 Right I've got one very simple and straightforward question for you, beauty or beast? Now in life we have to make some choices and one of them is the golf clubs that we decide to play and there's very much two clubs we're going to look at that one you would describe definitely as beautiful and the other one as a bit of a beast and the question is as an average golfer which one should you choose and which one would you choose? Yeah I've got two clubs in my hand and they are definitely I think you'd describe like I said as beauty and beast and one of them is the Cobra T-Rail which I would describe as a beast I tested it recently and one heck of a club and got some unreal performance out of it and beg the question why don't more average golfers use it and on the other side of the spectrum there is beauty and that is the Tiger Woods irons from Taylor Made I think these are stunning they also perform extremely well but there are definitely compromises that you need to make to decide to play one or the other is there a right or wrong? Can we be is looks enough for you to buy a golf club or is it all going to be down to performance? I'm going to have a look how these two compare in terms of numbers and at the end of it which one would I choose? Is there a right and is there a wrong? Now they say beauty is in the eye of the older but I firmly believe that if you've got to choose either these two clubs based on looks alone then surely I think the majority would go for the Tiger Woods Taylor Made iron but let's start it there Comments down below is what I'm looking for and a general sense of opinion in terms of what you like to see off the shelf which would you prefer? Something like this and the T-Rail or something like this which is this shiny blade like club that we all aspire to use or at least I think we do So that's the first question I'm going to ask you Anyway, let's put these two behind the ball and just have a look at these that address some images up on screen for you now They are hugely different and they're going to bring different things to different people and confidence is one major issue that we all struggle with as average golfers and again if you look at the two clubs in terms of a confidence perspective and this is only seven iron don't forget so God help us when we've seen the four iron or the three iron perhaps in the Tiger Woods clubs but there's a huge difference in terms of the mass behind the ball Now it's a positive and a negative because what I'm trying to look at in today's video is that there's no right or wrong in this I've focused heavily in recent weeks on clubs that are very much game improvement styles clubs that make the game easier but there's another side to the game as well there's the enjoyment factor, the aspirational side of things that like I said we all want to be able to play this butter-like blade or a lot of us will do anyway and a lot of us, me self included will struggle with the looks of the likes of the T-Rail and always be drawn to the likes of the Tiger Woods iron so again what I'd like to know I'm going to start off with this because again I'm drawn to it first of all I love this club it was my number one blade club for 2019 and I think it's a lot easier to use and it perhaps looks like as well I'm going to hit some balls now but this is all about like I said mentality once again the average golfers mentality question it is it all about confidence do we go for the bulkier clubs there's something in the middle which again is the big option because these are either ends of the spectrum but this thing sits lovely behind the ball it's just a piece of absolute art in terms of golf clubs I love this thing now I mean these are just like they're like butter they sound like butter if you don't like that thing then it's not a big deal so I'm just trying to gauge again more about opinions this video is about it's not like I said about right or wrong are you bothered how a club feels are you bothered how it sounds it's a big deal you know I mean manufacturers spend a big a lot of effort there's some huge things going on in terms of new releases coming very shortly and they concentrate very much on sound and feel does it bother you I absolutely love the feeling of that which is just that pure forged iron it's so crisp off the clubface I can hit these things all day long it's a big deal of course just don't forget if you've got the skill level to do it and I'm not going to attempt it on here because I'll probably shank one straight into the camera there's the ability to sort of flight this ball quite a bit different you can move the ball around definitely a lot easier in terms of shaping a ball from left to right right to left if you've got that kind of ability with this type of club and I would guess and I've not tried it you might struggle to do that with the likes of the T-Rail but like I said the big thing is at address you've got to have a bit of confidence I think in your ball striking capabilities I need to go to the T-Rail and I think like I said it is the opposite in terms of extremes this thing is massive now first of all what I don't think is that I don't think I can miss with this so my confidence is kind of I know when I get club on ball I know it's going to go down there somewhere and I know that from previous testing that I've done hitting half a ball half a swing rather it's good enough to get this ball going so the thing in my mind and like I said I'm asking you as well how many what's the ratio here of split I can tell you now that I'm still drawn towards that club over there irrelevant to what this does in terms of performance and it's a terrible attitude to have really because there's a bit of math on that ball to be fair but it flies down there I mean in terms of distances two seven irons there are about six degrees difference in terms of loft and again people get obsessed with this idea of the difference in the loft I couldn't care less to be honest with you like I said the number in terms of loft has no relevance to me how far each of these goals in terms of distance has no interest to me whatsoever I choose to play the clubs that I play for the reasons that are important to me but I just think loft is well it's neither in or there you know this is going to be longer but so what this is such an easy club to hit I've picked it up again for the first time since I did the review a week or so ago and I've got to say it's so impressive but a big deal is and I want to get some numbers to show up now the whole thing I want from this video is I want comments and opinion what makes you choose your clubs and that could be a number of things like I said an absolute number of things and again we're not even going to look at dispersion I've got to say last week when I did the testing with this it was mega impressive I don't think there's the kind of the flyer balls out there that we used to get the variables in terms of clubs anymore you used to look at a club like this and you could hit a ball sort of one ball could fly out another ten yards previous different than the previous ball I think that kind of thing has been eradicated there's a lot more consistency in all this so that for me is not a reason anymore can I hit a ball from let's see if I can hit a ball from left to right that's away from the camera it's a damn good go it's moving a yard or so from left to right and there's nothing wrong with that I ain't going to attempt like I said to it a bit of a draw because that lens on that camera is too expensive anyway I'm going to hit some numbers I'll compare them both and then we'll do an overall evaluation on kind of what is the difference why would we choose one or the other and as average golfers we all are just a little bit mad right interesting review and interesting set of numbers and like I said very much two opposite ends of the spectrum and two extremes but there's always things that come up in numbers that sort of surprise me and don't forget we're talking five and a half degrees loft difference for these two clubs but I've always said it there are a lot more things that go into what a ball does and what a club does other than just loft and like I said these things don't forget the T-Rail the CGS are way way back and without them being as strong lofted as they are that ball would just balloon and I think it demonstrates it even more so in these numbers here let's start off with a Tiger Woods iron numbers and I've picked this up every time I come in here I'm drawn to it, I love it so a nice steady swing I would say clubbed speed relatively steady 80 mile an hour that's quite slow for me ball speed very very consistent indeed spin number consistent 152 carry there's barely a yard between what do they hit five or six shots launch is 19.9 which is quite high launch but it's relative to loft peak height 95 steep descent angle I will look at this in terms of dispersion that is a decent grouping and like I said that was picked up I'd been doing a bit of club testing so I was already warmed up but straight away you get into that iron it feels absolute pure and they were pretty much landing on top of one another I love it and it's nowhere near one message I'm going to get across in this video is don't be put off by any iron you see lately I don't think I think anyone can try any iron and you might be surprised but here's one with a T-Rail it's a very aggressive club this club head speed was a little slower this club head is a little heavier and the ball speeds however 117 ball speeds are sort of 5 mile an hour up in terms of ball speed again relative to loft really good spin number though 5500 spin on that strength of loft is really really good but again and I mentioned it in a previous clip 166 carry and there's probably I'm trying to look as I'm reinshoot there's again only two yards of difference best and worst but look at that launch angle 18.3 launch it's almost launching at the same as the 35 degree Tiger Woods iron and yet the loft is 60 degrees difference almost so it's a you know like I said there's a lot that goes into this that you need to look at here's the dispersion on the T-Rail not as tight as what we've seen in the Tiger Woods iron but nonetheless I'm more than happy with that kind of strike pattern the yardage difference which I didn't mention there and that is very much relative to the strength of the loft but the idea of this video again was to look at two extremes which is right and which is wrong well there isn't one and that's always the purpose of the videos that I do when we look at T-Rails and I say this is a fantastic golf club it does a fantastic job the idea is to tell everybody you should all move and go and buy this club it's to throw that kind of club into the equation into the thought process one that you've maybe not looked at before but it by no means means that the traditional blade like clubs are not for you either it's all about what floats your boat and like I said there are different reasons why we choose golf clubs there are different reasons why we choose to play the game itself and for me like I said for all the help and assistance and the benefits that come from the T-Rail I'd still be looking to play the Tiger Woods iron but that's at my level my handicap level my swing and it might be totally different for you but it's all about gazing opinion so as I said in the previous clip comments down below which one would you play and more importantly why right as ever thank you for watching I hope you enjoyed that one it was a little bit of fun for me because I got to play that iron that I'm really I'm desperate to dip me under my pocket and finally buy I might just have to do that pretty soon