Adams 2013 Clubs
Emir Ballard
Been a while since I've been able to get myself a birthday present, and so I did this past weekend.
I shopped around for hybrid iron sets, and the a5OS seemed like the best combination of most forgiving to my swing as WELL as my wallet. $200 took 'em away with the help of a coupon.
I most like the fact that this set goes full hybrid to the 5. I'm still just not that comfortable hitting a 5-iron at this point in my life, so that'll help big time. Furthermore, the 6 and 7 are what you might call "semi-hybrids," though they much more resemble a standard cavity-back iron than a hybrid. The 8-PW are good ol' fashioned cavity back irons.
Really handsome set., so it appears...
Most importantly, I really, REALLY liked them at the range, especially all three hybrids. we'll see how they fare on the course when all the snow melts (perhaps next week?)
Thank you for the good wishes. Unfortunately, the nasty weather (expected in Connecticut), plus the fact that I just had a minor knee surgery, will keep me from using them on the course for a little while...
That's alright. All the more to look forward to come March or so.
HaHAH! March has come! And I found an open course in Central Connecticut!
What a joy it is to finally have a cohesive set of golf clubs, and not one desperately cobbled together from various unsavory sources...
The A5OS gave an absolutely superb performance today, especially those three lovely matching hybrids.
Look: Black top and satin silver face on the hybrids. Standard satin finish on all the other clubs. Simple and classic. You may be turned off by the yellow theme of the shafts, soles, cavity-backs, and clubhead covers... but I'm not, I find it to be a handsome looking set of sticks.
Spin: Yeah, I can spin 'em some... I even got one to stick with the 5-hybrid and enough air under it. I'm sure they're no Cleveland CG-16s, but I do like the green action from the lower clubs... when I make good contact anyway....
Well, I'm sure you'd be happy with the tight lies set too, but I think the a5OS is a step up... I think it's a set that will overall just help you get the ball in the air a bit easier. Of course, this is just a set of hybrid irons... you'd have to add your own driver/woods/wedges/putter as I have done... so you might wind up spending a bit more in the end if you go the a5OS route.
Sounds like a nice club. I have a sneaking suspicion this are a limit production run made for the big box stores, rather than a part of the mainstream Adams line up. They did a similar thing with the A4r line of clubs- a cast version of their very popular forged iron set a couple of years ago. That club was a real sleeper and got quite a lot of respect on the boards for a great product for very little $$$
Thanks Moz, I am enjoying them... still hitting in the 89-94 range since that miracle 86 a month ago.
Yeah, you can only get these at the big box stores as far as I know. But that's fine with me. As you might be able to imply from my profile picture, golf is my second sport, and the first one takes a LOT of my dough!
Thank you for your interest, thanw.
First and foremost, it's hard to argue with the value. I think I wound up paying $85 for the set, which almost makes it a no-brainer if price is one of your concerns. If you look around enough, I'm sure you can find the set for a similar price.
My clubs are in the car right now, but going by memory, I don't think the shafts actually say "True Temper" on them. But hey, they're professionaly built golf clubs like any other. They're actually now the oldest three clubs in my bag, and they've held up quite nicely. I'm a fifth season golfer, and I can get some decent backspin and height with them. I don't think I can spin a ball backwards, but that's probaby just me, not the clubs.
I use the lob wedge (60-degree) as my chipper now, which works out well.
Integration with the rest of my clubs is good too. My cavity-back PW goes about 95, and these clubs go about 80, 65, 50 for me, respectively.
Hope this information helps,
Jason
Excellent, rct25. Seems like you and I are of similar ability levels; I suppose it's no accident that we're both really enjoying the same set of hybrids and irons.
Speaking of fitting, I was actually considering taking all my clubs to Dick's and getting them fitted. Am I crazy for wanting to do that? Mind you I'm short (5'6") with long arms for my height; standard really isn't an appropriate size for me.
I've been told that once one starts hitting around 90-ish, they can start to benefit from fitted clubs. I know it's not an expensive set, but $80 to fit a decent set of clubs to my liking? I don't think it's a bad idea...
I have the a70s set. I love it. The 4 and 5 hybrids are so easy to hit it is ridiculous (although I find them almost impossible to fade/slice, but as long as you know it won't do it, you are fine). My buddies who play with 4 and 5 irons are always struggling on the long par 3s, but I hit solidly and catch the green with the high ball flights of these hybrids. I'm not too vain to play a 4 or 5 hybrid.
@ thanw I think I am now on my third iteration of Watson Wedges. They are fine for me and hold up pretty well. I just can never get to ponying up $100 x 3 for wedges when these things just plain work for me at 1/3 the cost of other OEM wedges.
@ walk the course. I am also on my second set of Adams irons- a2's and for a few years now the standard a7's. Very hard to beat in terms of value for money the a7 were only about $400 a couple of months after they came out, which included two very good hybrids. Most other OEM you are paying $600+ without hybrids, so for me it was a no-brainer. It seems a shame that they seem to have gone away from a mainstream hybrid GI set in their line up. Its either players GI with no hybrids or SGI to the max with 4 hybrids+
I play the A5OS irons and found them to be a really great club for a lot less than I thought. I was playing the TM Burner 2.0 and the Adams are better feeling, more accurate and almost as long. I called the Adams site and a rep there told me the gold graphite shafts were made for Adams by Grafalloy. I highly recommend these irons and I almost forgot this set comes with the #3, #4 and #5 hybrids which are the #1 hybrids on tour. Hit them and you know why.
Hey Adams fans (or anyone else who has an opinion). I have a set (OK, 4 sets) of CMBs I've horded away for the future. I've never played the XTDs, but have heard that they're a lot like the CMBs but basically longer. While I don't need the length, I'm wondering if anyone has any experience with boths sets and has a compare/contrast to share? Head shape/dispersion/trajectory, etc. Thanks!
I hit both many years ago and they are two very different clubs. The XTDs (not the XTD Forged) have a very large cavity/frame type structure that moves the weight lower and further back - which helps with increasing launch and lowering spin - an equation for more distance.
The XTD forged is pretty much in the middle of the CMB and XTD. It has a slightly larger cavity than the CMB, but is definitely easier to look at than the XTD. The XTD forged also have the speed slot and some tungsten in the cavity, so definitely lends itself to more of a GI performance with a slightly smaller profile.
I really enjoyed the xtd a tour irons when I got to hit them last year. Still insure when I will get to hit them again at this rate of snow! I thought they felt amazing and we're definitely a club longer than my previous DBM irons but that could have been due to loft.
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Love the XTD Forged and still have a few sets of them hanging around. They are a bit longer than the CMBs but still retain the great feel. Only Adams set that was better IMO was the MB2s. I think I may be one of the few people that could build an entire Adams bag from Driver to Putter and heck I still have a Adams Tour bag to complete the set.
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