The Universal Spec

The build — identical across all nine

Variable	Spec	Why
Shaft	KBS Tour Lite · R	Right weight band, and no upcharge — he can order the shaft he actually hit. A demo built on an upcharge shaft creates a gap between what he felt and what he can afford.
Length	Standard + ¼″	Covers 5′9″ to 6′2″ in one kit. The shorter player grips down and plays it at standard; the taller player plays it full. A standard-length demo leaves the taller man hitting something too short and blaming the spec.
Lie	Standard	Held fixed. Read sole wear rather than fitting it — toe-down on the short player and heel-down on the tall one is lie showing up, not the head failing.
Swingweight	D3	Easier to add lead tape than to remove metal. D3 tests both directions; D3.5 tests one. Carry tape — and record every man who asks for it.
Total weight, 7i	375–385 g	Light static, heavy head. The inverse of the senior category, which sells light static and light swingweight — a club he can carry and cannot feel, so he swings harder to find it. The whole sensation of this kit lives in that contrast.
Grip	Standard, ribbed · marked at ½″	The mark is the test. Most players never grip down and their glove heel pad shows it.
Head model	Visible on the club	He has to know which one he just hit.

The nine clubs

4-iron — the club he has been told he cannot play. If it flushes, the story dies in his hands.  7-iron — his reference; every golfer knows his own.  Approach wedge — turf, feel, and the band where the round is actually lost.

All three heads are solid forged. No polymer fill, no hollow chamber, no spring face. He is not choosing between real metal and a trampoline — he is choosing how much help he wants inside real metal.

Plus one

One additional 7-iron in A flex — same head as the kit’s best-selling class, same length, same lie, same swingweight. Everything identical except the shaft.

At roughly 72–76 mph at the 7-iron, R is defensible and A is what the industry hands him by default. That is the assumption this entire spec rests on, and one club tests it. If R wins across the first three players, it is a finding worth publishing on its own.

The session — run in order

What he leaves with

Before anyone hits a ball

Loft-gauge all nine on arrival. If one head is a degree off, every comparison that day is contaminated and nobody will know why.

Record the conditions. Ball model, surface, monitor, indoor or outdoor, date. Numbers taken under different conditions do not compare — range balls fly 10–15% short and lose most of it in spin, which flattens apex and descent together, and a mat hides a fat strike. Without the conditions, every number the session produces is an anecdote with a decimal place.

The bag — five clubs

Five clubs: the demo kit’s 4-iron, 7-iron and approach wedge, plus a 13° two-wood and a putter. Played at the swing speed this spec is designed for. Every number below is a club he owns at an effort he can repeat — nothing is manufactured, nothing is a best swing.

Club	Loft	Carry	Total	¾	Half
2-wood	13°	200	218	195	—
4-iron	22°	178	190	170	150
7-iron	32°	152	160	145	128
AW	50°	112	116	100	85

Only two of these are full-swing clubs in normal use. Everything else gets played at 70%, three-quarters, half, or gripped down. That is not a compromise — it is how the bag is designed to work.

Front nine — 3,232

	Par / Yds	The plan — club, and the yardage it flies	Why
1	Par 3 · 173	¾ 4-iron170	Lands short and releases on. A full 7 will not get there and a hard 7 is not a shot. Favour the right — the waterway is left.
2	Par 5 · 520	2-wood218 → 4-iron190 → Full AW112	Three clubs, three known numbers, nothing manufactured.
3	Par 4 · 381	2-wood218 → 7-iron160	Carry it 152 onto the front and let it release to the middle.
4	Par 4 · 356	2-wood218 → ¾ 7-iron, down ½″138	Smaller swing, flatter flight, checks. This is the shot the grip mark is for.
5	Par 3 · 204	2-wood at 70%195	This bag cannot fly a 204 par 3. Land it short, run it up, take the long putt.
6	Par 4 · 345	2-wood218 → Half 7-iron127	Cleanest number on the nine.
7	Par 4/5 · 458	2-wood218 → 7-iron160 → Half AW80	Play it as a three-shot hole and every number is one he owns.
8	Par 4 · 372	2-wood218 → 7-iron154	Smooth, front edge, release.
9	Par 4 · 423	2-wood218 → Full 4-iron190 → Chip15	Fifteen short of the green with everything he has. The gap shows up here.

Back nine — 3,666

	Par / Yds	The plan — club, and the yardage it flies	Why
10	Par 5 · 493	2-wood218 → 4-iron190 → Half AW85	Three shots, three owned numbers.
11	Par 3 · 173	¾ 4-iron170	Same shot as the first.
12	Par 4/5 · 470	2-wood218 → ¾ 4-iron170 → Half AW82	The ¾ 4-iron is what turns an awkward number into a good one.
13	Par 3 · 200	2-wood at 70%195	Same gap as the fifth. Front edge and a long putt.
14	Par 5 · 562	2-wood218 → 2-wood218 → Half 7-iron126	Two woods, then a half iron.
15	Par 4 · 403	2-wood218 → Full 4-iron185	One of the few genuine full swings all day.
16	Par 4/5 · 427	2-wood218 → Full 4-iron190 → Chip19	Take the chip. Do not force it.
17	Par 4 · 363	2-wood218 → ¾ 7-iron145	Best number on the course.
18	Par 5 · 575	2-wood218 → 2-wood218 → ¾ 7-iron, down ½″139	Finish with the shot the whole bag was built around.

What eighteen holes just proved

The library is not a supplement to the bag. It is most of the bag. A player without one could not get around here with five clubs at all — which is why reference swing is a spec field and not a coaching note.

And the demo kit makes its own argument. Three clubs cover three bands, and the fourth band shows up as a hole in the card at 195–215 — the Hinge and lower Advancement, exactly where a 5-iron or 6-iron lives. A man plays this and finds out for himself what is missing. Nobody has to tell him.

The approach wedge carries the round. Sole and bounce decide more of these eighteen holes than any loft on the build sheet.