I don't know what the loft of my 9 iron is. As I mentioned in another post, I don't have a "set" of
clubs. My 9 iron is, I think, a fairly old club, but I'm not really sure. It's a PowerBilt "Fuzzy Zoeller" edition that looks a lot like this:
http://www.sju.edu/~tmoody/fuzzy.jpg But I hit pretty well with it; wouldn't want to trade it in at this point.
I'll keep looking for a 48* PW; it's odd that I haven't seen one in any of the shops, but maybe they sell out first.