How easy are Rory’s irons to hit? We find out!

Ryan tries out Rory’s McIlroys RORS Proto TaylorMade irons. Could you hit them, can Ryan? Find out how he got on during some testing and what the data showed! Ryan tests out at his indoor fitting studio at Howley Hall Golf Club in Leeds and analyses the Trackman data but also gets out on this course to give these irons a real test. He then talks through the numbers and full data feedback from Trackman comparing the RORS Proto irons to his own irons and also Rory’s irons!

00:31 RORS Proto Product Overview
03:10 Indoor Testing
12:44 Oncourse Testing
20:45 Trackman Data Analysis

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Hi there and welcome back to the channel. We’ve got a very very special video for you today. I have managed to get hold of a set in my spec of the Rosto irons from Tailor Made. I’ve actually got two sets. I got one set in Rory spec and one made for me. So, they’ve got KBS Tour uh extra stiff shafts and slightly thicker grips. I went for the Victory ones that Taylor made offer as well, which I really like. They’re quite old school. Those of you that saw earlier on this year when Rory captured that historic career grand slam, Tailor Made released a limited run of his Irons. He’s played these ever since he joined Tailor Made back in 2017. Only ever had this model of iron and has kind of used them for all of those wins that you’d have seen, you know, worldwide really. So, we’re going to try them today. We’re going to hit them in the performance center here. I’m going to hit every single club. You’re going to see every single club in this video. I’ve got little cutaway images that you can see of everyone. I’m going to give you a bit of feedback as I hit them as well. And as you can imagine, they’re probably not the most forgiving iron in the world. They’re not ones that are going to suit everybody, but they’re quite a cool piece of history and a piece of golf club kind of history that we can use ourselves. Have a bit of a look at how they perform, but let’s talk a little bit about these irons. These irons have a really small, sleek profile that offers unmatched feel and workability. Made of 1025 carbon steel, they undergo a multi-step forging process to ensure precise shaping for further enhanced feel and responsiveness. A horizontally milled channel in the cavity separates mass on a vertical axis for precise inertia and trajectory control. ROS proto engraved in the back and forged is machined into the huzzle with four different color dots. red for the US Open, blue for the USPGA, yellow for the Open Championship, and green for that historic Masters to complete that career grand slam. So, having just received these clubs in the post today, if I’m honest, I thought they’d come in a little bit more of a um sexy box than this, to be honest. This is just the standard Tailor- made custom box that you get with every set of clubs that we order from Tailor Made. And whilst it’s absolutely fine, I thought something with this much kind of pomp and ceremony around it might come in its own kind of special Rory box. A bit like the Tiger ones do. I don’t know if you’ve ever seen those. When you order those, the uh P7TW that you can buy, they’ve got their own little Tiger Woods box that they come in. So, only one negative so far. So, I’m going to hit every single iron in this set, starting with pitching wedge and working through to four iron. I’m going to tell you exactly what they feel like, what they look like, and at the end of the video, we’ll have a bit of a look at those allimportant Trackman numbers as well. I’ve got Rory Mroyy’s numbers there, which we’ll put on the screen, too, and see how close we get to them. I’m not expecting to get anywhere near them, if I’m honest, cuz he is an animal. Um, but yeah, we’re going to hit these clubs. And like I say, I’ll give you a bit of feedback as I do. I mean, straight away, the pitching wedge, I mean, I use similar looking irons to these. I’ve always used something fairly bladed in my life, but these are quite small. The first thing you notice when you sit them behind the golf ball, and we’ll put that graphic up there now with the with the pitching wedge, is there’s not a lot of space to miss. The golf ball actually looks quite big because of how small the club head is, which um is all right if you’re a very very good ball striker like Rory Maroy. If you’re someone who can miss the middle of the face sometimes like me, might not be all right. So, let’s hit a few shots and see how these perform. I mean, straight away when I sit them behind the golf ball, the thing that kind of stands out to me about this set is how upright they actually look. Now, I’ve got these in the one degree upright, same as the set that I I use, but they just look a lot more upright than mine. It’s weird. I have measured them to make sure and and they are bang on what they should be. I don’t know whether it’s something about the shape of the head or how small the head is that just makes them look that little bit more upright, but let’s hit a few shots and see how they feel. Straight away it’s gone left. I mean, it just it feels amazing off the face. Very solid, but they just look like they’re going to go left. And they do. Um, yeah, that was quite a good swing, but with a pitching wedge to miss by that much is uh, yeah, it’s quite a lot. Let’s see if we can straighten that up a bit. Hold the face open a touch. That’s a better one. Yeah, I don’t whether that’s something Rory just likes the look of behind the ball in the short clubs, whether he likes them to look super upright, I don’t know. Um, but yeah, these certainly look to me I I’d be worried about hitting them left all the time when I’m sitting them behind the ball. And certainly that first one I did. That second one I’ve kind of tried to steer it a little bit and stop the face from from working. But, um, let’s hit a few more. They feel very very good though. They’re nice and solid, which I quite like about an iron. I don’t like irons that feel really soft. Absolutely hate them. In fact, the sole, there’s a little bit of width there as well, which I quite like. Don’t want There’s some blades you get in the soles are really narrow. I like that this can go through the turf a little bit more. But like I say, the only negative I would have is that it just sits that little bit upright for me. But that’s something that we can definitely obviously change with just flattening the lies in the loft and line machine. Right, let’s move on to nine iron. So, as we move into nine iron, let’s have a bit of a look at that behind the ball. So yeah, we’re starting to see, you know, there’s there’s not a lot of offset in these as you’d expect. That top line’s quite narrow. Does look to have quite a lot of grooves on the face as well, which is maybe that carryover from the the Nike days where some of the irons that he would have used there have loads. There’s some that have way less grooves on the face. These have got a fair few on there. Um, like I say, very similar to that look of the pitching wedge, but nice rounded kind of shape on it as well, which I quite like. Very very different though to the Tiger irons where um I don’t know if you any of you have ever hit those before, the tailor made ones, but they basically look exactly like the Nike ones that Tiger used for all those years and kind of that very I don’t know very familiar shape that many of you know I used to use Nike clubs for a long time and I think their irons are amazing. I’ve still got a set of Nike irons in my bag now and I love them. Um, I just love the shape. I love the feel. I love the performance I get with them as well. I just can’t find anything that matches it at the moment. But, um, these are definitely much more rounded and smaller than the Nike irons that I’ve got. I have used the P7TW ones before. And they just I love them because they look exactly like my Nike ones. And I’m pretty sure that’s basically what Tiger will have told Tailor Made to do when he started using their products is basically I love these. Please make me a set that looks the same. And and that’s kind of what you’re going to get. Um, but yeah, I mean this again feels really, really nice. Feels really solid off the face, which I really like. It’s definitely that nice little crunch through impact that you get as well. Yeah. And now that I’ve kind of got used to how upright they are, I’ve just able to kind of straighten that ball flight up a little bit. And, you know, this is pretty much going what I’d expect a 99 to go. I mean, we’ll get we’ll get into the numbers in a bit, but around the 150 mark with a 99 is what I’d normally be. That one’s gone 152. So, yeah, pretty good. Right, let’s hit the eight. So, the eight iron, this is the first one I actually hit when I got them out of the box. Um, I always either judge a set of irons by an eight iron or a seven iron. Just always have done that. They’re the first club I always go to. There’s normally a bit of a change when you get from eight to seven as well in most sets. The the shape changes a bit and the blend of the set changes a bit. So, it’s good to sort of see those two clubs and and sort of compare the shape really. And this set’s quite similar. So that we’ll look at the seven in a minute, but there is a bit of a change in the shape when we get into the seven. When we look at the lofts of these irons, we’ll see that they are kind of on the weaker end uh more traditional if not slightly weaker than traditional. So 47° in the pitching wedge where most are kind of 45 46 now um and some of the game improver sets down at nearly 40°. So it’s almost like a strong nine iron in many of those. Again, looks very upright. But feels really good. Like I say, I just feel like with the short irons, I’m just going to hit them a bit left. Probably need to flatten them a little bit, I think. Yep. Left again. Just cannot control the face cuz just the toe just sits straight up like that on me. Like I was saying before, when we move into seven iron, we can really see that blade length lengthen here. That top line is more extended and certainly noticeable when you sit it behind the golf ball as well. again feels lovely off the face just they’re not too hard to actually get the ball in the air and they really give you tons of feedback when you hit them as well. So you know straight away whether you’ve struck it great or bad really. And for many of you out there finding the middle of this club face is going to be quite difficult because it’s very very small. And like we shown you here, when we sit this behind the golf ball, there’s not really much room to miss. So into sixiron again with that straighter top line that we’re seeing on there too. Really like the shape of these longer clubs to be honest. Although I’ve hit that left again. Felt really good off the face. I’ve just pulled it. Feels really good. It feels quite powerful actually these once I’ve got into seven and six iron. Yeah. And to be honest, the distances are starting to go up a little bit with those shorter clubs. Like I say, we’ll come back to the numbers in a minute, but they they were kind of a bit shorter than I would expect to hit that club in my set, whereas these are now getting up to and kind of going past where I’d expect to hit my seven and six iron, to be honest. So, so yeah, really, really good. And they’re starting to get more powerful as we go through the set, which is strange really. I I expected the opposite if I’m honest. Um, I thought in the particularly when we get to four and five, I thought they were going to be quite difficult clubs to use and and probably hit it in the air and maybe not see that much distance, but we’ll see in a minute what that’s like. But certainly the seven and six, there’s a bit more power and a bit more zip off the face. So, now into five iron, and we’re starting to get towards the scary end of the set when it comes to the top line look. Yeah, there’s there’s not a lot there now to be honest. Um, you know, this five iron very very slim on the top line again with that same groove pattern. So, the face almost looks a bit white under this light in here. Let’s give it a hit. That felt awesome off the face. Felt quite long as well. Yeah, 217 that with a five iron, which is a very good hit for me really. I I can’t hit my five iron that far. And they certainly don’t seem as upright in the longer clubs, which I quite I don’t know whether it’s because of the the shape or the top line or what, but certainly seem to be that little bit more kind of what I’m used to looking at. Again, that felt great off the face. I think I’ve just pulled it again. Yeah, a little bit. But again, similar distance and a pretty good shot. Right, let’s move on to that scary four. Now, this is a club that would probably fill you with absolute dread if you sat this down behind the ball. You can see it in the playing position there. We’ll put that little um image on for you. Yeah, there’s not a lot to miss really there, is there? When you sit it behind the ball, there doesn’t look like there’s much club face to hit. And it’s cuz there isn’t. Yeah. So, we’ve got to hit this fairly good. We’ve got to hit this out the middle of the face. And hopefully, we’ll get some of the distance that we were seeing with those other longer clubs. Wow, that’s come off quick. Feels so powerful. Yeah, it’s good that. Really, really good. I can’t I can’t get over how strong these feel in these longer clubs. I I was honestly expecting them to be the complete opposite, but they just feel like they come off quick and they’re fair. Obviously, because the lofts are a little bit weaker, they’re easier to get in the air, but there’s obviously no forgiveness there. But I think out the center of the face, the the sort of distance and speed that we’re getting with them is is very very impressive and certainly not what I expected. Again, pretty good. A little bit towy, but it’s fine. Yeah, it’s 230 yards. It’s down the middle of the fairway. We’ll take it. Um yeah, I mean shocked actually with those longer clubs. I think they’re much easier than I was expecting them to be to hit cuz they don’t look it at all. Maybe I’m just striking it all right today. And sometimes when you hit blades like this, you know, it actually kind of focuses you into striking it properly. Um I know that’s crazy to say, but you know you’ve got nowhere to miss. So you really make sure that you hit the center of the face. Right, we have actually managed to get out here on the golf course. I thought we’d get out just in between rain showers that we’ve had here. As you can see, it’s pretty dull, dreary, and horrible. I’ve got a 4 iron, obviously. First club out the bag. 237 yds to that flag on the green there. Can we get this four iron there? Probably not. It’s about as good as I can hit it. We’ll see. It’s missed the green left just I think, but hit it good. So, we’ve got a shot 152 we’ve got to this flag. I’m just clubbing myself like I would with my own. So, I’ve got a 9 iron. Let’s see if we can get it back to that pin here. Does look a lot more lofted than my nine iron, but it’s only a couple of degrees, but it looks a hell of a lot more than that. Felt quite good. Come on, get up there. It’s on the green. It’s a little bit shorter where I’d expect it has spun like hell as well, but felt really good off the face. Nice through the turf, too. Yeah, really, really good. They do look quite daunting when you’re sitting down. There’s not a lot of room there to miss on the club face. But yeah, I felt felt a good shot. It’s a little bit shorter where I’d expect it to go, but whether that’s the irons being a bit more lofted, whether it’s cuz it’s quite heavy the atmosphere here and it’s been raining and horrible, I don’t know. But strike felt lovely. So if we look at where our two shots are finished the four iron remember 237 which was is unheard of for me to hit a four iron missed the green left and a bit short. Yeah. So we’re probably well we’re 20 20 yards short of the flag here. So it’s kind of about 220 in fairly wet conditions which you know isn’t isn’t the worst really. But then the 9 iron that we’ve hit from 150 has landed about 10 ft 15 ft on the green and just spun back to this front edge here as well. So again about a club short of where I’d expect to be with my own irons. Now some of that could be down to the loft. It could be down to the conditions. It will go a little bit shorter in this kind of in these kind of conditions as well. So yeah, I mean both felt like fairly good strikes. Um, that one just pulled it a little bit, but yeah, the I certainly think the longer clubs seem to come off a little faster than the shorter ones do for some obviously they’re going to because you’re swinging them faster, but what I mean is in comparison to what I’d expect with my set, like the the four iron in this set seems to come off much quicker than my four iron does, and the wedge comes off a bit softer than my wedge does, if that makes sense. So, so yeah, there’s a bit of difference throughout the set there when hitting these, but we’ll go and hit some more. So, we got a short par four. We’re going to hit it around 200 y to leave ourselves about 150 into this green. Yes, you could hit drive around the corner, but we’re all about the irons today. So, I’ve got six iron. I’m going to try and hit it towards the fountain there and hopefully leave myself about 150 into this green. It’s a pretty good strike. It’s just left. It’s towards that little life ring that we’ve got there. But yeah, it’s fine. opened up the flag a little bit. I’m just going to hit another one. Yeah, that’s better. So, it’s bang on where I wanted it on that fountain. Yeah, it’s good. Perfect position, I think, really. So, we’ve hit our two six irons here in the fairway. One just on the left, one right in the middle. Bang on where we wanted it. We’ve got a flag now right at the back of the green. I didn’t see that from the tea, so it’s actually a much longer shot than I thought we’d left ourselves. So, we’ve got about 175 to that flag up the back there. So, I’ve got seven iron here. Hopefully going to get it back to that flag, but it’s quite a long green and normally the pins frontish and I thought it’d be about 150, but I’ve completely misjudged that. So, I’m going to have to hit more club. Anyway, let’s see if we can get it to that back flag. It’s a pretty good strike. Yeah, I think so. It’s right on the back of the green, I think. That That’s pretty good. I think when we get up there, that’ll be fairly good to be honest and quite close to the flag. That’s like I say with these longer clubs now, like from seven up, you can really feel that there’s just more power off the face than there is in the shorter clubs. The shorter clubs feel really soft and kind of pop it straight in the air all the time with loads of spin. Now, we get that slightly different shape and a different blend in the set from seven up to four. There’s much more penetrating flight going on there, which I really like. We can see that shot from the fairway with that seven iron as pitched just over the bunker here and just released to there. So distance- wise very very good. I thought the flight looked really good and really strong through the air. And say it’s it’s weird because I I just don’t expect that with the type of iron that I’m hitting here with that bladed kind of construction. I I’ve always kind of in my experience when I’ve used clubs like that have just expected the longer clubs just to climb on me a bit. But these just seem to keep going forwards which is great. It must be the design of them or, you know, how they’re put together. And maybe the blade length has something to do with that. I was just saying um off camera there to Tom where we were talking about why why would you have a blade that’s that small when you could potentially make it longer and make it more forgiving. Well, generally blade length sort of lengthening and getting the toe longer moves the CG a little bit more towards the center because obviously most of the mass is in the heel mean it it’s more of a draw bias if you like kind of head. So generally you’d lengthen the blade length to move that away. But obviously Rory’s not doing that. So really in theory it should be easier to turn these irons over and certainly the shots I’ve hit, it’s very easy to turn them over and get the ball working from right to left. Um but because he’s so good and able to leave the face open if he wants to and hit that little bit of a choppy fade if he wants to, that sort of blade length doesn’t really bother him. And and the fact that the face is so small, I think allows him to kind of move the geometry of it a little bit to help control ball flight. because I’d imagine someone like him who hits it sky high, really wants those longer clubs to penetrate and go a little bit flatter. And certainly these in this set, the ones I’ve hit so far anyway, really, really do. Right, we’re on par 513 here at Howley Hall. I’m going to play the entire hole with the Rory iron. So, four iron off this tea. See if we can get it down that fairway somewhere. It’s about as good as I can hit four iron. So high on decent distance though, right? Let’s get up there. So we’ve got our T-shot here short of the bunkers as we knew it would be, but we’ve got 243 y to the front of the green now. Kind of that direction over the corner of the trees. Um it’s going to be a good one to get to the green, but hopefully we can just get it over the hazard there and give ourselves a a pitch in. So we’re going to hit this four iron again. It’s pretty good. Go on, get up there. It’s not bad. I think it’s just over the over the hazard. Um, short of the green, but I don’t think I can get there anyway. Right, our second shot with a four iron. So, we’ve hit four iron, four iron on this par five, and as we thought, we’re about 30 40 yards short of the flag. But reminder, it was 243 to the front. So, we’ve probably still hit it 210. Fairly heavy conditions. It has only just carried this hazard, which very, very lucky. Normally, I’d pitch this with something like a sand wedge or a lob wedge, but I want to use the pitching wedge, so I’m going to do that. Pretty good. It’s just moving away down the slope, but perfect for distance. So, yeah, four iron, four iron, and a little chippy wedge. And we’re on the green and we’re putting for a birdie. Oh, so short. But if you look here, you can see we’re not going to get a hell of a lot of run today by how much water’s in this hole. So, now that I’ve hit all the shots on the Trackman with each of these irons, let’s have a bit of a look at where they’re going. All right. Now, obviously this is only really relevant to me, but I’ll talk you through what I would expect with the iron in my set that it kind of matches up with this and what we’re getting with the ROS Proto one. So, let’s start with pitching wedge down the bottom there. So, 135 total. It’s probably five yards or so shorter than I would normally hit mine. Uh, looking at Rory’s average, he’s up nearly 150 yards with a with a wedge. So, a little bit short of that, which we’d expect me to be. Don’t hit it as hard as him. kind of what I’d expect, but this wedge is a couple of degrees weaker than the one I have in my set. So, the one in my set is um 45 uh whereas this is 47. So, a couple of degrees weaker would equate to that sort of 5 yard difference really that we’re seeing here. Similar with nine, 147 that I’m getting with nine as opposed to around 150, just over 150. Probably 152 is kind of what I would go with with a full N IR in my set. So, a little bit down on that. Again, the loft is is to blame for that. The loft on the 9 iron in this set is 43° versus 41 in mine. 8 iron, we can see there about 162, which is not far off what I’d hit mine. Probably one 165 166 is kind of what I would go with with my eight iron. Again, this one 39° whereas mine’s 37. Um, so you know, we’re a couple of degrees really with each iron. When we get down to seven, this one’s 35 and mine’s 34. So only one degree difference. And we’re kind of seeing now similar sort of yardage. So 176 carry 180 total. That’s pretty much what I would club myself with an with a 7 iron. 6iron though we’re getting 195 carry 200 total which is a bit more than I would get with mine. Generally this is 31°. Mine’s the same um 31°. And then when we get into five iron the like I say these are the two clubs that surprise me the most. My five iron is about a 200 to 205 club for me. Generally, we’re getting 216 out of this one and 232 out of the 4 iron. My 4 iron does not go anywhere near that. It’s about a 220 to 225 club for me. So, I’m very very impressed with how much distance we’re getting in those clubs. And the four iron in this set is 24°. Mine’s actually 23, the one that I have in my set. So, it’s a bit stronger than this one and doesn’t go as far. But, we can see throughout the set that the spins are kind of where we’d want them to be. the launches are, the ball speeds are. Obviously, the club head speeds increasing as we go through the clubs as well. And in terms of height, they’re all fairly uniform. The nine and wedge peak a little bit higher. And the and the six iron, for some reason, seem to seem to just jump up and get a bit higher up there. But they’re around the 105 to 110 ft with with just about everything that we’ve hit there. So, there’s some nice consistency in there, too. But this is exactly what you would expect with this set of irons. you know that they are designed for ultimate consistency, workability. Someone like Rory’s going to want to shape them different directions, sometimes knock them down, sometimes flight them up a little bit more, and he certainly has no problem doing that with any of these irons. Hopefully you’ve enjoyed that video. It’s been great to get out testing these. Great to hit them in here and get some data and show you just how fantastic these clubs are that Rory Maroy uses every single