7-WOOD, UTILITY, HYBRID or IRON?? Long Game Club Comparison

This long game club comparison will help golfers decide whether they should play a 7-wood, utility, hybrid or iron after their fairway wood. So often, golfers ask 2nd Swing award-winning fitters about the best long game club to play, and if it should be a 7-wood, utility iron, hybrid or iron to transition to the 3-wood. This long game club comparison video is designed to help golfers with that dilemma.

0:00 Intro
3:35 Testing (T150 4-iron)
5:45 Testing (ZU85 Utility)
8:31 Testing (Paradym Hybrid)
11:11 Testing (TSR2 7-wood)
12:38 Data & Conclusions

In this video, 2nd Swing’s Drew Mahowald is joined by master club fitter Kevin Kraft to conduct a Trackman test using a Titleist TSR2 7-wood, Callaway Paradym 4-hybrid, Srixon ZU85 Utility Iron, and a Titleist T150 4-iron. The goal is to help golfers with that common dilemma of deciding between a 7-wood, utility iron, hybrid or iron.

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Hey golfers I’m drew mahol the second Swing Golf joined here today by Kevin Craft in the tour van at second swing minetonka very fun discussion today because we’re at the we’re at the top end of the bag between your let’s say it’s a three-wood and then your longest

Irons there’s a wide variety of options out there to craft so um today we’re going to test them all to kind of get some information on maybe how different the playing characteristics are between them so a traditional for iron we have the t-150 for that today a traditional

Four iron which is going to be probably the least forgiving of them uh yes we’ve got a Shon zu85 utility iron a little bit bigger thicker um more forgiving Y and then the Callaway Paradigm four hybrid yes and then lastly a titlist tsr2 s wood so a a lot of different

Brands involved which is great um but primarily what we’re discussing is the the build of the clubs and the design of them and the what they achieve for you if you are struggling with this decision utility iron hybrid High LOF the fairywood I mean there’s so many

Different ways to go about building this part of the bag so um Kevin quick overview before we start hitting some shots here on kind of what you maybe tell golfers about this decision here so you know a lot of it comes down to personal preference Andor performance so

There’s a lot of people that still like a four iron um I haven’t carried one for well over a decade now so uh four is is kind of dead to me uh I just don’t find that I’m as consistent with it as I would really like to be um I’m also not

A huge fan of hybrids but I carry two of them because they do what I need them to do um the driving iron is a is a nice option for those that don’t love hybrids but maybe want something that’s a little bit more forgiving yeah uh they look

Down at it and they’re like oh okay this doesn’t it’s not quite as small and it’s it’s it just engenders a little bit more a little more Comfort um hybrids obviously become kind of all the rage and for good reason they’re very very useful um oftentimes we can play them

Out of the rough we can play them out of the Fairway we can play them off the te uh and then you know seven Woods also become super popular especially this year it’s like seven Woods like the the it the it club and nine woods and nwoods absolutely know absolutely even not of

All the manufacturers are even offering nine woods but the ones that are I think are seeing some benefit from it so um yeah the the question here I think and and we see a lot of difference in the performance and we should see it as well is like these hybrids in seven Woods

Typically are going higher in the air and have the stopping power needed yes that a player might want um but you might see a little more say workability or maybe lower launch for players that hit too high in these utility irons or even a traditional iron so there’s definitely it’s it’s a nuanced

Conversation but it’s it’s important to know the differences between them yeah and the the how a player wants to play this particular kind of Loft right everything here’s in that 21 22 degree 23 degree range um you know if they’re looking for something that they can just

Chase down the Fairway we don’t have to worry about the trajectory as much but if these are clubs that are coming into the green we want to be able to create that good Landing angle so that when you get it there it stops right exactly so I

Think we’re going to hit a few shots with each of these here today or I should say Kevin’s going to hit the shots and we’ll see what trackman tells us about the differences okay all right Mr craft that’s we’re starting with the iron four iron here

We’ll work our way up to the seven wood so okay 22 degree t00 or t150 yes for looks like a club I don’t carry it’s a pretty good first swing with felt really good I have to say that was a little skinny unlike me it is odd because the the numbers

Actually don’t reflect it much of a change there look like you hit it pretty good that was to yeah okay toey more than anything yeah maybe one or two more here yeah with that one I mean honestly that despite the I’m actually surprised how forgiving the

Club seems to be when on these you know one or two misses you may have had yeah it’s really not it’s not hateful for sure okay pretty good yeah I can live with that t 150 I mean there’s really not like maybe this is probably your outlier

Here yeah and that wasn’t the one I caught skinny I don’t think right so maybe it was these are all me your spin rate average is 30 is 98 your deviation with these so we’ll go with those five yeah really good start though I mean I

Think we’ll see here once we get some more data from the other shots but that’s a pretty good start with a 4 yeah not bad um height was a little height average was a little bit low yeah which is part of this whole discussion here 86 ft on

That so um all right Z u85 this is now a utility iron I have the two of this in my trunk okay I carry it with me for those holes that or those courses that have some shorter tighter holes it was perfect for the US Senor open at sck and

Valley that Golf Course really required something that just right flighted down so all right so Z u85 utility so little bigger a little friendlier looking it’s got a little thicker Top Line but it’s certainly not offensive you can see just a little bit of this this back end kind of behind the

CL kind of don’t on the two iron but Four’s just a little bit little bigger there ripped much higher right away 100 that’s good 45.3 Landing angle Just a Touch skinny not hurtful though it didn’t hurt at all same carry number essentially call that just slightly in the

Heel couldn’t even tell though except for where it went well yeah yeah that one should be pretty good I mean all these are carrying at 200 or just a shy under 200 yards and they’re all over 100 feet this might be the club for

You oh I like that one I like to feel that one I feel good I don’t think we need to hit any more shots I think that’s good I hope not I’m starting to wear out so there’s I mean this is great I mean this is the one you hit off the

Heel that yeah you know was um actually it’s surprising how good it still was despite Hitting off the heel right it really I mean there’s a lot of forgiveness in this iron for sure cuz one that felt a little thin one that definitely felt a little Healy right but

Not a lot of sacrifice the key thing here is how much different now this is actually this club um is one only one degree more than the t150 23 correct versus 22 but to see The Landing angle go up by almost 5° and the height go up

Almost 20 ft is I think a big difference there so distance there’s not much of a difference but it’s the way the ball’s getting there that launch angle is a almost two degrees difference so we picked up 300 390 RPM of spin so that’s a good thing if it’s coming into the

Greens we want that the height we want that the landing angle we want that uh that’s a really good club for you it is it’s very good club for me it’s a reason you’re you’re carrying it around probably so Paradigm hybrid now this is a four hybrid at 21°

Yep we should also note too you got sort of what we could find in terms of uh stiff shafts for these and and the stock offerings that are available um so we got obviously we can’t match them all up being the bonded hles and things yeah so

Paradigm and then we’ll go here to a four hybrid y okay I’m expecting now a jum another jumping distance orance a jumping distance and potentially yeah this is a 21 de club now too so plus some added it’s it’s a little stronger lofted but I’m still expecting because there’s going to be

More ball speed to still create really good height okay well that was solid but it’s hanging way right yeah we’ll keep it I mean the numbers are good yeah that was smoked that was hit better [Laughter] well it’s all a face angle it is all face angle there’s no doubt about that

We’ve had that discussion today yep I think I finally got it oh yeah go okay all right let me see if I can repeat that a couple few times did it once okay I can deal with that that it’s going to be all right it’s going to be a little right but not

Bad oh no it’s not okay cool finally okay that was a lot of work for not much good return to be honest all right well the uh Paradigm did some more things of what we thought right yeah um Landing angle once again increased height once again increased uh spin once

Again increased um this is actually with a lower lofted Club again so I do tend to spin hybrids for whatever reason that’s not a bad thing though no it’s not but it it has created some issues in the past where I’ve just gone and ordered a three and four hybrid with a

With a set of irons and they ended up doing the exact same thing just because there’s so much spin there so I don’t spin anything else all that much but I do spin hybrids but let’s see let’s see what you spin at seven wood we got a

Tsr2 here yeah let’s do it let’s do that so same Loft as this club yeah um we’ll see what happens with that I know it’s going to be uh I I have some ideas but I’m not always right I’m right most of the time might not might not be right about this so

The thing about this is that the as you go into a hybrid or a seven wood the shaft typically gets longer so it increases swing speed and yep thus part of the reason the spin and launch are able to increase too yeah the problem is it can then also can create little more

Dispers correct yeah yeah oh yeah it’s a really good shot oh that beenin huh interesting there’s some extra speed there we go hyraw hyraw it’s my favorite shot I think what we’re seeing is why you play hybrids yeah I think you’re seeing I think we’re going to see once it’s all

Said and done we’re going to see the numbers on the hybrids for you there it is okay yeah all right nice so final discussion here here’s all the numbers um yeah so the the seven wood ended up actually going about as high and with about roughly this The Landing

Angle is kind of similar to four hybrid so um is also worth noting you swung that the fastest because it’s the longest golf shaft corre which generated the most ball speed so that’s something to think of if you’re in this sort of window and honestly the way this looks

Too you could probably play both a four iron and a seven wood based on gapping or you know you can make that decision as well yeah yeah especially with little adjustability there maybe make it a little tiny bit stronger just elongate that Gap just a little bit but yeah yeah

But um I think we we see the trend right I mean a four iron obviously is going to launch lower it’s going to generate the most shallow Landing angle yep um and in most cases you know it’s going to be the lowest flight um lowest spin here too

Right but as you went up into a l larger more forgiving Club head hotter CL face you saw the trend of a steeper Landing angle more height more Spin and again the hybrid is the best best at least in this test for you the Paradigm hybrid

Was the best uh giving you the best number stopping power all of that and it’s no reason or I guess no surprise that you play two hybrids in your bag yeah so yeah this would be fine I mean that would be yes the the distance was

Was good um you know it it carries another six yards um if you want that that’s great yeah uh you there’s certainly enough trajectory there so you know plays out yeah hybrid hybrid and Fairway Wood are for me better than than those but it depends on the player you

Know it’s player dependent say that all the time and if you depends on what you need as a player maybe you spin the ball a ton and launch it really high then maybe you need to go down to a utility iron see those benefits there so but got

Get fit find out find these things out exactly you got to get fit for yourself what works for you is what we want to put in your bag so schedule that fitting make sure your clubs are dialed in for your swing and uh Kevin thank you for

Hitting all the shots this is a really good really good test here yeah that was fun that was a good One