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I'm thinking about strengthening the lofts on my MP-14's. The specs are as follows:

Iron 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 PW
Loft(°) 17 20 23 26 29 32 36 40 45 50
Lie(°) 55 56 57 58 59 60 60.5 61 61.5 62

As you can see, the lofts are about 1* weak in the longest irons, graduating up to 2-4* weak in the PW lofts.

I'd like to space them out so that the 5-PW lofts are strengthened but am not sure exactly what the optimal approach should be. I like the height on the 3 and 4 iron, so they would remain the same.

Any sugesstions??

Have you hit each of these clubs and measured the carry distance for each? Carry distance is what you want to have an equal yardage spacing, not the loft of the club. Sure, you can bend the loft angles, but you might end up with some strange yardage gaps between clubs if you do. I'd think the lofts of those clubs were set the way they are so you'd have even yardage gaps between clubs. If you measure the yardage for each of your clubs, and you need to adjust to loft to even out the yardage, that's a good idea. But I wouldn't do any bending until you know how the carry distances check out now. Also, before you do any bending to strengthen the loft of those clubs, remember that if you do that you will also be reducing the bounce angle of the club, and you might end up with a set of irons that DIG into the ground on every shot. Something tells me you wouldn't be too happy with that result. Maybe those heads have enough bounce angle that you can afford to reduce it a few degrees, maybe not. You might want to check out the bounce angle for each of those clubs before you procede any further.

Thanks,

I've decided to tweak my pw and gap wedge. The former one degree stronger and the latter one degree weaker. This will put me at 49* and 53*. My last wedge is 58*. Not a bad spread. Bignose almost tore me a new one in a reply-- it was rough but well informed and I've decided to take his (and your) advice and not mess with the lofts other than the afore mentioned.

The thing is the trajectory of these clubs is in nose-bleed territory. Maybe new shafts, higher kick points?