Srixon ZXI7 vs Titleist T100 | 2025 Players’ Irons Head-to-Head Review

ZXI7 vs T100 — Head-to-Head Review | AF Golf Gear

Today I’m putting two of 2025’s most-talked-about players’ irons head-to-head: the Srixon ZXI7 and the Titleist T100. Both are tour-inspired, both generate a ton of hype — but how do they really stack up when tested side-by-side?

I tested both with stiff shafts (~115g), 2″ over standard length, and lofted as closely as possible (≈32°). Swing speed was ~91–92 mph, and I measured ball speed, spin, launch, peak height, carry, and consistency.

Key Takeaways:

ZXI7 — Forgiving, modern look with a chunkier topline, great ball speed and feel, confidence-boosting on near-misses.

T100 — True players’ iron: classic sharp profile, ultra-tight dispersion, slightly higher spin & peak height, but less forgiving.

Performance — ZXI7 averaged ≈119 mph ball speed, T100 ≈118.7 mph. Spin was higher and more consistent with the T100, while the ZXI7 was easier to launch and maintain ball speed on mis-hits.

Price — T100: ~£195/club | ZXI7: ~£150/club.

My Verdict:

Both irons are excellent — the T100 rewards precision with premium consistency, while the ZXI7 gives forgiveness without sacrificing performance. For my game, the ZXI7 edged it, but a custom fitting is essential to see which one suits your swing best.

👉 Which would you choose — the forgiving ZXI7 or the precision-focused T100? Drop your thoughts in the comments!

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Hi guys, welcome back to the channel. Uh, welcome back to another head-to-head. Uh, we got a big one for you today. It’s the T100 versus the ZXI7. Uh, so two of the most popular and most played, most talked about players irons of 2025. So, we’re super excited to to see see how they stack up. So, let’s get straight into it. Let’s go. Okay, guys. So to kick things off, we’re going to start with the uh start with the Shrixen um ZXI7 in my hands. Um got them both set up as similar as I can/2 in long standard lie. Uh both around 115 g uh stiff shafts in them. Uh so we’re just going to hit a few shots with the Shrixen, get some numbers. Uh give you some fors as well as we go. Nice. good one to kick it off. But yeah, these these two irons uh highly requested to do a head for head and that’s understandable. They’ve been uh probably the two most talked about irons of this year to be fair just with uh how hype the release was and the amount of success that Shrixen have had especially on tour. Nice. two good ones to start. So, yeah, few things to note with the Shrixen, why it’s been so popular. I think it’s just got quite a lot of nice features that are quite usable. So, one thing I’m a big fan of is there’s the VT sole, uh, which we spoke about in other videos, but, uh, on irons like this where you’re really sort of cutting through the turf, um, will feel really, really nice out on the course. don’t notice it as much off the mats, but uh definitely I think it’s something that iron manufacturers from other brands should definitely consider as well. Nice. And then that with the eye forged, um a lot of people have talked about it to to quite a lot of extent, so I won’t go over it a huge amount, but using softer seal steel and a softer forging process. So, all combined just to be quite a nice uh nice iron to hit all together. Nice. One thing I would say for this type of iron, uh the top line is quite chunky to be honest. Uh as you know, when you compare it to like a T100 or something like that, which for me I quite like. I don’t actually mind that. But if you’re kind of going into a sort of players club, uh it’s not really what you’d expect to see. Um but it does feel pretty easy to hit to be fair. So yeah, for me I quite like that. I think I quite like it. All right, we’ll do one more. I think that one was just slightly heavy. We’ll do one more. There you go. That’s better. Yeah, nice quick. I saw 120 plus ball speed is what I normally aim for. Loads and loads of spin. Probably a little bit too much to be honest with you, but it’s a slightly lighter shaft than what I’d normally play, but still getting up to like 165, which is the number I like to aim for as well. So, yeah, real big fan of the tricks and irons this year. So nice to see them putting up some good numbers again. So we’ll jump into the tight list and have a few swings with that. Okay, so jumping into T 100. Um yeah, like I mentioned with the strickson, the main difference looking down on it is that top line. It’s a much sort of sharper top line with the T100, which um for some, you know, if that’s what the look you like, uh then great, but uh it’s a little bit more intimidating than that ZXI7, I must say. But it is a a gorgeous iron. But let’s see how we go. Sounded good. Maybe slightly heavy again. Yeah, a bit heavy. That was better. That was better. Wow. Loads of spin. 7 and a half th000 spin. Bit spinny for for me. I’ve always been quite a high spin player. So for someone like me, I’d probably spin this a little bit too much. But um it’s always a good thing to have a little bit excess. It’s worth noting as well, I’ve got both of these uh at 32° of loft. So I’ve got the T100 lofted down uh a degree. But even though it’s uh it’s not like the friendliest looking players iron, there is a few things that titlers have put in there to to help you know average uh well not average but amateur golfers out a little bit. So you’ve got variable face thickness similar to Callaway’s 10X face uh which just helps with slight offc center hits. And you’ve also got now the muscle channel from 7 iron to 3 iron I believe in T100. Um just to help out just a touch. Yeah, you can definitely tell coming from that ZX i7 uh to this, it’s quite a drop in in the forgiveness level. Um, which is I think is why I’ve always kind of favored that T150 personally. There you go. That’s a better strike. That’s better. So, yeah, it’s one of those irons where if you’re absolutely, you know, flushing it and you’re comfortable with it, hitting it near enough out the center, it’s going to give you some really great numbers. It’s nice low launch, loads of spin, uh loads of ball speed for the type of iron that it is, nice carry with loads of stopping power as well. But um yeah, it’s uh it’s one that you’ve got to be kind of on your game to get the uh numbers out of for sure. But yeah, when you get it like those last two are pretty good. Does feel great. That one’s spun up a touch, but good speed still. Let’s do one or two more and then we’ll have a look at some numbers. Nice. Yeah, starting to get a bit more used to it now. You can kind of see at a glance there. These ones maybe just spinning up a touch more than the ZedX ii7s, which is sort of what you’d expect. Um, it’s a nice thing really. We’ve got the progressive groove design in T100’s now, which is uh basically just optimized grooves. So depending on the iron that you’re hitting, the grooves are going to be slightly different. Uh, and it’s mainly there to help you out in sort of spin retention in the wet or in the rough. Um, so that’s quite handy. Do like that. Okay, cool. We’ll probably finish on that one. Let’s have a look at some numbers and see what we reckon. Okay, so uh just to give you sort of my overall sort of thoughts before we look into the numbers uh and everything like that. They both feel really really great when you strike them. The only thing I’d say that would set them apart for me anyway is when you don’t quite catch the T100, you do notice the the fall off in the feel and the flight and everything like that. Whereas the ZXI7, I felt it was just marginally more forgiving. Uh even if I didn’t quite, you know, flush it, the ball speed was still getting uh up there in terms of that 120 mark that that I like to see. Um but we we’ll go into that in the numbers in just a second. But whether that’s coming from just that slightly thicker thicker top line in there just to help with stability across the face a little bit more could be could be the factor. But um yeah T100 is a beautiful iron but like I said before in videos I think T150 is more sort of suited to to me I’d say. Um but nevertheless still gorgeous iron. But um we’ll have a look at the numbers now and see see what we reckon. So having a quick overview, uh, swinging it at a similar pace, you know, around sort of 92 91 mph is about sort of normal for me. Uh, Strickson’s slightly quicker on average, 119 versus, you know, 118.7. So half a mile an hour in it. And I think that just comes down to on the ones that I do kind of miss ever so slightly, like this one here down at sort of 115 ball speed. U, we did have one of those with the Shrixen. Um, but you see quite a few sort of up at that 120 ball speed mark. Um, that I like to see. Uh, launch angle very similar, you know, around 20°. I’ve always launch the ball quite high, so I kind of expect to see that peak height. T100 getting slightly more peak height uh over the ZXI7, like 5 ft. Um, that’s probably mainly down to probably the biggest difference between the two, which is the spin. You see, we didn’t really get one spin under 7,000 with the T100. Uh whereas with the Shrixen, we had a couple at like 6 1/2, couple just over 7, which gives me an average of um 6,789. But a bit more disparity with that one there. We had this one that span a little bit lower, but if you have a look at the standard deviation with T100, that’s that’s a really really tight uh standard deviation there, 188. So, I guess that’s the kind of what you’d expect to see from a T100. Nice sort of tight numbers, very consistent, but uh you do lose a little bit when you don’t quite strike it. What I like about that stricten, you can see on the carry numbers here, standard deviation at 2.2, too. It’s in and around that like 165 to 160 mark. But with the tight list had a couple like 155 157 which uh is maybe just a sign it’s uh a little bit too good for for someone like me potentially. But um yeah, both lovely irons. Both really really good numbers. Uh both very competitive. So if you’re in that sort of market, definitely worth looking at both. But uh I think it’s mainly just going to come down to to the cost difference between them really. So uh T100’s it’s 195 per club. Uh that does include any grips that you like. So you don’t pay any extra for grips. Um which is really quite nice. Uh but the ZX i7 it’s 150 a club. Um that doesn’t include any upmarket grips but you know you can always do that at a later date if needs be. So over the course of you know a six or seven club set. quite a big uh price difference to be honest. Um and both very, you know, similar irons, I’d say. So, both really good at what they do, but um for me uh if I was to pick and play one and you know, buy a set with my own money, I think it would have to be the ZX i7s for me. But, um depends on who you are. You know, that’s why it’s uh again always go back to the importance of getting fitted. Uh, two quite similar irons on paper, same lofts, very similar shafts, but for me anyway, there’s a bit of a clear winner there in the one that I’d actually enjoy playing, which would probably be the Shrixen personally. So, there we go guys. Thanks for watching another head-to-head on the channel. Uh, if you did enjoy it, please remember to like and subscribe and remember to comment any other head-to-heads or any other club uh reviews or anything that you’d like to see in the future. And we’ll see you guys again very