Hall of Fame Golfer Fred Couples Reviews Bettinardi Prototype Irons

We had the distinct privilege of having Hall of Fame golfer Fred Couples testing and reviewing our first-ever prototype irons. Check out the legendary golfer’s full review!

Hey everybody we’re here at kaloa Pines and we’re with none other than a Hall of Fame golfer and bardy staff for Fred Couples also got my father Bob bardy and I’m Sam bardy and today’s a big day in company history we have Fred Couples testing our brand new irons cavity backs

Muscle backs and who better than Fred to give us some feedback on our new creation so Fred first thoughts yeah well no I’ve been a bardy guy a long long time and I’ll be honest I thought I was coming here to try some Putters out but lo and behold I’m going to be

Hitting iron so the first one I’m hitting is the muscle back pitching wedge and then I’ll move to what I consider what you I call a little more forgiving Club you’re calling them our CB4 so muscle back cavity back but so far they look beautiful so I’m just

Going to hit a few and then give a little input and we’re starting with a wedge but first the thing I see is I like the um color of the steel so tell me when I say things wrong but I like the finish the look of it very beautiful finish Diamond blast

Finish it’s a satin Chrome um I love the fact that it’s more matte really glare resistant in the sun you know we’re in sunny Florida it’s cloudy today but looks beautiful outside well I’m just telling you the this is I don’t need to hit many because I’m going

To try and hit most of them but this is is really spectacular and that’s just beautiful right there and the other thing is you know I have a couple friends over here it’s it’s goes through the ground spectacular yeah we worked really hard on that Turf interaction on the bounce

On the sole you know all types of playing conditions wet dry Bermuda bent so I’m glad to hear you say that so it’s not a club I’m a California kid and there’s that little cut we love I mean I now I’m going to go to your

Cavity back wedge so are you Fred more of a cavity guy or a muscle guy well I have to tell you there’s no I mean will this you know will this shoot the ball higher this will shoot the ball higher but we’re going to see

How I hit them yes but I think what we did really well in the engineering phase is on pitching wedge through let’s say 87 we want a a lower more piercing flight and on those 456 we uh designed it in a way with our tungsten ceramic material to get the ball launching corre

Of course better for a lot of golfers guys like and the common amateur so what I see is the bottom this is the cavity back it’s got a little more of a sole but it’s irrelevant cuz it’s back here and the only they’re almost the same size I’m probably wrong you’re probably

Going with little teeny centimeters where the cavity back’s bigger it’s off by the top Line’s about 40 thou thinner on the muscle correct no the only thing I see is this line perfect that’s what you’re saying that’s what I’m saying yeah and I I’m in a doubt they’re going

To be hit any differently will this go you know for for if I get it higher it might travel another yard or two yes the way we designed it again on those higher lofted go uh little bit more piercing we’ve seen great distance gains we’ve seen great uh consistency from Loft to

Loft that looked a very similar flight yeah But you know being a guy that cuts the ball work ability that was our goal on the muscle backs to be able have guys work it these to me seem like they’re right on a rope every shot no I’m telling you

I won’t hit I’ll go to the nine iron give me the nine uh Sammy and the muscle back you got it they’re they’re really really good that’s as good as you can hit it right there I think if you gave these to tour players or your buddies

Who like you are scratches and they go like that they wouldn’t know what club it is which is probably a good sign cuz they’re not going to say oh that’s a tidalist or that’s a tailor made or whatever I wouldn’t be able to guess now I know this is your not really your

First but your first try for bet nardy to make irons but they don’t look like TL mates they don’t look like callaways well I think that was the cool part when him and I sat down at design them when we were sketching things out with our engineering team we said don’t look at

Any other irons on the market we want it to look like feel like a bardy product and we want it to be classic Timeless got our honeycomb Milling on there I’m not talking about like when I’m cheating looking at that I’m talking about when I

Just grab it I I would say I don’t even know what it is yeah that’s good thing oh no that means it’s fresh yeah yeah yeah Leading Edge looks very good to my eye good not too thin No oh it’s so good now for better players right such as yourself if you’re going to try and work the ball talk to us a little about the performance here because you do have the muscle back and that’s how it was designed so for good players I you could put this right in

Your bag now again I want to keep hitting but it’s the divot too right Griff sound great and the div good right so the so the ball’s going right through this I mean honestly I feel like I’m hitting off a putting grain right I’m a California guy we have turf you got the

Zo got little poop this is like hitting off the ground so when you go through these divots are are absolutely perfect when you still see the the the the grass underneath that’s what you want you don’t y you’re not getting the diggers that people don’t want to see these go through the

Ground so good here’s the cavity back okay so for the average golfer if they’re looking to decide between a muscle and a cavity I always tell people to get fit what would your recommendation be no I tell all my buddies to get fit go go and and look at all the

Clubs and then try and find if you’re going for bardy irons now if they’re going to be out there soon go to the cavity back and then go to the muscle back there’s not a whole lot of difference but the guy doing it may say well you’re hitting the cavity back two

Yards further two yards is what you want but they they’re not going to look any different I mean to be honest looks are very similar again the major difference is that Top Line thickness and again ipulation in the back flange with the CG all trying to be behind The Sweet Spot

Yeah that was pretty I notic that’s the hardest I swung that one a long let me hit one real quick yep before I fall over but that’s the hardest I’ve hit one and that went I don’t know 140 140 beautiful this is good and that went right there the same you

Know what Fred I was going to say one thing for a guy I’m an eight handicap and if I look at something with a thin Top Line I get a little freaky you know you do I’d rather have a thicker Top Line thus the cavity but the key is

While I got you guys standing here I don’t I don’t have my clubs but this way is still the same correct correct yes yeah and I bet if I put my irons they’d be because they look they don’t look a lot like them but they the face whereas

When I go look at like when I play with Klay or Tony feno or Brooks and I look at our clubs and I go oh my God I couldn’t hit those yes I could but I I couldn’t you know they’re small and stocky but this is a beautiful look guys

With faster swing speeds uh one of the big things too to me Fred so when it comes down to picking a side of irons for my whole life until the bardy irons it’s been about look right when you look down and feel so tell me the feel those

Are all forged 1025 carbon steel what do you notice in difference with our heads versus other forg heads well I’d like to tell you now now we’re going to notice if there’s any difference because now I’m going to start in 150 6070 yeah how heavy are these the set just I mean you

Just built these are these like d2s d2s yes so that’s what I use so I they they feel they feel like my like my weight um terms of feel ball impact feel off the head I mean the nine irons I were perfect and like I say

So the big thing for me is what it looks like right now and these look really really nice nice now you trying to work that a little bit or is that a little I I pulled that but I hit it hard yep so no I’m I mean I I’ll I’ll hit a

Couple but that was just a pull that’s straight yeah so that got up a little higher but wow I mean they are how do you like that launch that’s a perfect launch so now if the wind starts to howl so the best thing I could tell you

Right now is you built a great club with this thing here the so the so yeah interaction with the turf yeah I mean that’s my first one if it was not right for me I could have come off of it a little bit or tweaked it but I feel like

I could hit that shot all day love it yeah I think the big thing when I knew we had something when we were designing and testing these irons was the fact that on my M hits the ball was about five to seven yards less versus some of

The other brands were 10 to 15 yards less so you know chalk that up to what’s inside the head it’s not a hollow body where the ball hits the club head and it just shoots off correct um so I feel like again the overall construction that field the forge field the carbon steel

All goes right into that production to that iron so the main thing for me is if I hit 10 s irons right yep and this is the pin I want my balls to be like this around not necessarily all going to be 15 ft away but I don’t want a seven

Iron to go way up here yes and then one to plug in the bunker here so one of the things that I always do is I hit at home when I get new clubs and yours will be the same and I walk out there and I’ll

Work with the wedge 9 and8 cuz I I can’t hit 500 balls anymore and if they’re in that radi consistency well consistency though is like I’ve hit a couple of these really really well and if we walked out there and they were going 172 and the rest of them we’re going 165

Then I’d say you know how we got to fix that we got yeah we got an issue but but the bounce is also a key thing and these are all going through but what I’m saying is once you get all warm up and you get ready to go for for me I’ve

Never been a guy that says oh my God I’m stiffing every seven AR I want them to be across them all 165 yeah cuz if I come off the ball a little bit I don’t I don’t want it to be on the right front of the green I want it to be middle-ish

Of the green and then if I really pull one I don’t want it go in a mile correct good yeah so these These are these are fantastic I’ll hit one more and I’ll go to the cavity back seven that was more of that piercing flight yeah so I think that’s what we want

Golfers to experience on those muscle backs yep and I’m going to hit one I’m going to try and hit one way up in the air without really working just a little steeper yeah beauti they go up all right they go up I mean they fly very straight that that’s that’s again when

We knew we had something it was the distance control they weren’t going too hot they weren’t going too Less on M hits the accuracy and that dispersion I mean that is on a rope right there that well yeah I’ve hit through that’s the best one so that’s going right next to

The that one may have gone a little further the MBS yeah I feel like they do go a little further yes just because of the launch five five five muscle or five uh five muscle first so I’m going to try and go a little further left but this is a beautiful CL

Butter cut into the red this is a beautiful club and I love too that that height right five irons go a little lower we know um that looked like a beautiful flight had some nice Hang Time on there if you’re looking for a problem you you got to look another Direction they’re

Spectacular looking thanks I’m not shocked I just thought I was putting today can I ask how are the grooves the grooves look grooves are good and that goes into our Machining background right we know metal Bob’s been doing it for 30 plus years uh the honeycomb Milling on

The back flange the face is M right it’s all USGA approved so uh that goes into our background and our knowledge putting them into this iron plus grip Got the Right Grips on them too and they feel real I’ve been struggling with grips too this is just

The right size some of the puzzles can get longer yes and obviously some get really blunt yes and I’m I’m used to I mean so a lot of things are catching my eye because they look like clubs that I could fit right into you put a zombie

Green uh finish on there you could you could but let’s let’s let’s get me a set soon awesome these are great looking clubs thank you Fred that means a lot I mean I don’t hit my forearm like that not today really so we got something am I lying am

I am I making this sound good no I mean I need fresh fresh Gro fresh forging fresh Milling from your favorite putter company I need that last shot right there from 205 great grips and I want to tell you I was actually trying to nice that sounded like yeah all right

Last one last one I’m going to going trim that tree so good love that cut you know that so if I can cut those I can cut them it’s awesome basically Fred thank you so much for trying our new sets of irons you got the muscle back the cavity back

Sammy great job explaining the technology about it and we will definitely get you a set before Tucson you got two weeks off two weeks yeah no I’m dead serious these will these are really thank you I don’t change much and it takes a lot for me to change it and

All I got to do is go out and hit them 80% good I can work my way to 90 and 100 but they’re they’re beautiful yes and now I got the four so when we when we go off the air I’m going to hit a couple more fourarms but then I’m done

But I appreciate thank you and like I said the you guys have Down