I was surprised that the M2 was the winner in this brief session. Compact Players Shape. TaylorMade has also put a lot into the materials that go into the RSi 2 irons. It seriously feels like butter when cutting through the ball and the grass. IRON FITTING: TaylorMade P760 vs PSi Tour. I’ve never been a high ball hitter. The edges of the heads are very clean and defined and not rounded like some, which gives a really crisp appearance. You won’t find Hogan in pro shops, as they’re ordered direct from the factory on the internet. The M1 is a fine iron, but doesn’t really stand out in any way from other irons of its class. Feel free to share in the comments below. I thought, “whoa,” that’s not what I expected…did it again…another CRACK and the ball just flew. 3. Distance and performance: This is was where I was curious to see how they would play. And remember that’s an average. Ernest Jones, one of the greatest teachers in golf history, presents his simple yet effective method for improving your swing. Quote. The gritty story of her family’s experience with water rights on its Colorado farm provides essential background about American farms, food, and water administration in the West in the context of growing cities and climate change. While I don’t think I’ll be putting either model in play, I can definitely see the appeal for mid-to-high handicaps. Might be a little harder to hit knock down shots, though. Unlike most other fitting stories we’ve heard, PXG like to look at how you present the head at impact, not your handicap. We also want to thank those of you who provided feedback on the voting process itself. A new “open heel” frees up 5g of weight, helping improve forgiveness. And PXG in particular are bringing the same high-spec equipment to high handicappers as they are their tour staff. Recently we put out the call for our members to submit their WITBs in our forum to be featured on... Patrick Reed’s Twitter suggests that he’s fuming with Stricker’s Ryder Cup snub, 4-wood vs 7-wood vs hybrid – GolfWRXers discuss, ‘My first-hand experience with Bryson DeChambeau’, The Wedge Guy: More on learning – the grip, Justin Rose’s caddie calls into question U.S. player’s graciousness at Solheim Cup, Jessica Korda calls out social media ‘hate’ as rise in online abuse continues, Steve Stricker shares positive news from Tiger Woods’ rehab. I love my 545s, but I could see myself playing M2 very easily. Because blades are so niche we’ve shown our five test models details and data only. – 10-12 yards longer on average vs my 7 iron, it even had the horsepower to hang with my 6 iron Player irons are less often bought on data and much more on feel, feedback and shaping. Srixon badge the Z 585 as “Feel with Distance”. IRON FITTING: TaylorMade P760 vs PSi Tour, Ball speed: 120 MPH Launch angle: 17.4° Backspin: 5809 RPM Height: 29 YDS Descent angle: 45° Carry: 172 YDS. Burner Bubble Tour The iron that helped win two majors in 1996 was also the first iron to gain mass adoption on the PGA Tour. Felt nice and substantial without being heavy. TaylorMade RSi 1 Iron Set. Not painful, just felt very dead. On the sole of the 3- through 7-iron, players will find another slot that TaylorMade calls a Speed Pocket. For shots higher on the face, I was very surprised and happy to see a minimal loss of distance. If you’re a fan, the sub-£600 price tag for this sort of feel and performance blend is very impressive. These irons are all about distance, forgiveness and ball speeds. RRP: from £400 per club Availability: 3 - PW Stock shaft: N/A - PXG insist on fitting you to the best option 7-iron loft: 32° Category: Player. You’re then free to enjoy your prize as you wish. Other than that, the ball flight is also quite straight and smooth. It means you get the same feel as Wilson’s excellent tour-level FG Tour V6, but with extra ball speed and additional playability. The TEC has the strongest loft (7-iron) of all the player irons we tested. Honma has a retailer search on its site to help you find nearby golf stores where you can check out these clubs for yourself. RRP: £675 Availability: 3 - PW (5 - PW stock set) Stock shaft: KBS Tour 7-iron loft: 31° Category: Player. Couldn’t believe how a near-top still traveled to nearly the front edge in the air and still went as far as the M1 did on a good strike For us, the Tour was fractionally higher spinning than our test average and shots descended more steeply, which says it’s well equipped for some accurate shot making and stopping approaches tight to the flag. We loved the sleek satin finish, too. 20g of tungsten weighting in the 3-7 iron lowers the centre of gravity, increasing launch angle without adding spin. One of the many benefits of being a GolfWRX Forum Member is exclusive access to Giveaways and Testing Threads. RRP: £799 Availability: 3 - PW, GW Stock shaft: True Temper AMT White (s) UST Maimiya Recoil ES (g) 7-iron loft: 30° Category: Player. The downside of this is that feedback suffers; in other words, it’s a bit difficult to discern where the ball makes contact with the face, but that’s not to say it can’t be done. The First Ever Guide for Optimizing Boat Systems This guide is invaluable for anyone designing or installing mechanical systems on a new boat, retrofitting an existing boat, or evaluating a boat's operating condition. If you’re the type of golfer who’s always wanted the look of a blade, but the playability of a cavity-back, there’s never been a better time to buy a new set of irons. The exceptional feel continued. Take for example the 7-iron hit here by golfer #1: A 204 yard carry with a ball speed of 133mph. It creates a launch angle that’s roughly the same as the smaller, fully forged PSi Tour irons, which will be the irons of choice for many of TaylorMade’s PGA Tour staff players. I wouldn’t call the top line thin, but it isn’t thick either. Same height as the M2, but much straighter off the club face. I hope these help. Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users. We have edited each of the posts for brevity, clarity and grammar. Take it one step further, I’ve also been looking to put forged clubs in the bag and make the move to the better-player iron category, but I was hesitant for a variety of reasons. I find it easier to set up and align clubs with less offset, so I like this a lot. My first impression of them is that they look really sharp. RRP: £699 Availability: 3 - PW Stock shaft: True Temper Dynamic Gold AMT 7-iron loft: 35° Category: Player. Now that this model is a few years old, there are two places where you can get it at a really good discount. They should offer these clubs in a set of 3 clubs and give you the rest in a coupon toward the 5 wedges you’re going to have to carry. There’s now forged irons aimed at everyone, from Rory McIlroy to 28 handicappers and above. The definition of progressive - the club head, offset and lie angle were designed to provide workability in the mid to short irons and more forgiveness in the longer irons. – Ball flight is very strong (comes off hot). Full Wilson Staff C300 Forged iron review here. While the PSi 7 iron is 2.5 degrees stronger than the PSi Tour irons, it’s 0.5 degrees weaker than the same RSi 2 club. I’m being put-off by the club reviews on this site. Through the years, Taylormade has built some of the most popular iron sets in the game, and the PSi series is their latest entry. A material called hybrar is mechanically lodged against the faces of the PSi irons to remove the undesirable vibrations that are typical of irons with extremely thin club faces. RRP: £573.83 + shipping (£31.10) Availability: 4 - PW Stock shaft: Choose from 4 premium options 7-iron loft: 34° Category: Game improver. They must carry 6 wedges. The M2 just isn’t for me. We fall just on the side of the Tour; we like the finish, it’s got a thinner top edge and they’re going to be around for two years, where MP-18 is likely to be updated in 2019. Verdict: Compared to other players distance irons, the C300 is the only one that can boast of a full forged head, both the P790 (forged faces only) and AP3 (not forged) can't. More distance, forgiveness, performance and feel is now available to everyone. Interdisciplinary and intended for nonspecialists, this book provides a new framework for thinking about foreign political and military intervention in Africa. The clubhead glides through the turf with ease and does well out of the rough. It produced the fastest ball speed among the irons ranked with a 2.5 forgiveness (and joint fastest ball speed among the full forged irons we tested), along with a high, soaring flight and steep descent angle, which in anyone’s book is an excellent all-round performance. 2: Strong lofts don’t mean shots won’t stop on a green.We’ve heard plenty of comments about strong lofted irons giving a flat, low spinning ball flight which means shots won’t stop on a green. DO NOT DELETE: Solheim Cup 2021: The teams, the captains, the course, and more - MOVED PAGE REDIRECT, Golf World Top 100: Best Golf Courses and Resorts, Get two months of Today's Golfer digital issues for free, Get a free digital issue of Today's Golfer's Open preview. Description. The super lightweight hollow-body Titanium clubheads produce fantastic forgiveness and explosive distance. And with these clubs, my expectations were high, very high. Why? The P760s are brand new and replace TaylorMade’s P750 and P770 irons. This standard presents essential procedures for the disinfection of new and repaired potable water mains. You can find all the specs on the Honma site here. The W-Forging process has created a strong face that fires balls off like little rockets. “Inverted Cone Technology” which effectively expands the COR zone, increasing ball speeds over a larger area of the face around the sweet spot. RRP: £1049 (s) £1299 Availability: 3 - PW Stock Shaft: True Temper Dynamic Gold 105 (s) UST Recoil 760/780 (g) 7-iron loft: 30.5° Category: Player Forgiveness rating: 2.5, Ball speed: 125 MPH Launch angle: 17.6° Backspin: 5301 RPM Height: 32 YDS Descent angle: 45° Carry: 185 YDS, RRP: £149 (s) £159 (g) per club Availability: 3 - PW, UW Stock shaft: Choose from 10 premium options 7-iron loft: 30.5° Category: Player Forgiveness rating: 2.5, Ball speed: 121 MPH Launch angle: 17.2° Backspin: 5746 RPM Height: 30 YDS Descent angle: 44° Carry: 175 YDS, RRP: £599 Availability: 4 - PW (5 - PW stock set) Stock shaft: KBS Tour 7-iron loft: 32° Category: Player Forgiveness rating: 2, Ball speed: 121 MPH Launch angle: 17.4° Backspin: 6195 RPM Height: 31 YDS Descent angle: 46° Carry: 172 YDS. The first edition of this book was enthusiastically received by the both the science press in Physics Today, IEEE Spectrum, and Nature and the golf world in American Golf Pro and Golf Week. Kinda what I expected with a club design for lower-handicap players. H Bauer Publishing are authorised and regulated for credit broking by the FCA (Ref No. We’re big fans of PXG – yes they cost a fortune, but we love how they come to fit you and are all about creating a premium product, no matter how much it costs. so not really an apples to apples comparison. I grew up playing forged blades that most golfers nowadays couldn’t get airborne. They have thinner top lines, less offset and shorter blade lengths than TaylorMade’s RSi 2 irons, and feel noticeably softer at impact. A lovely subtle, traditional styled players iron with some serious performance for decent golfers. My expectation going into launch monitor testing was that I’d see a flatter trajectory, lower peak height, similar distance and spin, and a decent amount of help on mishits. Jump to Forgiveness Ratings: 1 / 2 / 2.5 / 3 / 3.5 / 4, RRP: £135 per club 7-iron loft: 34° Category: Player, Ball speed: 118 MPH Launch angle: 17.3° Backspin: 6344 RPM Height: 29 YDS Descent angle: 45° Carry: 166 YDS, RRP: £1049 7-iron loft: 35° Category: Player, Ball Speed: 117 MPH Launch angle: 18.8° Backspin: 6497 RPM Height: 30 YDS Descent angle: 47° Carry: 163 YDS, RRP: £1049 7-iron loft: 34° Category: Player, Ball speed: 119 MPH Launch angle: 17.7° Backspin: 6164 RPM Height: 29 YDS Descent angle: 46° Carry: 166 YDS, RRP: £749 7-iron loft: 34° Category: Player, Ball speed: 116 MPH Launch angle: 17.2° Backspin: 5918 RPM Height: 27 YDS Descent angle: 45° Carry: 160 YDS, RRP: £546 + shipping (£31) 7-iron loft: 34° Category: Player, Ball speed: 116 MPH Launch angle: 17.3° Backspin: 6664 RPM Height: 27 YDS Descent angle: 45° Carry: 159 YDS. PXG might fill their irons with polymer, but TaylorMade were filling their irons with foam back in 1993 for forgivness with a solid feel. Logic says our pro shouldn’t like irons at this end of the spectrum; he’s a traditional blade fan. The PSi irons look very similar to the RSi 2 irons, with fairly thin top lines, identical offsets (progressive), slightly weaker lofts and similar sole widths â surprisingly compact given how forgiving it is. Compared to my Cleveland irons, they are 1 to 1.5 clubs longer. They are very attractive and a very fun iron. This year’s model were both better in my eyes. Ball speed: 123 MPH Launch Angle: 17.5° Backspin: 5121 RPM Height: 31 YDS Descent angle: 45° Carry: 183 YDS. The PSi long irons (3-5), which are made from 450 stainless steel, have a comparable size to RSi 2 and feature a 10-gram tungsten weight in the toe that improves forgiveness and launch. The M1 was just a slight bit smoother feeling on solid shots. But when hit nearer the center, the iron felt fantastic. The lines are clean and sharp in some areas and smooth and rounded in others. M2 flies very high. RRP: £799 (s) £899 (g) Availability: 3 - PW, AW, SW Stock shaft: Nippon NS Pro Modus Tour 105/120 (s) Miyazaki Kaula 8 (g) 7-iron loft: 32° Category: Player. Sep 14, 2015. A cracking iron that blurs the line between player irons and game improvement models. It’s because hollow bodies make it possible to create a more forgiving iron with a blade-like appearance. Like the RSi 2, the PSi has a more traditional head shape that is ideal for low to mid handicappers. The TaylorMade PSi irons are available in three through pitching wedge, with a custom option of a 2-iron, AW, and SW. TaylorMade's P700 iron series has been highly successful over the past few years, and TaylorMade has decided to add more options to fit more golfers. I had a set of RSi1 irons and the slot fell out. The head gives the impression of being a bit bigger and longer in blade length but the dark finish helps disguise the size really cunningly. 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