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Originally Posted by ringin
Having no friends who play golf left handed, I've never had a chance to try any hybrids on the course, but I've been thinking about just buying one for months now and I've had my eye on one of the Callaway X hybrids, like Phil uses. As if by fate, I was reading xnavyct's thread about cheap hybrids, when I received an email from Callaway Preowned. There I found an almost brand new Callaway X Hybrid 21* for $85 including headcover and stiff Callaway graphite shaft. It just arrived yesterday, but I'm hoping that if this club turns out to be worth keeping, that I can dump my 3 and maybe even 4 iron. I'll post a review after I've worked with it a few times.
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Welcome to the 21st century!
I think you'll like the hybrid. It takes a bit of getting used to, both in the sense of how to hit it and saying farewell to the 2-iron, or 3-iron, or whichever club it's replacing. It's a little weird not having a "traditional" set of clubs anymore, but the hybrids really do outperform the long irons plus they have many other uses as well.
They work off of tight lies, fluffy lies, lies in the rough, lies in the sand; plus they're very useful for punching out from under tree limbs and you can even chip with them. One thing about the chipping: hybrid faces tend to be very lively and a chip struck with a hybrid will really jump off the face as opposed to one struck with an iron of the same loft, so if you're planning on using it as a chipping club, I'd practice with it a bit to get used to the difference.
All in all, as much as I hate to admit it, in the case of the hybrids, technology really does beat tradition.
-JP