Small forged blades custom built for Aaron by Don White of MacGregor golf. Small heads with a big leading edge grind. Helps with Badds decending blow to the ball.

Also has a new 55* in the bag last week. Here are Pics only seen here...

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Can't help but notice how straight his right knee is in the first frame. Thanks for the AWESOME pics.

Thanks for the swing sequence pics!

Very 962. Those were the most versatile grinds I had played with until the Cobra Forged SS. I wish the soles on the Forged SS were a little narrower.

awesome pics, the sand wedge reminds me of the old (circa 1985) Wilson Staff JP SW, I think i still have one in the family somewhere.

I had one of those too, a la Seve at the time.

I think mine ended up groveless after 18 months' constant use as a kid...

Great wedge.

Wow, incredible pics. Can you imagine the average guy trying to hit that 3 iron? I think I would want to quit the game if i had to go back to tiny blades like those. They are sure gorgeous though!

Kevin

Wow, I have a whole new ballstriking respect for that guy

Thanks for the great pics as always.

That new swing still looks strange to me. Still, whatever works I suppose.

I've been fighting the temptation to go over and get set of Don White irons made. Pics like this are making me weaker though. I think my credit card is going to take an absolute bashing at some point soon.

WOW...when I saw that 3-iron first thing came to mind was "Okay, where the butter and toast?". That things a knife.

I feel better now looking at my beat up gamers... I could give those a run for their money in the 'Most Careworn Iron' stakes..

I don't know what that leading edge grind is about though.

Each to their own I suppose.

Wow.. the grinds on those are very interesting. Awesome pictures that really show the small attention to details on Pro-clubs..

Great pics. I know they'd just waffle on about not having a market to sell too but MacGregor would probably sell a lot more clubs if they put a retail version of these into production, far nicer than those 'forgiving blades (M675s?)', i'd take a set of those over 695MBs or RAC TP blades anyday. If they could forge them as soft they'd be a real contendor with Mizuno. I think Olazabal has some really nice looking ones too.

As a BIG Badds fan I am drooling over those pics. His "tour" irons sure look sweet, and the custom wedges look awesome!!!! It's interesting that he was seen in a pic talking to a TaylorMade rep. I heard he was getting paid big bucks each week to use a TM driver but he has swithced to a MACTEC. Also, anyone know if the putter is still a scotty, I'm sure it is but never know.

Thanks again for the best pics of Badds gear!!

Look like a cross between the V-foil MB and 675s without that extreme wing on the long irons and thankfully without that stupid hollow cavity. Shows Mac can still build a nice forging even if all they offer are those dopey Japanese game improvement "technology" messes to the masses.

The man with Badds is not a TM rep, it's one of his coaches!! My mistake.

I agree with you Sandy. I think that there would still be a thriving market for MacGregor clubs if they abandoned some of the dodgy designs and started producing some good, forged irons for the purist.

The VIPs and the Muirfield 20ths were the epitome of desirable clubs when I was growing up; and they even did the forged player's cavity thing well too, with the JNPs.

With the current lineup, you won't see me with a MacGregor club in the bag any more than you'll see me winning this year's Open Championship. If they produced something like in the pics then I'd be interested.

MacGregor's marketing department need to take some history lessons and look at what made the company famous. The persimmon woods are obsolete now, but 'proper' irons certainly aren't.

What's the benefit of the leading edge he has on his irons? It's got a grind I've not seen before

Wow that are some great pics! The 3-Iron looks absolut deadly^^

The grind will help not dig as much. If you have a decending swing path this grind helps as you enter the ground from diging in to fast.

Who is Don White? At The Players, I noticed Steve Elkington's irons had the DW initials. The looked like MP33 grinds, but had no stampings at all, except for the DW and EE initials.

MacGregor's most famous craftsman. Most of the pros over the years had Don White do their irons. Greg Norman (even though they said Cobra), Jack Nicklaus just to mention a couple. I've got three sets that were done by Don White but it costs big bucks through their custom program and you don't get him to work on your set unless you know someone (Barry S. or Jim B. would be a good start). Think at least $8,000 to start.

I love the look of well-worn, broken-in forged irons.

Olazabal has also put a MacTec in the bag (taken out his 905R). I think Macgregor will be making a big marketing push very soon. There's a tour section on their website that still says 'coming soon'. They've probably waited until these two put the Mactec in play before discussing what's in their bags.

Badds is still using the Scotty Newport Oil Can.

The guy in the Taylor Made visor with Aaron is Andy Plummer his swing coach.

Very nice posting! The irons look awesome! Love the swing sequence photos...
May be if there are few more photos of Bad's swing from the address to top of the backswing position.
I would like to know the complete sequence...cause I am doing stack and tilt since the article on GolfDigest.

I have to say, I think Badds is one of the purest looking ballstrikers on tour. Those iron pics look really good. I thought my TP blades were small, but those look to be about 1/2 the size of the TM's. Thanks for the shots and especailly the swing sequence. Looks like the new unorthodox swing published by Golf Digest is definitely working out for him.

Man, that swing sequence is the shizit! If given the opportunity to choose any swing on Tour, I would take Badds'. S&T or not, he's always had a very compact, simple motion that I've admired.

If not for the leading edge grind on that 3 iron, you could clean it up a bit, throw some shaving cream on your face, and get a nice smooth shave. That thing is sick! I shanked a ball just looking at that club.

i have a question i have noticed many players have holes in the back of their wedges, what does that do?

It's called "porting". Porting will subtlely change the centre of gravity of a wedge and result in a marginally lower or higher ball flight (depending on where the port is on the wedge).

it's called "stack and tilt"... a new way to swing, theres a whole article on it in the new Golf Digest with Vijay on the cover

oo ok thanks, i was like what are they for and now i know thanks

I thought I saw Aaron using the MacTec Draw driver on Thursday at the Memorial when I went up. Kind of surprising I think.

Those are hardcore!! love 'em

Al

As far as I know (and i'd be shocked if i'm wrong) Badds uses a Mactec Tour. What makes you think it was a Mactec Draw mate?

Here is his Driver...

That is not a TM rep. He is his swing coach who is the one featured in Golf digest

I agree. MacGregor's current retail lineup is junk. I probably own about 20 sets of MacGregor forged irons. In fact, I am looking at about 5 sets leaning up against the wall right now in my office, all VIP's and Nicklaus models. One day I need to post pictures on here of my MacGregor collection....

Anyway, the 1025M and 1025CM's were the last good irons they made. They should have stuck with that, because better golfers were buying them up like hotcakes. If anyone from MacGregor is reading the blogs, take note: we want "real" forged irons, not those hollow clanky things that they're trying to pass off onto us now.

I have a set of custom grind 1025M's, 2-LW, and I can tell you that they are worth every penny. I got them to do a custom toe grind to look just like the 1991 VIP re-makes. They blended the factory toe with the square toe, and they also did custom wedges. My wedges are stamped "54" and "61" on the sole, and the 61 has aboslutely 0 degrees bounce with heel relief for flop shots. You could hit a flop shot off your driveway with this thing.

Anyway, for the MacGregor purists out there, I hope you enjoy looking at these pics as much as I did, although I would add some diamonds back to the scoring lines.... with a little satin chrome on them, take off that cheap looking black medallion and then stamp a big gold "VIP" in the back, and then you'd have yourself a real set of irons.

It's been said before in this thread, but that 3 iron looks more dangerous than my chef's knife (japanese forged - but not the tour version ), which coincidentally is made by a company called MAC.

I still think Macgregor forged irons look beautiful.

Fantastic Info Easyy
Those pic's are great mate
Addam

Just to be clear: I am in no way affiliated with Interactive Frontiers, but if you google the aforementioned company or "V1 Home," you can download their swing analysis software for free, and you can see Baddely's swing in slow-mo with a short iron and driver. They also have loads of other pros' swings and you can upload your own swing for analysis.

Does anyone know what kind of putter that is Aaron is using? Looks awesome.

I think he uses a Scotty Cameron Newport Oil Can for years. Don't think he's changed mate but I could be wrong.

Does anyone know what shaft Aaron uses on his MacTec?

Rookie question- is that lead paint(?) on the back of his irons? Doesn't look like tape, just gunky. Add a little weight I s'pose.....

crusty

Sorry, I dont.



Yep that's lead tape.

He's either using a Diamana Blueboard or an Accra SC (which he has in his fairway woods).

It is a blueboard in his driver