 Right, thank you for joining the average golfer and we're going to look at a very interesting set of well two irons from Callaway's release for 2019. We're going to look at the Apex and the Apex Pro CF19 models and I have to say they're absolutely stunning sets of irons. Let's start off with that claim statement rather before we go any further. But they might look good but how do they perform and that's the interesting bit and I went out there on the course and I've also collected dry ball data to try and establish if these things perform well in hands of the average golfer and what the differences were between the two sets as well but before we do that let me throw some images up on screen and let you have a little look in terms of aesthetics and what you think of the two and here's the Apex Pro first of all. As you can see high chrome finish forged head a little bit of matte behind the ball minimalistic in its markings and I don't know about you but that absolutely is an eye catcher it looks a belting club for my eye at least. I'll throw up the Apex standard product now for you. Matte finish on this it is not as nice it is a stunning looking club but I've got to say I'm always drawn towards the high chrome finish I wish they'd really done that with this standard model as well. There's a little black rubber element to suppose you might call it inserting the back there but still a very very classy looking iron like I said I wish they'd have made them both high chrome finish to be honest with you but anyway that's just a very much a personal opinion but classy in its looks and these are two different irons only slightly different so players distant iron I think you might categorize the standard Apex product and then you've got the ultimate sort of players performance iron in the Apex Pro and the interesting thing is there is a combination set of both these two so once again you can go I think through to seven iron in the through to the three iron in the Apex standard and then in the shorter irons through to the wedges you can set yourself up with the Apex Pro so there's plenty of logic in there as well but what have they done what have they packed into these two in terms of technology as ever the expect from a Callaway product well this is I'm gonna throw this image up on screen for you now and this is the first thing we're gonna look at 1025 forge carbon steel body urethane microspheres which will talk about MIMD tungsten weight in spin control VFT and 360 cup face well first of all anybody who loves a forge feel then they've made a forge body on this club this urethane microspheres is an interesting one for me so what they've done again we've seen this in the in the Big Bertha product as well the release recently in the irons is placed an elements of material microspheres urethane microspheres thousands of air bubbles within this product which again dampen unwanted vibration now I've seen it in the in the in the Big Bertha irons and once again I've seen it here it really does have an impact on feel without any shadow of a doubt it is a massive input per foot increase in terms of the performance level in that element of these irons and I really did like that 360 cup face technology which you've seen before it's promotes high ball speeds and it's something that they've brought into this apex set of irons and we'll see in terms of dry ball data how much impact that has on the product itself and then we've got the tungsten weighting and again tungsten weighting very much put in the exact position and location that they want it to be in to enhance performance in terms of the different irons and what you would be looking for from the longer irons compared to that of the shorter irons and then this vft spin control which is something that has often been a problem with and these are far from game improvement irons but the minute you sort of put sort of performance enhancing fastball speeds off the face then you're losing elements of perhaps spin vft spin control has paid some concentration to that element and again introduce technologies to try and bring that spin number to where you'd want it to be certainly in those shorter irons and then when you go to the pro model it's very much almost exactly the same story but built into a smaller more compact head and again they changed the 360 cup face technology from it appears in the longer irons but they changed that from seven iron I think it is or eight iron actually eight iron down to the wedges the face is changed it's not all about ball speeds they're not on about maximum ball speed they're looking at more distance control the right spin number the things that you'll be looking for as a player's iron I suppose in those shorter scoring irons so that's the only real difference I can see between the two in terms of the technology because they really are for this type of iron putting a lot of technology into those clubs so what happened when I went out there on the course and that was the first bit was to see what these things did and what will I start with I'm debating on where I'm debating on how how much praise to give these things from the outset do we slow build or do we just go in and tell you how it is I'm just going to go in and tell you how it is I think a lot of people are going to like these clubs fans of the apex range are going to absolutely adore these clubs because what they've done if they've took the apex model and they've ramped it up massively in my opinion first of all let's go with apex pro in terms of sound and feel they've produced the iron that has it's been going towards its way for a long time where they're producing players irons with forgiveness with fantastic sound and feel once again these urethane microspheres that are packed into this 1025 head produce an awesome sound awesome feel it is so soft in the apex pro it's margin it is different in the standard product it's not as buttery soft that you're feeling the apex pro as you'd expect having said that it's marginal because the feel in the standard product standard apex product is again really really nice they differ in terms of what you as you'd expect in terms of size and the compactness of the design is notably small on a pro design but having said that the performance because you've got the performance out of both products and never really was put off by the smaller design but I only had it in the seven iron and maybe a four iron which I had in the apex standard if I had that in the apex pro maybe I'd start to get a little bit scared of the product and the combo set seems to be an almost ideal scenario in my mind but how they perform really really well distance was very very similar difference in lofts in these two products but for me not a huge difference in terms of performance what I seen out there to be quite honest with you in both of these probably half a club difference if anything but then into the driving range at four golf chester and we started it in some balls to try and get some dry ball dates to back that up and this is what we came up with and the first set of numbers we'll start off with is with the pro version so pro version at seven iron 108 ball speed on average so again that's what you'd expect from this kind of product 22.4 arguably launching a little bit too high for me five eight spin fantastic spin number number of balls over six thousand you will know people who watch the channel I don't achieve a great spin number and that is bang on the button really really good for me and 150 carry at the performance of it was as you'd expect from traditional loft and very very consistent indeed I'll throw up the now the stat the apex standard product a lot faster in terms of ball speed and again the stronger loft on this will have something to do with that 113 on average but balls up there 116 117 ball speed a better ball flight with it for me but again that'll be the stronger loft 20.8 can you believe the spin number I mean six two spin for me with a seven iron and a number of balls over six thousand in terms of spin it's never seen from me and it's certainly never seen from me from an iron of this type 34 peak height 157 overall and I'm going to finish off with one other set of numbers because I also had the apex standard in a four iron 120 ball speed 16.1 launch two eight spin and 188 on average in terms of distance I was leaning over there reading off a computer as you can probably tell and like I said the interesting thing for me there probably was the four iron the four iron was as easy to it almost as the seven iron slightly longer shaft as you'd expect so a little bit lost in control or harder to control that club head but feel in the four iron was a great way to judge this whole set really it was like I said very very good feel as easy to use as the four iron the thing is with all these irons for me is that we're reaching a position where the sort of player's iron as the apex pro is is no longer the player's iron as what we would normally associated it with in my opinion yes they're small in their profile but they're packed full of technology which is making them a lot different I'd describe that it's it's not a traditional blade there's a bit of muscle back in there but in terms of its overall profile and size it's very similar to a traditional blade and the performance out of it is so so different and the consistency of performance is so so different as well for someone like me at my level to perform as I am doing with these clubs finding that sweet spot consistent performance consistent distance absolutely superb the issue I have is that when you use the apex standard product slightly bulkier in size but only slightly and then when you get down to the fore end a fore iron end again the confidence inspiring the fact that that ball is flying out there the fact that the the fear is so good is that's when for me I wouldn't necessarily go to the apex pros at my level because I don't think why bother is is the ultimate thing for me why bother when there's the apex standard product which is so nice in feel so good in performance that for me the idea would be apex standard product and then maybe this combo set in the shorter irons I'd look at because blown away by performance blown away by the feel blown away by consistency blown away by the irons are honestly really really impressed it's where I've been wanting to see for a long long time is this this set of irons that like I said packs all those things that technology offer generally in a bigger bulkier club to help average golfers like me packed into a smaller compact iron which is what really I like in terms of on the iron terms of the profile and they've done it in abundance honestly it is I can't speak out both of the sets are absolutely superb how do you knock them how do you do a review and knock a set of irons like that it is very very difficult to pick fault and for that reason I'm not going to so more importantly as ever that's my opinion maybe I got lucky you go out there try them yourselves and come back and comment on this video because for me Callaway have come up with an absolute belt in range for 2019 they really have and I can't see anybody trying any of these products and being disappointed that honestly can't anyway thank you for watching thumbs up if you like the video comments down below I'll do my best to reply thank you as ever for watching and enjoy 2019