I am 54 now and up until a couple years ago I was still playing with the old Wilson Staff blades from the 80's, I had a 14 handicap and had the irons altered to today's loft and still have my 1-iron in the bag along with a Ping driver and 3-wood. I love having single digit golfers try to hit my clubs, most can't. Oh, I have been in Germany for the past couple years and haven't had time to play. If you really want to see how good you are, take a set of old blades and play a round! :)

absolutely, right. Nicklaus said he had incredible 'timing' that week and, indeed, felt himself 'shut' at the top and he made the adjustment in the downswing. If you look at that shot, he hit a 'slinging' hook in there that short hopped the flag stick. I think Nicklaus' upright action facilitated his downswing adjustments in that he was able to keep his path moving along the target line while he made those minute adjustments to the face angle through impact. Pure genius of the Golden Bear.

@Goynes42 Nobody who didn't see him play can really understand just how great he was. Playing with unpredictable equipment, especially the ball by today's standards, he did everything exceedingly well except his wedge game. I am old enough to have played with persimmon, and the difference from titanium is astronomical. He is the best ever.

@BoHoVsGolf Jack is known for a fade but he could shape the ball in both directions whenever he liked. He's gone entire tournaments hitting nothing but draws. In 1966 for example, he won the Masters playing nothing but a draw. Also remember that even though he's known for a fade, his ball flight was damn near straight. A fade for Jack only moved about 3 to 5 yards right. A friend of mine played in the 1983 US Open and he watched Jack warm up. Said it was unreal how well Jack could hit it.

He mentions two factors explaining why Woods hit 5 iron to Nicklaus' 1 iron: Different golf balls, different clubs. He leaves out two other factors: Today's 5 iron has the loft of a 1972 4-iron; but even more important is this: IT'S PEBBLE BEACH! THE WIND IS WILDLY DIFFERENT EVERY DAY! Nicklaus needed a 1 iron that day; Woods needed 5 iron a different day. Same clubs, same ball, same wind, Nicklaus was probably longer.

I appreciate the good advice as to using technology to your advantage when it counts, but as a stubborn blade user, I would have loved to seen a crack with a one-iron of the period-if just to illustrate the difficulty and even drive home the case of hybrid-use.

An interesting tip but the clip would have been better if it had shown footage of Jack playing the 1-iron shot

I hit my 4 iron 220 yards and my 4 hybrid 215 yards. Im sticking to the blades.

I love the low irons. I use a 2-9 iron set and I am thinking of getting rid of my pitching wedge (which I don't use thanks to my gap wedge) and breaking out my old tommy armour 1 iron that I used to love. Hybrids just feel wrong and I find them extremely hard to back of if you do not need a full shot.

gonna try the upside down club thing . makes sense to regain feel

@2:08 wow, best 30 seconds ever. watch a golf shot then learn how to feel the temp. this guy just gave us gold!

so where's the footage of the shot???????

10 years ago I would maybe try to use some hybrids but now they are way too big. I’ve seen hybrids bigger than my wooden 3 woods.

Laird Small is a class act, whom I greatly respect. What a cool idea for him to do these videos.

This is the same guy that tells you in the pro shop that it will cost you $500.00 to play Pebble Beach

Hey Laird I say BRING BACK THE 1 IRON!!!!!!!!! The club that separates good players from great players and great players from legends in golf

This a great video for many reasons. Well produced, educational, very helpful. My only disappointment was that they did not actually use a 1 iron to recreate the shot. I would like to see a 1 iron shot, not a hybrid club shot. I also think it's too bad people are no longer using 1 irons. I keep using it because it's a cool challenge to see if I can hit it well and I feel like it gives me more control and finesse than a club that does the hitting for me.

Nice Swing ,

First things first, Jack was hitting into a 20+ headwind. Second, Jack said he was shut at the top, and had to hold off the release. Third, his 1 iron had the loft of a modern 2 or even 3 iron, & was probably the length of a modern 2 or 3 iron. Fourth, if you try to hit the old wound balata hard into the wind, it would go straight up into the sky, so he most likely over-clubbed to keep the ball down, Jack say in hid GMW video that he usually over clubs and swings easier into the wind. Sheeeesh.

Where was the recreation of the shot?

Change the title..... What happened to JN golf shot????

Hasn't Jack said for nearly forty years that he felt he took the club back a little shut and was then forced to hold on through the shot? The answer is yes and "holding on" wouldn't produce a pull as Mr. Small suggests. This is a neat series concept but it needs to address issues of fact.

I’m always been a Nicklaus over Tiger guy. Hearing that Jack Nicklaus had to hit a one iron for shots that Tiger Woods hit a five iron for blew my mind. Do you know the difference in difficulty between those two clubs?

Is it weird i find irons easier to hit than woods? I have irons 2-pw and one 3 wood with a driver

@b0x3 Well I'd try them if i'd have a chance but they're so rare

Never showed the actual shot :(

Where's Jack Nicklaus?

The promise of showing the advertised 1972 shot was a tease, it was never shown. Classic "used car" type sales,

so wheres the shot by jack???

I'm 14 and have just started playing and i hate my 4 Hybrid club, so much so i have bought a 3 iron which my golf coach says is a very very bad idea?

@jtschid0910 touche. haha, i rarely play my 2 iron, only for practice on the range, i have a 5 wood in my bag

@KZfaq: Just because there's a "Jack" in the name it isn't a reason to link it with AC/DC!

His job should be to teach you properly, and he is intead saying it is a bad way as to give you the easy way out. I am more then twice your age and I personally started with a 3 iron and later moved to hybrids. Eventually I moved back to my 3 and 4 irons. I still have one hybrid, but the hybrid is too often used as a crutch for people. If you can hit your long irons confidently then you can hit anything. If you still can't hit your long irons then it means you need work.

Was he looking at the camera at 202

i aint no hybrid punk... long live the 1-2 irons

I don't have a 1-iron in my bag. Don't call me chicken, please? Jack is Jack!

A 1 iron then is a 2 iron loft today. So Tiger uses the same iron but its longer than 208 with modern balls.

@MrZshosh i got here from ensiferum and children of bodom

i dont get it

wow

Never showed it. Thanks!

@sendmenosigns You're quite right; it's not fact just because Trevino said it. It's his opinion -- albeit one he is extremely qualified to give. I think we've pretty much beat this issue into the ground; why don't you take the last word and then we'll drop it. (My only hope being that your last word is a polite one, unlike many of the words exchanged in the youtube community).

2:43 droppin' names like bombs round here

@MrZshosh we should hang out, because I did the same thing

I hit irons off the tee and have no problem with using modern golf balls

how the hell did i get here from acdc videos

Hey tough guy...I use a one iron too...im 18...

I thought you were gonna use a 1 iron

I actually really like this guys swing, I'm sure the instruction is valid too (I'm guessing, I never turned the sound up...) about how hitting a hybrid, vs. a 1 iron, makes a LOT more sense for us normal people etc. BUT the title IS annoying especially after you watch the whole darn thing and realise your never going to see Mr Nicklaus' original shot!

They say never make a bet with anyone with a tan and a one iron. At least I have a tan.

This is terrible. I wanted to see someone hit the shot I didn't want to listen to some guy tell me about hybrids.

He adjusted his swing at the top of the back swing? Don't try this on your home courses, kids. NOT for us mortals.

As long as that 3 iron matches the rest of your irons, it's fine. Plus if you play courses with a lot of trees, 3 irons are great for punching out, but you never hit it in the trees, do you :P

One of the best jobs in the world, head pro att Pabble Beach.......

Jack played 1-iron because of the killer wind that day! And here is the genuine article by the great man himself: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pquKasShmJ2ZgIU.html

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@MrZshosh YOU GOT TO ROW, ROW, ROW YOUR BOAT..GENTLY DOOWWWN THE STREAAAM.

Laird is the best in the business!

sevvy balesteros called him "hack" Nicklaus

Never again state that everyone needs hybrids. IT’S ONE OF THE BIGGEST MYTHS IN GOLF THAT FOR SOME GOLFERS IS TRUE BUT FOR OTHERS IS TOTALLY FALSE

I've an average golfer, and I'm never really had trouble hitting a 1 iron. Although I hate woods beyond a 3 wood. I can't hit them well, especially off the deck, but I can't long irons. Go figure.

Hybrids have hurt my game a hell of a lot more than they've helped my game so I only have irons and woods

I'm not looking for easier.

Ja o Lunna

1:35 thats what she said

Wind was gale force the day jack hit that 1 iron, no way tiger would have hit a 5 iron in those conditions, more like a 3 iron for tiger though

How on earth did he recreate Nicklaus's shot? Using a hybrid club with a titanium shaft and a two-piece golf ball? You have a video camera and as many do-overs as you want - at least TRY it...

This pretty much covers why no amount of golf instruction will turn someone into Jack Nicklaus.

FFS. You didn't show the shot.

Wow, and you don't even show his 1 iron shot. Your KZfaq channel should be taken down.

i didnt know that bruce wills golfed

Just kidding of course. Interesting info about "feeling the weight" of the club.

i am terrible at golf ,but i will never use a hybrid !!!!!

how does this show you how to recreate the shot? this dude didn't even use a 1 iron!

@sendmenosigns Actually, haha, yes, he was. Lee Trevino says that Nicklaus, in his prime, using today's balls and clubs, would hit 400 yards. You'll forgive me it I give more weight to Trevino's opinion than to yours.

A tough guy with the name Annie.Hmmmmm

I got here from a yogo video.. wtf

Jack didn't have one of those girly hybrids back in his day and the balls were nowhere near as hot as today. Jack could have hit 5-iron also if he had a ProV1.

These days Bubba or Rory might hit an 8 or 7 iron.

What's changed is Tiger Woods uses steroids. case solved.

2:09 that is such bullshit, the ball went much much higher than that but they cut it out wtf.

yonex 0 iron ftw

Shut up put the club down get back on your mower and let Jack show you how to hit a ball.

Too bad Jack pulled that shot, he might have had a hole-in-one if he had not!

Not even god can hit a 1 iron

shit a crummy commerical

This guy cant even hit the shot Jack hit, so he is trying to tell us that using a hybrid is the way to "recreate Nicklaus's great 1-iron"? Just blasphemy

How did I get here from "A Gay a Day" videos?

The dopey instructor never showed the film of Jack's shot.

thats because he cant hit a 1-iron

@steveevh1 Stop whining... I'm 5'10" 165 lbs and I can hit it just as far as the big guys. You don't have to be strong to hit the ball far. Maybe it's your swing.

I'm 60 and I refuse to play a driver with a head the size of an10lb hamburger. It's embarrassing frankly. If that's what you need to compete why not just hit from the red tees and tee it up in the fairway?

Wasn’t a gust it was his takeaway His words

What a scam. Show the shot!

I wanted to see Jack Nicklaus's one iron shot, not this crap. Sheeesh!

You wasted my time

Why am I watching this? I HATE GOLF.

@latka101 Apparently you don't. And that's fine. Not everybody has to like golf. But a lot of people do...so lay off the "who gives a #$%^" stuff. You're a sad person if you feel like you have to hate other people for playing a game. I don't care much for hockey, but that doesn't mean I'm going to hate on guys who play it. Poor form, latka, poor form.

this is a terrible movie