 Ping have an iron for every player profile, a brand to be trusted with a loyal following. The G-Ranger club says one thing to me, forgiveness in an iron that seems to suit any and every golfer but is the G425 the next go-to iron for all you ping lovers out there? Let's kick this review off with some brutal conditions down on the links at Conway. Come on on camera be nice, get it? Right the first thing I want to report is there was no hole in one but what they did do is they got to a great start out on the course at Conway and as you can see it was pretty tough conditions that these were at their test but while ping done in terms of this new model don't forget predecessor G410 how has this moved on? Well it's a slightly more compact design they say it is more forgiving they say there's faster ball speeds all those things we come to expect. Metal wood-like design face which I find really interesting but for me one of the big things like I said with the driver is overall looks and appearance of the club has been toned down there's no colour in sort of black and chrome look I think it's really easy on the eye got plenty of shelf appeal but what I've done I've collected dry ball data already indoors on track man I'm just going to hit a few shots out here off the turf remind myself familiarize myself about the sound and acoustics of this thing because it's quite different from a windy day that we've found ourselves down here at Conway so that's up next a little bit of a shot with a bit of feel so 9-9 again looking for some kind of response from the club this short end of the bag that's quite nice clip that's not too bad that's the last ball I've hit outside and probably whatever it was half a dozen balls and I think the one thing that I wanted confirmation on is the metal wood-like design on the face and I think when I say confirmation on I still have a little bit of an issue with the sound and that's because I don't really want my irons to sound like a metal wood I don't know why I don't there's nothing necessarily wrong with that but for me I want my woods to sound like woods and I want irons to feel a little bit softer I want to be a bit more responsive and that's a bit of a bit of an issue for me like I said metal wood designed like face I'm not really sure the logic in that or why you would want to achieve that in irons that's got me beat a bit and it's definitely noticeable definitely noticeable and for me it's a big deal as you know I like I like soft feeding irons sound is a big deal and I don't know whether you can pick that up but just a little bit too harsh still on these irons for me on a personal level right well if sound is the only fault that I can find with this irons then there do pretty well and I've got a safe spoiler it pretty much is and it's a minor detail as well and very much dependent on what you're looking for from a golf club and as you know I said in the the earlier clip it's a big deal for me I will say however that it's a vast improvement on what the G410 was because again I criticize that from its hard sound and it has moved on a fair bit from there but moving on in terms of everything else that the golf club does it just does everything very very well these are as I said in the intro they're kind of a that they're very dependable you can't really go wrong there's no mistakes you can make in buying a set of Ping G irons they've always been very good at what they intend to do and that's make the game or the clubs are user-friendly make the game very enjoyable as forgiving as you could possibly get in terms of irons they just do all of that very very well one of the things that you would have struggled with in previous years with this type of iron was things like spin so we're going to go into the detail of the data and start off with the 7 iron which is what you see in front of you now an average swing speed of 80.5 that's not the fastest I was swing a 7 iron but again it just this tells a tale 6,000 almost in spin launched at 17.4 peak height of 99 feet ball speed 121 land angle really important 47.9 carrying 171 what else can we get from an iron I mean to me that is optimum performance there is not one box within there that I would look at sort of changing it really is incredible they've performed so well and then move on to the 5 iron which are gathered some data for as well and you will see along the shaft bit more clubbed speed 84 4 3 spin off a 5 iron of a game improvement 5 iron incredible 141 launch peak height 90 still a land angle of 43 193 carry honestly unbelievable in terms of the performance they really did well both on and off course in terms of dry ball data and what I would say case in point there is that whilst I'm not really strong lofted in terms of what we're seeing right now you can adjust those I think it's two degrees either way in terms of their retrofit and they're stronger I can't remember what the other name they they call it but you can strengthen them further for me 193 carry on a 5 iron would mean that that's probably as long as I would go with an iron and I think more so in this range that I've seen is this need for golfers to look at getting custom fit it's always the message in there but the reason I say with this if I was going to buy off the shelf a sort of traditional pitching wedge to 4 iron set I would have an issue because if that's going 193 in theory a lot we do lose a bit of or we struggle to generate the clubbed speed to get that extra yardage out of 4 irons in theory we're going over that tipping over that 200 mark but what I would say I would even be tempted to look at pitching wedge to 6 iron in my case and look at some of the G4 25 other options in terms of hybrids and fairway woods of which there are many I've got some interesting videos coming up in the next couple of days will show you just what they have on offer in addition and to the to the irons to the G4 25 iron range where I think the idea of blending hybrids and fairways into this mix is is a real good option and I think that's again that message and I know it's always Ping's message is get custom fit start really analyzing that data and when you're getting down to possibly 6 iron 5 iron then maybe look at mixing this up but we're talking about irons today so I'm gonna leave it there there's not a lot else for me to say I think they've done a great job in terms of visually the looks are fantastic they've made it more compact it's forgiving yes the negative for me would be that harsh sound but it's not going to be for everybody but the numbers the data the overall performance is seconds and none and for a game improvement iron incredible stats really is impressive that's it that's the so I think we should be second one in you've seen the driver from the 425 now you've seen the irons next up it's going to be an interesting video like I said because I'm looking at what else G4 25 is offering in its range and believe me there's one particular club in that range which throws up it's incredible and I think it should be at every golfers golf bag that's how good I think it is and I also think it would blend perfect in with those irons so make sure you keep an eye out for that if you've enjoyed today's video then please hit the like button consider subscribing if you don't already there's plenty of reviews that you will see here either prior or post this which will mainly be from professional golfers who do a fantastic job reviewing product this is a slightly different angle it comes from very much an average golfer and maybe some of the club head speeds and the performance will be a bit more similar to your own that's what we try and do on this channel so yeah subscribe if you can but comments down below what are you thinking of this G4 25 range so far I love to hear 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