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
01:49tight list prover on x golf balls hit three balls with each and we'll see how the performance
01:55compares 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
02:18top line'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
02:34doesn't feel as springy off the face as a lot of players distance irons actually felt quite hard and
02:38harsh so maybe from a field perspective the foam isn't quite doing the job it's supposed to be doing
02:44doesn't feel overly soft we're going to hit a few more balls i said three with each in those weight
02:49positions and then we'll compare the performance
02:53okay so i finished my exhaustive testing of this edel sms iron and there's a few findings that i'd like
03:15to share with you in this verdict the first thing that actually as i went through the testing and
03:19started 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 by the
03:28end of the testing session that said it didn't quite give me the ball speed or distance that i was maybe
03:34expecting from an iron of this size and of this loft so for comparison i did on another day test this
03:39iron up against the new mizuno pro 223 which has the same seven iron loft as this one at 32 degrees and
03:45that club was going around about five yards longer on average and it is slightly smaller so that comes
03:51just goes to show that maybe you are sacrificing a little bit of distance with this club designed
03:56with the adjustable weighting versus a more traditional club of the same loft but that said
04:01it was interesting to for me to see the different performance characteristics through the weight
04:05settings so the first observation would be that actually even though edel say you might get a bit
04:09more distance in your optimal setting for me looking at the full swing kit launch monitor numbers which
04:14i'll flash up on the screen now the distances in each of the settings were pretty much exactly the
04:19same i was bang on about 160 yards in all three settings so i didn't really see an adjustment in
04:24the distance there so one key takeaway would be actually how much the spin changed in three of
04:28those different weight settings so starting with the heavier weight in the heel position the spin was
04:33quite high around six seven and then moving into the middle it came down to about six four i think and
04:38then it came down even further with the heavier weight in the toe and there's quite significant
04:42differences in spin there which i wasn't really expecting so that's something obviously to bear
04:46in mind if you're going through fitting process the spin profile does change with those different weight
04:50settings and then the big difference i would say would be the ball fight that's kind of the one
04:54thing we're looking at or expecting with this change in the weight positions is it altering the
04:58ball flight and i would say absolutely yes it is i'm starting with the weight in the middle it was
05:03kind of pretty neutral for me a soft draw is what i normally expect to see with a with a seven iron and
05:08that's what i was getting with this club and then when i moved into the toe that definitely changed
05:13to a straight shot or a slight fade which is definitely something i want to see as a player
05:17that tends to miss left quite a lot if i can start with the ball at the pin slightly left of the pin and
05:22know that it's going to bleed back that's an ideal ball flight for me so i was really impressed to see
05:27that in that edel seven iron we're not talking massive difference but it was probably a good two to
05:31three yards more to the right versus with the weight of the middle and then finally when i moved the
05:35weight into the heel what was interesting is that the dispersion was a lot wider so it didn't necessarily
05:42draw more than the other it probably did draw a little bit but actually i was missing more shots
05:47to the right more shots to the left dispersion was a lot more erratic and i think that just goes down
05:52to the fact that my general strike pattern with an iron is is centered it's slightly towards the toe
05:57so you've got more of a difference there between where the weight is and where the strike is and
06:01therefore the gear effect is going to be greater so i think that definitely contributed to a wider
06:05dispersion pattern with the weight in the heel so for me obviously the optimum setting would probably
06:09be in the toe was expecting to get a little bit more distance out of the toe out of the toe weight
06:14setting because it felt a bit more solid out of there but obviously the launch monitor suggested that
06:19it was pretty consistent across those three different settings and what i like about that toe
06:23weight setting is that you can still draw it if you want to it's not like you're only limited to
06:27playing a fade if you do move that heavier weight into the toe so you've got the ability to draw it if you
06:31need to you can get custom weights through a fitting with edel so you can have four or ten
06:36grams depending on what you want if you go through that process you can really dial it in but
06:39i've been very surprised by the impact of this adjustable weight technology within an iron i think
06:45it's definitely going to help people control the direction their golf shots a little bit more
06:48easily this iron comes in at 250 dollars a club so it's quite a premium product but you're not
06:54going to get many irons that offer this kind of precision adjustability with your dispersion pattern
07:00so it's definitely worth trying if you struggle with your accuracy on your iron shots if you want
07:04to hit more greens if iron play is your weakness something like this concept could definitely have
07:09a positive impact on your iron play so there's undoubtedly some merit in the concept of moving
07:14a weight around in the head and obviously if you go through an iron fitting process you are able to
07:18change the dispersion and the shot pattern by adjusting lie angle and the shaft profile of the iron
07:23but i think moving the weight around inside the head like we've seen with this edel sms iron has a
07:28a bit more of an impact potentially on on the dispersion of your shots and kind of reducing or
07:33increasing the gear effect that you get on the strikes and depending on where you hit the face
07:36so a lot of merit to the concept and i've really enjoyed testing it out today so that concludes our
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07:50but from me from burley park golf club it's goodbye and i'll see you next time
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