ML-04 · Irons
Irons: stamped loft, delivered loft, lie on the jaws
A set is a ledger or it is a drawer of nicknames. We clamp four through pitching — or five through pitching — write every stamp, every delivered loft, every lie, and only then decide which hosels move.
| Head | Stamp | Often delivered | What we do |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5-iron | 24° | 22–23° | Restore toward a true step |
| 6-iron | 27° | 25–26° | Watch the 5/6 collision |
| 7-iron | 30° | 28–29° | Most common Allentown complaint |
| 8-iron | 34° | 32–33° | Keep the 7 honest first |
| 9-iron | 38° | 36–37° | Leave room for the wedge |
| Pitching | 42–44° | varies wild | Do not let it eat the gap wedge |
Those “often delivered” bands are a pattern, not a promise about your set. Your mill ticket will not copy a blog table. It will copy your heads.
Lie is a machine number
We do not read lie off a board in the parking lot
A lie board is a rumor with paint on it. The jaws give an angle you can reseat. Toe-down on a 7 for a taller Bethlehem player is a real spec; “looks a little upright on the carpet” is not. Maren Troxell owns this ledger. She will refuse a two-degree lie yank on a cast neck that already shows a wrinkle.
Strong-loft modern sets can still be honest internally — every head equally strong — and still be a problem because the pitching wedge is now a 9 and your gap wedge is unemployed. That is a gapping call, not a morality play. We write it. You decide whether to weaken the set toward older numbers or to retitle the bag and add a true 47.