 So my eternal search for the ultimate golf clubs continues but this was to be a custom fit with a difference. I took an 11 hour flight and travelled 10,000 miles to test what I believe could be the benchmark for iron technology and a level of custom fit precision that is quite unique. But the question is was it worth the journey and will these be the clubs that I use in 2022? You know the team of master fitters at PXT have always provided an incredible level of detail in their custom fit model but the introduction of new technology in the gen 5 lineup means they can take that process up to another level. Oh and don't go anywhere because something very special happens in this video. So here we are then the day of reckoning I'm going to be testing the new gen 5 irons from PXT very very shortly and I'm hoping that the answer to the dilemma that I've had for this past 12 months and that being that I want a more blade like iron from pitch and wedge through to maybe a 7 iron and from 7 iron up to the longer end of the bag which I think I'll probably stop at a 5 iron and want something with a little bit more help and forgiveness. These irons look incredible. The question is how are they going to perform in my hands and I'll find out very shortly because I'm up next just over my shoulder. Yeah you're ready? Yeah let's go. All right let's get it going here. We'll start at 95. And take a sec you've already hit some wedges not full swings though right? Yeah no. So just kind of loosen up a little bit with that first. Swings but on like when you're really... If I'm playing after decent golf I'll try I'll be happy to draw. I'm very sort of flat in the backswing and I've got that tendency to hit a bit of a cast at the top and if I'm not casting if I can remember the sort of you know to deliver it a bit more inside then I'll let it draw. Okay got it. How's the 95 felt? I don't... I don't know but maybe. I don't notice anything. I think for me Annie I really don't feel like a bit decent shot yet so I'll laugh at that. Right so okay before we go any further we just got to talk about how these things look because for me I've been a as you know a big fan of what PXC have done in terms of looks. This time around I think they've got it so so good. These are possibly the best looking irons. In fact I would say they most definitely are the best looking irons that PXG have produced so far. Just those little tweaks on what happened in gen four. A bit of that darker colour in that back end. We've still got the nuts and bolts that I was explaining describe as being classic PXG look. But don't forget you've got three models to choose from. You've got the T, you've got the P and then you've got the XF as well. So you've got so many options in terms of blending the set but they all look very good in terms of being able to streamline those. So no sort of differentials when you're looking in your bag. So for me on a looks perspective massive massive thumbs up. Yeah PXG it's a financial benefit. PXG. You lose less ball. I've seen so far and then I added some weight to the head. A lot of times when people are more regular do you normally pick it pretty clean? Yeah I don't take a divot. I don't take a big divot normally. So when we see that a lot of times the little extra heavier swing way as long as it doesn't become unwield. No it makes sense. I mean the one thing in that I didn't I really had no idea where that clubbed was. That's all that I noticed there. Those seven eight swings there I knew. Okay yeah yeah I'm huge difference. Yeah so much different. Out of the gate. Yeah completely. One swing weight. Yeah yeah so different. Those bottom out a lot easier. Yep great job. And I got you into a standard line so yeah two swings with the same head with a better line on the right weight. Yeah you got your best ball of the day. So how that swing way will work. So anytime you take a half inch off yeah change it and then anytime you do 15 grams in a shaft yeah or two to two and a half grams in the head. Our all swing weight changes and then the grip as well. So since we took compared to your 110s 15 grams lighter we went down a whole swing weight then we added that to go back to that. Which gets a bad guy. Now I'm going to go just one swing weight up. Okay. One more up from where we just went. So what's that weight you put into that now. So now this one is going to be a 14 as opposed to a 12. Yeah we had eight. We started on some of those misses. Yeah we were weak yeah. Look at that. Yeah and that's what do you normally hit your seven iron distance wise. In that's a 165. 165. This is where I'd want to be yeah. Yeah yeah. Yeah yeah. Pretty calm right. Yeah. That's a totally different feel out the iron as well now. That jumped off the face right there. I'm going to try that same weight in the one flat because that's member standard in yet. Yeah so I'm going to be. That last ball that went up to 178 carry. Oh that was 178. Yeah 178. I thought you said seven. No no 178. Didn't we just beat it. No. Seven nine. No well there's two things and it's straight as well I mean that's the important. Oh those are very. Anything I perhaps wanted to look at doing and I don't know how we'll do it with the loft or what the lofts are at with these but just of that short rent whether or not I still could get away with the T model itself. Oh you're saying T on the other one. Only on a wedge in nine and eight I don't know do you think we'll just lose too much. You could we would just have to make them I'd have to bend them all strong. No but in terms of ability wise am I going to like struggle too much do you think we should stick with. No not with what I've seen. No not I mean not if you're I mean they're going to have a little less offset obviously something from one more to the right but if you're in your eight nine pitch or even nine or nine pitch gap even yeah do the set nine pitch gap. Yeah I would still maybe go eight. Definitely with the in this end of the four and the P and then maybe yeah so gap pitch and nine. Okay so what are we taking from the custom fit so far well like I said there was a determination from me on a personal level to try and get a blended set and try and get those sort of more compact looking iron in this case PXG they offer the T model which is the tall model and I'm already in the players model in terms of those gen 3s and what I wanted to do was make sure I got a mix of P's and T's and that's the short end of the bag so I've ended up with gap wedge pitching wedge nine and eight in the T model and then I've gone seven six five in the P. It's a great mix up because like I said what they've done really really well is that every iron looks exactly the same no matter which model do you go for and obviously it's just what suits you on the iron in and around the greens is where I've missed that more compact profile that's what I've ended up with. Then just a brief mention about forgiveness that's the major thing that I've always looking for and always been fearful of in terms of the T model is that do we lose that forgiveness and I don't feel that we are. Well it's okay so I am very excited right now because behind me is a box of clubs with my name on it they've been put together within 24 hours from the custom fit yesterday what I've ended up with is something well very different in terms of the iron makeup that I've ever had before in a number of different ways well let's explain later right now I'm extremely excited about what we ended up with yesterday and I hope it's all I've made the right decisions really interested to talk to you about the kind of the weighting system that has allowed the PXG custom fit team to really go to town in terms of a very personal setup for me and the ability to do that in every single club in the bag is a real interesting one and sort of takes another step forward in my opinion in terms of custom fit talk about that later but for now like a child on Christmas morning I need to get over there and start unboxing my new toys and fingers crossed I've made the right decisions they feel really good they're really nice I just didn't even prove the feel again this year feel prepared yeah god this seriously cannot believe how good these feel right okay so you've seen how we're getting along here it's all going quite well and according to plan right now but the interesting thing for me without doubt in these gen five irons and it was in gen four is the ability to really dial in the custom fit in my opinion what they've done with this new system is PXG have taken it to another level in terms of and they've done it with the with the woods the fairways and the driver as well we'll talk about that in another day but in terms of this weighting system in the iron that's one central weight can make a huge difference to a number of things and it changes it considerably and just to explain when I started the fit the standard weight in the back of here I think is eight grams if it's wrong then I'll put the right information on screen for you now but I think it's eight grams now I found it sort of very light in terms of I couldn't feel where that head was throughout my swing and it's kind of like something that I like to sort of know where that that club head is we changed it to 10 grams and then moved it up into 12 grams in the end and for me it was an absolute game changer because all of a sudden I got much greater control over like I said exactly where the head is we're in the swing I could feel exactly where I was coming into impact so it's a big big difference and I don't know of anybody that's kind of doing this thing where you can make such a difference but again it's mega important that if you're going to do that then you have to go and get custom fit for these irons and that's where when we start to question price because these are still a very very expensive iron to buy these are the considerations you've got to think of when you're making that purchase why you're paying that extra bit of dough for them and that's one of the main reasons in my opinion right so just when we thought things couldn't get any better this happened so Brian I just want to if you could run through the kind of 18 holes sorry sorry do it again all right that bit all right okay so yeah take two I just wanted Brian if you could just I didn't even do anything that time no I didn't go ahead so take three the 18 holes here at Scottsdale National this afternoon we played a match together we played a match we were we were we were teammates you know we started a little slow but I really felt like it was baiting we were baiting yeah definitely I felt that way all along we were two down then I hit a I don't know 60 footer for birdie yeah yeah and then won the next hole uh then you got a hole in one did I mention that you got a hole in one yeah and 16 yeah and then you made a great par on a difficult 17th hole so we won so we won yeah we won congratulations on the hole in one two thank you yeah yeah that's Brian from the office in the US you might recognize him a very funny man and a great round of golf that I had with him and a little bit of a match we played but can you believe it I think I probably hit pitching wedge maybe four or five times up until the moment I arrived on this 16th tee and managed to get an ace the unfortunate thing was the camera wasn't on so that's the one negative from it but such a great thing to do and I think I've got to be fair to say he must be the first person to get a hole in one with gen five in his hands so the final question is how do I summarize these gen five pxg irons and the simple explanation would be these are the best irons that pxg have ever produced in my mind and why would I draw that conclusion from well first of all I think they look like the best irons they've ever made they certainly feel softer than any iron they've ever made they perform incredibly consistent in terms of forgiveness couple that with the idea that I said to you about the ability to custom fit in the way they do then I'm certainly glad that I held off went through this process yesterday and came up with a set of irons that are I'm really personally very happy with and like I said this has been based on dry ball dates in terms of track man in terms of distance that's not what I'm looking for I was looking for very much a tight grouping in terms of dispersion throughout the iron set I wanted to build a set from the bottom up to the top that suited my eye and then I wanted to get it dialed in as best as I possibly could as an average golfer and there's no as I always say there's no magic ones but what this gives you is a best possible chance in going through that process and like I said the changes that were made to the weights and the head it's phenomenal and I'm so so pleased with where I've ended up and I genuinely think that it's something that if you went and tried these you would be just as impressed as I was so that's the important bit look let's not get away from the fact that you still sit with a very high price tag nothing like what they were when we go back to gen 1 and gen 2 in terms of phg but these come with a very high price tag but when you consider what's going into putting these together I think you've got to sort of accept the fact that that's what it's got to be and whether you choose to pay it or not that's always going to be down to your particular budget but for me right now it's exactly what I'm looking for from a set of irons and I'll stay in the bag for whatever time it needs and see any reason as to why I'll be changing these because they've done the things that I wanted them to do anyway that's me finished from Scottsdale National fantastic experience enjoyed every minute of it as ever give me your feedback in what you've seen heard what are your thoughts on gen 5 irons from pxg and I'll see you all very soon