LIVE Testing! SRIXON ZXiR IRONS

The new Srixon ZXiR Irons round out the Srixon ZXi lineup by adding game-improvement performance to the family. The Srixon ZXiR Irons feature a new i-Alloy material that is 10% softer than traditional steel. Additionally, the sweet spot in the Srixon ZXiR Irons has been moved slightly lower to help golfers who often miss low on the clubface.

In this Livestream, 2nd Swing’s Drew Mahowald is joined by 2nd Swing master fitters to test and review the newest irons on the market.

NOTE: Fittings for Srixon ZXiR Irons will begin on December 4, 2025.

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Hey golfers and welcome to the Second Swing YouTube channel for another live stream. We’re back here. It is a fun day because we have new irons to test today. Uh I’m Dream Hold. That’s Harrison Arnold. We have a couple more fitters with us uh joining shortly. Um Shrixon ZXR and ZXR HL irons. I’m Harrison. There’s a swing report that is up on the YouTube channel right now. Uh but we’re going to do some live testing here. Uh give me your first impressions, Harrison, of what you’ve seen. You’ve done some testing on these as well already. So, uh just curious for your initial thoughts here. Yeah, I think really smart package they put together, right? We kind of talked about in the swing report. Much longer blade length. Um they’ve added a new material I alloy. Mhm. Research to be 10% softer than the um original materials they’ve been using, which I could definitely feel it being very soft off the face. So, yeah. Yeah, I like it. I think we’re we’ve identified that it’s kind of right behind the ZXI4. Um, and they’ve also got the VT sole in there, right? Which is a trademark technology from Shrixon, uh, for clean turf interaction, that kind of two-tiered sole there. And then one thing they also, I know you in the swing report, you made big note of, and I think we’ll, uh, discuss it today, is that sweet spot. Yeah. Um, they’ve lowered it a little bit, and I think the idea for that is to help golfers with low face strikes. A lot of golfers in this category are in that maybe struggle with that where they maybe make contact lower uh than the sweet spot on on other irons and so they’ve lowered that there. So, um we’re going to do some testing today. That’s the main idea. We’re going to look at Trackman, look at some numbers. We’ll bring in Jake Montgomery here. Jake is in the Bay. Uh he’ll be our first swinger for today. So, uh Jake, I want your initial thoughts now. You’ve got one built kind of with the the shaft that you want. Um tell me what you see. Address, you know, the look, the top line, everything about it. Yeah, I mean the first thing I noticed when I saw this iron is for a game improvement club, like you said, this has a really good looking package. The top line is not offensive at all. It’s actually quite pleasant to look at. It’s definitely a longer blade length, but it really doesn’t bother my eye. Um, it reminds me a lot of the Zip Core XL, the Cleveland of last year’s model where it has it kind of longer heel totoe blade length. Um, again, yeah, just kind of really sharp lines there. I’m a big fan of the VT sole, so I think that I’m also going to like this as well. Um, but yeah, this will be kind of the first time I’m hitting this here, so I’m excited to see what the numbers are. Yeah, I think what we know from the ZXI lineup is, you know, they feel really good. They perform really good. Um, I think in general, maybe you guys can disagree with me, but I feel like in general they’re maybe a little lower spinning or on the lower end of that spectrum compared to maybe their counterparts in their respective categories. So, we’ll maybe see if that trend emerges here cuz this is kind of the game improvement iron addition to the ZXI lineup. Yeah. So, all right. All right. So, we’re Are you starting with ZXR? I’m going to start with ZXIR and then move into ZXIR HL. HL. Okay. So, we’ve got seven. Y. Interesting. We got the HL’s today as well, which didn’t have for the swing report. So, this is going to be fun. Yeah. True. Four degrees. Four degrees weaker. Four degrees weaker than the difference regular IRS. So, cool. Make sure I put the tag for Jake as well, cuz we’re going to have multiple swingers today. All right. I’m testing out that low sweet spot right off the bat. Okay. So, and and for you, Jake, what is a seven iron number for you? So, my typical 7 iron is about 175 carry. When I was warming up with this, it was closer to 190. Um, okay. Ball speed there, I was seeing up to almost 140 with it. So, it’s it’s it’s a very hot iron. Yeah. We’re already getting questions about the ZXi4, which was my Mhm. my question too when I saw these irons initially. So, um we do have a comparison that will be on the channel soon, but we can also do a lot of discussion today about ZXi4 and ZXIR. Yeah, that’ll be a big one. Yeah. So, I guess the fours are going to be that play development, right? These are going to be the game improvement and these are the HL is going to be that super game improvement. Yeah, that’s kind of the way Stricks is categorizing them. That’s a good swing there, Jake. Yeah, I got plenty of height actually because that’s the big part of these irons is, you know, there’s we can talk about loft. So loft on the ZXIR, the standard loft for the 7 iron is 28 and a half. That’s relatively strong in the landscape of game improvement irons. Um, but if you can get a 50°ree land angle on it and you can hit it plenty high like that one, that’s pretty. That’s basically the the story with these is how high can they go despite the strong loft and obviously they go far enough too. So, that’s one thing I’m sure you’re as fitters watching for. Yeah. I mean, players typically that have a little bit more speed don’t struggle getting the ball up in the air quite as much. Um, but that’s where the ZXIR HL comes in where if you don’t necessarily have the the peak height you need to begin with, there’s another option there. So, I’m really curious to see how the launch spin and peak height compare between the two models. That was a good swing there, too. That felt pretty solid. Yeah. I mean, that’s about as straight as you can get. Yeah, that uh you don’t get much straighter than that one. This might be going in the back. Say, if you’re getting 49° of land angle with the regular one, HL being 4° weaker and you can get way up. Yeah, it’s going to get plenty high, I think. little low face again. Okay. You see it launched a little lower, but yeah. And I mean, also your your ball speed didn’t change much from your last few swings there. Um, that’s actually a really good indication of kind of I wonder if we got actually we can see if that uh impact location was picked up there. Yeah, if we have we can actually look at all of them here. Okay. Yeah, there’s a couple that are low face and there the ball speed still interesting. See that one that was just below the equator there was actually your quickest ball speed of all of them. Yeah. So, with that sweet spot being lowered a little bit, energy transfers a little bit. A little bit more speed. Mhm. But not crazy spin either. you know, for a game spinning around about 5,000 at the kind of speed you’re swinging at, it’s pretty high, you know, especially considering I’m typically a neutral, if not a little into out player. I usually don’t spin irons very much. Um, what’s interesting is that I’m actually getting more spin with this X100 than I was with the stock lighter or lighter weight shaft that we were warming up with. That was just a poor strike. Just fine, but 5100 spin on a strike that you wouldn’t say is your best. Yeah, that’s pretty good. Still have plenty of ball speed. I mean, it just that one I absolutely thinned. We also we did a comment uh we got a comment about the um HL version. We will have multiple swings and swing speeds in today as well. Um, so Tyler Fitzell will join us here shortly. Um, I don’t want to make any insults on Tyler, but he swings a little slower than these guys do. So, keep stay tuned for that as well. I miss some chippy ones. You could Yeah, chipp. That was better. Little towy. You can see it in the spin drop a little bit, but yeah, but it’s kind of right where the money zone is. Still pretty consistent. Speed was very consistent, you know, not moving around too much. So, let’s grab uh you get yourself set up with the HL, Jake, and then we’ll go look at some numbers here. Um, I would say just for the sake of fairness, I might hide that one just cuz it’s such an outlier for height. So, we got six shots Jake has hit with the ZXIR. We will um, you know, I think, and we do this in the testing, too. people know if they watch the videos. We like to kind of highlight, you know, best four out of five or five out of six. We’ll do that here as well. And this is kind of what we got for Jake. Um, I like how consistent that spin is. That’s the first thing that jumps out to me at a 148 deviation number there on that. And then, uh, the height is over 100 ft on average. Land angle is at 47.4. These are pretty good numbers. U, again, this is a distance iron. You, this is probably like Jake, you wouldn’t put this in the bag just cuz how far it goes. Yeah. Not traditionally, no. But it’s it’s giving you the stopping power and height where that’s not the issue here. It’s just how far it goes. The biggest thing to me and what I really just kind of speak on any iron in this category or players distance is that consistency of carry. Only at a 2 and 1/2 yard variation, which I mean out of the CB irons that I play, I’d be pretty happy with that out of a five shot uh kind of average there. So, they’re very consistent from a a well struck shot to a little bit of a mishit there, which ultimately that’s what forgiveness is, is just more ball speed on a mishit or at least kind of maintaining what a center strike is going to be. Yeah. And even that one you didn’t strike great was 171 yards in carry, right? I mean, if you’re on the golf course and you hit that shot, wouldn’t kill you. Chip up there. Yeah. It wouldn’t kill you. I mean, there’s a back flag even on the front edge of the green. So, all right. So, and then um just for clarity too, someone asked about when they can be tried in the store. Fittings for ZXR begin December 4th or yes, December 4th. So, a couple weeks yet for those, but this is our kind of introduction to them if you will. So, ZXIR HL, excuse me. Four degrees weekend. You can definitely see the loft at impact or at a dress. That little launch slightly launched a lot higher. Mhm. Wow, that’s high. Yeah, it’s a good swing too, Jake. 0.0 path. That is a lot more attuned to the carry distance I typically see from a 7 iron. Like that 175 is kind of right where I live, which makes sense. I mean, this iron is kind of more in that loft structure where I am. Does it look much bigger in size? Yes. I mean, it the the loft looks familiar because I play a 33 degree uh 7 iron, but it I definitely notice it from heel to toe. As far as topline width goes, it’s really not bad. I mean, I’d say it looks more like a player’s distance iron to me than a a player’s improvement iron. The the main thing that I noticed just down at impact is the blade length, but I don’t mind it. Yeah. Okay. Always feels you have confidence more than anything, right? Absolutely. Especially as a player that tends to miss out on the toe. The toe looks very inviting. That wasn’t my best strike. Little chunky, but I went the same distance in the same spin. That’s awesome. Might have some reconsidering today. I mean, doesn’t get much better than that. Kind of want to see just for the sake of if if Trackman picked up different hit locations. Yeah, those were two felt two pretty different hit locations. Launch is the same. Spin is almost the same. Carry distance is at 8/10 of a yard difference. Uh, that’s phenomenal. I think you found your new irons, Jake. Numbers don’t lie. Oops. Again, not a great strike. And the ball speed’s right there. That was very That was very towy. And it’s exactly the same. It’s the same shot. Uh, this is actually this is pretty outrageous to watch right now. This is I just kind of want Jake to keep hitting the HL and just see when he’s not going to carry at 174. He’s just dangerous and nearest the pin right now from 175. That’s left. Did we jinx him? Yeah, I think so. That’s left. Yeah. 173 carry. I mean, this is actually Is that four swings if it’s yard of each other? Yeah. Yeah, it’s four. Yeah. Give me one more and then we’ll we’ll kind of compare the two. Obviously, we have a distance difference, but I wanted to I just want to see that complete straight horizontal line dispersion here that we got going. If anyone’s setting up a beat the pro in the near future from 175, I think Jake’s your man. That one I caught pretty a little more speed on this one. Okay. Jumped a little more. Makes sense. Well, with the more spin, though, too. So, all right. So, here, let’s go. I like to have numbers on the right, and I like to have dispersion over here. This is how I operate. So, I like that you swung them both basically the same speed. You’ve got, and this is makes sense. I mean, it’s a it’s a loft thing, right? The loft will change the ball speed. It will change the launch. It will change the spin. And it’s exactly what happened here. The ball speed went down two and a half miles an hour. Launch two degrees difference. Any Does I guess as as fitters, does anything jump out at you that shouldn’t happen or is it I mean it seems to me like the irons are doing exactly what what Shrexon tells us they’re going to do. I would say the only thing I’m surprised by I think it’s because of one shot. The peak height is within about 6 ft there. If you take out the one that I pulled left, I just want to see how much the average changes. Yeah, I got you. Oops. Click. There we go. Yeah. Okay, so about 10 ft higher. I mean, honestly, I was expecting it to still be a little bit higher peak height wise. Um, the launch and the spin rate seem pretty standard to what I was expecting. I usually live right around the 5500 with my own irons. So, seeing that at 53, the this head is still designed to spin a little bit lower than more of a a CV iron that I play now is going to. Sure. Um, so I’m not shocked to see the spin rate a little bit lower there, but I’m really impressed by how well that ball speed maintained despite losing four degrees of loft. Yeah, I mean, I only went down that about 2 2 and 1/2 m an hour, right? Smash factor still above 1.35. I mean, this last swing, this is the one that you kind of caught, you know, the best. Swung it slower than the rest, but you had the high like really high ball speed still. Yeah. Um, the highest highest smash factor of the day. I mean, we got two. I I like that they’re distinct enough, but yet they’re also similar enough where um it’s it’s really just depending on what you’re looking for. It feels like if you’re if you’re chasing distance, max distance. Yeah. You know, maybe you want the ZXIR. Uh but if maybe launch and spin and height is your problem, uh or maybe something you want to improve on, ZXR HL, you know, could be the better fit for you. But yeah, I mean, if we’re seeing this tight of distance consistency out of a game improvement iron, I don’t see a world where we don’t sell a ton of these this year. Um, I mean, it was both of them are two and a half yards of variance on the carry. Yeah, I think every degree of loft that we move a club, it’s going to be about two two yards of carry distance. Pretty much bang on the dot there as well, right? Yeah. Okay. Well, Harrison, you’ve been standing here and not really getting loose. Are you ready to I can Are you ready to swing? I can pretend to We’re going to we’re going to get Harrison and Jake to swap places here. Um and I know Harrison, if you need to build your iron, go ahead and do that. I’ll start with the regular. Um in the meantime, Jake, we’ll talk more a little bit just on I wanted to again get your thoughts on the difference in how they looked. So, we had the ZXR and the ZXR HL. Did they look tremendously different to you? I would say outside of just seeing more loft on that face, they really didn’t look too different to me. Um, top line looked about the same. Blade length looked about the same. Um, only thing I would say I noticed is maybe the the head weight of the HL was just a little bit lighter, which is pretty typical to see in a higher launch iron. Uh, if you bring down head, usually launch goes up. Okay. All right. So, we’ve got now we’ve got Harrison hitting his stock shaft or the gamer shaft. Game of shuff, game of lie. Everything should be pretty much how I would regularly play, just different head, right? All right. So, Harrison, and I know it’s in this finger report all your thoughts already on this iron. Um, but give me your thoughts on just what that look like looks like right now. Kind of going to reiterate a little bit what Jake said. Love the look of it being a little bit longer in the blade length. I think it definitely gives you a little bit more confidence when you’re looking at it. Um, but I don’t I don’t find that top line to be too offensive. There’s other game improvement irons out there. You look down, it does seem like there’s a lot there, right? I think this kind of gives you the blend of the performance benefits of a game improving iron and also kind of that more nice well that nice package was talking about where it just looks nice and compact. Doesn’t look like you’re playing a game improvement iron. I mean, I think they did a really good job designing it that you know, it it also just looks like it fits in the family of ZXi. I play ZXI7 irons and I mean you have to kind of look closely from here to tell that it’s not a ZXI7, right? Yeah. And I mean when we saw first saw these come out, we was like, “Oh, what’s the difference between that and the i4, right?” And we’ve kind of when you compare them both next to each other, there’s definitely a difference between them. I mean, just in the look. I mean, you’ve talked about blade length topline things that are different there. Um, but I think the big difference too in terms of performance, which we do, we have that head-to-head video um that is going to be on the YouTube channel soon was the material being 10% softer and you felt that in the shots you’re hitting, but then uh there’s a couple shots low on the face that you felt like you retained a little bit of the performance better with the ZXR, which makes it kind of more of that game improvement iron. And then ZXR is kind of the tweener there between game improvement and your players distance. They call it player development. Yeah, it’s a good name for it, too. All right, we’ll we’ll hit a couple with it. Also, Jake, I feel very short right here after Harrison was just standing here. Flush the first one. Oh, yeah. Well, that felt pretty good. So, what I’m going to be curious, this is the ZXR now. I’m going to be curious to see what kind of height Harrison generates with the HL. Yeah, I think it’s going to get up there. I mean that I don’t think that was even like kind of my best strike either. Maybe a little bit low in spin because of that. But I think um not bad start though. Better. Pretty good ball speed. Wow. I like it. So that’s kind of more like what we saw when he’s doing the swing report, right? Was where it’s a little bit lower in spin. Yeah. Um definitely kind of more the distances that I was looking at too. Yeah. You are smoking this club. Yeah, it’s almost addicting, but I thinned that one. So, interesting to kind of see that. Um, yeah. I mean, that’s kind of a typical, you know, you lost probably from your average, you lost seven yards of carry. Yeah. So, which is, you know, there’s that’s I mean any golf club in in the industry, if you miss it off the center of the face, you hit it low on the face, you’re going to lose distance. But on the grand scale of things, when you’re hitting 7 yards, 200 yards and you lose 70 yards of carry, it’s really could be worse. No. Well, it’s interesting to kind of see how high that spun as well for something that I felt was very low on the face as well. Don’t typically see that with a roar iron, you drop a little more than seven yards of carry. Right. Right. There. That was it better. That was really well struck. Holy ball speed there. Wow. Yeah, that was better. He’s not having an issue with height on this one. I like how straight these are going too. Yeah, they’re definitely forgiving. Yeah, I don’t usually see that on my own. Joe is wanting to order a set now. I think I think unfortunately I think you do have to wait until that December 4th uh time where the fittings happen. Um, but also, you know, it’s a that’s a good time, too, if you’re able to get a fitting is figure out, well, if you’re ZX R or ZX HL, and depending on your performance or maybe he has maybe good idea now. I think that me and Harrison both say, I think, Joe, you’re going to be a ZXIR guy. I think we need the HL. Yeah, we both fit him many many times. Yeah, Joe, you’re you’re going to like these a lot, huh? Yeah, I love that. All right, I’ll hit one more of the regulars and then we’ll hit some HL’s. Be interested to kind of see how much extra height I can get on. You’re going to hit the HL way too high. It’s going to be fun to watch. Yeah, I think landing we’ll see over 55 for sure. 55 is Yeah. Mhm. Another very well struck ball. Yeah, I if anything though, I’d say that was a little low on the face again. I also just like how straight the ball is flying. Like there’s a there’s something to just, you know, that’s how these irons are designed is just to go straight and hit the same shot every time. I say if you get rid of that bottom one as well, this is the one that hits really didn’t hit great. The one that you hit a little thin, right? And uh and that is the that again that is going to happen. That is a punishment that’s going to happen with any iron. And uh but if we take that out, we see some super good consistency there. um 7 point 17.9 launch. The spin is pretty consistent there. Plus or minus 245 is that deviation number. We’re at 195 carry. And again, the dispersion, too, you’re hitting the same shot shape every time. Yeah. Which I think is worth I mean, I just want to see the deviation between the carry. 2.6 compared to Jake’s 2.5. Yeah. I mean, it’s it’s very consistent. I know we’re choosing four out of the best five or whatever it is, but it’s so consistent. Our spin rate average is also within about 20 RPMs of each other. Yeah, it’s pretty impressive. Yeah. All right. So, can get to the uh HL here. So, and again, I’ll ask you the same thing I asked Jake. Just when you get that thing uh configured, Harrison, give me your thoughts on if that thing looks much bigger, the top line’s different because they, you know, Strickton says this is a super game improvement iron. Yeah. the the HL. But what you know, I think when people think of super deep improvement iron, they think of like a super big bulky like absolutely you know uh iron. Is it does it feel that way to you? I mean is it is it I mean it’s it’s probably slightly bigger than the It looks slightly bigger. If anything I see it leaking a little bit more offset. I think it sits a little more closed than the other ones. Um I mean I think I mean they call it super game room but I mean as our friend Mr. Bob guys say I think we can call them super user friendly. Super user friendly. I think that’s a better way of putting it. But yeah, definitely looks slightly different. Bigger head doesn’t really still fills you with confidence. If anything though, would be looking down on this going, “Wow, there is so much behind it cuz actually hide that back part really nicely.” Which other game improvement irons when you kind of look down the back kind of protrudes out of it a lot, which is a barrier to a lot of people looking down and wanting to hit it. Yeah. And on a lot of them, too, you you can see the the back side of the sole. You don’t have any of that with this iron. I mean, when you get into the the five iron, you might see a little bit of that there, but it it really is a clean package. No, it’s good. And ski, to answer your question, it should be the same shaft options as what’s already in the ZXI line. Yeah. For the custom shafts. Have you guys had success with any particular shafts in the ZXi4? I saw a lot of modus. Okay. Yeah. Um, I would say lightweight dynamic gold. I mean, usually if I’m going ZXIR or sorry, the ZXi4, um, I’m sticking with something lightweight cuz we’re typically looking for an iron that’s going to help hit the ball higher in the air. But I think I don’t know how many ZXi4s I’m going to sell this coming year with this being available. So, yeah. Yeah. I think between modus or a recoil, something’s going to be high launching, high spin. talked about the regular ZXI line is kind of lower in spinning comparison to other ones. So you kind of kind of force them in a corner kind of balance them out, right? All right. Initially, we didn’t get up to that 55 land angle number that you were looking. No, I didn’t hit that one right away, but smash factor a little. All right, that one’s a good Oh, there’s some extra ball speed. 54.6 land angle. Okay. and 135 in the air. That ball would stop on just about any green out there. Yeah, I think it would come backwards. Soft green for sure. Last week, definitely leaky, but still 130 ball speed. Do you notice a difference in feel between the two irons, or are they pretty similar? I mean, they they should be pretty similar based just how they’re built. To be honest here, I find this one I wouldn’t say I think to my eye I don’t like this one a little bit more just because of how much more offset that I feel. So in my head I’m kind of sub subconsciously trying to square it up more or trying to leave the face a little more open because I see that looking a little bit clos but from a feel I think they’re both for this club too the you know additional offset only helps I think for the players that are going to be end up end up getting fit into it. I say for the people who are using super user friendly clubs I think it’s great right. Yeah. Oh yeah, we’re getting to 6,000 spin here. Yeah, that last those last two are kind of bottom of the face as well. They were so Yeah. Give me give me one more swing. I think that’s quite encouraging to see a game through an ir spin that high, especially when you don’t hit it good. Absolutely. Because usually they kind of just low and spinning dive out of the air which is doesn’t really stop. Doesn’t help a lot of players either. It’s Yeah. Hey, give me one more swing here and then I know Tyler’s on deck and he’s loose and ready to ready to win the dispersion contest between the three of you today. All right, good one. Finish. All right, quick look at numbers from Harrison and some dispersion stuff. So for the Harrison, um, we’ve got them in the top, the the red and the blue on the chart there. Interesting how much, and again, this is maybe hit location related, but how much the spin jumped. Yes, it hl. Um, and then the height is actually interestingly close enough. And I think again, maybe the hit location part of that, but we hit the regular RS a little better than hit those ones. Yeah. And you and that’s probably we should probably too emphasize like how um important that can be in a fitting is like looking down at a club and if you just don’t like it, you probably won’t hit it that good. Absolutely. Confidence is hard. I mean, if if I hand someone a club and in the first couple swings they’re like, I just don’t know how I feel about this one. I am not afraid to just take it out of their hand right away. If they don’t feel confident with it, it’s not going to be our best option. We have uh we have someone asking for Tyler right now. That’s that’s great. That’s great. So yeah, I mean right with both we saw the big differences is ZXR to ZXR HL. We’ll now have Harrison and Tyler swap. We’ll do a mic swap as well. Um while they do that kind of offscreen. Uh I want to show you here location wise cuz that that spin rate difference is quite large. So I’m curious how much of that is impact location. That was slightly in the heel. That was just a little higher. So I mean that’s going to explain some of it. But for a player like himself where he’s he was I mean slightly across 0.1 and swinging down on it too. Seeing 6,000 spin is quite high from an iron like that which is really what you want to see from an HL model for most players that I’m going to fit into this category. We there is not sorry there is no such thing as too much spin. We are looking for maximum height because we just can’t quite get enough. Um so that iron will provide plenty of stopping power, peak height and land angle for a lot of golfers out there that are currently struggling with that. If you are a golfer where you hit a ball right at the flag, it lands in front of it and rolls all the way off the back, this is an iron I would definitely consider. Yeah, I think that I think that’s maybe this is maybe that the iron Shrek sign was kind of missing in their lineup, right? Was they have the four, five, and seven, you know, they’re, you know, really good-looking irons. They don’t spin a ton, but they are consistent. They feel great. They didn’t have this one that’s like the, you know, has a pop to it, has forgiveness to it, but also gets the ball in the air. Mh. So that’s where the HL I think is going to be very valuable. Um, so all right, we’re going to bring Tyler in now. Yes, sir. Tyler Fitzell, welcome to the show. So we had we have we have someone watching right now that was like, “Hey, where’s Tyler?” Mr. Zinger said his swing is the smoothest in the company. So this is he’s he’s kind of hyping you up here. Well, but it is. No, it is. And uh you know um tornado tip, don’t forget uh I think he came to us after he saw our review on graphite design. That’s right. FI and uh it it propelled him to go um buy one and put it in his club and now he hits uh high bombs. Yeah, high bombs are good. Are we going to see some high bombs today with this the seven iron? Well, I hope so because part of my game is like I’m always looking for a little bit of spin, a little bit of launch. I think right now, um, I come in a little bit flat and I’m maybe a little bit, you know, uh, how would I put maybe picky off of that. Some of that comes from, um, a little bit less ball speed and launch off of the, uh, little bit, uh, less ball speed, launch, and spin off the inside. Just a little face, kind of heel side. Yeah. A little bit of part of that game. Um, so I’m going to start off with the, uh, the ZXIR or ZXIR, depending on whether or not you want to speak English. a little bit of a pull. And what is your give me your take too on just what that how the iron looks. I mean, we’ve been talking about how it how it looks uh this morning. You know, it’s it’s in it’s an extension to the ZXI family. How does it fit in there for you? I I think this fits in really well just past maybe where the ZXI 5 is. Okay. like it it doesn’t look quite as bulky as the ZXi4. I think the ZXi 5 and 7 are very slim and I think they’re the top line looks very similar to that. One thing that CIX’s done in almost all their models, even including their blade, is they’ve made it a little bit larger to begin with, right? And that that that size, that overall size adds to a little bit of its forgiveness as well as um some confidence. Yeah. The performance aspects that we see out of it. and a little bit left again. That was a pretty good club throw though, I got to say. It’s, you know, I’ve worked on it. I’ve worked on it. It’s only with It’s only with what I feel are good shots. It’s pretty much every time I swing the club. Kind of rattled by this green tracer we got going here cuz like you can’t see it as well. It’s very hard to tell from the background. Yeah. Little thin on that one. What loss are you currently playing in your irons for a seven iron, I should say. Uh 34. Okay. So, that’s what’s really going to be interesting about trying maybe the high launch version of this, too. Okay. Yeah. So, I think it’s 28 and a2 on the regard and 32 on the HL. There it is. Yeah, it was a little bit better. But I would say that I I typically see my launch somewhere around 17. Mhm. I typically see with my own iron something um spin-wise about maybe 5,000, right? So that maybe is a little bit lower on just that, but we’re also talking about, you know, six, seven degrees of difference in terms of what I normally play for law. So that was better. Yeah, that’s a good swing there. That was better. It goes a little Doesn’t get much straighter than that. Yeah, that’s a great shot. What do we got? Is that five? Six. Could be more than that. Honestly, I don’t even know. That is five. Let’s get one more. Why not? Uh, one of the things I was watching is uh you guys, you know, 95 90 mph um club speed. What am I at? 75ish. 70. Yeah, which is about right. We also had about 20 minutes to warm up. I Yeah, we should probably put, you know, give Tyler a little bit of respect for just a live stream kind of kind of off to the side because we didn’t have enough microphones today. That’s That’s shot number six for me. Like I actually didn’t hit any before I got here. I don’t warm up. That’s That’s what I’m saying. I don’t warm up. I don’t want to ruin beauty before it even starts. So So just a quick look at numbers here and then we’ll bring up this version as well. Um I think we have kind of the one we can maybe Was that the last one? Remove there. Oh, that was the thin one. Okay. Yeah. So, we got I mean that’s a pretty good dispersion pattern right there. Um and then your consistencies are good. Your look at that spin consistency there. Plus or minus 151. Carry is just under 160. Actually, that smash factor 144 smash factor. You’re the most efficient of the group today, Tyler. You know, uh kind of speaks for itself. See, you should see with me uh see me with a wedge in my hand. Yeah. Yeah. Or a hybrid. Well, we’re going to get we’re going to get you more loft here shortly ZX HL and then we’ll kind of compare the two, but um I think overall right now the consistency is kind of the the winning Absolutely. uh factor in throughout all three swings that we’ve seen today. Um it’s just every the spin is consistent, the carry distance is consistent. We’re seeing a lot of positive things that we can take away from this. Yeah, I like that click. I mean, at the end of the day, if a golfer can walk out of my bay and know how far their clubs are going to go on a consistent basis, that is going to help them shoot lower scores. Yeah, that’s I mean, that’s the name of the game, you know, and there there are irons out there where if you the contact is a little bit off one way or the other, it can really really change how far it goes. A little I made a mistake this year of putting myself into something that’s a little less forgiving than I should have. Yeah. And out of the middle feels great, but if I miss it a little bit, it really penalizes you. [Music] Launching a lot higher. Got a blue tracer here, which helps. That’s two in a row that were chunky. Little heavy. Yeah, just a little bit behind it. Don’t know why yet. Could it be that there’s a little bit of offset versus the Well, I could I’ll I’ll tell you it is a little thicker on the top line from a perspective. Uh it also looks a bit more rounded on the toe. So, I’m not really sure about that one just yet. Uh yeah, and this is something that I I we didn’t get to do a lot of testing. And so, when I see something like this, um it looks like a longer toe blade. It look like uh lengthwise. Yes. And so this this looks a little more like a shovel down here on the bottom end of it. [Applause] Well, then there’s one that we’re we’re kind of seeing that spin, you know, after the first two. You said you didn’t hit perfect. The spin went up a little bit on that one. Yeah. This is uh a little heavy again. Yeah. Interesting. Well, and see you’ve said too, your irons are not necessarily a a big a big iron like this size-wise, right? I play blades. Yeah. So, so this is a very different visual. It is. Uh for you to look at and address. There it is. That was a good swing there. Better. I’ll call it better. The numbers all the way across are a little bit better with there’s more spin. There’s more. Jumped up a lot. Not as much as the ball speed. I got to hit it better yet. Do you notice a difference in feel between the two irons, Tyler? Yeah. Really? I haven’t hit this haven’t hit this good. Oh, well, I guess that might make an impact on how you feel about it yet and how it feels in your hands at impact. So, just taking the DXIR and swinging right off the bat, I didn’t have to maneuver anything. And here, I felt like I’ve had to adjust my setup. I’ve I felt like uh I was hitting everything out here a little more toward. And so, I just started to set up on the heel. Gotcha. And actually started to catch them a little bit better. Um, it’s not something where I would recommend that you’re just in the middle of a match and all of a sudden you do this, but at the same time, you know, we have to make u some sort of adaptation if things aren’t working for us. And that seemed to uh to work a little bit better for me anyway. Good, too. Yep. That’s a good swing there. Yeah, that was that and that felt better. Oh, yeah. Crunch up. You know, maybe get one or two more from me here. Um, Greg is asking, and this is a topic we’ve covered at length here a little bit as well, um, but ZXi4 versus ZXIR, and he’s not the only one that’s going to be curious about this particular conversation. Um, basically where it’s going to fit into the lineup is kind of, you know, it’s going to be more of the game improvement type iron. ZXi4 is going to fall in between ZXI R and the five. It’s going to the progression goes R then 457. Um, but I think there’s a couple main differences that make this one just a little bit more helpful on mish hits. Yeah. With the ZX, there’s a little bit more perimeter weighting to it with it being a longer blade length. Um, and then having the HL model in there as well. I mean, it’s just Mhm. It’s a little bit more gamer friendly, I would say. Um, where you’re just going to see a bit more spin and ball speed out of that larger profile. Your missets are going to go a little straighter. Take like the last five or something, you know, just you got warmed up. Also, I didn’t realize how many shots you hit. I was Well, so but that was the whole point was like I I I started to play that in a little and in my visual I started to play it more in the heel and my guess is that it probably was a little bit more center. All right. So, this is this feels like it’s more representative. It’s kind of your last I think six shots are up there. Exactly. When she got adjusted. So, yeah. I mean, Tyler has the fitter here. What do you see? Well, u there’s a couple things that I’m always looking for. First, we got ball speed. Mhm. Um, ball speed is going to be a really good indicator, especially when you see some consistencies or you see a good versus a bad shot. You know, something that’s maybe off the heel, off the toe, high or low. That’s what’s going to give us um that that distance that we want out of that club designed on the shot. The second piece of that is that launch and spin. So, call it the king and the queen. It’s always almost always ball speed, launch, and spin. Yep. I talk about the four things that happen to a ball at impact. You know, the direction is the other piece of this. So, we saw an improvement in um in launch. So, that’s about two and a half um degrees of more launch, which is huge. We saw about 700 about 600 650 um um RPMs of spin. So, that’s really really good as well. We saw that the ball speed wasn’t quite as there. And that’s one of the things where um I would uh can we go to the uh impact location and see what happened on between the two of them real quick? Yeah. So this is the XIR and you were a little bit above the equator there kind of on one side and then a little bit lower. You want this is again I know those first few shots that you hit with the HL we actually removed and so this actually makes kind of a fair a fairish test, right? A little bit different still but both kind of on that heel side on average, right? The average contact, you know, we we talk about this all the time is like we want to have as much of a fair comparison as possible. How do we put an apple versus an apple? Yeah. Well, the reality is that there are probably hundreds of different species of apples. So, the that that old equation is um we want to be able to try to be as fair as possible. I use the same exact shaft that I play and everything that I’ve got, which is a dynamical mid 115. It’s a plus plus half and it’s just a standard lie angle. So, if I’m comparing these two against one another, I felt better and hit the ball better with the ZXIR. Okay. I would like the loft. sure rather in the HL. And so one of the reasons I try to for me in my game I’m going to go look at that as a factor and say which one did I hit better and I had more ball speed with now what am I going to do with the loft side of it. Y and that also plays into you know what a lot of the companies are doing. They’re trying to offer us something that’s going to be uh a better fit for more people. Yeah. And that’s exactly what we’re finding is our trend over the last say five years is that loft is your friend and we’re seeing more and more of it and we need more and more of it. So um this one is probably not for me but I’ve also had several uh versions. I’ve had the blades the tricks and blades. I’ve had the sevens. I’ve had the fives. Um, and so I’ve been playing them and I’ve had them and I can’t tell you enough about like how good this is going to be coming right down the line in in a couple weeks here. Yeah, it’s it’s I think we saw a lot of the numbers that we figured we would, which is that, you know, there was no like red flags or anything that that happened. We were kind of like, what how did that happen? Um, everything happened as according to what Shrek tells us is going to happen with these these two irons. And one of the things that we asked, it was a little earlier about um swing speed, right? And so, you know, that comes back in um the reason that we uh we as in fitters u want to try to talk about this with with you guys, the customers out there, is there are going to be all these differences. And that’s the key. That’s why you get fitted. You come in because we’re not all just, hey, you swing this speed. I I don’t fit a club based on swing speed, right? That’s the, you know, my driver is a lot faster than my nine iron. It just is. So, I think that’s that’s one of the things as well is um I really appreciate being able to come in and and do something where we find some variations even amongst the three of us. Yeah. Yeah. No, I that that’s and I we’ll let the viewers know as well moving forward here, inevitably there’s going to be some, you know, new clubs that hit the market in January and so we’re going to try to do something like this for um all those kind of big days. Um, but of course when Trickon comes out with a new iron today and how popular they are nowadays, the momentum that they have with their irons, we wanted to make sure we covered those um in a in a big way. So golfers, December 4th is the big day for Stricks ZXR and ZXR HL irons. That’s where you can go get fit. Schedule a fitting with anybody any of these fitters or anybody on our second swing stable. We’ll get you dialed in for those irons at that time. It’s going to be a big year for Stricks Side Irons, I think, to this addition to their ZXI lineup. It’s going to be big. So yeah, I thank Harrison who’s not on wearing the mic right now, but I thank him. I also thank Tyler and I thank Jake for joining today and giving some insight. This has been fantastic, guys. And don’t forget, keep your grooves clean and stay razor sharp.