 I know we've heard the phrase. It's an iron when it looks like a butter knife and we don't see many of those clubs it's often referenced to a blade looking iron, very small, very thin top line. Not the kind of clubs that many of us have the ability to use. Pink have just bought out a new set of irons they called the Blueprint, they're certainly not aimed at the average golfer, but that doesn't mean to say I'm not going to give them a go, that's next up with the average golfer, let's move camera, start hitting some golf balls with the ping blue print iron. Right so before we go any further comments down below how many of you out there what's, well let's gauge what audience would actually consider walking into a golf shop and trying out an iron like the ping blue print, just how small of an audience are these aimed at, and talking of small how small is this I will throw some images up for you now. This is the four iron. Now wedge looks okay I've got seven iron, I've got four iron, but when you get to the four iron, believe me, this is probably one of the smallest irons in terms of sole and top line in terms of how thin it is, how compact the overall profile is that I've ever seen and ever attempted to hit. It's a forged cup from Ping, it's got this sort of high toe end, which again I'll address and I'll mention this again, no doubt when I get to address a ball very, very shortly, that again I like, I like the way I like the way it looks, but like I said, it is so, so compact and whilst I think I might be able to handle to a degree at least the wedge and the seven iron that we've got here today, I do wonder how I'll get on with this four iron. So let's start collecting some data, I'm going to hit each of these clubs, we'll have a look at the numbers and I'll give you my feedback. Right, so we're going to start this all off, I'm on track man today and there's one quick point at Lake again, some feedback on it, about 12 months ago I moved from Skytrak over to GC2 and what that meant is I used GC2 because I thought the accuracy of the data would be better than that of Skytrak, but what I've lost is the visual no longer have you seen for last year exactly where I'm hitting these golf balls, which is an important part of the video I think and something that I really think has been missing. So the question is should I go back to Skytrak I suppose, because I can't afford to go to track man and get their software that would allow me to do that, same for GC2, I can't afford to go again or justify GC quad on the software, so the only option is to go back to Skytrak, so let me know. Anyway, I'm going to start off on track man today, I'm going to hit some range balls to get started and then we'll switch over to the C golf ball and collect some data. I'm going to start with pitch and wedge, like I said for me a very break compact club in terms of the length of the club in terms of heel to toe and then it's got this sort of high toe end, which I like but it is very very different, I don't know the logic in that, it's almost like what you would see from the high toe wedges, not quite as pronounced as that obviously, but that's the kind of sheep it's got, just very much sort of sticks up almost to a point at the end there, but at a dress I like it. The one thing, the one, the first shock I would say is that what you'd expect from this obviously a Forge club is the one thing I would say I'm drawn to straight away always with Forge is the feel and the sound. I actually find it to be, it's a little bit hard, it's not buttery soft, this is not, this is not nothing feels like a Mizuno soft, this to me is quite a hard feeling wedge is all I've hit there, so that's one of the biggest surprises I've got and that could be that the fact is that the sweet spot in these things is just that little bit smaller than I'm used to and I just can't find it, but a little bit surprised in terms of in terms of the feel at least on that anyway, let's go up to seven I am, again you can't not mention how thin this top line is, it's going to put off so many golfers and hence the reason why a question to a degree why Ping have brought out into the range into mainstream sales I suppose it's the fact that maybe every brand has to have one of these clubs within the range and don't know to attract or to have the option for every golfer, but for me this is going to sell to a very very small audience indeed and that's before I even start to mention and I will do later just how much thing how much these clubs cost, a really good strike out of that, a bit mention on the wedge in the balls that I hit earlier off camera and surprisingly okay in terms of distance, no difference to be honest with you in terms of the wedge and I'll throw the loss up as well as I'm hitting these because as you can expect these are much more traditional in terms of their waft wedge and seven I am for me easy enough to hit, I can handle them and yes there they switch the mind on because you don't feel as though you can get away with anything in terms of a miss hit and but for me pretty much every ball I've hit I'm relatively okay with ball and it's a big ball let's try this four iron now as irons go over the last few years and I've certainly tried a few this is as small as compact as it gets I think the only iron I'd like to see him next to each other and maybe that's a good head-to-head is I have tried the we've got the seven iron here from the Tiger Woods is a T7 gun view range once again that is ultra compact but between those two I've seen nothing that rivals these two in terms of just how small you are sit that behind the ball as a player and I think you've got to be a real good ball striker a very confident iron player to be sat on our long path for whatever it is you choose to use this on for right now we'll give it a go on camera and see what we can do if you can see where that ball's going that's bullet straight and I don't know whatever it's carry but it's about as good as I've got let's put it that way um in a way not a good start I'd like to see what it does because that was that was as good as I've got um I'd be interested in more interested to see what happens when it's not quite right and there's one I know it wouldn't take too long still in the air landed right it's like a ball flight out to the left bit of map first what would that have done with that game improvement iron who knows maybe it was just a terrible swing and no code could solve it that way I don't know but you certainly get the idea that yeah stop by right you certainly get the idea that you've got to start finding the middle of these and to be honest with you the middle is uh there's not a lot of it in terms of like it said the distance between the shaft um and the toe is not a lot of it and just mention that minimal offsets as well um so very much switches the mind on when you're over the ball and is that a good thing maybe more of us should be stood over the ball knowing that our swing has got to be right our contact has got to be right to produce the right results maybe that'd improve a lot of us who knows anyway I'm going to carry on I'm going to collect data pitch and wedge seven nine four ride and we'll sit down and do an overall evaluation right okay so time for an evaluation and I think what we'll do is we'll just start with some numbers because I'll throw up on screen now my spread of shots um in relation to let's start with a pitch and wedge where it was all that and like I said no real problem with hitting this at all in fact overly surprised at the carry distance on this one to be quite honest with you uh caught me out a little bit because um yeah we've got a carry of 130 which is as long as I hit really with a wedge to be quite honestly I was swinging full width wedge this uh but yeah an average of 130 carry fairly consistent as well as you can see and the spin number perhaps a little bit lower than I'd expect it to be but yeah it was um some decent ball striking with the wedge to be fair uh once again but I think you probably expect that into seven iron and again I said I could probably handle seven iron as well didn't find that to off putting but again don't forget I'm from a personal level I like the small and more compact blade so it's not something that I personally find off putting uh maybe I'm not going enough to use them but I have no problems first of all in standing over the ball with that small compact head so into seven iron is the number now again uh for the loft that's on this club 153 carry was very very good indeed and right where I'd expect it to be spin number again uh anybody watches this channel no matter what club you give me my spin number never goes too high um so pretty decent I would expect for me um and again very very consistent numbers and I think that consistent numbers is a key thing isn't it this this club is aimed at somebody who is ultra consistent who wants to get that yardage bang on a button every time no variables in there when they're striking a ball they're going to have a much more consistent strike but for me those numbers again uh were very very good indeed I'll throw the spread up in terms of left and right as well and it was okay to be honest with you it was more than happy uh it was no different than I would it Moog's pitching wedges all seven irons I found a lot as well just to mention here I don't and I don't know the logic in this I found a lot that the shape of shot was always a sort of a draw shot a slight draw that I hit with virtually every shot that I hit um and of late I've been trying to sort of neutralize that with almost a sort of cutty shot you'll see that I play but it was almost every shot I played I found it really hard not to hit a slight right to left shot with these tell me the logic I don't know into four iron where things change and things get a little bit different and this is where they sort of sort the wheat from the chaff and a man from the boys and I know which camp I fall in 182 carry adding that's respectable to be honest with you with a four iron it's um it's not worried it with some of the power bats with stronger lofts it's as simple as that but for again for what it was I was actually surprised how well I hit it to be honest with you um I've left one number in there for you which was a real bad shot that 168 um which was a pull down the left bit a mat as well first off and again no help no assistant whatsoever in all honesty in some respects I hit the ball too well with the four iron I like I said for me um I can handle that again on a good ball striking day but on a bad date I think they'd absolutely murder me to be quite honest with you because anything that's not quite right in these it's just not going to do it for you but like I said at the end of the video is that a good thing is that something that would make us all a better player if we had to just concentrate on finding that sweet spot just a little bit more they're a great set of clubs I'm actually pleasantly surprised by them to be honest with you like I said it ping themselves said to me that this this club wasn't aimed at the average golfer and I kind of understand that I don't think they're aimed at the average golfer but by the same token um having tried them I was surprised but would have gained them no wouldn't I wouldn't make life that difficult for myself I don't think I'm not that good enough these aren't aimed at me these are aimed low handicapper faster clubbed speeds more accuracy in terms of strike and I think yet aimed at the far better player but all that said decent set of clubs from ping but a very very small market and the one negative I would still aim is that for a forge club it didn't have the feel that I was expecting by any stretch of the imagination at all that was the one major disappointment from me anyway I think comments down below I'm looking for is like I said back to the original questions how many of you would try them how many of this how many of you make use of this review because I almost didn't do it because it is aimed at such such a small audience but I like to give everything a bash anyway as ever thank you for watching it's a gorgeous date in the UK and you'll be surprised I'm going to go for a pint