Iron walk
May sat. July walked. The swing did not change.
Mid-irons on Fargo municipals are the reason this room exists. Freeze-thaw poa kills the hop. Black-dirt heat gives it legs. We write both seasons on the same sheet so you stop treating weather as a personality flaw.
A 7-iron that “always sits” is a May story. By the second week of heat, thatch is gone, the crust is glassy, and the first hop has a second bounce. Walks of 10–16 feet show up on heads that were saints in thaw. Golfers buy stronger lofts because a monitor showed carry. Then the walk eats the back collar. We start with hop height, then walk feet, then loft — in that order.
Strong-loft sets are greedy on this prairie. They arrive with less spin than the number on the sole implies, hop twice, and crawl. We will bend weaker if the cluster allows. We will not shame you for owning them. We will write 14′ on the sheet until the number drops.
Gapping here is a walk problem as much as a carry problem. Two irons can carry four yards apart and walk in a way that overlaps on bake and gaps on thaw. The prairie calendar has to sit on the card or the card is a fiction.
Bring the 6 through 9 at minimum. A single iron is a Frost Tick. The set is a Prairie Walk, minus the putter, which does not hop.