 Now you'll have noticed a lot of head to head videos on the channel of late and I'm not too sure who they're exactly for the benefit for you or for me. What an iron this is. I say that because in recent weeks there have been irons released that have really appealed to me and today I'm going to look at two of those which have got me very confused as to where I want to go with my own personal bag setup and you might be having a similar dilemma. And in this video the two irons that I'm putting in a head to head are the Titlist T150 and the new PXG0317T. Now those irons have caused me a dilemma because they are very much in a player's profile, very small and compact but very playable, very forgiving. Fast ball speeds off the clubface, a little bit of compensation for off-center hits and tick all the other parameters in terms of dry ball data. It's not what I expected from this style of iron. I am astonished as to what has gone on in terms of the performance of these small and compact irons that I love to play but always steer away from them purely because. One first of all manufacturer tells me that they're aimed at a better player and the second reason being I am just too scared to make a move away from an iron that fits into my category of player and am I going to lose bundles of forgiveness and what I'm seeing and what Trackman's telling me is that maybe not the case. So in today's video what we're going to do is do a simple head to head and I'll play with both these irons on the course. We've only got seven iron unfortunately to do the comparison with. Out on course I am seeing all the kind of things that I like they both feel superb they both look really good. What is Trackman going to tell me in terms of how do they differ in terms of performance? Well whilst I continue to collect some data this morning with this morning's swing I always like to record fresh data. The club I'm hitting right now is the tight list of T150 and I'm just going to put some visuals up on screen. I love how clean this is I love the T series lineup from tight list. I actually borrowed this club to somebody to try out and they sort of came back and said it didn't really do anything different than what is out there right now so I always remember this is a very subjective opinion. I would really sort of contradict that because I think first of all or first and foremost it's a player's iron with bundles of forgiveness and I'm not sure any exist that are quite so forgiving look so good and feel so good. Oh that was off the bottom grooves and maybe you know a typical example of where not a great strike that ball is still in the air and doing its thing love the fact a great demonstration of what that forgiveness element looks like maybe more importantly feels like it was definitely bottom grooves. Again not the best strike but the ball is flying out there. Not too dissimilar where both of those landed either so bundles of forgiveness let's have a look at the other iron in question which is that PXG03170. Now before we go on to hit the PXG iron I just want to take a quick look at them at address and I very much put them in the same category like I said but I will say that T150 is probably well know it is more compact and a narrower top line and overall just seems that little bit more of a smaller profile so that's interesting because I would very much have assumed from memory trying them that they were very similar in size so slightly more compact but definitely you know minimal offset players iron type ahead. Make sure you've got the seven iron in hand. Right brief interruption there from Ian who amongst other things keeps this range in absolutely incredible condition as well as this room but that driving range alongside me with top tracer unreal well done Ian what a job you do in there. Anyway back to the PXG iron. Just really sort of floats my boat a hollow bodied iron polymer injected plenty of forgiveness and that ball just seems to fire off it now quick mention for all those people who get concerned about this different shafts in each of the irons the shaft that I've got in in the PXG iron is a steel fiber I mean 95 gram steth the and I can't remember what you've got in this I think it's a dynamic gold or project X steth 115 so big difference in the weight however what I will say is I've got an additional weight placed in the back here something you can do with PXG irons is in the custom fit process that element in the back can be changed to suit what you like to feel so I know that I have a heavier weight but considerably heavier weight than standard and oddly enough these very much feel like the heavier iron although the shaft itself is a lot lighter anyway what are they doing well the big thing is that I don't know whether I say this on virtually every video because I never know you can pick it up you have to take my word for it they sort of feel and sound very very similar to me and again that's a big key part of why I like both sets of irons they've done an incredible job in that acoustic department and to be honest with you I really in terms of visually can't separate them in terms of performance I've only got like I said seven iron in hand the launch angle seems similar carry distance I'm not so sure I've been swinging a ball the club rather pretty well this morning a bit different from yesterday it's funny how we change and my club bed speed is up a little bit I'm expecting to see a little bit further carry numbers than what we had on a video that I filmed yesterday but will it one more just so so good both irons I really just need to know what separates them in terms of that trackman data because I'm as interested or probably more interested I see than you are today's video is brought to you in partnership with hot golf the online golf mega store bringing you the hottest deals in golf and of course the clubs featured in today's video find the link to the hot golf website in the description below and check out some incredible giveaways and offers well as I always say the trackman always tells exactly what is happening irrelevant to what you think you're seeing and there's probably there's definitely a difference between these two clubs in terms of performance there's no doubt about that probably more shocked than I thought what should we do we'll go and put the averages of both on screen but then I'm going to put the individual shots up because there's a story in there as well now interesting you know first of all you see the club bed speed with the pxg iron was quicker and a couple of mile an hour quicker than that of the tight list however the ball speed off the tight list was quicker that's the first shock so from a and I never normally put this up you'll see an end column there which is smash factor and you'll can see that the kind of in terms of performance optimized performance that is then the seven iron from the tight list was fantastic in terms of club bed speed versus ball speed but then there's a negative on the tight list iron whereas the spin is low it's not really low because like for me because it's something again that I I don't create a great deal of spin and always in around that sort of 5000 res with the seven iron is sort of where I'd want to be but that was a bit of a shock so four six spin as opposed to 5000 on the pxg neither of them fantastic and a bit surprising we've got a 158 carry versus 163 carry longer being the tight list and I think that's a lot to do with the fact that the launch angle on both is very similar but that spin number will just get that pxg ball just riding a little bit rising a little bit but peak height again very very similar very similar almost identical and the land angle almost identical I mean it's really really interesting I'm going to throw up first of all the pxg the sort of five shots that I hit and just have a little bit of a look across the board there you'll see there was some really great spin numbers too affected it significantly two in the low four thousands other than that was sort of where we'd want to be in that high five and a half to six thousand revs then you've got that carry distance very consistent bar one shot so we've got that 154 which is a real dropout and again affected things and that's why I'm showing you this as always anomalies within numbers that you can sort of explain and understand where these figures come from and then again with the launch angle pretty high launching ball in my opinion but it was a couple in there that 17 launch which brought it down again the same again tightest numbers up on screen for you now the one surprising thing like I said was this was this low spin if I'm honest with you I you know there's an element that I sort of question I always do I'm afraid because I've never played on a golf course where I've hit a seven iron into a green and I had a problem stopping it so to me that's a real gray area I've always disputed that fact but anyway it is what it is that's what you can see there surprisingly low numbers what it's coming out with that carry distance again perhaps more of a spread from 157 up to 169 that could be again the fact that you know is it is consistent with off-center strikes I've no idea that suggests there's a little bit of drop off between the two the launch of the ball remained very consistent apart from one shot as did everything else I mean I think that if I was in a custom fit situation and I tried both irons then from a numbers perspective the seven iron from the tightest t150 would I'd say would that spin number you know would concern me because I'm led to believe that's such an issue and I would maybe if it wasn't for that number I'd be all out on the t150s in terms of the data parameters having tried them both on course I'm not really seeing that spin number being an issue so then you're led down the route of just what you're preferencing in terms of feel sound and all those other things looks aesthetics and a lot of it it's really really tough I said that somebody had borrowed this iron and said there was nothing fantastic going on with it I disagree I think that being a t150 I think it's an exceptional iron and you know these two are without doubt the best players type irons that are on the market right now in my opinion very hard to split if anything after today's testing I would lean towards that t150 I will go out on the course and try a little bit more and I'd love to have a longer iron as well to test in that t150 to see if I can handle that iron in the longer end of the bag anyway as ever very subjective you can see from the numbers there's always variables in there make of it what you will and good luck if you decide to do this test yourself and I hope you come out with the right decision right thanks for watching as ever I'll see you all soon