Advise on Adams Golf Clubs
It's Clem Fandango, can you hear me?
Adams are a great range with consistently good models, and usually break down like this
"Blue " clubs, and shafts to a greater or lesser extent, are game improvers. I have an Adams Idea (2014) and a much older A7OS. I'm selling the Idea soon, you can prise the A7OS from my cold dead hands. Or buy this one
Rest assured that aint me selling, nor is it anyone I know, but if you want an easy to launch, easy to control hybrid you'll not go far wrong with these sorts of clubs. The Blue is an update to this range.
Then you have the red clubs, even the latest Blue sister model was called Red. These are aimed at players who want more shot shaping control, ostensibly "better" players but the Adams range is so good it'd be difficult to say it should only be their preserve. So when you look back and see XTDi etc generally speaking that's where they're aimed.
Then there's the Pro range, which as expected is aimed at better players. And the Pro Mini, which are smaller versions of the pros and again, getting ever more likely to be picked up by better players. There are also Tour Issue versions, which are better again.
The Super Idea was a change with a white crown, the LS version was a narrower version of the S, which actually looked more like a fairway wood. Think it's the Proto 9051 (number could be wrong) that was popular with better players.
Then there's a few oddities, like the yellow "peanut", which was very popular. Speaking of which if you're looking at older versions they used to mae a "Boxer" version, which was a bulkier, easier to hit version. Also they made e.g. A7 and A7OS, the OS stands for oversized and as you can imagine are a bigger and easier to launch version. The Tight Lies as you can imagine had a less rounded sole, so could be picked off tighter lies, I guess it depends on whether you want a resue out of the thicker stuff or something to launch at a green from a tight fairway.
Phew, that's not even all of it but a potted history. I'm sure others will be along with their take and may even disagree with some of my perceptions. What few will disagree on are the fact that they are by and large an excellent make of hybrid and you really can't go too wrong. For me their success is down to using good quality shafts. Proforce, Graffoloy, Bassara, they all do slightly different things but the point is they're all pretty good quality, excellent quality for the price point. Yes you may get better, by my word you'll pay for it and the gain may be so marginal as to not be noticable at certain levels.
