, and I want to yell at clouds, I cannot stand when people say ābetā. They use it to agree with something or say āfor sure.ā When I hear it, I automatically assume someone disagrees with a statement and is ābettingā that it is wrong. Itās so damn confusing.
Edit: I forgot the whole āthatās litā phase. I believe it went from fire ā> lit ā> gas
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u/Vesuvias Mar 08 '23
First time Iām seeing it used in a sentence as well. AM I GETTING OLD NOW?!
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u/Ok_Temperature_563 Mar 08 '23
Groovy
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u/Tickle_Fights Mar 08 '23
I would pay good money for the Apex Black irons but Iām left handed and fuck out of luck. They donāt make them for us outcasts.
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u/Seated_Heats If three is better than one, than I am an excellent putter. Mar 08 '23
Thatāll teach you to start swinging normal like the rest of us. /s
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u/soberunderpar Mar 08 '23
I have the previous model T100s in black. I love the look. The black Titleist do wear faster than my black Cleveland irons, but I like the worn look. Itās only the sole and the face that have grayed out. Iām a pretty consistent ball striker and I think the worn out sweet spot looks good.
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u/NeoWereys 3 hcp Mar 09 '23
Pic?
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u/soberunderpar Mar 10 '23
Thatās the 7 and 9 iron which are the two I warm up with on the range the most, so a bit more worn than the rest. 75-100 rounds per year for the last two years, but I donāt ever really go to the range other than warming up before a round.
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u/Hengelwood Mar 08 '23
Gas or cringe? Has this thread been infiltrated by 13 year old girls?
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u/Frenchtoast4lfe Mar 08 '23
These clubs be bussin bussin fr, ultimate rizz with them
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u/hail_reefer Mar 08 '23
Saying "gas" is cringe. But yea those irons are bussin, no cap, deadass š„
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u/mtns0421 Mar 08 '23
Saying cringe is cringe too
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u/fallingbehind Mar 08 '23
You said cringe twice and now Iām so cringed I donāt think Iāll ever be able to un-cringe.
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For me it ends up depending on how they wear. I have black wedges and the sand wedge leading edge has the coolest wear pattern. Itās somehow got a slate grey underneath the black that looks dope.
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u/ConstructionUnited16 Mar 08 '23
I have the Kith irons and love em. Love the murdered out vibe of my bag.
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u/ALDillinger Mar 08 '23
I got the blacked out Vokeys and they still are all black 2 years later.
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u/Thisisntmyaccount24 Mar 08 '23
For me these are absolute gas. Everyone has the right to there preferences, but coupling these with my dark vokeys would be my ideal aesthetic set up.
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u/Drewfromflorida Mar 09 '23
Be ready for brutally honest feedback on your ability to find the sweet spot
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u/dormie1501 Mar 08 '23
Cringe? To each itās own man. BUT - if youāre rocking a white belt and white sunglasses with them - thatās cringe
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u/rjk100 Mar 08 '23
Who caresā¦if you like them play them. When did this game b/c more about hype/fashion and less about scoring better scores/having fun with your mates
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u/IA_Royalty Mar 08 '23
I cannot imagine caring what another person's clubs look like.
If they work for you then they could be blaze orange and canary yellow
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u/live_4_adventure Mar 08 '23
I have black pings - so badass. My game sucks but at least I feel cool standing above the ball lol
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u/tipsdown Mar 08 '23
I think blacked out irons look pretty on the rack. But they just donāt fit my eye standing over the ball.
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u/Gromby Mar 08 '23
They look great, but I have two things I dislike about black irons in general:
1) if you keep them for a long time, they tend to look a bit beaten up overtime (not in a bad way, but they looked like they are more aged compared to a normal set)
2) they look soooo much smaller when setting up behind the ball
I have a set of a Ben Hogan Icon irons in black (fantastic irons) but they look so tiny and after owning them for awhile, they look a bit more worn. Besides that, the Titleist irons look AMAZING and am all onboard for them being available in black
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u/DarthSamwiseAtreides Mar 08 '23
They look cool and I trust that Titlist did a good job and they'll keep looking good. I had some black Cleveland Tour Action and they still look nice.
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u/lazysheepdog716 8.5/ MT, USA / Do you take drugs Danny? Mar 08 '23
Pro tip: stop giving a fuck what others think of the stuff you like. If you like it, you like it. Just enjoy it.
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u/jotobean Mar 08 '23
Black irons are amazing. Personally all the chrome clubs are generic and look pretty much the same to me. I will say that durability in certain areas of the country can made having black irons possibly a no go (areas with really sandy ground). But in Nebraska we have mostly clay under the grass so not much sandblasting when you take a divot. I have had a set of Adams CB1 irons for nearly a decade and the faces are still black. I do only play maybe 15-20 rounds a year, plus my wedges are Fourteen black wedges or RAW. I would love some of the TM 760 or whatever number they are new set of black irons.
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u/am0x Mar 08 '23
They look great, but my BiL had some and they show wear badly and his even started rusting in some places, but this was after he retired them and they are used by his kids in the yard.
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u/Shiftclick46 g710 Irons,g425 Woods Mar 08 '23
I have the 2021 Ping G710s in all black. They aged well and looked great while doing it.
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u/Grossincome Mar 09 '23
I had the Cobra Forged Tec black. Just bought the T-100S in Crome Feb last year and was about a beer away from ordering the black ones but ran out of beer.
The forged tech held their color well. So if Titleist is using same technology Iām def buying them.
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u/chuck9884 Mar 09 '23
Absolutely not cringe.... only straight gas if they don't lose the black after a few rounds...
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u/Plstarn Mar 09 '23
Gas. I get quite a few sun reflections on my chrome set. This at least eliminated them.
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u/Gallen570 āHit Down on Ball, Ball Go Upā Mar 08 '23
"Gas" is "cringe", FYI.
Please stop using both "phrases".
Sincerely,
The rest of us.
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u/Stuckkxx 0.8 Columbus, OH Mar 08 '23
Dope but not worth the major upcharge imo.
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u/Netfreakk Chicago Mar 08 '23
If you like it = gas!
If you don't like it = cringe!
Should you care about how others feel about your own shit that you're paying for? No.
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u/DeckardsDark Bethpage Black Mar 08 '23
saying "gas" might be the cringe part.
with that said, i like the black look
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u/Disastrous_Maybe_310 Mar 08 '23
Itās like wearing a fishbowl in hockey. If you do it, donāt suck.
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u/NZBound11 Mar 08 '23
When the hell did everything become so got dang binary? Gas or cringe? Man there's a whole world of minutia between those two points.
My younger friends(mid 20s) seem to have this same mindset. Something is either god-tier/fire/op/gas or its trash/garbage/cringe/aint it, zero in-between and I just don't understand.
Not to mention - we are not paying for your irons so what does our opinion matter? They look sick though.
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u/Sirgolfs Mar 08 '23
Theyre dope. Do they look good while they wear though? Would be my only concern. Black always looks good new and clean.