Strong-lofted irons require lots of brute force to go along with the square hit in order to yield good carry. So now the thing is this: I can understand how hybrids are easier to hit than 1, 2, 3, 4, and maybe even the new strong-lofted 5-irons. Even now in the metal-wood era, I've got a 25º Spalding Top Flite Intimidator 400 7-wood that's perfectly playable, even with its weird. I guess that I never really got the long-iron replacement concept because I've regularly bagged fairway woods of 20º loft and more, all the way, at one point, to a 29º Stan Thompson Ginty. In other words, the 5-iron is now a long iron, and it's often still not replaced. People often start their iron sets with a strong five iron now, equivalent to a vintage 3-iron.
Now it's hard to find someone who doesn't play hybrids, but for the most part, they're described as long iron replacements. There was no monitor, so I had no idea what I was hitting. I remember hitting some cage shots with them in a shop at Caesars Palace. They were made of titanium rather than steel, painted an orange copper color, and came in four lofts-15, 18, 21, and 24º. These were the TaylorMade Firesole Burner Rescue clubs.
The first hybrids that I remember seeing came out right around the turn of the millennium.
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