How can two @callawaygolf golf 7 irons be so different? I put the Mavrik game improvement iron up against the Apex Pro to find out 3 things; Whats the difference between the two, why dont professional golfers use game improvement irons and what makes a 7i a 7i… considering the Lofts are SO DIFFERENT between these two clubs!
This is a another comprehensive test on the channel! And, as always, I rely on the @FlightScopeGolf mevo plus for my data gathering!
For specs on the two irons, use the link below;
https://www.callawaygolf.com/golf-clubs/iron-sets/irons-2024-apex-pro.html
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Times Codes;
0:00 – Intro
1:00 – Whats the Difference?
3:15 – Data Gathering
4:47 – Results!
8:04 – Conclusion
10:31 – Outro
This game improvement iron is 27° of Loft this Pro iron is 33° of Loft but they are both seven ions make that make sense I’ve got three questions I want to answer in this video What’s the difference between game improvement ions and pro ions if game improvement ions
Are so forgiving why don’t Pros use them and what makes a 7 ion a 7 ion I’m going to find out today without further Ado let’s get into it E first things first what’s the difference between a game improvement iron and a pro iron off the bat behind the ball these two irons look incredibly different the game improvement iron just looks massive behind the golf ball inspires a load of confidence the top of the club just looks absolutely huge and
The offset of the game improvement iron is clear to see when I look down at the proon the first thing I notice is the slim Top Line obvious obviously I can see more Loft as well and even though this club has a little bit of offset
It’s nowhere near as much as a game improvement iron the whole point of a game improvement iron is to be forgiving and the Forgiveness of these clubs come from their size like I said the fact that it looks so big behind the ball inspires a bit of confidence but further to that
The way they’ve distributed the weight across the club makes it more forgiving across the face there’s also a lot of weight at the bottom of this club to help players get the ball up in the air the size of the pro iron is clearly smaller but not just in chunkiness the
Actual size of the face looks smaller behind the golf ball now I’m a mid- handicapper and the size of this head really doesn’t Inspire confidence that huzzle just looks massive and it means that the Forgiveness across this face is nowhere near as much as the game improvement iron I mean they’re designed
For pros Pros hit the middle of the face I do not I can’t even hit the ball before the ground but when you do catch it out the middle it does feel good and it’s quite misleading because when you miss the middle of the face with the game
Improvement iron it still feels quite middled so size means forgiveness but that doesn’t really really answer the question why they have to be so different in Loft I mean that Callaway Maverick is a 79 and it could be 33° just like this Apex Pro 79 it can still
Be forgiven and be the same Loft so why the difference in Loft to answer that question I’m going to hit 30 shots with each Golf Club the answer to this question has to be hidden within the data and I’m going to find out as per usual I’m not going to bore
You with all the shots so here’s a little Montage hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey Hey hey hey Okay so results are in to keep the testing fair I kept a two constants between the two clubs a 90 mph swing speed and an angle of attack of 3° down with those two constants I was able to make sure I was comparing the clubs like
For like I was Keen to look at five different data points I wanted to know how far the ball was going to carry with each Club I wanted to know what the Back Spin was obviously with these two clubs having very different lofs I wanted to
Know what the ball was launching at so the launch angle how high these balls were traveling in the air and what sort of descent angle we’d be getting coming into a green let’s start off with carry no surprises here really the Callaway Maverick the game improvement iron was
Flying further than the Callaway Apex Pro the Maverick carried 174.net iron with 27° of Loft should be flying further than the proon with 33° of Loft but I was surprised about how far the proon was actually flying I generally didn’t think I’d be able to
Hit it that far so that did surprise me a bit moving on to backspin you kind of expect this as well the game improvement iron was spinning less than the pro iron again not too much though the game improvement iron spinning at 5,289 whereas the proon spinning at
5,566 not a huge difference again if the pro iron had a loft of 27° I generally don’t think that it would be spinning at 5,300 I think a lot of the game improvement ion spin is actually coming from that weight which is at the bottom
Of the club helping the ball get in the air helping the club get underneath the ball and adding that spin so the stopping power of these two clubs are very similar even though the Lofts are way off when it comes to launch angle these game improvement ions are designed
To help players get the ball in the air but it still has a static loft of 27° so the launch angle was at 20° compared to the pro iron at 23.3 De what these two figures don’t tell us though is that if the game improvement iron had a loft of
33° like the pro iron the launch angle of the game improvement iron would actually be closer to 26° so again even though the game improvement iron isn’t launching as high as the pro iron relatively speaking it’s actually launching at a higher degree and again these clubs are designed to do that if
The static lofs were the same the game improvement iron would be flying a hell of a lot higher than the pro iron that brings us on to Peak height there’s only 5 yards difference between the two Heights and considering the 6° difference in Loft that is not a massive
Number the height of the game improvement iron was 5 yards lower than the pro iron but again if the static losss were the same the game improvement iron would be a hell of a lot higher so relatively speaking that game improvement iron is flying high and because it’s flying so high The Descent
Angle is steeper with the pro ion we got the game improvement ion landing at 49.5 De and the proon landing at 52.3 De a huge amount of stopping power with a 79 to be fair now I was really shocked at the performance of the proon like I said
Earlier on in the video and if you’re a follower of the channel you know that I’m a mid- handicapper I didn’t think I’d have any near enough ability to be hitting this golf club this well I think I’m having a good day in the studio today I’ve swung it really well all day
To be honest so maybe I wouldn’t get as much forgiveness as I was getting on a more average day but still performance really really good if I dive a little bit deeper into the data the front and back dispersion of the game improvement iron was worse than the pro iron the
Difference between my longest carry and my shortest carry with the game improvement iron was 20 yards that’s almost two clubs compared to the pro iron it was only 14 yards so the standard deviation the consistency of the pro ion was way better than the game improvement ion and that consistency
Read across all of the five things I was looking at backspin launch angle descent angle Peak height the proon was more consistent across everything compared to the game improvement ion and I think that answers the question as to why Pros don’t use game improvement ions I mean everyone’s looking for forgiveness even
Pros but it’s as if these game improvement ions have too much help too much variation across the face and they don’t necessarily need as much forgiveness as us obviously and finally to answer the question what makes a s iron 7on I think the answer can be found
In the data and I think it’s Spin The two clubs actually had very similar spin rates we’re talking less than 300 difference so I think when it comes to manufacturers picking what number they’re going to stamp at the bottom of golf club I think their main consideration is what is the spin number
I think they build ahead and I think they tailor The Loft to the correct spin number and I watched a video recently of Bryson dambo talking about the spin rate of his clubs now he hits his clubs a mile but he has been open about the fact
That he’s manipulated the losss of these clubs to achieve desired spin rates and I think that’s something that the manufacturers are doing for these clubs so yeah an interesting test I enjoyed doing this one like it’s something I’ve thought about for quite a long time to
Be honest why do these seven ions have such wildly different Lofts well spin rate that’s my theory let me know in the comments what do you think makes a 79 79 and are you using game improvement irons or Pro irons should I be using Pro irons I think I’m better than game improvement
Ions now and I really enjoyed hitting that Apex Pro so there you have it that’s the end of another test on this channel hopefully you’ve enjoyed this video if you’re a returning viewer and you’re enjoying the content please hit that subscribe button I’m trying to get to a th000 subscribers and yeah
Hopefully I can get there sooner rather than later but yeah thanks for watching and I’ll see you in the next video
1 Comment
Wonderful review! Are you going to make the switch?