This PING irons comparison takes a look at two very different PING irons: The PING i59 irons and the PING G710 irons. Interestingly, this PING irons comparison features the PING i59 7-iron and the PING G710 8-iron. Each club has 34° of loft and also has matching lengths.
In this video, 2nd Swing’s Drew Mahowald and Jackie Johnson conduct a PING irons comparison including a PING i59 7-iron and a PING G710 8-iron.
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Proves my point that a super game improvement iron with jacked loft should not be labelled an 8 iron. It goes the same distance as a traditional 7 iron, it just travels higher with less spin. So call it a 7HL iron (high launch). This race – fuelled by club manufacturers – to enable players to feel good about themselves and brag “I can hit my 8 iron as far as your 7” is just dumb
I wonder how much of the difference was brought about by her preconceptions. Quite honestly I don't see much between those clubs. The numbers are so close that on the course I doubt you'd see any difference. Just depends if you want to hit a 7 or an 8 😂
Agree. Number on the club is just an identifier for your personal distance gapping and ball flight characteristics. It’s really only there so you can more easily pick out your 5 iron vs. your 6 iron for example.
Anything else attributed to the number on a club (especially in comparison to another set or someone else’s numbers) is just noise.
At the end of the day, you should get fit for clubs that match your needs as a golfer.
Great comparison of 2 clubs with the same loft. Strong lofted clubs have market. If a 7 iron is now a 5, but a person can hit that 7 iron more consistently than their old 5, i don't see a problem.
Correct gapping is paramount, combined with sufficient carry and stopping power on the greens. Excluding driver and putter, there are twelve other clubs in the bag. Determine the difference in distance between your longest fairway club and your sand wedge (for the average golfer approximately 130 metres sea level) and divide by eleven to calculate average gapping distance you should be seeking between each club. Obviously divide by ten if you carry a lob wedge in your bag. Taylormade Stealth unfortunately have a six degree gap between wedges which makes good gapping difficult!
I am guessing that the head weights of the two irons were pretty similar. The results were exactly what I would have expected – the loft determines the distance, the design of club determines how it gets there, not a surprise that the G710 launched higher but had less spin.
I do not see much a problem – the higher launch allows for more stopping power to counteract the loss of stopping power that the lower spin rate provides. The G710 type of clubs are just so much better than the equivalent 6-7 years ago. When I came back to golf in 2016 I tried the M2 irons which are broadly similar to the G710 but without any stopping power!
For people who are thinking about the G710 I would recommend trying the 5i as well. There is a reasonable chance that it will have too little loft to be functional for you and you should buy a 6i-PW set and for longer clubs pick hybrids
The strong lofts are silly and confusing, the main reason being the gap it creates in the wedges. P used to be 46-48 and you carry a 52 and 56 (and perhaps a 60). if you hit your P 100 yards and your 52 -87 yards then hit a new P (43) at 115, you now have a huge gap and need to buy another wedge to fill this gap. If you want to hit 150 yards, hit what ever iron will get you there; you can always club up to go further -this video is a great example of the forgiving technology. So if they stamped the 710 with a 7 and you hit it compared to the i59, you would say that your distance is exactly the same, which you would expect, but your dispersion is smaller so you buy the 710's. Strong lofts are the silliest thing and play on ego and hinder your game. All clubs should be stamped with degrees
Fascinating test although I would have expected the i59 to be better than the G710 insofar as dispersion is concerned. This again makes the argument that fitting is critical in the equipment selection process.