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Forged irons making comeback on tour

By E. Michael Johnson
Golf World

Wednesday, June 30, 2004

When the U.S. Open was played at Shinnecock Hills GC in 1995, Corey Pavin not only became one of the few golfers to win a major using a set of cast irons (Cleveland's VAS model), but approximately half the field also used cast. "Players' clubs" (read: forged) no longer were the prohibitive choice of players. A look into the bags of those competing in the 2004 U.S. Open nine years later, however, revealed that forged irons were used by 66 percent of the field two weeks ago at Shinnecock. The b ...

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