 Felly yn 2023 mae'n ceisio gwahanol iawn o newid yn ffóorog. Ac rwy'n credu o'r ffóir, ac mae'r allwn gyda un o bwysig bod y bydd. Felly, o'n ddweud y cyfnod o'r ffóir, yw'n amser o'r bwysig o'r gwahanol iawn o'r ffóir, a'r ffeithio bod yw'r ddweud o'r newid yn y Llywodraeth, ac mae'r ffóir o'r llwybu hynny could tick a whole lot of boxes. So first of all let's address that price point situation. This driver is priced in uk pounds at £429, that makes it a £100 lower than some of its competitors. So what we first need to find out is are we going to be making compromises in terms of performance and quality compared to those other brands and I'll be putting that to the test out here on the golf course. The first thing I want to take a look at is how it looks. So this is the ZX5 model and from a shelf appeal perspective I like it. It's fairly minimal in its design which I always like. Not a great deal going on. We can see that weight port at the back which will obviously be assistant in terms of CG placement to help with launch. But then the interesting bit for me is where you turn it to the address and now we've got a driver that I really really like to look off. I was surprised this year when a couple of the manufacturers went back from a mat crown back into gloss and I think that was a mistake in my opinion because the mat crown like we've seen in Ping G430 line up for example is far easier on the eye in my opinion and that sort of glare that you get sometimes in the sun I don't overly like but it's not just the fact that it's got the mat finish there's a couple of bit of silver accents around the heel and toe which just sort of shape the driver I suppose you'd say and that shape is really nice it's traditional it's not been squashed it's not been elongated it's not been made high at the toe end so it's very much a traditional shape and our address it sits really nice and that mat crown mean that so far we've not made any compromises in fact I think it's only positives right one of the things we're going to look at in today's video is this is all about on course testing I'm going to be hitting plenty of balls out here on the golf course at the pool resort in Mallorca. I've got this thing set at a standard 10.5 which is what like I said that's a standard loft of this head but what you'll notice is that there is a lot of loft and lie adjustments to be made within this head and that's a real positive like I always suggest custom fit is major and when you can make as many changes you can in this friction drive ahead for me that can only be a positive but we'll kick things off like I said standard 10.5 degree head interestingly I've got a hazardous shaft 5.5 60 gram right now my shot my natural shot is to aim at that left bunker a little bit of a cut so let's see how we get on come on well that's gone up the bunker and it's not moved from the bunker so that's an interesting one it's done exactly what I wanted it to in terms of the line that I chose it didn't move but it certainly didn't cut and one thing I'd like to check before I go any further is if this is in fact a draw bias in terms of that head profile and it's waiting right so a quick look at what Strixon are saying and I'm not going to start reading off about rebound frames and star frame crowns forget all that we'll tell you how this performs and that's the end of it but there is no reference to an actual draw bias so we're going to hit another ball in exactly the same setting as that and we'll see how we get on and then I'm going to make some adjustments it does say that that weight at the back is eight grams so it's not a significant weight because I mean if you think like to the ping movable driver in that G430 I think that's about 24 25 grams so it's not a huge weight but it promises to be high forgiving and straight we'll see let's get ball number two loaded up today's video is brought to you in partnership with shervo the premium italian golf wear and sportswear brand by using some of the most innovative fabrics shervo produced clothing that is both stylish and incredibly comfortable to wear both on and off the golf course for more information visit the shervo website and I will of course provide a link in the description of this video right let's get back to the golf now again I mean at the bunker it was a slightly better line but the interesting thing is there for me is that the ball didn't caught and I am trying to play that shot so at the moment there's nothing wrong with being straight but two shots fairly straight at where I'm aiming I'm going to load up again and this time we're going to go for the centre of the fairway and just see if I can hit a straight shot because I've got no problem with that I mean how good is that a driver that goes straight which is it's unusually in my hands but the first thing I want to say first of all irrelevant to where those balls have gone they've in terms of where they finished line wise they've all gone where I was aiming and they've all flown the ball straight third ball considerably higher in terms of its ball flight the sound I would say is maybe a little hard if I'm being quite honest with you it's not the softest sound in driving that's not necessarily what you want you want soft but then a bit of zip out the face I think it's a little bit hard off that face and again I keep mentioning a reference to ping g430 line them but it's got similar sort of sound and feel to the much improved ping g430 so I'm liking it a lot but I'm going to make a bit of an adjustment because I feel like we can take that loft down a little bit um and then see what happens in terms of performance but so far let's just go back to that initial question that I asked are we making compromises when we save £100 in buying a driver the answer at this point is no we are not right so what I've done there is I've I've actually taken it down two degrees um so we're effectively eight and a half degree head which is I mean realistically all the drivers I generally use are nine degrees um but we'll see what happens because that ball flight is really high right now and it does surprise me a little bit because like I said that weight of just eight grams is not the heaviest weight in terms of pulling that CT far back but the ball is certainly got a lot of concentrated effort ongoing upright now and I'd just like to flatten that out a bit and see if we can improve this flight a little bit for me at least oh my word I mean I am super impressed I'm super impressed first of all the adjustment in terms of loft has uh has done what it's intended to and we certainly flatten that ball flies out but maybe more importantly and still is that we're finding the centre of the fairway we've got a fair bit of room here but we're bang down the middle of it and already sort of what are we in now three four shots in my confidence with this thing is increasing performance seems really really good I'm not bothered right now we could go to track man and we could sort of see how this is doing to his overall yardage would that make me feel better or worse about this driver if it was longer or shorter I'll be honest with you it wouldn't make a blind bit of difference the confidence I'm getting right now from this club is the factor that ball's gone 220 230 230 who cares it's somewhere in that region but more importantly it's down the middle of the fairway right one more with this ball flight well I was a sixth hole here at pooler and uh rarely do I stay on one T position and just hit driver endlessly and complete a review but effectively this last shot you're about to see me hit in that same minus two setting so 8.5 degrees loft is the last one you're going to see on this video and yet it found the centre of the fairway so for me the interesting thing was that um I did question whether it was draw bias because if I'm honestly that I could not get that ball moving from left to right which is my normal shot shape there's nothing wrong with that whatsoever I'll take straight any day of the week was it a good swing day for me I've no idea but what I will see is the Strixon driver the zx5 performed really really well I don't know what forgiveness means like I said it's hard to judge I think you need track man to see hitting in and around high toe low heel and start to see in the drop offs in terms of performance to really quantify forgiveness but what I've seen out on the fairway was the ball launched high even in an 8.5 degree setting it's still launched the ball high I swung within myself easy enough in control sound and feel was more than good enough love the look of this thing and then don't forget the bonuses you're 100 quid better off in your pocket than some of the top end competitors I just think that I reviewed the Strixon zx5 and zx4 irons which again pretty much hard to pick fault with this is the first um well driver that I've hit for quite some time from Strixon and I've got to say really really impressed as you can probably tell really good I'll maybe do a second video on this and we'll compare it to I mentioned about distance and carry maybe I'll stick it up against someone and big boys get on track man and see what it's doing in terms of overall performance but for me that's a really good driver for a lot of golfers trust me right that's it we're getting near in the end of the day here at Pula resort over in Mallorca the temperatures drop the sun is starting to go down you know what that means it's time for a beer and I'll see you all tomorrow night