Golf Information Editor Nick Bayly places the brand new Callaway Apex Ai300 irons via their paces
As a 13 handicapper with an 18 handicapper’s iron sport, I like loads of forgiveness constructed into my irons, and whereas Callaway’s new Ai300 irons are billed as a sport enchancment mannequin, their dimensions and total have a look at tackle are barely extra compact that you just’d look forward to finding in a membership that’s constructed for this class of the market.
Having stated that, it’s a broad spectrum and this Ai300 irons positively sit on the low finish of that handicap class in that they may go well with and enchantment to respectable ball strikers, and positively end in some efficiency good points, whether or not or not it’s in ball speeds, constant distance off the center, in addition to those who aren’t struck off the useless centre of the clubface.
My ball flight with the Ai300s was larger than ordinary, helped by the weighting within the head of the membership, and pictures into greens ‘dropped and stopped’ which confirmed me simply how way more spin Callaway have of their up to date Apex mannequin.
My pictures had been additionally longer than ordinary distance-wise, and dispersion was fairly tight and constant once I hit a spread of pictures with every iron within the set.
The decrease irons, the 9 and PW, felt easy when it got here to getting the ball up within the air, making them excellent for gamers like me who usually wrestle to maintain their approaches on the inexperienced, as these irons create excessive ball flight for softer landings.
Like many mid-handicappers I usually really feel as if I lose a little bit of management when hitting longer irons, and consequently solely go as much as a 5-iron in my present set.
Though there was no 3- or 4-iron provided with my take a look at set, I favored how the ball got here off the membership with the 5-iron, and the mid-to-high ball flight offered a pleasant mixture of distance and dispersion management.
What additionally impressed me, all through the bag, was the efficiency I used to be nonetheless in a position to generate with lower than excellent strike. Having irons with enhanced turf interplay for mishits can also be excellent for individuals who wrestle for consistency with their swing.
General, I feel these are a really well-conceived and executed set of game-improvement irons. The efficiency good points are evident for mid-to-high handicappers they usually additionally made me need to develop into a greater ball striker, slightly than doing all of the be just right for you.
RRP: £1,199/£1,299 (st/gr, 4-PW). For extra particulars, go to eu.callawaygolf.com.
