 have you ever bought a set of golf clubs based on looks alone because if you have then these will certainly be top of the list in terms of how they look but in terms of how they play well that's a different question i'm going to test the set of irons that i would love to buy love to have in the bag i love the look of but i don't think i'm good enough to play with them this is the biggest shot i've had since testing club i can't believe it oh my god three solid shots there i can't believe how well i'm in these you know honestly i'm so shocked my favorite set of irons that i ever owned were from azuno they were a set of mp5 they're blades effectively top line nothing of them no markings whatsoever they looked absolutely pure and to this day i still regret getting rid of those irons and i got rid of them because i was kind of chasing these words like forgiveness and i suppose looking for irons that gave me help with off-center hits that's what that that's what that thing's all about forgiveness chasing forgiveness but sometimes what that really means is that you're looking for an easy way out so i ended up playing different irons with bigger sweet spots but i still love those mp5s and even in those difficult rounds when i was struggling to find the middle they still gave me that encouragement and enthusiasm rather to play the game because as soon as i see those shiny clubs in the bag i just want to do it and i wanted that pure strike that came around every now and again and that's exactly what i'm expecting from these irons that i'm about to test this morning so what is the club in question well it's this from cobra this ricky fowler model of mb forge it is a stunning copper finish i've seen plenty of images of this thing online but i've never actually seen it in the flesh and when we took a little bit of a walk around the um the fitting bay at foregolf here this morning i was drawn to this thing like a magpie it looks absolutely stunning but then the big question that our answer is how come the wrapper is still on and that really begs the question kind of it's been sat in there a couple of months no one has even so much as tried this iron like i said the polythene wrapper is still on will be the first one to give it a go and it begs the question for me is that with an iron that is so small in profile the top line is as thin as i've ever seen and i'm being produced in the last how many years is there still a place for this kind of club in the modern day marketplace i'll tell you what we'll do i'm going to collect data very very soon but i'm going to take this wrapper off i've also got to take the the wrapper off the shaft as well because we've put out so we've got a kbs um just a reg shaft in these this morning kbs 90 i'll take that off as well and what i'm going to tell you is uh very first shot of the day because often the thing of sort of well blades of all that i would associate this kind of thing with is that first shot of the morning was always the toughest in finding the middle and you certainly got to feel about it i cannot tell you how compact this iron is from the top line i don't think there is another iron on the market that is as thin as it a few practice swings this is the one one way you can hear that that was absolutely pure what unreal feel that is from the first shot of the day i'll carry on collecting some data that was put a smile on me face because honestly that was so soft a little bit of mat with that one but that wasn't too bad either right i'll collect data and just see how tough this thing is and whether there's any realities that a could i put them in the bag and b as to why do you continue to manufacture irons like this for the general market i'm well impressed so far well there's a few things i want to just go through with you in terms of uh well technical spec price and also some comments made from people who've tried these before on cobra's website um it is effectively like you said it's a purely forged iron there's some tungsten weighting which is positioned out to toaster centre on ricky fowler's request i'm certainly liking the way it's put together anyway it certainly suggests it's aimed at a handicap of player which always amazes me this is because it's such a small and minute category handicap suggestion is between naught and three so clearly if that was the if that was the criteria then i wouldn't even there shouldn't even be trying these things the zero offset and i'm assuming that's through the set because there's no mention of it whatsoever mid to low launch in terms of the seven iron it's 34 degrees four iron 24 and a traditional pitching wedge up there at 46 or again very much traditionally lofted in terms of where they all sit but this is the bit that interests me the most i read a couple of reviews that are custom reviews and the first thing that i noticed was these are the most forgiving blades i've ever used to me they have similar forgiveness to my cbs that's the first comment i read and then the second bit was that some guy went in to test the king mim tour and a couple of others player cbs but after the fitter handed me these they were amazing and distance was only a few yard shorter that's the bit that shocks me just so far testing them how well they've performed but in terms of yet again if you are led by the criteria that's suggested by the manufacturer then i and probably most of you wouldn't go anywhere near these things right so i've collected data and before i go in and have a look at that and find out exactly what is wrong with these irons in terms of capability versus what you'd actually like to have in the bag there'll be some telltale signs i would imagine but like i said quite surprised so far i want to ask you a question wasn't it most difficult and you've ever played in sort of your golfing career why did you move away from them or have you currently got them in the bag do you miss them all those things that like i said for me going back to those mp5 really missed that iron but i will say this is even more compact again and from a looks perspective i mentioned it very briefly when i started this in some balls that top line is the biggest thing that puts people off but i'm wondering and based on my performance this morning with the club is it because the iron is so small and compact is it because that kind of hitting area is so much smaller than you used to see is that just a little bit more concentrates the mind a little bit and are we actually finding the center of that club more than i would be necessarily on a bigger face sort of game improvement iron that's the question it's asked me because out of i'm just looking at the screen quite a lot of shots i would say that i've pretty much found the sweet spot it felt really good off the face that a little bit of drop-off in when i've not got it quite right but i think that'd be the same for pretty much any iron that you use and like i said from those two comments i read from people who've purchased them i think they were as shocked as i am really really impressed but more importantly i think surprised i really would like the idea of being able to try and play a longer iron that's my only concern how would i get on with perhaps a sort of five iron certainly four iron start to struggle would that be a major issue but then for me would i really be looking at maybe playing you know hybrids and even fairway woods at that stage i don't know but yeah again and i hope you pick up a bit of audio these are absolute pure feeling irons from a forging perspective they're as good of an iron as i've played in terms of feel and that puts mizuno right into that category nothing feels like a mizuno well i think cobra's forged mb has put itself right in that sort of category honestly really really good well it's okay so testing done you know i'm fairly surprised but here is the numbers and like i said over quite a vast amount of shots i'll throw up first of all what the averages are and then maybe break it down so we got an average of would you believe off a 34 degree 7 iron 154 carry 6300 revs of spin um 112 ball speed on average 19.9 launch 94 peak height descent angle of 48.5 i love those numbers really really good like i said in seeing the ball out there it's it's high launching it's at mid to low launch well certainly the way i was hitting the 7 iron the way i deliver a club it launched fairly high but i love the ball flight to be honest with you spin number was really really good and what you'd expect from very much those traditional numbers in terms of loft for the iron before i go through all the different numbers and i'll perhaps throw them up at the very end otherwise it'll get a bit monotonous me going through every shot that i hit i'll throw up the dispersion chart now and what you'll see is a real tight grouping on that left hand side i was hit a bit of a right to left shot perhaps turn them over a little bit we had the 90 gram 90 gram reg shaft probably would have changed the shaft up a little bit but anyway you see that grouping really really good on what is effective i don't know what's that about 10 shots really good couple on that 160 mark again happy with all those and then we've just got a drop off of about six shots i think roughly counting there that you'll see and that was the difference i think we averaged between sort of that high sort of 155 to almost 160 that was the major grouping that i got in terms of the numbers really really consistent and i suppose what you'd argue is then there was a drop off to the other group of numbers were there 146 147 there's a few in there 144 even now maybe that is the issue that you would say why a player like me and of my capability would perhaps choose not to hit these my argument would be i think that you would get probably similar drop offs in a game improvement iron in the same way so it's all proportionate but i suppose the other flip side of the coin might be that if we did the same test with the game improvement iron the drop offs wouldn't be quite so significant because the sweet spot might be that little bit bigger i don't know that's a big broad test to do all i can tell you is i was really surprised on how easy these were to hit i played the or tried the callaway apex mb's i think they're called i might be wrong with that but basically the blade of the new callaways and i really struggled with it i found it very difficult to use indeed i couldn't have been any different this morning with this mb forge from cobra it could well be that we just had a nice little combination in that shaft i don't know maybe that did work it could well be that was swinging well this morning but all i can report back is that i think don't be dismissed by categories of clubs that the manufacturers put them into this idea of a player's iron a game improvement iron blah blah blah i hate all that pick one off the shelf that you like the look of give it a go because and if you find out you're not good enough for it then fair enough but the point is we dismiss i'd have dismissed this out of van by looking at it and i would really consider playing it that's how shocked i was in terms of how it wasn't easy that's always the wrong word to use but i had more than enough capability the way i struck the irons this morning suggest i could handle those irons no problem whatsoever anyway that's it job done a little one that's later on the scene in terms of maybe a bit of a niche market what a real interesting review from my perspective so i hope you enjoyed it too as ever comments down below don't forget what irons of you tried that you're perhaps glad to see the back of in terms of how difficult they were or you wish you still had them in the bag stick that in the comments down below hit that thumbs up button and if you don't subscribe already then please do so it's a massive help to work the growth of this channel and i'll see 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