Tricky flier lies in the rough can be unpredictable. But can the new T100 grooves give Russell Henley the spin consistency to fire at flags with confidence? See what a Tour pro can do with Progressive Groove Design in their irons—and discover what it can bring to your game.
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All right, Russell. Can fairway kind of mid-length par4. Pretty good drive. Not my favorite kick. Left rough. What is this circumstance in general bringing to mind? Trying to just really judge the lie. When you have a lie like this, you’re really trying to judge, is it going to knuckle or is it going to have the proper spin? And then from there, you’re looking, where do I want to miss this? The last thing you want to do is pick a club that could potentially go too far. If you decrease spin enough, I start to lose control of the ball and I started to lose control of my carry number. I wanted to spin as close to normal as possible. Let’s get normal with your gamer iron. So, to me, that was, you know, did not choose the right club. did not judge a lie how I want it. So, I’m going to hand you fourth gen and I’m going to send it over to Marne cuz there’s some stuff in there that sounds like it may help us in this situation. What we’ve done is we’ve moved the grooves in this part of the set to be a little bit more aggressive. In this case, it’s a little bit steeper sidewall, which makes those edge radi a little bit more aggressive as well, which helps you in this sort of li to keep that spin a little bit higher than it would otherwise. That was perfect. 6700. Wow. Marty’s not going to be happy with me here, but I’m going to make this lie even a little bit worse here. Sitting down a little bit more. Really good ball flight. Wow. Didn’t knuckle as much. It was at what, 60? Would you believe me if I told you 7500? Oh, really? Spun more. So, you went down on it a little more. attack angle went a little bit steeper to go get it. I was my fault. I gave you that lie. And spin jumped up and stayed right where you’d expect it with that attack angle changing. So, it’s reacting really incredible and reacting how you would expect it to off the fairway, even out of those lies. All right. So, I can keep this. Now that you’ve got control back, let’s see if we can send it up in the air a little bit and hit a more shot that you’d pick from the fairway. High shot 7700. You added 10 ft of peak height to it. Land angle was 51. It’s really reacting like we would see from the fairway. That’s cool. I would I would never have thought really to hit a high high soft one right there. It’s awesome seeing Russell Henley hit these irons from those rough lies and seeing him really get confidence in and believe in the consistency of the new product. It really is more validation than any engineer could ever want. Aim and fire no matter where you are.