00:00Okay, I don't know how to feel about this video today. I've got a whole mix of emotions. I'm sort
00:05of excited but I'm sort of terrified and let me show you why. Let me introduce you to the Bose
00:11Iron Factory JCM01 Zero Iron. Now this thing has 12 degrees, yes 12 degrees of loft,
00:20precisely zero offset and a top line you could cut yourself on. This is not for the faint-hearted.
00:30This Zero Iron was actually sent to me by master craftsman, Falcon Mastabara, who founded the
00:35Bose Iron Factory in Japan and they make some unbelievable products. He sent me a couple of
00:40other bits just to tease me. Take a look at these wedges. These are some of the most beautifully
00:45crafted wedges I've ever laid my eyes on. The shaping and the finish is just extraordinary
00:51and it seems indicative of what they do at the Bose Iron Factory. I put a link in the description
00:56down
00:56below to their website. Go and check out their products. You won't be disappointed but we're
01:00not here to talk about wedges. We're going to try this Zero Iron. This isn't the first Zero Iron I've
01:05ever seen. John Daly actually had one in the bag at St Andrews in 1995 that Wilson made specifically for
01:12him for that golf course but even that one had a slight cavity in the back to give him some
01:15help.
01:16Right, I can't put it off any longer. I'm going to charge up GC Quad,
01:19hit some away, get some numbers and see what it can do.
01:39Whoa! That's going to be interesting to see the numbers. In terms of the spec on this thing,
01:42as I said it's got 12 degrees of loft which is essentially a driver or at a push a really
01:50really
01:50strong three-wood and it is long as well. They build this a standard 42 and three-quarters inches
01:56which is just quarter of an inch shy of a standard three-wood. So this thing is really built for
02:01speed
02:01and distance. Well I've already had a sneaky look at the data from those two swipes so I'm going to
02:08hit
02:08a few more away and then I'm going to take a closer look at the averages.
02:28Okay, so the numbers. Now these are really really interesting and I'm surprised in some ways
02:33and not surprised in others. The surprise was that I can actually hit this thing, I can get it
02:38off the floor and I can get it going and that resulted in some pretty good average numbers
02:43for me. So I was getting an average ball speed of 152.8 miles per hour, launching at nine and
02:49a half
02:49degrees and spinning around the 3000 mark which is aggressive but culminated in an average carry
02:56distance of 246 off the deck with a zero iron which I'm actually quite pleased with. But it's how
03:02it got there that concerned me a little bit and this is the bit that didn't surprise me. The slight
03:06lack of consistency. I wasn't getting much help if I missed the direct middle of this golf club so my
03:12ball speed fluctuated quite a lot. My lowest ball speed here 145.3 miles an hour versus my highest
03:20ball speed of 158.5. That's quite a big gap and again you can see that in the yardage my
03:27shortest carry
03:28was 229 and my longest carry was 261. So over 30 yards of difference there I'm just not sure that's
03:36that playable. I was unsure as to where to place this club as well and I've never hit anything as
03:42long
03:42or anything as low lofted in an iron but it seems to me I've hit a few three irons and
03:46I've hit a few
03:47three woods here. It seems to sit somewhere between the two certainly from a yardage point of view and a
03:52ball speed point of view although because of the makeup and the loft and the MOI situation the spin
03:59is lower than both. So you can see from the numbers there this thing's pretty adept at hitting stingers
04:03low penetrating ball flights but I want to see if this is just a one-trick pony. Can I manipulate
04:09that ball flight? Can I get it high? Can I go left to right? Can I go right to left?
04:13Let's go to the
04:14practice ground and find out. Right so you join me here at a very blustery Churston practice ground
04:21and as you can see from that ball flight that I've just hit this thing as we know has no
04:25problem
04:26hitting that stinging low knuckleball but I want to see if I can get this thing flighted up a bit
04:31so
04:31I'm going to move the ball up in my stance a bit sweep it away just a little bit more
04:35and see if I can
04:35get that trajectory up. Okay well I think you can see from that I can I did clip that nicely
04:44a nice high trajectory I mean it's helped by I'm coming into the wind so the wind's buffered it
04:48up a little bit but I can certainly maneuver that more than I thought I could up so let's see
04:52if I
04:52can now do it left to right and right to left. So if you're enjoying learning about this zero iron
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05:02how do you think you'd get on with this? Okay well I think you can probably see from that I'm
05:07not
05:08having too much trouble maneuvering the ball left to right. Right to left was a bit more of a struggle
05:12which you tend to see when there's less loft on a club. It did turn over but it certainly wasn't
05:16as
05:17easy as cutting it. That's enough of the practice stuff let's get out on the course and see if this
05:21thing's good on a hole. Right so I wanted to see what this thing can do out on a golf
05:25course and I've
05:26given myself a pretty tough challenge if I'm honest. I'm here on the fifth hole at Churston
05:30golf club it's a 550 yard par five playing straight into a very very cold wind and I'm
05:37going to play the entire hole with my zero iron and see if I can make a par.
05:44Right well I found my ball it was a good hit I've turned it over a little bit
05:48a bit disappointed to find it in some overhanging trees however this might actually be a really good
05:53chance to showcase what this zero iron can do. I've got to keep this really really low and advance
05:59it as far as possible because I've still got about 300 plus yards to go so this might be the
06:03tool for
06:03the job. I got that absolutely perfect as I wanted it started really really low stayed under these
06:12branches and I reckon even into this cold wind I've got that about 220 up there which I'm chuffed with
06:17from here. Okay well now is where the fun and games really start because I found myself here 139 yards
06:25away. Yes I've got a very cold wind but I've still got to take about 100 yards off this zero
06:30iron.
06:30I'm coming out of some rough here although it's sitting well it can be difficult to get
06:34enough club on ball when you've got such little loft so let's see if I can manipulate something here.
06:49Well I'm pretty chuffed with that 139 yards dead pin high I've left myself 10 foot up the hill for
06:57a birdie
06:58let's see putt.
07:08Would have been the greatest birdie of my life pretty chuffed with a five though.
07:13Well it was a bit of fun I hope you enjoyed that and that would have been the best birdie
07:17of my life
07:19and it was just a bit of fun obviously I wouldn't play an entire hole with the zero iron but
07:22I hope
07:23it showed some of the versatility of this club hit a really nice tee shot turned it over a little
07:27bit
07:27into the trees but then it showed it's metal with that low raking hook out of it I even managed
07:32139
07:33yard bump and run to 10 feet and it very nearly hold the birdie putt but the point of this
07:38is to
07:39see whether this might be a playable club and first requirement you need if you did think it was going
07:44to be a playable club would be speed if you haven't got speed you're simply not going to get this
07:48club
07:48airborne so that would be requirement number one but my conclusion really is it probably just is
07:54too high tariff although I thoroughly enjoyed hitting it and off the center it just feels like
07:58butter the forgiveness and the lack of MOI would probably make it just too high tariff to me
08:04but I do think there's merit in an iron of this loft somewhere and this is a call out to
08:09the
08:09manufacturers out there if you can make an iron of 11 12 degrees of loft but build it a bit
08:15more
08:16MOI and a bit more friendliness I really think you might be on to something
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