The clubs, which come in 4 through 9 iron with pitching and sand wedges, have Senior A flex graphite shafts and Tacki-Mac Jumbo Arthritic Grips. These are the irons only.

Perhaps not helping the where-to-start-your-iron-set question is the movement to stronger lofts across all irons today. A decade ago the average loft on a game-improvement 6-iron was 29 degrees.

One hole later, he could have used a 9-iron. He was 164 yards from the green and instead was forced to reach for a wedge. Thomas gave it all he had, he said, and he reached the green and two ...

Hardy might have walked away with a completely bent 9-iron iron, but he did give himself an excellent look at birdie. He sunk the 11-footer and posted a 6-under 65.

In the video above, Najar says for a long bunker shot (in this case, one from 30+ yards), using a 9-iron can be an effective club option — as long as you know how to use it.

More recently, many Japanese brands — Honma among them — have referred to their pitching wedges as 10-irons. That’s because many of the clubs that were given the 10-iron tag were in sets ...