 Well, OK, welcome back to the channel we are out at Hollywood Golf Club, and obviouslygrass cydd I have Louis Johnson, who is bringing in a bag full of forgiveness. A promise is that this is the most forgettun set of golf clubs in 2023. Right, time to start things off, leo I think let's start off at the top end of the bag. I can already see where he has been bringing in he is. Start off with the big dog, the most iz callsg привです f究 ypros÷p satisfyingni ac spinc G430 Ma 만들어. Euron. Mae'n hyn i chi i am ff Buch어� a gychau'n hoffa i'r ffiylo isys? Sa'r FFT, nid yw hefyd yn f sprwg. Fydda'n allan, I love the Max more, mwy oherwydd i chi'n trafod o'r FFT, rhaid i chi wneud chael i wych yn fwrdd. Mae'n gwych yn adeiladu, mae'n gweithio'n gilydd fyddeidol wedi weithio. Mae'n gweithio i ddim yn ddarparu agor, O'r tyniad y gallwch chi os gynwys yng ngy Nghymru o'r trwy Gweithio'n Gweithio yma? 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Right next step up in the bag is we took a seat on a bench because he's about to get an old man's club out of the back. I'm a big advocate of the old man's club but tell me why and what is... So this is Callaway Paradigm Heavenwood. Yeah I love it. Fairway Woods difficult, difficult clubs to hit. You know off the tee, off the fairway. So I thought well this has got a lot of loft. It's got the length of shaft. So yeah it kind of ticks all boxes because I can't just say well this is my favourite three wood. Because I advise a lot of people now to avoid three wood. They haven't got enough speed to get the launch or you know we go three wood with five wood shaft or we go five wood, lost it down or whatever but this just does everything doesn't it. So it's got a longer shaft than a normal seven wood. I think just one second there because a lot of people ask this when we've reviewed the heaven wood. They've said what is it exactly. So basically it's got a bigger head than a seven wood. It's often got a bigger head than the five wood. I'm not too sure in this line up in terms of paradigm. But it's a bigger head than you would normally get and it's got a longer shaft often again similar length of shaft to your five wood. Carry on, sorry mate. It's not adjustable. I do like Fairway Woods with a bit of adjustability. But if I had to put one in the bag for most people it's 20 degrees. Get it in the air. Dead easy to hit. New York is going to sacrifice a huge amount of distance because it's got a long shaft. Nice. So yeah and it looks good. I don't mind how it looks. I like that you can see the lines on the face. There is a paradigm video isn't there? We've done it for a lofted address. It's a good option. Super forgiving. So we're going to get a couple of shots off the T-box behind us again. Something where it gets a little bit narrow and a little bit tighter in terms of down that sort of 200 yard mark. So a perfect club for that. Plain is thing into par 3s, long par 3s. Second shots on par 5s, long par 4s. So again got plenty of versatility in the heaven wood, the seven wood range. So yeah, love it. Let's go on it a few over there. Super strike. Sounded really good. Ball flight ridiculous. It still goes alright there doesn't it? It's fantastic mate. Really good. Yeah everything it says. Everything as you've just explained. That was you doing it. Can an average golfer do it? And to be fair this has been something I've been loving. So if I can't I'll be really disappointed. Do you know what's interesting? That's a poor old strike in terms of out the bottom grooves. It's probably done what Lou would suggest and what I found on the fairways. It was a poor, poor strike and like I said very much out the bottom. And still has enough forgiveness to get me. Not too dissimilar to where Lou ended up but with a totally different ball flight. A lot flatter so that's the kind of thing that I love about these. Is just how forgiving they are when you don't get it quite right. Yeah I think this would be probably the most important part of the bag. For the sneak peak there. For your average player. It's the club that would come first after the longest iron. And the longest iron you know with the HD iron? Where would you go to for an average golfer? It's not for everybody. I've got the 5 iron in here. We've got a little 5 iron we'll probably hit a few won't we. But I would go to 5 iron then because they are easier. You know I wouldn't go to 5 iron for everyone. It'll be on how they swing at the speed. But I've got the 5 iron in here and I think I really wanted to stress this. It's a question I get asked a lot is it's the G435 hybrid. 5 hybrid, 5 iron. It's almost an necessity now to have that. You know if you have a 6 iron you can have a 6 hybrid. And because the ball speed that comes off this type of club is going to be a lot greater than the ball speed that comes off the iron. So just because that says 5 and that says 5 just because I imagine that's about 26 degrees of loft on. This has definitely got 26 on it. It's just something that I can't stress enough. The timing of that response is incredible because last night we had a comment on a video where I compared an iron and a hybrid from a PXG range. And someone suggested why am I not comparing 5 to 5 and 6 to 6 and it's because they do different things completely. So I hope that viewer is still here watching tonight's video and there's the answer. And I've not done this. It just needs to be massively emphasised. It's a hugely important part of the bag. What's the next club? I always say if you've got a 4 iron is your longest club your 4 hybrid would be a really good step up. The ball is going to come off quicker. It's definitely going to go further. Anything in particular about the G430 line up in terms of the hybrids? That you particularly, why this one or? Yeah I just think compared to everything else on the market I think they do it well. There's no options. It's just we make a really good club. There's draw by stuff in it. It's just we make really good hybrids. Well it's a few here. What is it? 165 into the breeze and a typical example of where this is a really good club. I mean so far if you've watched my previous reviews you'll know we're very much in agreeance here. This thing pops the ball up super high. The ball speeds are still quick and on top of that I think it looks superb as well which it's got now to do with performance but looks really good. Is that yours or mine? Right let's give it a whack. Super strike. I mean that kind of ball flight is so useful to well to pretty much any golfer to be honest with you but you know it's high launching. It's coming down at a great descent angle and yeah can't knock this club up. One thing you notice more so in this weather is I love the Mac Crown. I mean the thing is for me it's just the towering ball flight and I mean there's no doubt this club is more useful to me than it is for you. It's notable, not to be different ball flight, Lewis is a bit more penetrating but it's that ability to get that ball up in the air which is such a big help. What I like about this club is all the other you know we're talking about the most forgiving and what I would this is a club that all the others come maybe come with a little caveat of but it looks like this. This is a club that it doesn't have any of that. It looks good, performs brilliant you know everyone could benefit from one of these. You could see it in a better player's bag still yeah? Yeah definitely. Yeah well 100% got my seal of approval that one mate and so now it's getting a little bit more difficult. We've done the irons, we've done the hybe, we're getting a little bit longer in the length of shaft so I'm looking over to the bag to see what's next. Right so next up Lou is irons and well I can certainly see what you've got in your hand maybe you want to reveal what you consider to be. Stealth HD right I think you know this in addition to the Stealth Range which was a good club. I don't I think this is probably one of the most underrated clubs out there at the moment. People don't give it enough credit for you know from performance in fittings and certainly what we're seeing is this would be my go to. Fair enough I mean I can't argue with that to be honest with you it's something that we've been every time we've tried it. I know you had to go with it out here on the course after yourself and really really forgiving maybe we'll just pop what's that seven iron we've got. So I'll go seven iron we'll go and find 150, 160 down the fairway there hit a few balls in and get some reaction on the Stealth HDs. You should put them in the bag you know. I did get the distance as well haven't I? Back end, nice beautiful strike that wasn't it. Oh it's interesting, I don't think I'm going to press record for the shot tracer. However what is also interesting is the fact that the sound is really good. It's like a really crisp strike. I think that was one of my first things when we tried them. That they didn't sound like they'd look. Yeah absolutely, now I totally agree. I'm a little bit concerned. Why? I played terrible yesterday. You're definitely not going to hit that to the right are you? Because of the way it's offset and stuff. You put me off then? I wonder if I thought my alignment was all out. There you go. Perfect. It's just great the ball flight isn't it? It doesn't move anywhere. It feels as though you've got the forgiveness of it not going and the offset for it not to go to the right. But it doesn't have as much left curvature as you think it would. Which is a good thing because I think what I thought initially when I hit that harder was to just go straight off to the left. Holds a line, no great spin either way. But the interesting thing for me again, don't forget in terms of forgiveness. I'm not too sure you're sounding pretty much out of the middle. I think mine was to be fair. But the idea of this is that you get these a little bit of heel or a bit of toe and they're not doing a great deal different than out of the middle to be honest with you. Certainly in terms of popping the ball up as well which is don't forget. A lot of golfers are going to struggle with so I like your choice mate. Good choice though. Ions are the stealth HD in terms of the most forgiving in a 2023 setup. A little chip shot situation. A place where again, I don't say forgiveness is a major key but maybe a club that's going to help out the kind of high handicap golfer. What are you suggesting? We've got a couple of clubs around the green. The one that I'm going to go for is Cleveland CBX. CBX 2 isn't it? Yep. So you've got the full face on there. We should probably stress it's not the clubs that I love the most. It's the clubs that I think are the most forgiving. That will help the average golfer out the most. And it does exactly what you want it to do. I think that wide soles are big help as well. I've found it wherever I've tried it. That helps me a bit. I think they've done a lot better with the design on this one haven't they? Yeah, yeah. Good club. In this instance where we've got to go a little bit uphill, ideally we need a little bit of help getting it in the air. This would be what I'd go for. Go on then. Let's see. Execution shot. Let's see what it does. You say there's two clubs are you suggesting for a round here? Yeah, so we'll have a little bit of luck. I put two in. Two around the green clubs. It's a massive part of the bag where people need forgiveness but will also lower their scores. We'll have a look at another one as well. That's a great shot by the way. I always think that even with yourself there just having a turf interaction on the sole there it definitely just helps a little bit. It plays more like a normal wedge. For anyone who doesn't really want to sacrifice there and go to something completely obscure but it's super super easy to hit. You don't get any other traditional blade style wedges that perform like that and feel like this. It does give you the maximum at help. It makes it really easy. I like the fact that they've made a wedge specific shaft. As well. It's interesting. I can't argue with that. I've always found a CBX wedge line up from Cleveland to be super forgiving. Interesting to say you said you've got another option. Do you want to go into that now? No, we'll pick another spot because I think that was perfect for that scenario. Obviously there's never the same chip shot there. We're picking another part really where your next club's going to play. I think you'll like this one. I'm interested. What I like about this thing I don't know why I don't put it back in the bag. That's the first thing. You're better off hitting that. I could stand there and pretend to love it. I love it for everyone else. I can hit it home. I'm still there going. There's nowhere to land that. Have you got that on? We better introduce it then. She snuck a camera on us there. We've come to the other situation which unfortunately I've pinched a club off Lewis and done my own demo because I love this thing. Tell me what it is. It's a pin chipper. He says that was so much reluctance. So you chose this as your most forgiving. When you're like let's put a bag together that we think everyone can use. Everyone I love on it. Based on interactions that I have in store fitting and helping people's game for your lessons and stuff is this is probably the club that's had the most influence on people's games. I'm not going to deny it. Like we were just saying this is a really difficult chip. I wouldn't mind getting a lopage out and flying it close to the hole and people are just laughing at it. Probably just laughing at no chance. So you can land this short and it will run up. You can carry it on. It's just got everything and the people that have had this they don't worry about a strike anymore. Everyone gets to these situations and they're panicking about how hard to do it but ultimately they don't want to think for the green they don't want to love it in front of them and they never seem to do it with this club. No brainer. Now once again I pinched the club off him I know for a fact that the first one coming a little bit short you learnt a little bit from that fair enough and got a little bit closer. But I always compare it to wall case so I've got a 52 wedging me hand here. Am I going to get any closer? Well that's what the CBX 2 scenario is. That was the perfect club for that scenario. It was one option. It was up. This one nothing in front of you as in free room. I think there was only a few chips over nothing. Is what I like. I like that scene. There you go. There's nothing there but it's a little bit undulating. So let's put it in there. We should just end the video there. Only a few chips over nothing. Classic from Lou. Right we're now down to what I think it's down to the putter in it. Switch up into that. I love the fact you've put a pinch in your most forgiving. Right Lou this is a we're down to the putter and we're going with all this but explain to our audience what you've got under there. It's the even roll zero. So there's a spaceship basically. Yeah it's a big old rascal isn't it? So I like the fact that it's massive and it's really easy to it. It's really easy to line up. It's got a big old grip on it. There's loads of weight. I don't remember this as a stats but in terms of its MOI rating which is ultimately what forgiveness is measured by it's off the charts. It's got so many different alignment aids in terms of the bore, the line, the line goes right to the face. The grip a little bit of shafley and it just doesn't permit a weight. It's huge with it. I mean we've done this before where I mean obviously the suggestion is when your putter style varies then you maybe suit a certain style of putter. But I really again have been a real sort of agreeance that this perimeter weighting that is extreme to say the least has got to be provide the most stable type of putter. It's just logical surely to Christ. And you'd be amazed at how many people I see they don't hit it at the middle of the putter. People think that you can't miss it. Trust me everybody does including me and the more help we can get certainly your proximity to the hole accuracy matters way more here than it does off the tape. So yeah this is why I've gone for this. It's something a bit out there. It's a bit out there. But now I agree and again with all these things that we've loose has been through and I'm speaking on your behalf here a little bit but you've got like there are obviously options but it's a theme where you think about well okay this is ultra stable. There are other tailor made putters there are Callaway putters off of that sort of similar concept instability but I like this. I like the way it's set up. This is like if you had a tick box for everything in terms of forgiveness, alignment, MOI everything this just takes everything to the extreme. Let's roll a couple in. Greens are looking well at Hollywood aren't they? Greener aren't they? Looking good. It's a type of putter as well that kind of you know you build confidence with it quite quickly. Well I think you do anyway. It's going down the other extreme if I've got a blade in my hand if I've got a lovely looking Scotty Cameron blade I'm sort of flailing in the wind with it I'm struggling to get it square You haven't got to try to do anything without it. I stick it down and I haven't got much option but just to let the thing swing really. It'd be great if it dropped in. That was a great line as well just needed this a bit better but again great choice it's all about stability forgiveness and that is a forgiving putter we've got nowhere else to go that's the end of today's video and massive thanks Lou I appreciate your time and don't forget this is all based on sort of the experience that Lou is getting in terms of customer interaction, customer fit and customer feedback so I really like that we've seen I like the fact that it's agreed with a lot of what we've sort of found in our testing this year as well a lot of other options out there but them are probably worth considering if you're going to swap anything out in 2023. Right, thanks to Lou, thanks to Hollywood Golf Club thanks to you all for watching and I'll probably see you all tomorrow night.