J.J. Spaun played a combo set of Srixon ZXi Irons en route to his U.S. Open victory. 2nd Swing Master Fitter Jake Montgomery shares why these Srixon Irons, and especially the Srixon ZXi7’s are such a high performing iron for both pro’s and amateurs alike.
the ZXI family as a whole is just so I just keep saying it consistent That’s what these tour players are looking for They’re they don’t want spin and ball speed to fluctuate a lot because they want to know exactly how far a certain club is going to go I would say the ZXI7 is the most forgiving consistent club that I have seen Um the smaller in club head size that you go the more consistent it is out of the middle That’s why you see guys on the tour playing MBs right and why guys on Sundays are playing G430s that are just a lot bigger deep hollow cavity Yeah Um but the problem with those more forgiving irons is they’re less predictable on a well struck shot So for a tour player they might have five yards of variance between each shot And for that it’s unacceptable But for an average Joe like us where we don’t hit it out of the middle every time we need something that’s going to bring our missits a lot closer to our good shots The ZXI 7 especially is such a good combination of both of those I mean I’ve I have fit 15 handicaps into ZXI7s at least in the lower portion of the bag where even if we’re not hitting it perfect we’re still seeing pretty good ball speed from it But it’s not crazy jumpy And that’s not to say that it’s not a hot iron It’s just not gonna all of a sudden go 20 yards past the shot that you just
