 I'm going to show you a club that I guarantee will help you find fairies and it's the last club that you would ever think of picking up if you walked into a golf shop. Yet this video is not what I plan to make and to be honest with you when I first picked up this club this morning I thought do you know what and that you're going just too much down this route of the kind of a gimmick style video and maybe it is but I've already hit some golf balls with this club and I've got to say I'm amazed as is everybody else who's come and witnessed this along the way it has been a real eye-opener and you're going to see some results that I think are going to be quite shocking. Now for those of you who watch the channel quite a bit you'll know we've done some interesting videos in recent weeks and they've been really looking at considering what is the best type and style of clubs for average golfers because I really do believe that we're making this game perhaps a little bit more difficult than it needs be and there's plenty of help out there on the shelves that can make this life a little bit easier for us but this morning like I said I had a big big shock because I went and picked up a club that I'd not really seen before and I'd never take any notes of it pulled it out the bag took a look at it and the big thing was length of shaft size of head it was a junior driver and it was from Ping it's the Ping Prodigy Driver now don't switch off seriously hang on a minute because I like you thought this was like I've said in the intro a bit of a gimmick but what I've just had a little bit of a look at first of all is the technology that is in the Prodigy G Driver head is essentially what you're going to find in the G410 so the latest technology the latest driver technology from Ping it's then coupled with an extremely short shaft I don't know the length of the shaft but I'll put it on the bottom for you now I will have found that information out and I took it into the bay I've already hit this ball I've already hit numbers because like I said at first thought is this too much of a gimmick then I started it in golf balls and thought no this is a video that people need to see so we've got essentially a G410 a 460 drive ahead it's got turbulators and dragonfly technology and all them other things that you're finding a G410 in a very very short shaft one which I've no idea the length I think it's very similar to what you're finding sort of a seven iron six iron length of shaft that's how it feels let's get it and some balls on the camera and I'll tell you and show you what the biggest surprise I've had since doing these videos is when I test out this Prodigy G Driver from Ping now trust me stick around because this is not a gimmick video it started off like I said as possibly being one but I learned a huge lesson here this morning with the testing that I've done so we've got a 460cc head we've got a short shaft I've just picked out a 7 iron like I said I don't know the I'll throw down the number or I have done already in terms of length as you have but it's about an inch longer than what this 7 iron is from Zuno and this thing is about the test or what I did this morning was concentrate on one thing and one thing only control can I find that target line that center of the fairway so I wasn't worried about how far this went I was worried about what control I had could I drop the tempo of the swing really look to find a nice rhythm and just concentrate on control and that's the bit that shocked me massively because the answer is before we see the numbers before we see the spread I can tell you that yes I did and that's the reason we're doing the video right now if you look at some of the shots that I've hit here that are just playing over you can probably see that the swing is slowed down considerably and it's all concentrating on tempo it's still a full swing but I've very much it's all about control and I found that I could do exactly that with this shorter club and I cannot believe that in recent weeks yes I've learned that from the videos that we did that length of shaft was ultra important in terms of control and we looked at hybrids hybrids shafts in five woods and getting us that greater control and yet it definitely played a major part but this is this is taken to the extremes and I'm not suggesting that people go out and buy a Prodigy driver a junior driver that's not the purpose of the video the video is to take it to an extreme and prove to me as much as anybody else that control length of club shaft is mega important and control is everything we can't play from the rough you can't play from out of bounds you want to be in the middle of those fairways so this kind of shortened shaft our obsession that we have with distance with drivers is incredible that's all we want to do and what's that meant what that has meant is that every driver that is released by a manufacturer essentially has a 44 inch shaft in attached to it and that's incredibly difficult for us average golfers to control and this takes it to the opposite extreme and I cannot believe the confidence as this gives I played a mini driver and I play it for the sort of the same reasons as this but to put down a 460cc head that's got essentially the same tech as a G410 with a shaft length that is a little bit odd at first to get used to but believe me you'll overcome it when you hit a few golf balls I can assure you it's confidence inspiring and like I said for me just concentrating on tempo and I'll try and hit one on camera I mean I'm amazed at the results I'm amazed at where that ball has gone and I'm amazed at the control that I've got I can't believe it even so much as this lightweight shaft I've no particular issues with it to be quite honest with you I think if you do the couple that I tried when I when I tried to sort of step on it a little bit give it a bit of a hoof the lightweight shaft meant I lost a little bit of control in that sense but obviously that's not necessarily where you'd go with this like I said the idea is could you be looking at your driver with a much shorter shaft in it to gain that greater control and really shouldn't manufacturers be looking at driver heads but a lot shorter in terms of shaft length to give us that greater control but the issue is we don't want that we're obsessed with distance we don't want control we want distance and I think I mean seriously I really do wish you could see that ball because it is bullet straight right down the middle I've had people walk in here this morning laughing and then had a look at what I've done in terms of it in the golf ball and seriously I think they're all amazed as well as much as I am and my bet is this and I challenge you to do this most ping distributors have been have got a set of Prodigy Gs as a demo set for kids to come in and try next time you go in get over the embarrassment ask can you have a go of the Prodigy G driver take out on the driving range try it against yours and I'll bet you any money that this outperforms it in terms of control by a million miles seriously you I have no doubt that you will be as surprised as I am as shocked as I am what results you can get from that driver and it's a massive lesson to be learned but I'm going to hit one more ball because I love it in this thing we're going to have a look at numbers I'll give you the big reveal in terms of what I hit what I obtained in terms of distances what numbers I got how tightly packed my dispersion was and I'll give you an overall verdict let's even give this one a bit of a whack mate I swear to god that ball that ball has gone I could gain that well I've just been in a little bit of a coffee break and talk to the lads there and I can honestly say it's the biggest it's the most surprising video that I've done since I've started at YouTube and honestly that's how much surprise I've got in terms of this the control elements and let's get straight into no we won't start with numbers let's start with dispersion because ultimately that is what it's been all about have a look at this spread of numbers and you know if I'm honest with you I mean I'm a little bit where you would I'm an average golfer and in terms of I couldn't hit me seven iron as tightly grouped as what I've just done with that driver a 15 degree driver and I literally one after the other down the target line get your heads around that if you will but I will throw up the numbers next up for you but just look at this right there's a real ratio between clubbed speed and you can see where the sort of clubbed speed in relation to ball speed that is look how consistent it is on both elements but ball speed at 125 on average spinning at three and a half 185 carry 11 degree launch I mean a peak height of 57 it honestly did everything you'd want it to do in terms of the ultimate fairway finder that's the only way I could describe it in terms of the distance if I can carry a sort of 190 carry and I can get three and a thousand spin that's probably a 210 ball or in terms of running out on the fairways in height of summer are most courses that I play and probably you play 350 to 400 yard par fours that is more than enough for average golfers especially if it means that you're finding fairways and you're playing your second shot from the short stuff because I guarantee that most of us would benefit from playing from 200 yards on most par fours having a second shot in at greens from that short grass and I think it would make a massive difference to our scores but like I said the message is a quite simple one I suppose I apologize if this in any way came over as a gimmick video because I'm always conscious of doing what I would say gimmick video something that completely pointless and reviewing a kids club a junior club in in the first instance it's completely pointless but it's not about the club it's about the concept the concept of control and it went to the extreme to prove to me anyway that control is mega mega important and to get that greater control the shorter the shaft the more control we've got it's a very very simple message anyway as ever thank you for watching comments down below and I'll see you soon I ain't standing here too long because as you can probably see it's flipping Baltic in the UK right now but I enjoyed that video a lot as you can probably tell right see you soon