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I replaced everything in bag and upgraded my set. I feel like I'm hitting the ball better and a bit farther, but my scores have gone up about 6 shots.

I was thinking that maybe after a few months when I get dialed in the scores will drop below what they were, but it's aggravating to be striking the ball better, but scoring higher.

Just give yourself a while to get used to them! If you strike the ball better, the scoring will come. Is there any particular area of the game where you are accumulating the extra shots?

What do you mean by 'striking the ball better'. If this means anything other than placing the ball more closely to your intended target than your new 'better ball striking' isn't going to help your score. Also, sometimes we upgrade equipment, hit a little further but increase our shot dispersion. What used to be consistent 240 yd drives down the middle of the fairway are now 280 yard drives but with only 60% hitting the fairway and the other in the rough/woods. Of course we forget about the ones in the woods that add a few strokes to our score and only remember the ones we pured 300 yards down the middle fairway and then think we're hitting the ball better.

As to why your score actually dropped, I'm guessing that you were probably a decent ball striker to begin with (before your new clubs) so changing clubs and marginally improving one of your better qualities isn't going to help your score. I can only guess that you had high expectations for your new found power game and lost focus of the part that affects scoring the most - short game and putting.

i have been hitting ball better for last two months and it has taken a bit of readjustment,i was hitting 180 to 200 yard drives but now 200 to 220 yards and my scores went up,this was because of a few factors,longer drives = shorter distance to green and if its a short par 4 then i don,t even have a full shot,my pitch wedge is going as far as my 9 iron did,my improvement means that i got worse but the good news is i have got better as i have practised to adjust to proper club ie par 3 6th was a 7 iron but now 8 iron par 3 16th was a 7 iron but now an 8 iron,perhaps you mean hitting better is hitting longer and if so then readjust,i find using a club too low puyts doubt into the mind,the pros know how long each club goes and they take a full shot,maybe you could go up the range and take a note of how far each of your new clubs go,hitting longer for me on my short coures meant closer to green so practising my short game has brought the scores

Hitting longer dosn't mean better, not by a long shot. The marketing people want you to think that, but it is not the case. Loft's are stronger now so there fore your new 8 iron has the same loft and length as your old 7 iron. Basically the same club, just different # stamped on it. This is actually bad for scoring becuase not even pro's can hit from 150 and out close enough to the pin to make the next putt on a regular basis. Now you have just tooken one of your scoring chances away. It is hard to find club's these days that are not strong in lofts, mostly the club builder's is the way your going to get a scoring set. I think the mp32 from mizuno have weak lofts and with a 48* Pw. I have a order in now for wishon 550's forged irons that I went back to old time lofts. Even with a 50* pitching wedge to get rid of the gap wedge and open up an area for a 64* wedge

You may be so excited/happy that you have new clubs that you are now neglecting your short game, because you are pleased with your better ball striking.

I think this is the most likely scenario, based on watching a couple of friends who change drivers and irons like I do my socks. LOL. They love to boom the shot, but never work on chipping and putting...and it shows.

What I mean by striking the ball better is that I now hit the ball flush most of the time, whereas before I really wasn't getting good solid contact. I switched back to steel from graphite, never really liked the graphite.

The problem is on approach shots, usually going longer than before, and now more of a straight to draw ball flight, before was always fade, sometimes straight.


I have always been good around the greens, but have gotten better with the new wedges. I was just curious if anyone else had experienced the same thing.

I know it will take some patience, but I want the birdies now!

this is most likely the problem.

So basically you're overhitting your approach shot and have changed your ball flight from fade to draw? If your hitting the ball flush more often then obviously you gained some yardage, maybe 1 club, so just take one less club on the approach, right??? I might be sounding dumb, but I still don't fully understand where you're losing strokes compared to before.

By the way, what's your handicap?

I'm sure once I dial in the distances on the new clubs, the scores will come down. Thanks for the input.

From my experience and listening to other golfing pals a period of three months is not uncommon when coming to terms with a new set of sticks. "Things were not made to be easy".

Shot a 90 today with the new clubs, really getting the distances down now and hitting the greens again, next stop 80!

Yes...I got new clubs and was hitting sweeter and more straight....right over the greens...it took awhile to dial them in and am still doing so...my last set I had for 6 years and distances were old friends...I still forget or don't trust the new ones yet...time time time

All irons I feel take time to get used to. Depending on how long you played your last set you probably knew them like the back of your hand. That is why you see all these old guys at the course with these old school irons cleaning everybody's clock. They know these irons backward and foward. With better ball striking means better distance. You just need to spend some time with them and get dialed in and then you'll be good to go on lowering the scores.