Callaway Big Bertha irons are supposedly made to help out the duffer. They have big heads with a large metal sole behind the strike plate. Their design follows a lot of modern irons, only bigger. This gives them a large sweet spot to help reduce hitting inconsistency. I fit the description of the golfer for whom these are made (usual score ~95 per 18 holes) and I found that they live up to their reputation. They seem well made and they indeed have a big sweet spot and if you get the club head near where it is supposed to be, the results are pretty good. Like all clubs, they cannot cure really bad swings, so the results are not always perfect. I also find that the big heads take a bit of getting used too. I have to be careful about hitting "fat" shots (i.e., striking too much turf). I also find that the club heads are heavy enough that my touch on pitching is off because the ball goes farther than I am expecting. In all, I think the clubs are pretty good and would recommend them for the casual golfer.Read full review
These irons do exactly what they claim to..Forgive. The most forgiving club I have ever used. Iam a high handicap golfer, but these really helped my scores. I went one week with my old irons to a course that I frequent and shot a 98, went the next week with the BB's and shot an 88. Maybe it is just a mental thing..maybe not. But I really enjoy playing with these. The only negetive thing I can say about them is Callaway's stock grips are'nt very good. I replaced the with winn Xi7's and, WOW! What a difference. Overall, a great game improvement iron, low handicap golfers would obviously stay away but if you're like me they are a must have.
I had been using Ping Eye 2's for 20 years and my age was getting to me so I bought 6-10 Big Bertha Irons with flex graphite shafts on ebay for about $15 a club and I'm hitting them great. Now I have picked up four Bobby Jones by Jessie Ortiz hybrids so I can get the ball up so it won't roll over the green from 160-180 yards out and thus rebuilding a golf game for an old man. Someday you will understand if you are 55 years or younger. Look forward to light flex shafts and 160 yard five wood or three hybrid shots.
I am a beginning golfer and I want to get better at it. I have been playing two years now and I wasn't getting any better. My fist mistake was thinking that I was going to be good at it and buying a set of used X-14 Pro Series irons that I never got confortable with. I am 5'5" and had the irons custom fitted (-3/4), but was never able to get consistency out of them. I started looking for a game improving set of irons. I did alot of research on the '06 Big Bertha irons and read alot of good things about them and fell in love with the pictures of them. I bought a set with the uniflex steel shafts for half the price on eBay that were in near mint condition and when they arrrived, I immediately started swinging them. You can't beat the prices on eBay. Let me tell you, the irons feel just right. They are absolutely beautiful. They are exactly what I needed. Upon my first trip to the range, I was able to see what these irons could do. I read somewhere that one of the cons was not being able to work the ball. I couldn't work the X-14's, but I was able to hit high fades and draws just by simply positioning my feet and adjusting the swing path with the Big Berthas. These clubs are extremely easy to hit. What amazes me is the fact that I don't feel I will need to have these custom fitted. I don't know if it is the super wide soles on these irons or what, but I feel like they were made for me. I get the feeling that it doesn't matter how tall you are, these irons are constructed to help your game. Accurate? Why, yes they are. Out of a bucket of balls on my first trip, I hooked one and sliced two shots. Not bad, I think. Thanks to eBay, I can now hang with the big boys on the course.Read full review
Paid just over $200 for lightly-used mid-flex 4-5-6-7-8-9-P-A. These are less "sophisticated" than my last irons/blades, but the benefits far outweigh the minor loss of finesse. The club is easy to address properly, by grip shape and the way it naturally sits on the ground. It's obvious when your address and shaft angle are correct. Even though I'm not used to them yet, the cavity and weighting have kept bad swings from producing a single balloon ball. Fat hits are very, very forgiving, as the club head doesn't slow down as much as my previous irons. In fact, I intentionally hit several fat, and no matter what, the club head digs down a bit but then levels out rather than keep going down; so the divot from even the fattest hits is thin and flies way out ahead ... so the head isn't slowing down much and it's not digging a hole to China, either. Interestingly, fat hits also don't tend to wrench the head open, so the trajectory stays pretty good. Another result is the clubs are not at all tiring to play, since there's very little shock or abrupt change in head speed from mis-hits. Same with thin hits; very forgiving and very little vibration or shock. Again, I intentionally hit a bunch of thin ones, and the ball flight was surprisingly forgiving and produced nothing more than a funny sound, no shock or vibration. The weighting produces very nice, very predictable ball flight. I'm having some difficulty choking down on open-stance near-distance P & A clubs, as the clubs seem to prefer smooth, full mid-tempo swings for best ball flight and control. They don't seem to work as well on 1/2 and 3/4 swings, which is probably just me needing to get used to the shafts more than anything. The real sweet spot for these clubs seems to be a smooth, rhythmic swing that's not too fast and not too slow. When you get in that zone, you'll know right away, and it's repeatable from one club to the other. Over-swing, too fast, try too hard, throw the head, whatever, when you get it a little wrong the club still pretty much does its thing but just feels dead. With my last irons, each one had its own character to learn; these clubs are wonderfully consistent across the set. Somebody spent some time making sure the shafts and club heads were well matched. Finally, they work very well in a variety of lies, and I haven't had any trouble picking the ball out with minimal drama. Even if, like all us amateurs, the club head comes in a little too high or too low or in too far or out too far, it still does its thing. If you're a fast-swinging, shot-shaping, PGA Tour pro perfect ball striker, then you'll hate these clubs. But if you're a consistently smooth-swinging amateur without too many vices, they're very rewarding.Read full review