Consistency is a key to success on the golf course. Regardless of how consistent your swing is, if your equipment is not equally as consistent, your scores could suffer.
Consistent distance from your irons is a key to lower scores. The loft of your clubs is the single most important specification related to distance. To gain more consistency from one club to the next, have the lofts of your clubs checked by your golf professional or clubmaker. Often there are not uniform loft ranges from one club in a set to another. When that is the case, distances are not consistent from one club to the next. Think about it...does it make sense that there may be a 10-yard distance gap between your 3-iron and 4-iron and a 15-yard gap between your 8- and 9-iron?
If it seems like there are a couple of irons in your set that you hit the same distance, it could be a club specification problem and not a swing issue. If it seems like you sometimes need one more club on approach shots than your playing partners, it could be the loft of that club that is causing the problem.
Improve the consistency and performance of your irons by having the lofts adjusted so that they are progressively consistent throughout the set. A check of the loft angles of your clubs will reveal any irregularities that might be causing distance problems on the course.
A ball flight analyzer will help determine the best loft settings for your swing. Let's say your iron set is 3-PW. If you hit the 3-iron 210 yards and the wedge 130 yards, there is an 80-yard gap in your set. Each gap equates to just over an 11-yard difference. Adjusting the lofts of your clubs so that you hit each club 11 yards longer or shorter than the next longest or shortest club will add to distance control and consistency.
Each degree of loft change generally is a two- to three-yard change in distance. Have your golf professional check and set the lofts of your clubs. Lower scores will prove that progressively consistent clubs do indeed produce more accurate results.