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Rate these irons

  • 28-04-2014 5:57pm
    #1
    Red Pepper
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,567 ✭✭✭


    Hi, I am planning to take up golf. Somebody has offered me a set of irons (4-PW) and said they were a decent beginners set.
    They are called Criterion and have "Precision S B" written on the back. They seem decent enough and I can hit them ok.
    I am not sure if they are regular or stiff shaft. They have a sticker that says "Parflex".
    What do you think? I do not have a picture of them.


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  • #2
    Benny Cake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,144 ✭✭✭Benny Cake


    If you can hit em, work away. Get a feel for the game and if you like it, you can consider upgrading...


  • #3
    spacecoyote
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,711 ✭✭✭spacecoyote


    Are they offering them to you for free, or what are they pricing them at?


  • #4
    Red Pepper
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,567 ✭✭✭Red Pepper


    spacecoyote wrote: »
    Are they offering them to you for free, or what are they pricing them at?

    €50


  • #5
    spacecoyote
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,711 ✭✭✭spacecoyote


    Red Pepper wrote: »
    €50

    Well you probably can't go too far wrong at that price. I've never heard of them. But if you're new to golf its prob worth a try & if you are bitten by the bug & end up wanting an upgrade you'll prob be able to get a decent minimum trade in from a golf shop for them (I've seen some shops offer minimum €100 trade ins against New irons!)


  • #6
    Red Pepper
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,567 ✭✭✭Red Pepper


    Thanks, I googled them and couldn't find any reviews/references.
    They seem ok and I can hit them cleanly. Will give them a go and maybe upgrade after a year.


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  • #7
    dwd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 249 ✭✭dwd


    Criterion haven't existed since some time in the late 90s as far as I know. they used to have a place in Donegal. My dad had a set when I was a kid and still uses Criterion fairway woods. They where decent enough at the time but considering what you can pick up for 150 secondhand now I definitely wouldn't pay anymore than 50


  • #8
    Senna
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,800 ✭✭✭Senna


    I remember the building in ballybofey, not sure what they did there, where they making clubs there? Assembling?
    Anyway for €50 you can't really go wrong, used to have a criterion putter till a bus ran over it....long story.


  • #9
    dwd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 249 ✭✭dwd


    Senna wrote: »
    I remember the building in ballybofey, not sure what they did there, where they making clubs there? Assembling?
    Anyway for €50 you can't really go wrong, used to have a criterion putter till a bus ran over it....long story.

    I think it was assembly mainly, I guess they must have been buying from OEMs and getting their branding on the clubs, as I remember some sets of irons being near identical to other better known clubs at the time.


  • #10
    gonko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 229 ✭✭gonko


    Sure branding is all hype for the most part at amateur levels I think. My Taylor made burner driver vs my cousins (regal) no name brand really and his one out drove mine in distance and accuracy. In another person's hands it may be the opposite. Big brands does not equal performance. Feel and how you feel about the club's is far more important I think. Once you hitting them decent etc then there is no need to change.


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