 Okay, welcome back to a very sunny foregolf in Chester, you're with the average golfer and we're about to look at some new product from Ping. I always enjoy club testing, I get pretty excited when new clubs are released but even more so this morning because what I've unboxed is two sets of irons from Ping which look pretty special to me, love the look of them but it's all about performance and that's what we're going to take a look at very, very shortly. I'm going to split this test into two parts and we're going to start I should mention by looking at Ping i210, new iron from Ping, we're going to have a look at who it's aimed at, how it performs but first of all we're going to move over, have a little sit down, we're going to discuss the tech that's packed into this club and talk about how it looks. Right, before we get into some balls let's have a look at this i10 Lux and what Ping is saying in terms of the technology that's packed into this club which is going to help us perform better out there on the course. I think both with the i500 and the i210, one of the things that's noticed they're very much an evolution of previous models so this has got a lot of aesthetically very, very similar to the i200. It looks like the sort of classic cavity back, I'll throw out some images now. There is a, if you look at the back of the club there's a elastomer insert which is claiming to be 50% stronger and returns more energy to the ball and at the back of that club you also see markings are very, very minimal indeed just this i210, very much a minimalistic look. It's a hydro pearl chrome finish. We're talking about precision performance, very clean in appearance, a more compact head so the image I'm going to throw up here now is just going to show where this elastomer insert sits and the difference between you can see between the i200 model and the i210 is how they've increased the size of that which is supposed to at impact give a soft feel and a greater energy transfer into the ball at impact we shall soon see. I think for me in terms of looks, very much a classic, I think this sits into the sort of player's iron category, very, very compact with a cavity back, I like the look of it, I like how this sits behind the ball and ultimately I'm really excited to know how this thing performs and if some of these claims, this soft feel that for example that Ping had just mentioned, will I see that when I start hitting some golf balls and there's only one way to find that out is for me to shut up, move over there and let's get hitting some golf balls. When this ball's hit we talked about how it looks, we talked about how it feels and let's talk about how it performs on drive ball dates with Trackman and is and numbers let's get straight stuck in. The one thing that you'll see across all these numbers is just for me consistency and I ended up hitting eight balls, I'd be varying only at five but I got a little bit excited and carried on a bit here and let's talk about the carry distance Average in 152, this is a 33 degree lofted seven iron so again very much way expected to be back down to traditional numbers in what you would see from that type of loft on a golf club. Peak height, 99 feet, let's launch angle 21.2 and then let's go back to the beginning and look at spin rate of 6175. Now then for those of you who watch my videos regularly you'll say wow what's just gone on with that spin number, for those of you don't let me just explain I don't get a fantastic amount of spin when hitting golf balls in particular with the irons and seven iron spin I would say for the majority of clubs that I test, five and a half thousand spin is a decent performing seven iron for me in terms of a spin number. So to be getting an average of six one and you can see there's some numbers up there quite above six thousand revs I'm astonished by that I really am and I think that's a very much a positive in terms of the consistency of this overall approach what comes from this I210 for me. The numbers in terms of carry was very very consistent there'll always be a variation in ball strike from the average golfer therefore a variation in the sort of front to back numbers but when I hit the right ball a decent ball for me the number was bang-on I'm in and around this sort of 150-152 mark with a seven iron spinning it up there in the six thousand revs and that is absolutely as good as I've performed with a club in terms of dry ball data on Trackman since I've been testing. There's a statement. So it's all about consistency this club really is solid, solid in terms of numbers performance, love the feel of it. Now the ultimate thing is can we take what we've found out in a closed environment in a controlled environment can I take that out onto the golf course can it perform in different situations out there on the course and that's what we're going to find out for in part two so let's get on the course. Okay so we've tested in for golf for some dry ball data we've been out there on the course and I've probably paid two rounds at the camera with me and one round that I didn't so all the clubs so and just to let you know I've had the utility iron I think it is is a you on the bottom of it I assume it stands for utility 50 degrees worth of loft on that I've had a 9 iron a 7 iron a 5 iron on both this and the I 500 so just to let you know what I've been hitting in and around the course so we've done everything I thought we'd finish off back in the office and have a little bit of a chat and an overall assessment and evaluation did I learn a great deal more out on the course I think I was probably even more impressed if I'm being brutally honest because the one thing that I noted out there on the course is often different from inside hitting from mats is and the wider open space I think is the acoustics the sound and which resonates in feel and I think that was even improved I liked it in the driving range no problem there from off the mat but was even it's one of the softest feeling irons it's a don't forget this isn't a forge club head but was one of the softest feeling irons I've ever hit this last summer was it polymer insert in the back of this club face if that's what's producing the extra soft feel then it really really does work and I like that kind of I don't like the sort of clicky sound off irons I like that butter soft and like I said it's the closest thing I've ever had to hitting a forge behind it's brilliant what they've done there but I think the overall assessment is this I mean it performed well on dry ball data it's spin number for me was absolutely fantastic I think in terms of looks it's very much a refined look it's very simplistic and it's classy very much as what you'd expect from pinging there are class actors for as I'm concerned in everything they produce and I think this is another first class set of irons and it ticks every box for me and out there on the course like I said it did exactly that it was and that coupled with so the performance coupled with that extra large sweet spot yet again that is I've checked the face on these things and obviously there's a pattern that emerges it's never quite in that sense it's always spread around a bit from the average golfer but I never really seen that in performance it was very consistent out there and I certainly played more than well enough with these clubs as well so I'm impressed with them like I said there is a lot of good irons on the marketplace at the moment and this is another set that adds to that list it's all about what you're looking for these for me suited my eye very much so smaller compact head but I've been overly small I mean we're not talking minimal blade style here without being overly small but nice and compact thinnish top line face that gives plenty of plenty of forgiveness across it all the numbers stacked up throwing the high spin number as well and the soft feel these are really right up there with the best irons that I've tested for me personally in this last 12 months or so I'd say as you consider gaming these irons that's how much I like them anyway it's no use what I think it's what you think and that's the all-important bit so as ever their recommendation is forget what I've just said get out there try them yourself and make your own opinions once again massive thank you to Ping to allowing me the average golfer access to these clubs pre embargo it's nice to be involved so I appreciate that and to you people out there for watching thanks as ever give it a thumbs up comments down below I hope that I tried to cover as much as possible I can when I do these video reviews and now we're trying to make them better all the time so hopefully we captured everything in there I ain't gonna waffle on no longer all done thank you for watching and see you soon