00:00now we're all familiar with adjustable drivers and how they can optimize your launch conditions
00:04for every swing but what about transferring that to other clubs in your bag so far we haven't
00:10really seen it a great deal pxg have dabbled a little bit with their precision weighting but
00:14there's a new kid on the block in the category of adjustable irons and it's from edel golf this is
00:19their new sms iron sms stands for swing match system we've seen it with their wedges and now
00:25they've transferred it into their irons and i'm really curious to see exactly what adjustable
00:29weighting in irons can do for my dispersion because i do struggle with my accuracy on my iron shots
00:34and edel say that this concept should enhance your club face control it should they say also give you
00:40a little bit more distance if you get the weight in the right place so i'm curious to find out
00:44exactly if that works or not we're at the beautiful ninth hole here at birdie park golf club i'm going
00:49to hit some shots on the launch monitor to give me some numbers and also obviously assess the ball
00:54flight that we get in those three positions so let's get onto the tee hit some shots and see how
00:58it performs so before i hit some shots my first impressions with this edel sms iron although it's
01:04actually a really nice looking club it's a little bit bulky kind of front to back it's relatively thick
01:08obviously got to house those three different weights so that's understandable but this is a
01:12player's distance iron it's actually hollow in construction so it's filled with foam inside the
01:16head dampen the vibrations give you a softer feel but it's a forged head it looks really nice and it
01:22has a seven iron loft of 32 degrees so relatively traditional in that player's distance iron category
01:28i'm going to hit some shots here got a flag 170 yards away into the wind so it's probably
01:33going to be a little bit too tough for us to get shots all the way back to the flag of a day like
01:37today but what we're really looking at is the distance we're getting on the full swing kit launch
01:41monitor which i've got set up down here and then also obviously observing the ball flight in those
01:46three different weight positions so i've got the weight in the middle first of all let's hit some shots got
01:49tightless prover on x golf balls hit three balls with each and we'll see how the performance compares in those three different weight positions
02:05it's not a bad one to start slight draw there in that with the weight in the middle
02:09first impressions down that dress actually is quite a nice looking club it's relatively compact
02:13but that kind of still manages to frame the ball really well there's a hint of offset there the top
02:18line's quite thick compared to most players distance lines not everyone will like that but
02:22actually it kind of strikes a good balance of being quite inviting to hit without looking too chunky
02:28overall so i'd say looks wise it ticks the boxes from a field perspective that first shot doesn't feel
02:34as springy off the face as a lot of players distance irons actually felt quite hard and harsh so maybe
02:39from a field perspective the foam isn't quite doing the job it's supposed to be doing doesn't feel overly
02:44soft we're going to hit a few more balls i said three with each in those weight positions and then
02:50we'll compare the performance
02:58okay so i've finished my exhaustive testing of this edel sms iron and there's a few findings that i'd
03:15like to share with you in this verdict the first thing that actually as i went through the testing
03:19and started to hit more solid shots the feel of this club really improved so yes it does feel a little
03:24bit hard but actually it feels quite solid off the face and i actually really enjoyed the feel
03:28by the end of the testing session that said it didn't quite give me the ball speed or distance
03:33that i was maybe expecting from an iron of this size and of this loft so for comparison i did on
03:38another day test this iron up against the new mizuno pro 223 which has the same seven iron loft
03:44as this one at 32 degrees and that club was going around about five yards longer on average and it is
03:49slightly smaller so that comes just goes to show that maybe you are sacrificing a little bit of
03:54distance with this club designed with the adjustable weighting versus a more traditional
03:58club of the same loft but that said it was interesting to for me to see the different
04:03performance characteristics through the weight setting so the first observation would be that
04:07actually even though edel say you might get a bit more distance in your optimal setting for me
04:11looking at the full swing kit launch monitor numbers which i'll flash up on the screen now the
04:15distances in each of the settings were pretty much exactly the same i was bang on about 160 yards
04:21in all three settings so i didn't really see an adjustment in the distance there so one key
04:25takeaway would be that actually how much the spin changed in three of those different weight settings
04:29so starting with the heavier weight in the heel position the spin was quite high around six seven
04:35and then moving into the middle it came down to about six four i think and then it came down even
04:39further with the heavier weight in the toe and there's quite significant differences in spin there
04:43which i wasn't really expecting so that's something obviously to bear in mind if you're going through
04:47a fitting process the spin profile does change with those different weight settings
04:51and then the big difference i would say would be the ball fight that's kind of the one thing we're
04:54looking at or expecting with this change in the weight positions is it altering the ball flight and
04:59i would say absolutely yes it is i'm starting with the weight in the middle it was kind of pretty
05:03neutral for me a soft draw is what i normally expect to see with a with a seven iron and that's what i was
05:08getting with this club and then when i moved into the toe that definitely changed to a straight shot
05:13or a slight fade which is definitely something i want to see as a player that tends to miss left
05:18quite a lot if i can start the ball at the pin slightly left of the pin and know that it's going
05:23to bleed back that's an ideal ball flight for me so i was really impressed to see that in that edel
05:28seven iron we're not talking massive difference but it was probably a good two to three yards more to
05:32the right versus with the weight of the middle and then finally when i moved the weight into the heel
05:36what was interesting is that the dispersion was a lot wider so it didn't necessarily draw more than
05:44the other it probably did draw a little bit but actually i was missing more shots to the right
05:48more shots to the left dispersion was a lot more erratic and i think that just goes down to the fact
05:52that my general strike pattern with an iron is is center it's slightly towards the toe so you've got
05:58more of a difference there between where the weight is and where the strike is and therefore the gear
06:01effect is going to be greater so i think that definitely contributed to a wider dispersion pattern
06:06with the weight in the heel so for me obviously the optimum setting would probably be in the toe was
06:10expecting to get a little bit more distance out of the toe out of the toe weight setting because it
06:15felt a bit more solid out of there but obviously the launch monitor suggested that it was pretty
06:19consistent across those three different settings and what i like about that toe weight setting is that
06:24you can still draw it if you want to it's not like you're only limited to playing a fade if you do
06:28move that heavier weight into the toe so you've got the ability to draw it if you need to you can get
06:32custom weights through a fitting with edel so you can have four or ten grams depending on what you
06:37want if you go through that process you can really dial it in but i've been very surprised by the
06:42impact of this adjustable weight technology within an iron i think it's definitely going to help people
06:46control the direction their golf shots a little bit more easily this iron comes in at 250 dollars a
06:51club so it's quite a premium product but you're not going to get many irons that offer this kind of
06:57precision adjustability with your dispersion pattern so it's definitely worth trying if you struggle with
07:02your accuracy on your iron shots if you want to hit more greens if iron play is your weakness
07:06something like this concept could definitely have a positive impact on your iron play so there's
07:12undoubtedly some merit in the concept of moving a weight around in the head and obviously if you
07:15go through an iron fitting process you are able to change the dispersion and the shot pattern
07:20by adjusting lie angle and the shaft profile of the iron but i think moving the weight around
07:25inside the head like we've seen with this edel sms iron has a bit more of an impact potentially on
07:30on the dispersion of your shots and kind of reducing or increasing the gear effect that
07:34you get on the strikes and depending on where you hit the face so a lot of merit to the concept
07:38and i've really enjoyed testing it out today so that concludes our look at the edel sms iron if
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