I received the irons shafted with FST Silver Stiff shafts, I immediately re-gripped the irons, installed TT Sensicore inserts, a kind leftover from the Internet boom, and I happily trotted to the range on the weekend. First thing I noticed, my 7 iron flew 20 feet higher and 15 yards longer with the first swing. The next 25 balls landed with +/- 10 yards in distance and +/- 5 yards dispersion left to right. The 7 would hit down range around 160, take two forward bounces and roll to a hair over 170. Distance, check. Control, check. I went down through the 8 then 9 finally PW. Each club consistently 10+ yards farther with a consistent high 5 yard fade. I was feeling really good about my purchase so far. These clubs are considered “Super Game Improvement” irons by Golf Digest and other publications but they out-perform the Taylormade and Callaway equivalents at twice the retail price, almost twice anyway. Now came time to hit my nemesis clubs, the 5 and 6 irons. It was something mental, it had to be, anyway, now that I’m good and warmed up and feeling quite confident in my swing and clubs so I just lead with that. I hit 10 perfect straight long 6 irons and couldn’t wait to wail on the 5. I put the ball down and hit the most pristine 5 iron I have ever hit in my golfing life. I felt an actual springboard effect as the ball left the clubs face and went straight down the range the coming to earth on the other side of the 200 yard marker. I hit 270 balls that day, of that maybe 10% were terrible.
I played my first round of golf with them a couple of weeks later in Powell River,BC. The performance from range to tee box is impressive. Solid impact and true flight on every iron. With the big distance boost it made me have to start thinking through my bag which I enjoyed a lot more than just hitting my 7 iron over and over.
The Polarity hybrids are and continue to be a thing of genius. I challenge EVERY clubmaker out there to match the forgiveness to performance ratio that Clay Long managed to design into these clubs. Whether I was in the woods off the tee, in a fairway bunker or in 6″ fescue these hybrids cannot shank a shot. Believe me I’ve tried.
I played these for a year and now use them as my winter clubs in Vancouver where carry distance is at a premium because you get little roll (in the winter months). Dollar for dollar I can’t think of a better set of clubs for the guy or girl that is looking for jaw dropping distance and game improvement through common sense design.

Marco on the Nicklaus Polarity HCT irons.