IRON FITTING – JONATHAN EDWARDS – Olympic Gold Medallist & World Record Holder gets new clubs.

Olympic Gold Medallist and Triple Jump world record holder, Jonathan Edwards, gets fitted for new irons at SGGT with the unique 4, 6, 8, PW process.

Jonathan is a sporting legend and, as you might expect, demands performance in sport – including golf. He was finding that the flight on his own irons was too low to hold greens and came to SGGT to what the team could do.

CLUBS FEATURED IN THIS VIDEO INCLUDE
Ping i240
Titleist T100
Taylormade P770
Ping Blueprint S
Cobra Dark Speed

ABOUT SGGT
SGGT is known for its unique, detailed 4, 6, 8, PW iron fittings at our flagship Edinburgh and Chesterfield studios. Where as many fitters use only 7 iron to fit an iron set, SGGT goes through the bag to find you the best fit for your game.

Recently, a customer said he thought SGGT offered the “World’s Best Iron Fitting” at our flagship Edinburgh and Chesterfield studios. He challenged us to find anywhere else in the world that offered all this in iron fittings:

• Fitting across set 4, 6, 8 irons & PW. Not just a 7 iron.
• Completely brand independent so you’re guaranteed unbiased advice
• Largest heads/shaft selection in Europe. We have the biggest matrix.
• Premium balls – ProV1s etc instead of range balls.
• Your choice of grip – We’ll put your preferred grip on the clubs you’re testing.
• An opportunity to test off mats & grass, indoor & outdoor during the fitting. It’s the only way to see the true ball flight and test turf interaction. Plus you still get the benefits of our Trackman launch monitors.

We haven’t found anywhere else yet. So, is SGGT the “World’s Best Iron Fitting?”. We’d be genuinely curious to know so please do get in touch.

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If you’d like to experience an iron fitting on this level then contact our Edinburgh or Chesterfield studios – or book online at www.sggt.co.uk

SGGT has a number of great fitting features including
The biggest matrix selection of club heads, shafts and grips to ensure you get exactly what you want
Trackman launch monitors
Open bays so you can see the real ball flight
SST Shaft Puring to get the most out of your shaft
S3 shaft profiling
We’ll fit your preferred grip during fitting sessions
Iron fitting with 4/6/8/PW instead of just one club
Outdoor wedge testing including in bunker
Premium balls
Matt and grass testing

DRIVERS & WOODS – FULL RANGE including
Titleist GT1, GT2, GT3, GT4 Series drivers GT280 Mini Driver
TaylorMade Qi35 Qi10 Core, Max, Maxlite and LS
Ping G440, G430 MAX, LST SFT and 10K
Cobra DS Adapt, Darkspeed
Callaway Elyte, Ai-Smoke, Paradym, Max D, Triple Diamond
Srixon ZXi Driver
Mini-Driver, Fairways and Hybrids

IRONS AND WEDGES – FULL RANGE including
Titleist T100, T150, T200, T250, T350, 620, 722
Taylormade P7CB, P790, P770, Qi irons
Ping G440, G430, G730, i230, i530, i59, Blueprint T
Callaway Elyte, Standard, X, HL (high launch) and Max Fast. Paradym Ai Smoke, Apex
Srixon ZXi7, ZXi5, ZXi4 Z-Forged II, ZX4 MkII, ZX5 MkII, Zx7 MkII
Mizuno JPX925 Hot Metal, JPX 923, Pro 245, 243, 241

SGGT custom fitting service creates golf clubs that are personalised to you and your swing only. Using our own proprietary fitting system we can combine heads and shafts from all the leading brands to create the ultimate combination in one of our two tour fitting studios. The Lyle Studio covers the woods and the long game and the Hogan Studio fits irons and wedges. All orders are built in our own in-house workshop. You can also trade in your old golf clubs for new ones. For more information choose the fitting you require below and book online.

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[Music] What I find with these irons is I do hit it very flat. Saw some of your content online and I thought I’ve never seen anything like that. I’m really excited about today because, you know, I want to be as good as I can be at golf and I think the equipment uh will definitely help. Oh, now we’re talking. Well, that’s the best that’s the best shot I’ve hit. And that head’s amazing. I’ve not hit an iron like that. Thank you. It’s been brilliant. Pleasure. very special guest with us today, Jonathan Edwards, triple jump world record holder. Let’s see. You forgot his golf is up to the same standard. I can tell you it’s not. Today, Aaron and myself are going to look at Jonathan’s irons, work out how we get him the best performing golf clubs and how we can make his game even better. Jonathan, tell us a bit about your golf. Well, when I retired from athletics, which was when I was 37 years old, 2003, there was two things I wanted to do. one was ski uh and the other was play golf. Um and I fall in love with golf really. I mean, you know, I love playing. I love the whole the social aspect of it, but also I’m, you know, as you can imagine, quite performance focused and want to be as good as I can be. Um and I some saw some of your content online and I thought, I’ve never seen anything like that. The sort of attention to detail. Um I mean, just look at the array of of club heads and shafts that you have here. Of course, being left-handed, you don’t really get that many options. Yeah. Um, so I I’m really excited about today because, you know, I want to be as good as I can be at golf and I think the equipment uh will definitely help. Yeah. Amazing. Do you want to have some shots with your six iron to start with? My six iron. We’ll try and get some baseline numbers. Okay. We’ll put through your tastes early doors and we’ll see if we can make it make any sense for you. The the six iron is the lowest iron I have in my bag. I’ve not got a full set in there. Right then. And you said there that the six is the longest iron that you carry. Yeah. Is there a reason I can’t hit the other ones? Fair. Yeah. I And also partly um because I’m carrying, you know, just bit like travel light. I like it. What I find with these irons is I do hit it very flat. Yeah. I think when you look at what you have as an iron, a sixiron at 25 or 24° traditionally 10 years ago that was a that was a four iron. That That’s why we struggle to flight them more than anything. This is a bit slappy that. Okay. What would you say your normal miss is on the golf course? Well, I can do both really. I can do sort of like a weed slice left and sort of like a pulling. I’d probably say a sort of hookie pull right. Yeah. I think my club path tends to be a little bit out to in so I can like do a nasty slice. Yeah. Or just pulling on it. Counteract it and pull it a bit. They’re partners in crime. Those two shots. They’re partners in crime. Those two shots. Oh yeah. That was a nice strike. That’s badass. Give us a couple more and we’ll kind of look at the numbers and see if we can make it make any sense for you. That would be good. That was a good strike strike there. That was a bit of strike. So I think a lot of irons just now it’s almost a little bit of a false economy and that if you were to buy a driver and you hit it really low, at no point are you going to buy an 8° driver? So why would you buy a really strong lofted set of irons if you hit the ball low to start with? Yeah. I think nobody ever really looks at it like that. And I think everybody’s went down this route of distance, distance, distance. And Trackman’s great, but the the variable measured to for performance just now is, oh, you buy a new set of irons, that one goes 8 yards longer than your old one. And the reality is like it’s how do you get the ball to stop on the green? Like you’ve just had a really nice sixiron there that’s 53 ft in the air landing in it at 33°. Like I’d like to hold my driver with that kind of decent angle. So your issue is if you’re playing to a pin behind the bunker on an elevated green I’ve got no chance with that hard to be honest even you know even even eight iron in my bag nine I could probably do but anything low lower than that I’ve got no till higher I’ve got no chance. Yeah. So be like you don’t generate millions of spins. So we can get away with adding a bit loft to get the ball up in the sky or we can get away we might need to cheat a couple longer clubs for hybrids to help encourage the ball up into the air. But I we need to get the ball in the sky and make this more efficient. And it’s how do we get away from low launch, low spine? I think the first step is let’s take the strong loft out your hand and get the ball up in the sky. Yeah. Where are we starting, Aaron? I’ve got same shaft out. Um what is the shaft in question? It’s a KBS tour light. Okay. Uh, and then headwise, you just start with something like a P790. Go even weaker. Go in pure me like go into something that’s T100. It’ll go more blade like I know we’re going to make it hard to start with, but I’m going to give you loads of loft and see what happens. It’s I’m swinging quite slow today. I’d normally expect to be about 85 for that, which is probably me just trying to make sure I hit it decently. Just tap it. So that’s a regular. So, I was when I was fitted, I was in between regular and stiff. Regular is just going to try and keep it in there a little bit longer. So, I’m just going to start you on that. Um, Titus T 100. So, exactly the same shaft, Jonathan. Try and change one variable at a time. Okay. But what I’ve done is we went from a 24° 6 iron to a 30° six iron or 29°. So, just want to see if does giving you a little bit more loft initially help encourage that ball up into the sky. So launch goes from 12° to 16° or 15 and 12. Wasn’t a great strike. No. Um landing angle from 33 up to 37. So strike wasn’t great, but flight was better. Was better. Wow. That’s gone up a day, hasn’t it? I mean, I know I pulled it, but the flight was completely different. The fact you’ve pulled that, delofted it a touch, and it still got up there. Yeah. So, you’re 64 ft, spin rate up at almost 4,900, landing angle now up at almost 39°, and the ball’s actually got half a chance of stopping on. So, it’s as much as flight’s higher, it’s it all becomes relative. So you don’t need when you’ve got irons that are so lofted. That’s a false economy because you just end up back filling it with loads of wedges. So rather than playing four to wedge, you play six to gap wedge one and gap wedge two and then you end up with loads of clubs at the bottom end that loop is just to fill a hole ultimately. So giving you something that actually flights a bit more efficiently, hopefully we can then make the set space out a little bit. Space out a little. Yeah. I mean that’s I mean that’s one thing that I’ve never really considered is you know I’ve never really done my distances and get an idea of what you know I fiddle around with sort of you know just trying to make a club work to a distance rather than thinking I’m going to hit this this far. Yeah. Yeah. I think it’s how do you get keep improving and it’s like everything it’s finer and finer margins and if you know exactly what it’s going to do then it makes it easier to put that input in. Yeah. Yeah, great strike. Lovely. But if you know that that’s going to carry whether it be 150 or 160 yards, you know that you can then make an calculation for wind or whatnot, but you can get some flight and something out of it. How many steps you take back before you do a triple jump? Uh 18. 18 for Yeah. Will everybody do that or is that your number? That’s my number. And some people will do like a little jogging beforehand. I’d start like almost like I’m out of blocks and then it’s sort of just like full on right from the beginning which I think reduces the amount of possibility for error because you’re just running flat out rather than So that’s what you would be it would be full tilt. Full full tilt. Yeah, full tilt. What do you think you can get, Adam? What’s the world record for shortest jump? Yeah, right. Let’s swap that head over. Adam, I think the concept’s good. Can we put a wee bit more help in this time? Yes. Yes, I think we can. What you got? Got P770. Tailor made P770 one I prepared earlier. So, similar concept, Jonathan. And it loft is going to remain the same. M hollow head construction this time. So, a little bit more forgiveness. We kind of kind of ripped it apart there and gave you no forgiveness to begin with. Let’s filter in a little bit. Help just now and almost kind of meet somewhere in the middle between your own irons and this. That feels a lot more weight in that head. Okay. It should It shouldn’t be overly difficult. Maybe it’s the look. Yeah, it’s just a bit chunkier. Does that Do you prefer the look of that? Um, probably. Yeah. Yeah. Great flight. Lovely strike as well. That was out the middle. That was good. Yeah, that strange sensation there was the middle of the face. It was getting ribbed already. Finally started. Pulled it. The strike again. Jonathan, you’ll get the right clubs, but there’s some abuse to take on the way. Okay, let’s see. Good. Bad one. Yeah. So strike itself’s not great, but results pretty good. Yeah. The strike not good in terms. Yeah. Out the heel and the heel. Missed the middle of the face half an inch. But as far as the result was goes, it’s on the green as such. You do that with a 100 and it you get very little help with that one. You get you get very little help with the other head with that one. Yeah. Right. Give us that back. Let’s swap you over. What we got this time, Maron? We have a Ping i240 this time. So what age did you start the triple jump? When did that come about? I probably did did it at school. um went to very sporty school, did it in a games lesson along with everything else. Used to get lapel badges depending on how fast you ran, how far you jumped, how far you threw and I was selected for the school in sprints, long jump, triple jump. And then I eventually won the English schools in the triple jump in my final year at school. Right. But back then, I mean, sport wasn’t professional. So the idea of, you know, going and being an athlete, that wasn’t even on my mind at all. Yeah. So went to university, studied physics, got a degree, went to the World Student Games for my final year. I thought, well, you know, I’ve got some talent. It wasn’t obviously an incredible talent, but some talent. I’ll give it a go. Moved to Newcastle, started training at Gates Stadium, then went to the Olympics the following year. Oh wow. And then it’s just developed from there. How did you got in your first Olympics? Oh, didn’t qualify for the final. I had no expectations actually of qualifying for the final. It was just about the experience of being there alongside some of the greatest athletes the world’s ever seen. I mean, Daley Thompson was in the British team. I was Car Lewis was in the American team and I was sort of, you know, not anywhere near their level, but part of that world. I think that gave me the impetus to then go forward. Um, and I got consistently better cuz I’d never really done any tra proper training until I left university. So, it’s a case of just building up that conditioning. Um, and then just year on year got better until obviously it went brilliantly well in 95. 95 was the magic year. Was the magic year. Yeah. Amazing. Nice. Well, that’s the best. That’s the best shot I’ve hit. That’s a proper golf. How How does this one look compared to the other heads? I of all of them, I like this the best. And it is really I don’t I don’t know if it’s to do with the offset or something else. It just looks a wee bit different setup. Good. I like how that looks. Lovely flight. And that was that was higher again, was it? 66. Yeah. Yeah. We’re up in the sky now. I’m very depressed by how slow my swing on that is that’s very slow. We’ll blame it on the freezing cold Scottish. I suppose it almost feels like it sets I set up a bit further away with it. Okay. Okay. I don’t know cuz the lie will be the same, won’t it? Yeah. Yeah. It shouldn’t be any different. Oh, now we’re talking. I mean, that’s that was a height. That’s completely different, isn’t it? Yeah. That’s what that’s what we want it to look like. So, from a numbers standpoint, the ball’s in the sky. The ball can now stop on the green. And I think this is this is maybe where it differentiates from retail that when you look at it from an an actual number standpoint, without boring you to tears go, right? So, when you look at your own one from a number standpoint, ball speed is similar. 109 versus 109 and a half. there’s not lots in it. Um, your own one carries 150 and runs out to almost 170. You’re now carrying 157 and running to 170. So for the same distance, you’re getting an R7 y 21 ft through there. So just giving you a little bit more efficiency. Your own one lands into the green at 32°, you’re now up at 39. So that alone, like even if the green’s like concrete, you’ve got half a chance. Yeah. It’s lovely that that club just sits really nicely. It’s a nice head, isn’t it? It’s a really nice head. Oh yeah. I mean that’s just completely different, isn’t it? Good, isn’t it? I mean that is really good. So do you do much practice at the golf? I do actually. I love Yeah. sort of going out hitting balls, chip. I love chipping. I love the aesthetics of chipping and just nipping a ball off the turf. I really enjoy that. Putting So yeah, I I I love practicing. That was that was my life. Yeah. Is that different from so as a golfer as a practice you would check, you would putt, you would do bits. For a triple jump, how would you practice? Well, I mean, I would do one technical session a week probably. But then there was a whole lot of of fitness uh and strength and conditioning. I did a lot in the weight room, a lot of sprinting. Um cuz the the reason the reason I think I still hold the record is because I was so fast across the ground on the runup and then through the phases. That was my that was my superpower as people would say now. Um and I don’t think anybody jumps like that. So my basic metrics of jumping like if I was going to do a standing like vertical jump or standing horizontal jump my numbers wouldn’t be great. So where I was better than everybody else was my speed across the ground and then almost this sort of like I would almost bounce rather than jump. So it wasn’t like a landing takeoff. It was more of a like. So would you practice those bits individually like the whole? No, I generally do it all together. So I I would think of a jump as starting at the beginning of the run up and finishing when I land in the pit. So it would be it would be the whole thing. Um and I guess there maybe a bit of equivalence for you know for a golf swing. It’s almost like you know you start your shot starts when you begin your preparation and you see it as one whole thing. Yeah. Until it leaves the club. The club you can rehearse differently for it that so you need to practice the whole thing. Whereas with the golf, you can you can go and do some chipping in the back garden or a chipping greener. You can go and putt and you can break it down into subsections, but there’s not really the same thing. No, no, it’s all or nothing. Aaron, we need to get this right. We try We should try some jumping. I’m overweight and he’s under height. We’re kind of struggling a little bit. Lovely. I love what this head’s doing in terms of flight. It’s completely different. I think what I like about as well just even when we’re there on this screen strike location for whatever reason we’d have to go and weigh and work it out you’re hitting more in the middle of the face. Yeah. So as much as ball speed with yours at 109 we’re still at 109 and a half. You’re 109 give or take 3 m an hour whereas we’re now 109 not even give or take 1 m an hour. Yeah. So again same concept carry number of yours 150 give or take six as opposed to 156 give or take two. Just a little bit tighter in terms of what we’re getting out the whole thing. Give us one more and what we’re going to do is change that shaft. And I do love the look. I just do love the look of how this sets up. I tried to hit that a little bit harder again. So ball speed is not moving. Flight similar. You’ve missed the middle of the face with that one, which is really interesting. So the carry number on average at 156. That is a bad strike. Still at 155. Yeah. So still helping there. You’re not getting hung out to drive. Should we add a bit of weight to the shaft? Let’s change some shafts over. Let’s see what we can do. But that was certainly the best of the heads by quite a long way. Yeah. The way it’s set up the flight. What are you thinking? Do you want a DG mid or a CT light or C light to start with? Let’s see what it does. So change your shaft, Aaron. What’s different? So this has got a little bit more weight in it. Still trying to get the ball up and keep it up, but just got a touch more weight. This is a 105. Okay. Instead of a 95. So this this should get it higher in the air. Should still keep the ball a little bit higher. It’s kind of similar to that. Yeah, you can feel that. You can definitely feel a bit a bit more weight in there. Great strike. Just pulled it a bit. Yeah, if that’s going to be what the pool looks like, we’re happy with that. It doesn’t jump. Doesn’t jump much further in distance. It’s still sensible. That’s the first one that’s gone that way, isn’t it? It’s interesting. I know why that happened. I just found the club face open a little bit more. Just making sure that didn’t go left right. Yeah. That was nice. Solid connection as well. Thought about trying to putt left-handed this weekend. The wars continue. How’s the putting, Jonathan? We’re putting right-handed. I’ve often been I might join you there. I’ve I’ve been tempted to put left-handed. Well, I am right-handed and if I was going to shoot a gun, I’d shoot it right-handed. That’s Why did you play golf left-handed? Because I couldn’t play right-handed, basically. That’s as simple as that. And I just I just one day just thought I’d put tried putting right-handed. It’s much more stable. Are you right eye dominant? Yeah. Yeah. That’s amazing. So, you see the line a little bit better, I think. Yeah, I think that’s end. Great shot. Lovely. Again, he’ll be selling his left hand a par soon. And that’s a lovely golf shot, isn’t it? I mean, that’s great golf shot. So, what Trackman gives, I’ll pop up on the screen there for you, Jonathan. I’ll probably optimize it on there so you can see it. So, what Trackman gives you is kind like optimal numbers. So, a little bit steep into the back of the ball. Um, so launch is always going to come out a little touch lower. We start to look at numbers now. We’re now delivering the correct amount of loft. So, launch and spin are kind of where we’d want to see them. So, peak height gets that little bit higher. the shaded area would be like an optimal ball flight. So the the kind of shaded one, I hate when it goes green. But the shot there right through the middle is where we’re at now, right? Whereas previously when you look at all the shots that you hit, they’re just flat. They’re never flatter. Whereas just now it’s more consistently through the middle of that from a dispersion standpoint, your own ones in this white circle. So the good one’s really really good. Yeah. But because the good one’s low, the bad one’s only going to be lower. So the drop off in carry numbers massive. So that green circle now we’re now getting a little bit closer to where we would like to see it as well. It’s lovely. And for you probably now going to play some firmer golf courses. If we can get that ball landing a little bit softer, it makes it even better. Makes it even better. Yeah. I mean, literally the shots I hit, I’ve got no chance Yeah. of of stopping a ball. It just adds an extra element. It adds another variable that you need to think about. We can just take take another variable away. And that head’s amazing. It’s lovely. I mean that really I mean that’s just different. We’ve been really impressed with this since it came in to be honest, haven’t we? Yeah, I love it. Okay, that’s just pushed a little bit, but we’ll add a plug to Project X Red. You want to go heavier again? I want to go the other way. I want to go lighter and just see what it does. Jonathan, I’m just going to swap that shaft over again. I’m going to go the other way. I’m going to go lighter and just see what happens. Traditionally, we would associate lighter with going higher. It isn’t always the case, and you need to like the feeling of it. So, let’s plug it in and see what it does to start with. Right. Let’s see what this does. Okay. So, this is 15 g lighter than the shaft that you currently play, Jonathan. So, this is a graphite. Yes. We’re future proofing it. Interesting. I’m not even 60 yet. I’m not far away, but that’s lower. It’s interesting what’s happened to strike there. Yeah, that didn’t do too badly considering. Give us two or three. I think it’s always good to try different weights and rule them out if nothing else. Yeah, that was nice. That was lovely. That was good. I think the head helped us out. The head did its job on that last one. And that was just nice. What’s interesting is since we’re playing lighter, even with the lighter shaft that you currently play just now, you certainly favor that heel side of the golf club. As we put a little bit more weight into the shaft, for whatever reason, you start to find more of the middle. The middle. Yeah. Yeah, give us that back. Don’t like it. I’m glad that we’ve rolled it out though. At least then we go home not thinking. I wonder what graphite it seem. We get asked it regular just now. It’s a quite a common question. It’s became a thing. Graphite shafts. Yeah. Oh, really? Yeah. Um, where we going? I was like an open 115 bit lower launching but try it. Let’s go the other way. We’re going to go slightly heavier again. We’re maybe going to go too far this time. But again, let’s rule it out and we know where we’re pull. That’s it. With weight, there’s always going to be a diminishing return. We’re just trying to identify exactly where that Yeah. where that is. That was a nice enough shot. So golfers with a club path across it, we tend to find that making shaft heavy, it’s almost it gets the top of your back swing and you can’t reroute it. It’s too heavy. So you fling it over the top and then you get that one that wants to start in your case further right. And we see that already after two shots. Path moves further right, ball starts further right and it needs a lot of shape to bring it back. Give us it back, Aaron. Save energy. Yeah. We’ll put a project X red and we’ll see what it does. Let’s do it. And you done 1843 but downwind somewhere. Windy. Yeah. About 6 weeks beforehand. Really? That’s still the best jump I’ve ever done. Really? Yeah. That I mean I know from just obviously it’s 2.4 or something. Is it 2.4? So it wouldn’t have made any difference to be honest. Really? No, it wouldn’t have made any difference. What do you think the wind has to be able to make a difference? Well, the big difference you notice is when it’s in your face. So, if it was like minus like half a meter/s that would feel like a lot of wind and that would make jumping difficult. So, anything into your face makes a huge difference. I mean, in terms of I don’t know, you could get up to sort of three or four then you’d really notice the difference. Everybody that doesn’t have the speed, it helps them. It helps them. Exactly. Would you measure training jumps? Yeah. Um, my best ever training jump was a meter over a meter less than my world record cuz I just didn’t have the motivation in training. That’s interesting, huh? Wow. You’re going to tell me you dropped 19 meters one day randomly. Not even close. It was all adrenaline. Wow. Once you’re in the cauldron, you get Yeah, that’s exactly it. I’m the opposite. I’ve never snapped it on the driving range before on the golf course. As soon as the adrenaline kept in, that’s nice. Give me one more. I don’t dislike it. I don’t think it’s as good as a caper light that we were in earlier. Give us one more and we’ll either go again or we’ll rule it out and then we’ll swap you back away. Okay. Yeah. Give me that back. I don’t dislike it. It’s fine. It’s not as good as it was. I don’t think it’s good at No. So, we did this just fine. So, no pressure here, but this is back to the combination that’s worked best. Good. Bad one. Yeah. If that’s as bad as it’s going to be, I’m ecstatic. So, that’s just slightly heel. Yeah. Yeah. Little bit of heel. It still carried the same kind of number as your current iron carries. So, we’re not any worse off. didn’t get to the heights it we would like it to get to. It just ran out its puff to clean up. Yeah, that’s gone way in the air. Yeah, that’s a good flight. Yeah, that was 70 there. Yeah. 69 ft in the air, 5,600 RPM. It’s around 41° of land angle. That’s never running away from you. That’s you’re in control of it. Yeah. Right. Jonathan, same thing. Pitching wedge. Oh, I like hitting wedges. So, what we’d look for with a set of irons, yeah, is every club in the set should peak at a similar height. So, we talk about longer irons or where we talk about your longest playable iron. So, we’d expect six iron to be as high as wedge. So, if we fire eight iron and it’s when four iron’s then 20 and 30 ft lower, four iron is a waste of time having it cuz the gap’s not going to be substantial enough. So, we’ll see what this looks like in terms of peak height for you. So, in ter So, you got the six. So, you think I could probably hit a five in that high as well? Well, try four and we’ll see what it seems. Okay, you do. You’ve certainly got a better chance. You got a better chance. The five in the current iron that we’re in just now is weaker than the five iron. Have you That sets up differently. Yeah, that that head looks Does it feel long? I don’t think it feels long. Just looks different. It just looks different. It’s funny you got that. I just Yeah. I don’t know what it is. Better. Couple of bad shots in the head was getting the blame. Is that Couple of bad shots in the head was getting the blame. Yeah. 68 ft 8,000 spin. So that’s good, isn’t it? Yeah. So when you look at like Yeah. like that. Peak height across the board on an average with all the sixes, the good and bad included. Peak height. Yeah. Peak height is 64 ft. A nice wedge peeking at 68. We’re kind of running a line quite nicely. Do you dislike the look of it? It’s funny. I I really like that. And then that just feels a bit peculiar. Okay. It’s a funny It’s that is that little bit there. That’s a ping thing. Yeah, we have this little bit. Maybe it’s just We can work with peculiar though. Don’t grab this. Then pull that again. I’m going to grab a slightly different head. It’s going to be slightly smaller. Um, and I just want to see if it looks better on the eye for you more than anything. I’m not expecting masses of difference from a performance standpoint. I just want to see what it looks like. That was nice. That was more like it. So, this is just slightly different model. This is Ping Blueprint S. Just slightly smaller in profile. Yeah. So you see lots of golfers almost like combo sets and it’s combo for the right reason. So I think we’re fortunate we have 4 68 wedge and we can try different irons from a set and make sure they run in line and do what we want them to do rather than deciding well we’ll put a big forgiving five iron in. We’ll put let’s do it for the right reasons right reason. Yeah. Is that nice off the face? Yeah. A little bit softer in feel as well. Yeah. Maybe a little bit more control going into the green. It’s good. It’s lovely. So, you take like an average peak height over the shots that you’ve hit for us, Jonathan. What you find from a number um peak height at 62 ft. There was a bad one there that’s dragged it down a little touch. Um, but generally speaking, um, peak height, you’re now looking at 6iron, 64 ft, pitching wedge at 67. Okay. So, you’ve now actually got a six iron that runs in a line with the rest of the sack, whereas previously we were falling off the face. I mean, that said, I wouldn’t say that that still feel in terms of setup and look, that was six felt really good. That the six actually just for whatever reason just felt really good. intention again. That’s just that’s just a bit of a pull. Right. Let me see. I’m going to shorten it a wee fraction. I just want to see what it does. I’m intrigued. What do the short I’m going to give you eight iron and we’re going to try both heads. The one that you liked in six and the slightly smaller one and we’ll see what happens from a performance standpoint. I mean, I hit some shots with that six which Yeah. was just a delight. I really like I don’t know why I don’t like the look of short irons on many sets. I really like the look of longer irons. I don’t know why there’s lots of sets I really like looking at longer irons and as soon as it gets into short ones I don’t know what it is. I kind of get but that’s a complete flip for me cuz generally I’ve always been scared of the lower irons. Yeah. So eight iron same concept. This is the same as six. Does it look the same as six? See? Yeah. I like this. See, but I Yeah, I do like the look of this. I’ve pulled that a little bit, but it’s a lovely flight. Yeah. So, again, eight maybe pop a little bit. I’m hoping for about 70 ft would be a good number here. 69 ft. That’ll do. Yeah. See, it now all runs in a line really nicely. Yeah, that that’s a nice I like that. That feels that feels like the six does. cuz I’m the right length. Didn’t quite get all of it, but I certainly wouldn’t want it back. In terms of flight, that was I mean that was really nice. Look at the angle a little bit, but I don’t know if they’re maybe just a little fraction upright for you. I don’t know if they’re a hair too upright for you. And what you’re find is that one that starts to the right hand side, if I can flatten it just a little touch, it’s just going to allow it to come back to target. Okay. Um, I I don’t dislike what you’re doing just now, but if we can just flatten a hair and get it to peel to the left hand side, I think it’ll be even better again. Good. Really good. That’s proper flight. That’s Yeah, I’ve not hit an iron like that. Thanks, John. And what we’ve done is just flattened the head on the pitching wedge that you weren’t quite sure on the look of just to see what it’s going to look like to see if it looks a little bit better, a little bit comfier. There we are. So those are both standard lie. Yes. That we’ve done. We’re talking when you’re away that we’re potentially going to look at flattening a we touch as well. Okay. It was good. Just it started right and maybe didn’t peel quite as much as we maybe like to see it. Tapering off line angle as we go up a we fraction. Yeah. Did it look any better? Uh, those little lovely. It’s the best wedge you’ve hit yet. Oh, that’s that one. Strange that. Would that be typically your mess with a shot? Ryan, not with a wedge. Yeah. No. With an eight and seven or Yeah. But generally not with a wedge. Flatten lie angle a touch more. A better strut, but still. Going to ask Johnny on his machine. Yeah, he’s going to give that we flatten. Give us a minute, Jonathan. How’s line angle, Aron? Where we at? Okay, 63 we got it to. And where were we prior to that? Sorry. 64 and a bit. Right. All right. So, line angle just over a degree flatter, which I’m hoping is going to help that direction. Good strike, good recovery. Sounded better than that. Yeah, I’m going to take a bit of length out this time as well. Going to take that extension out from Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it doesn’t feel as I just don’t feel something’s not right somewhere. Something’s not right compared to the way that I hit those. Yeah. Going to take the length out of it. So, you’re getting this kind of heel strike and wanting it to turn over. I’m just going to take the extra bit of length, a half inch out of it. Almost take it down a quarter. See if it helps with strike. If that helps, perfect. If not, I’ll play about swing weight and see if we can get it to a bit better for you. We need to get this going straight. No, we do scoring one. This is a scoring flow, isn’t it? Yeah. So, this is a bit shorter. Touch shorter. Yeah. Well, that does feel short. Yeah. So, all three of them. They’re all at the heel, aren’t they? Yeah. Like KS2 like regular shafts. Regular. Just going to change the shaft a little touch. I’m just intrigued as to where we get to. That would have been the last thing I’d have predicted that was going to fall apart at wedge. Exactly. Blueprint or I2 I think. So matching wedge Jonathan six iron eight irons worked really really nicely. Pulled that a little bit. Sounded solid. I mean it’s lovely off the face. Yeah. I mean really lovely off the face. And that peak height at 62 ft runs in line with everything else which is lower lower than six. Correct. That’s bizarre. That’s what it should look like. Not not as much as it bizarre speed out a sixiron ultimately. Okay. You should know that, Jonathan. If you move faster on the same That’s true. You’re right. Again, a wee bit of a pull again. But that’s that’s really all it was. That was that was nice. Strike itself. Lovely. 73 ft. Yeah. 120 carry. It’s perfect. Yeah. I love it. Lovely. Good swing. Yeah. Beautiful. It’s a hair, right? A hair right. You held on to There’s a couple of them you held on to a fraction which I’d expect. You had a couple of shanks. It’s It’s just It’s safer. It’s safer. Yeah, it is. Yeah. Beautiful. Good. Right, I’ll swap you over. Let’s try the four. So, see, we’re maybe a step too far, but let’s rule this out. We’ll see what it does. Interesting. I mean, I’ve never been able to hit a four on in my life. Yeah. In in relation to your set, your six is probably 24 to 25. This is 22 1/2. Yeah, 22 and 1/2, 23°. So, it’s not overly different to your six. Shaft would be a bit longer, but which is not a bad strike, but it is low. Yeah, it’s not awful. So, that baby that’s this sums up what we’re talking about here. That the strike itself is great. So, if you based it on can you hit it, the answer is yes. If you based it on peak height and landing angle and how it’s going to descend on the green at 42 feet, it doesn’t carry any further than five is going to carry. So, it becomes a pointless exercise unless you’re playing a golf course with no bunkers and it was an open field. Yeah, disappoint. If you had a current four that you were hitting off loads of TE’s, it might be worth having a conversation about as well, but it’s it’s not going to if it’s not going to serve a purpose, let’s not put it in the bag. That was the shank again. Do you carry a hybrid or something in place? No. Well, I’ve got a I’ve got a um like a four hybrid and then I have a little two iron. Go and hit me a couple of your hybrid. I just want to get a number and just make sure it marries in with everything else. Is this a trusty club? Yeah, actually. Yeah, you do right at this. So, we’ll be looking here for something that’s going to carry 170ish. That wasn’t a great strike. Not a great strike. Go again for us. You got away with it. It’s a good bad one. Oh man. What kind of ball do you normally use, Jonathan? Um, I don’t have a bowl I normally use. Whatever comes out your bag next. But but pretty much Yeah. I mean I mean it’ll be a a premium ball. We’re going to make the suggestion. Okay. That’s not a nice strike. Do you have a ball that you like the feel of when you’re chipping and putting? I probably use a If I was going to have between a Prov1 and a Prov1X, I have a Prov1. Yeah. I have something with a bit softer. Softer. Okay. That’s interesting. So I’d like something that is going to spin a little bit more for you. Okay. Okay. Which would normally be the Prov1X. Okay. You have to like the feeling of that golf ball 100%. Shot bit higher. There is maybe I touch high in the face. There’s another brand that take kind of what Prov1 do or Titless do and they flip the feels. So the spinny one feels a bit softer. Okay. Be tailor made. So a TP5. It’s going to give you the same feel as a Prov1, but just going to spin a little bit more and in theory stay in the air. And that’s actually what I took out for you there. Okay. So, the the next few balls are going to be TB5s. It’ll be interesting to see what they do. That was nice. 166. Sounded more like it. Yeah. Yeah. I think if you played five iron down to the gap wedge, Jonathan, I think that would fill the gap down to your 50 60°ree wedge that you currently have. Okay. and the five iron would then keep up quite nicely. You’ve got six that you’re carrying around the 155. Five is going to carry somewhere around the 165. And then the good ones with the hybrid are kind of pushing that 175. So it just runs in line really, really nicely. And more importantly, hybrid at 73 ft as well in the air. It just runs in line. It’s part of a set that good strike just a bit. Actually, not a bad strike. I have I’ve seen enough numbers with that to know that I quite like the feeling of that and what it does. Do you want to add a few eight irons? And I just want to see what the number looks like from a spin with this other golf ball. Okay. Does it actually help give us a little bit more flight again? So yeah, these are all these are all these are all tailor made TP5. That’s Yep. Yep. Normal TP5. And the idea we just want to see that stay in the air a bit longer and just spin. So this should give you Prov1 feel. Prov1X flight. Great shot. Lovely. That felt a bit towy actually. Is it? Did it? A bit healy. It was a bit healy. Go. Certainly wasn’t middle though. But that wasn’t 68 ft. 7,000 spin. So spin launch spin and peak height are certainly gone up. very similar similar in terms of strike. We’ve definitely tired you out, that’s for sure. Yeah. No, I’m definitely not quite hitting it. I mean, that’s still a lovely flight. Yeah. Flights up. So, it’s noticeable though. Even you look at I know that you’ve kind of tired out a little bit, but from a numbers standpoint, if we look at both the eight irons with the two different kind of golf balls, this head’s the same. I just need to change the tag over. And what we find is that spin rate almost jumps up 1100 RPMs just with that change of ball. Yeah. Pete K up four feet landing angle that little bit steeper. So changing ball will make a big difference. Absolutely help. And you notice it a little bit with the shorter clubs but you notice it more with the longer clubs holding that ball up in the sky. Five and six TP5 a better connection. Bit of a pull it. So yeah. So for me it would be tell me TP5 is a golf ball. Um, irons wise, we’re looking at Ping I240. Yep. Five iron down to the gap wedge. Fill the gap at both ends. Um, KBS C taper light as the shaft. So, 105 g up 10 g on what you currently play. The length would be half an inch over standard length. Okay. Um, and the lie angle would be standard through five, six, seven. And then from eight, we just kind of drop it down a we fraction just to flatten off that bottom end. A couple of the shorter clubs you just held on. And it’s just going to flatten them off and allow that ball to peel back towards center. Okay. But other than that, it’s brilliant. It’s really great. Super. Thank you. It’s been brilliant. Pleasure. Thank you very much for coming along. I’ll I’ll let you know how I take it on the course. Very cool. Well, thank you very much to everyone for watching. Um to book your own club fitting where we look at 4 68 and pitching wedge, please head over to the website at sgt.co.uk. Um and for more great golfing content, please like and subscribe to the channel. Thanks. [Music]