Okay - gonna strike while the iron is hot and all of this is fresh in my mind. Old school WRX level of detail.. here we go 🙂
Conditions were great, grass was pure, and using new range balls (not premium). About a constant 10 mph wind in and off the right. I'm not sure if the Trackman information is normalized, I think it is.
Heads - see picture above.
- Did not try the Srixons, have the option to in 1 week, Honma not tested
Shafts - MMT 125x and SF 110x. I want to stay graphite but if we weren't getting the result we wanted, we were going to look into lighter steel.
On to the data....
My current set, Miura 501 with X100 - like I mentioned earlier, I've just started playing enough to notice trends in misses and that 6iron and up, could use some help in forgiveness and turf interaction. Also, my misses really jar my elbow and basically can ruin my round with annoying pain (golfer's elbow). Once I feel it come on, my swing is tentative, and basically scared to fully release the club.. kind of a snowball effect. When I'm hitting the ball well, these are about as good as it gets. Especially the low irons, you can make the ball do whatever you want on a good ballstriking day. On a bad day, we'll use an example relevant to my trackman data - say my 6 iron goes 195 in the air when hit well, if you look at the graph and my misses and distances sacrificed on thin/offcenter.. that is the different between a birdie putt and dropping hitting 4. This scenario pretty much sums up my scores.. slightly under par to 84 - not a fun way to golf.
Miura Data:
There is a 10 yard (or more) difference from hitting the middle to slightly off.. out of this grouping, I hit 2 perfectly.. one was a slight pull hook (way off target) which skewed these numbers.. you will see later when I show the doppler comparison to the winner.
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There were TWO clear favorites here which I will show the charts below and those were the PXG 0311T and the Titleist T100. The shaft was also a shocker.. the SF110X was WAAAAAAY better than the MMT for me. I'm not sure if it was the weight or what but the first shot I hit with the SF was flushed and it never stopped.
I don't say this lightly - but the PXG and T100 with SF110 are game changing for me. This was one of the most "wow" fitting sessions I have had, and I have had a lot. I'll get my thoughts on the "others" before focusing on the final 2 below.
Callaway CB: Really nice, feels great, performance was decent, but just not close to the other two. Callaway irons for me have been underwhelming since the original XForged. Overall, solid iron, wouldn't game it.
Titleist CB: beautiful club, performs well, overall would game in a second, but compared to the T100 and PXG, unnecessarily hard to hit compared and not sure much easier than the 501, maybe just a bit.
TM MC definitely the prettiest looking in the bag (aside from Miura), the way the offset/neck/topline transition looks really weird to my eye. They did not feel that good at all - compared to the PXG which felt like hitting a marshmallow, these were not that great at all, if you handed me a set not in a fitting, would love these.. side by side.. meh.. If I was a TM guy, I'd rock these.
Mizuno decent, nothing crazy.
On to the final two - PXG 0311T and Titleist T100
Dispersion chart - note the variation of right/left and also distance with each club grouping compared to each other. Look at the top left balls with the Miura compared to short right.. that is exactly what needs to be minimized for my game and scoring:
Titleist:
PXG:
Winner? PXG 0311T GEN3
So leaving the fitting, the T100 and PXG were SO close to each other that it came down to a few smaller things that add up. My reviews have always taken data + the sum of all smaller details that = the overall performance and enjoyment of what I'm using. I have caught flack for that in the past, but that's how I pick clubs - the Trackman can't find everything and I'm a FIRM believer of outdoor Trackman fittings. They leave very little room for variation from what you see in a fitting vs. on course. This has been proven to me over a long period of time and Cool Clubs has been very consistent for me.
I just saw the data up close and it looks like the T100 is actually better on Trackman. However, the one thing I didn't like was the random nuked ball with 501's and the T100 did it a few times. I'm not complaining about more distance, but if you look at the PXG, it was solid the entire time, even my bad shots got improvement when my "nuked" shots were predictable. So that was one factor..
The second factor was that the PXG's feel like you are hitting marshmallows.. nothing else to say, they feel insanely good with the SF.
I'm pretty excited about this.. not kidding when I say I haven't hit this many pure shots in a row (PXG and Titleist) in a really long time and to get through this fitting pain free was major.
MMT vs. SF - forgot to touch on this more. I tried them in the PXG and Titleist and quickly moved on from them and kept with the SF. The MMT feels like a graphite shaft.. inconsistent load, just felt weird. Keep in mind I'm a lifetime X100 player, the SF was an EASY transition. Felt more like a steel shaft in the way it loaded but without the vibrations.
I haven't finalized my order, but looking like PXG 0311T Gen3 4-P, PXG forged 50 and 55, SM8 Raw 60 (whichever grind is closest the the V) - was toying with adding the 0311P in the 4 iron.. but not sure yet.