Golf Information Editor Nick Bayly places the brand new Callaway Apex Ai300 irons by their paces
As a 13 handicapper with an 18 handicapper’s iron recreation, I like loads of forgiveness constructed into my irons, and whereas Callaway’s new Ai300 irons are billed as a recreation enchancment mannequin, their dimensions and total have a look at deal with are barely extra compact that you simply’d anticipate 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 undoubtedly sit on the low finish of that handicap class in that they are going to swimsuit and enchantment to respectable ball strikers, and undoubtedly end in some efficiency beneficial properties, whether or not it’s in ball speeds, constant distance off the center, in addition to people who aren’t struck off the lifeless centre of the clubface.
My ball flight with the Ai300s was larger than standard, helped by the weighting within the head of the membership, and pictures into greens ‘dropped and stopped’ which confirmed me simply how rather more spin Callaway have of their up to date Apex mannequin.
My pictures have been additionally longer than standard 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 supreme for gamers like me who typically wrestle to maintain their approaches on the inexperienced, as these irons create excessive ball flight for softer landings.
Like many mid-handicappers I typically 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 equipped with my check set, I appreciated 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 capable of generate with lower than good strike. Having irons with enhanced turf interplay for mishits can also be supreme for individuals who wrestle for consistency with their swing.
Total, I believe these are a really well-conceived and executed set of game-improvement irons. The efficiency beneficial properties are evident for mid-to-high handicappers and so they additionally made me need to change into a greater ball striker, fairly than doing all of the give you the results you want.
RRP: £1,199/£1,299 (st/gr, 4-PW). For extra particulars, go to eu.callawaygolf.com.
