Best Golf Players Irons 2023
I'm ranking the best player irons of [Music] 2023
a common misconception about player irons is that you have to be a low handicap or a scratch golfer
and that's just not necessarily true there's guys that I golf with that are like an 8 cap or a 15
cap that play player irons and they get better results than say like a game improvement so if
you think that you don't qualify for a player's iron that might not necessarily be true you guys
might be interested to find out which one of these clubs wins because it could be a good club for
you if you are new to the channel the way that this works is I get 10 hits out of each club I'm
testing we're using a trackman a proving one RCT ball the elevation set about 3,400 ft because
we're filming in Calgary Alberta Canada and the first club I'm hitting is the taylormade p770 so
let's see what type of results we get with this guy buty how are you for this test
I'm using the exact same shaft in every Club head the shaft is a NS Pro
modus tour 120 x flex so there there will be no shaft variance I'm using the
same shaft in every single one of these clubs it's going high it's a high seven iron first thoughts out of the gate with
the p770 it looks really clean at a dress I like the finish that it's kind of this like
nice satin finish there's hardly any Chrome I'm not a huge Chrome Guy I find the Top Line
actually looks a little thicker than I'm used to for a Player's Club I'll have to see how that
compares to the others but it just seems like a little thicker Top Line which I don't love but
the results are speaking for themselves like a 200 yard carry seven iron all these irons are
seven irons so this thing's going a mile so far I am quite impressed with how these p770
is feel right out of the gate very solid up and down the face I've had a couple near the toe
a couple near the heel overall the Forgiveness feels quite well and I find it just packs like
a really solid punch so so far they feel really good okay that's 10 hits let's kind of go over the
data on the p770 okay that session was actually really good super hot dispersion my normal shot
shape with a seven iron would be kind of just a high cut which it looks like nine out of 10
of these were I had one get away from me so that's just the one I am going to be deleting
my worst hit and my best hit the way that I'll determine the best and the worst is the worst
will be the furthest offline the best will be probably the furthest and closest to the center
line so let's try to find out which of those I'm deleting so far looks like furest version was
this guy so I will be deleting this which was like that one pull the center line on the grid is
going to be the solid line like right where these numbers are 200 210 I have one almost touching
the line it's five inches five inches right of the line so I'm going to say that's my best so
these are my new averages I was averaging like 199 carry 205 total my normal seven iron right
now is about 191 is carry to about 197 total so this p770 is hot so this this club is going
very far and it was Landing it had a really good Landing angle to at 50° so it should be
landing relatively soft it's only rolling on average 6 yards so a seven iron from 200 yards
with six yards of roll is actually pretty soft spin rate was about 6200 which is maybe just under
ideal for me I'd like to be around like 6,500 even up to 7,000 so we'll see how the other clubs
compare on spin but overall I super happy with that session everything was in play I had really
good dispersion so hot start for the tailor made will to see how the others compare next club
I'm looking at is the Titus T100 the player category is kind of an interesting category
because it seems like each manufacture offers a couple options for a player Club some have
like a CB or so a cavity back some have an MB a muscle back some have like a CB with tech so
that's similar to what this t00 is there's a bunch of options out there I'm considering doing
maybe just a blade video for those guys that are really interested in blades but this right
now is kind of the player category that I'm most comfortable with kind of like that player
iron with some Tech so let's see how the T100 goes this T100 at a dress looks so much more what
I'm used to because I play the t100's this Top Line is a lot thinner so if I put it side by
side to the tailor made the tailor made line is much thicker and I prefer looking at the top
line of the T100 but if you prefer looking at a Top Line you might prefer the aesthetic of
the tailor made that's kind of just personal preference I'm a huge fan of how these
sound and feel it's very compact very similar to the p770 I find these to be like
maybe just a little bit softer I would say that the tailor mates felt a little harder
and the Titleist just feel just slightly softer a good finish so there's only one degree
in Loft difference overall a pretty good session with the T100 I noticed I had a few more go
left on me so I can look at my Tracer look at my dispersion and see that I had obviously a
little bit more left so if I'm deleting my work first this guy was probably the furthest off line
to the left and my best was this guy another one just right on the line 6 in right of the line
so we'll delete that as my best couple things I'm noticing just comparing the tailor maid
to the Titus really quick it looks like the taylormade had just slightly tighter dispersion
I know guys that have hit the p790s in the past might get like those jumpers so sometimes
you'll catch one super clean it goes like 20 yards further than normal I don't see that
big of a dispersion on the 770s this one was kind of just like a chunky hit this low one
but everything else was like very consistent Titleist very same I had very consistent
distance the gapping between my worst at like 192 total versus the highest to like only 10
yards in difference so for a player iron I would say that that's really good forgiveness because
you don't want to be losing like 15 20 yards on a m hit on to the next one we're going to hit
mizuno this is the mizuno jpx 923 tour mizuno has been killing it in all my iron reviews
the last couple years but I haven't tested the 923 tour so let's see if this is living
up to the hype of all the other Mizunos we've tested these are spinning a ton and going nowhere the top line on this mizuno is
very similar to the tius I just looked at kind of a thinner Top Line not as thick
as the tailor made I like the satin finish it's actually got a really cool finish
I'm a fan of how it looks so far what I'm noticing is that it's spinning a ton
it's spinning like 1,000 RPM higher than all the other clubs and it's not going
anywhere typically I am a high spinning player but I can't believe that already I'm
losing like 20 yards compared to the other clubs yeah I remember loving
those Pros the 923 Pro hot metal pros this is not a hot iron dispersion was really good I think that's
10 hits with the mizuno let's take a look at the data so without looking at any of the data
I'm certain that this was the shortest Club I've hit yet let's take a look at all my tracers here
dispersion looked pretty decent but High spin so the Titleist was only 66 Taylormade 63 7,300
spin with the MIzuno so a th000 spin higher than the tailor made let's look at dispersion cuz
dispersion actually felt pretty good incredible consistent distance wise so my worst how far was
this offline 51 ft yeah so this is my worst let's delete that my best I found the line so far with
all three clubs that's pretty cool four inches so so far this is actually the tightest club that
I've hit yet by 2 in or one inch so here's our new averages not going anywhere compared to the
other two right so carrying 178 Titleist was 193 and tailor Ra was 198 so by far the shortest
Club but it was very accurate I had a very small dispersion window so this is where you as a golfer
would have to kind of weigh the pros and cons do I want to hit it further or have maybe tighter
dispersion but hitting it shorter and some players need more spin like if you have very low spin and
it's coming low and you're getting like 20 yards of roll you might want something like this JPX
that's going to spin higher and land softer so overall I like the club I think just because I
was hitting the previous two like 190 to 200 I was a little let down in the distance that I
was getting out of the mizuno up next is the Cobra this is the Cobra King tour what I find
interesting about the King tour is that Cobra's known for kind of some colors in their Club
heads if you look at their Arrow jet lineup there's like some blue some silver some carbon
where the King tour is just like straight silver like the majority of player irons really have
like this clean look and I find this to be one of the cleanest looking irons in the Cobra lineup
that's just my own personal preference Top Line we're getting a little bit thicker we're getting
closer to the visual aesthetic of the Taylormade but I really enjoy looking down at this this looks
like a legit Players Club so let's give it some hits hello feel wise I would say that these
feel just as heavy as the Taylornades the Titleist the Mizuno felt maybe a little
bit lighter and I think the head shape is a little bit more compact but these feel very
comparable to everything that I've hit so far really good session of of those cobras
let's look at some numbers that was awesome guys really really good session out of the cobra
look at those tracers I would say so far my best tracers have been the tailor made but Cobra's
keeping up and by the time I delete my best and my worst it's going to get even tighter this
is awesome this is awesome okay let's get rid of the worst furthest off line I believe to be
this guy best one oh we didn't touch the line first time we haven't touched the line so one foot
one foot still pretty tight so we'll delete this one what I do notice though is this really tight
collection of one two three four five all within a couple yards of each other super tight had a
couple get away from me left a couple hot ones but I am really happy with the dispersions we'll
take a look at that compared to mizuno compared to Titleist compared to tailor made it's by far the
smallest dispersion Circle so that's really cool to see out of Cobra th those performed awesome
felt great looked great this is going to be a club to to compete with this year my averages as
average carrying 199 versus the Mizuno 179 so 20 yards difference in a seven iron average between
the Cobra and the Mizuno we knew the mizuno was the shortest there is two Dees and L difference
between the Cobra and the mizuno Mizuno was 34° Cobra is 32° but 20 yard gapping between seven
irons is actually nuts and Titus is keeping up with the distance Tailor's keeping up with the
distance so far just that jpx from Muno is just way shorter than everything spin wise has about
6,300 which is pretty comparable to 66 63 out the Taylormade so I'd say so far the the Cobra
and the tailor made seem to be in a really close competition tiess is right there these are all
really good and the still had tight dispersion right so we got a couple more clubs let's keep it
rolling a little bit better than Brad's dispersion yeah if you guys saw my last video with my buddy
Brent when we were testing the high handicapper game improvement irons these uh tracers might
look a little bit different maybe Felix you can put up my Tracer beside some of Brent's tracers
just to see see the difference but guys go easy on Brent he's new to the channel he's relatively
new to golf he loves it but like all of us we get all improve I get improved Brent could improve so
maybe we'll have him back on the Channel and see if we can help uh get his golf game just a little
bit tighter okay next up is the next up we got the Ping this is the Ping i59 forged couple things I
noticed right away when I put it down at a dress it looks the smallest and I think it's because it
has one feature that none of the other clubs have it has this white line on the bottom so this white
line is actually smaller than the grooves itself which I think visually makes the club look
smaller so I'm going to be interested to see if I have more or less M hits maybe just because
subconsciously I'm thinking that this is a smaller Club head even though I know that it's not but
with it being the only club that has this white line I just don't love the look of it just solely
based on this line and some of you guys might like that white line so that's totally personal
preference but let's let the numbers speak for themselves feel wise they actually do feel
pretty good up and down the face I find it to be like just a little bit more clicky I think
the other ones felt softer where this is more of like a firm hard face just a little clicky I'd
say it feels very comparable to the mauno I would say the head shape is maybe a little similar I'm
getting a lot of spin it's not going as far so I'm going to categorize these just closer to the
mauno so far based on kind of the performance and feel pretty good dispersion let's take a look
at all those uh hits so I started to like the Ping the more that I hit them the first
couple took some getting used to but as I got into my session actually really good and
the dispersion was awesome let's look at these incredibly consistent right I could probably aim
just a little bit further left but where is my I didn't have as many close to the line so I had
kind of a bleedy cut so I don't know if maybe it has something to do with the head weight but I
was consistently on the right half of the Fairway which I guess is a good takeaway but like I
can't I can't really even find a worst like what's the worst 40 feet offline 41 someone in
the comments was saying that I should consider the worst to be the first for this offline but
40 ft and way shorter let's do that it's only 8 in in difference but it was way shorter so let's
delete this one I read those comments some of you might think I don't read the comments I read every
single comment if you want to talk to me like hit me up in the comment section so that was this one
which was my first hit so that makes sense is why didn't like it and my best I didn't have any that
close to the line my best was only eight feet off the center line where I've had a lot that were
touching the line what I could do with these ping is I could bend the toe up and get them probably
a little closer to the center line so these are actually competing ping visually I didn't like
love the look of it but like it was performing really well so we noticed that the spin was up so
7,000 spin mizuno was 7400 wasn't spinning as much as the mizuno and it was going a little further
so average carry 186 Mauna was 179 191 total 184 total with Mizuno but that compared to the Cobra
still 13 yards difference in carry this is going to be really tough actually to rank all of these
I think there's not one club that I've hit that I'm like that I would count out like realistically
so far out of everything I've hit I would play all of these clubs I know when I was testing like game
improvement irons there were some that I thought were clear winners and others that I thought were
automatically on the bottom of the list right now I can't tell you the worst performing club which
is crazy so that's why I take other things into consideration like looks feel sound price there's
a lot that goes into how I would choose irons and I think that's how you guys would do it too so
to get the data plus my own personal preference that's how I'll rank them and I still have one
more club to go the last Club is the Srixon Srixon won my game improvement category so let's
see how it competes in the player category guys last up is the srixon ZX7 Mark I I know a lot
of you are thinking that I probably missed some manufacturers in this video that's either because
I couldn't get them to this fitting facility so like Wilson I couldn't get tours Edge I couldn't
get pxg I couldn't get and there's a lot of new director consumer Brands so I'm actually going
to be doing a review video on director consumer Brands only so that's going to be a separate
video if you are new here or if you've seen my videos before and you haven't subscribed now's
a really good time to hit subscribe looking at the STX on from a dress it has another thick
Top Line similar to the tailor maid I've told you guys I'm just not a huge fan of that but I
like the club how it looks overall looks really cool and strion has that kind of funky sole that
there's two edges so it makes it just a little bit more forgiving with the turf interaction looks
really good looks compact let's see how we hit it buttery low spin feel- wise they feel just as good as
everything else I've hit I'd rank it I I can't rank one Club higher than the other
feel wise they all feel really really good and really really similar like I can't
believe how competitive this category is guys that wraps up the hit let's do all the
data comparison and uh let's find a winner guys awesome session with the Srixon ZX7 Mark I reminds
me a lot of my tailor mate session I had one outlier to the left as you can see with my shot
Tracer oh my God bro look how [ __ ] tight that is okay this guy I got to delete [ __ ] Srixon
is killing it dude my best how close was I to the line 4 feet 3 feet 8 feet this guy right here
that's my best really good dispersion like really good four just on either side of the center line
incredibly consistent distance so let's compare this I'm just thinking off top of my head this
reminded me a lot of the tailor made so taylormade had that one outlier that's making the Circle
A Lot B bigger if I got one over the 200 Mark it'd be even tighter but really really close carry
197 198 with the tailor made 205 205 so like very very very comparable to the taylorMades Landing
angle coming in at 48° again one degree difference between that and tailor made ping was coming in
softer Cobra was there at 49 mizuno was 50 I have a landing angle variance of only like two degrees
from the Srixon coming in the shallowest to like the mauno coming in at 50 so it's actually not
that big of a differ so here's what I did I put up all the dispersion of the clubs clubs that
I just hit so really the smaller the circle are oval the tighter it's been right so Cobra
super tight Srixon super tight even the mizuno was pretty tight and we're getting bigger into
the the tailor M's like dying just because of this one and I deleted my best and my worst right
so if this one ball was closer up here I think it would be like almost a clear winner I'm going to
have to do some self-reflection to find out how I'm going to rank these from 6 to 1 so give me a
little bit and let let me find a winner for you guys okay I met with Jeremy Mar who's the head
fitting professional at modern golf for him to help walk me through the clubs that he would pick
for me just because they were all so close that I didn't really know how to rank all these so in
Consulting with Jeremy and going off my personal preference plus the data looks feel sound this
is how I'm ranking them coming in the six spot is the mizuno jpx 923 they were way too high
spinning for me I couldn't afford to have that high of a spinning Club lost a lot of distance
the dispersion was still pretty decent but I just can't be playing an iron with that high of spin
next up is the most expensive Club you can buy out of these six and that's the Ping i59 pings
were the only club that I would have to adjust the heads I'd have to bend them upright to get
them closer to the center line I didn't have to do that with any of the other clubs so I'm putting
ping in the fifth spot only because it just didn't perform as close to the line as the other ones
above it next up is the is the Titus T 100 and that pains me because that's the current Club in
my bag I like how they look I like how they feel I like how they sound but the dispersion was just
nowhere close to its competitors these next three I would confidently play all three of them this
was the hardest ranking that I had to come up with in the three spot is going to be the cobras the
Cobras were actually the most affordable coming in only like 228 per Club Canadian they felt really
good they looked really good they sounded really good but the dispersion I had just a couple go
left on me where the next two were even more consistent coming in the two spot is the Srixon
ZX7 Mark I I had an incredibly consistent ball flight very consistent dispersion they look good
they felt good and they are priced pretty decent 235 Canadian a club really like the Srixon again
really high performing out of them that means in the one spot is the tailor made p770 this was my
first session they felt great great looked great sounding great and my dispersion was incredibly
consistent I had a nice high cut with every single one of my swings that makes them a predictable
Club felt good looked good sounded good feel good there was a lot going for the tailor maid
keep in mind all six of these clubs that I tested were awesome I could easily dial all six of these
clubs down into a club that I would play myself but based on everything kind of just stock option
this is what felt the best for me thanks so much for watching this video I hope you guys learned
something and we'll check in with you guys next time [Music]
