 Well it's 2021, we've seen a whole load of reviews in the last few weeks and the big focus, the big views, is always what the drivers do, how well are the new drivers performing. As average golfers we're obsessed with distance and not necessarily what is best for our game. We're a chatty really this morning in terms of technology, where have the greater advancements come and I think perhaps not in drivers, but the clubs I'm going to review today, there's four of them, they're hybrids, they're so far different from what they were just five years ago that I think we should be paying a lot more attention to putting these kind of clubs in our bags and forget that obsession with the driver. Right so four hybrids in question, we've got a PXG, we've got one from Taylor Mae, we've got one from Ping and we've got one from Callaway. I'm going to throw a lot of images in front of you now and take your pick because arguably I think I'm almost going to a degree leave my opinion out of it because I think that you could quite easily choose any of these and put them in the bag based on aesthetics. It's going to be about some personal preferences, what you like an address, what you like to see from above and I always say what draws you in the first place in terms of shelf appeal. For me on a personal level I think that Ping is the real interesting one. What they've done this year Ping with those hybrids, I think they've almost made them look like, let's call them a mini fairway and perhaps that's what they are but the shape has gone more into a sort of a fairway would look, it seems a little bit bigger in terms of mass than the other three that it's up against and I think that's what it does, it provides you a lot more confidence at address. I've said in previous videos they kind of look like you know just put a swing on it and get club on ball and let me do the rest so I think for me Ping have done a fantastic job and it also looks very neutral in terms of where it sits at address often they can look a bit a bit toad in if you like and again with the callaway in particular and perhaps even on that PXG they raise significantly or rise significantly at that toe end and it's not something that I particularly like and I always feel it's sort of already starting me off down that left hand side but for a lot of golfers who are fighting against that fade, that slice then maybe that would be a positive but what I will say is each of them have really, I don't say up the game because this is something aesthetically they're doing quite well at the minute. That's a final ball hit ended up on the callaway and to be honest with you I've hit four clubs two balls with each one after the other with no great effort whatsoever I think we've just found four fairways eight fairways my maths is wrong and to me that's a big deal finding fairways is mega important as average golfers each of these clubs is going to be in the region of 200 yards off the tee finding a fairway 200 yards further down that's got to be a major positive hasn't it right before we go any further it's down to your inputs and what I'd like to ask is out the four that you've seen maybe visually what would you choose right now which one are you perhaps looking to try yourself any one you're particularly drawn to are you gaming in these current previous models from previous years and are any of them on their hit list for you because at the end of the day I will give you my my thoughts my dry ball data ball ultimately it's down to you as a punch out there are you going to be splashing your cash on one of these new models from 2021 because I reckon we should be these are the clubs we should be really paying some great attention to which I think I've said enough by now before I go inside and I'm going to collect some dry ball data and we'll see how the these split themselves in terms of performance one thing that's outside that brings you is a little bit different in terms of acoustics so the sound I would say split into two categories the team and the Callaway are a little bit softer and the more harsh your sounding noise comes out of the PXG and the G425 but not a massive difference to split them all but very noticeably different as I've already mentioned at address that's all I can tell you so far let's get inside and I'll collect some dry ball data and then see what splits them in terms of performance but I can tell you now not a great deal one more before we go in not a bad finish right a quick point to mention in terms of loft and as well just adjustability in these four hybrids we've got three that are at 19 degrees exactly the same that's the TM the Callaway and the PXG the Ping however is a 17 degree hybrid with a degree and a half added so it's slightly stronger lofted all same length of shaft but all very much stock option shafts as well and don't forget these heads to heads it's not about finding a winner in terms of yardage or choosing something it's about presenting the performance of four different clubs let's not get too hung up on exactly that half a degree of loft but worth bearing in mind the other thing that is worth bearing in mind is that three of these are adjustable and I think that's a big deal in hybrids um is a message I've trying to get across in these last few videos and that ability to gap in between sort of your long list iron in the bag and then going right up there towards your driver I think adjustability of loft is key in doing that and it's not available in the TM product I will say however on that is that in the TM and in the Callaway there are also other versions available and in the TM product the pro version if you want to call it that or the better player version is adjustable so it's a bit of an odd one I'm not sure why they've left it out in terms of this sort of standard hybrid if you want to call it that um but that's what they've done but I think to me that's a probably marks it down a little because I do think having that adjustability in terms of loft is key to getting your gap in right in your bag and gives you that extra flexibility versus whatever you want to call it right that is all dribble data collected and I'll go for that very very quickly I just want to mention a couple of other things before we get there and that is the well the main one being the price they're all in all honesty very very similar but as this is a head to head we'll throw this into the mix the pxg hybrid is 210 British pounds this is going to be in the sim max is 199 the ping is 219 and the Callaway is 219 that's the deals we found out on on the web as of today when we filmed so there's not a great deal to encourage you one way or another in terms of price the only thing I would say in that is just to bear in mind the sim is the slightly cheaper product but it's the only one that doesn't have that adjustability in terms of the loft sleeve so that's interesting right we'll start off in the right hand column club at speed everything remained fairly consistent so we've got a fair a fair test if you like for each of the clubs we go down to the opposite end left hand column launch angle they do differ quite significantly and don't forget loft all pretty much similar bar in half a degree stronger in in the ping product but interestingly enough half a degree stronger in the ping product but still the product that launched the highest which was pretty incredible 12.9 average launch angle 71 peak height 131 ball speed 205 carry and a really good spin number 2925 so that's a kind of decent barometer let's start with the ping pxg is the one down the bottom one of the lower launching products but interestingly launch low but with that spin combination still had a peak height of 72 ball speed was phenomenal off this thing 134 don't forget club bed speed remaining the same 134 ball speed that's incredibly quick producer 204 carry let's go next to the TM 11.7 launch in peak height 72 don't forget look at them three bottom products peak height almost identical 132 ball speed 204 carry again so we've got three products now with just a yard to split them all again those three products producing exceptionally good spin number as well and a final product was again lower launching Callaway 10.9 didn't produce that average peak height a little bit lower and very noticeably so in the driving range that was without doubt not only the lowest launching but I wouldn't say the most difficult to launch because it launched the way it did it launched low and again I suppose it leads me to and it's a 196 carry and that's what leads me to if you're looking then for hybrids based on that data that I produced you would say there's literally nothing to split them the things that split them are your own personal preferences and not just in looks aesthetics and all the things that I talked about earlier on in the video but what you want to use the club for so you could dismiss the Callaway based on for me it was a very low ball flight for a hybrid and for what I'd be looking to put a hybrid in the bag for it may be not ideal like I said but if you're looking to choose that to play it off the T on par fours more often than not then that would be and again maybe the conditions that you're playing so if a link's type of track that lower launching ball is a much more penetrating flight I'm surprised there wasn't a bigger difference in that launch number to be quite honest with you because like I said it was a far different ball flight than seen on the other three at the opposite end of the scale the ping for me that overall bigger mass and profile that CG definitely further back than any other of the hybrids based on purely the size and bulk fit and where they were able to position it that easy to launch if I was putting a category of easy to hit easy to launch then that's what I would stick that ping product in it really was the kind of most versatile and appeared in I think out the four of them based on everything combined sound and feel two categories like I said earlier Callaway and TM softer probably preferred it ping and the PXG a little bit firmer on the sound and don't forget there's that adjustability issue that you might want to consider which marks down that TM product slightly if I was picking a product out of these four it would be the ping that was the most favourable in terms of all categories and no ideal in terms of that sound I can overcome that because of what it did in terms of performance I'm really loving the ping fairways and hybrids I think that's been notable throughout all the tests that we've done but again it's that profile shape and all those other things that are very much personal the other you know the title of this video was should this be your new driver and the idea being that 205 yard carry for me off a tee pretty much straight down the middle I'll throw some um I'll throw some dispersion charts up at the end actually if you want to have a look at them um and you'll see that a low again as ever with an average golfer we spray it around a little bit but I'm fair to say that each of these things in the five shots in the groups that we hit they've all pretty much found the fairway 205 carry on a firm links track in the summer that's going to run on another 15 20 whatever yards and is that arguably better than spraying your driver all over the place out of bounds into the long rough and whatever else so the control elements is a massive factor I'm not suggesting we drop a driver but I think more attention to be paid from average golfers of playing perhaps shorter length fairways in terms of the shaft and hybrids is something we've been harping on about in the last collection of videos that I've done and for what I'm seeing it's definitely going to be the bit where I adjust my mentality in terms of what I put into the bag and these are four great options in terms of hybrids so it's just important that the same thing is that like I said earlier low my preference would be the ping there's no real winner in them for the data was superb for each and every one of them they'll just be your personal preferences in terms of why you choose one over the other and as ever the the thing is try them and get custom fit that's always the message right we've waffled on you know if it was quite I didn't want to go on into too much detail don't forget this is four sets of numbers reviewing four clubs there's always a tendency to like I said waffle on a bit so I've done that as concise as I can I'll throw up some of the dispersion charts at the end and perhaps some of the full data as well for those of you want to go through and try and analyse that and see see where that all came into those averages or groups we've just looked at right that's me done I'm out of breath a bit thanks for watching this is a Friday evening so I will see you again on Monday