 Welcome back to the channel today. I am filming at Northup Golf Club about to start my round of golf and I've got a question to ask myself really and that question is quite simply why on my favourite golf clubs Still not in my bag. You see the thing is if you're a keen and avid follower of the channel You'll know that earlier on this year I came very close to changing my irons into Mizuno pro I eventually sort of held on and recently swapped up to uh well the updated versions of my pxg a mixture of players and tea irons But did I make a mistake? Okay, so ultimately the answer to that question well it's no I'm more than happy with the irons that I ended up with I made the right decision, but if you're a long-term avid fan on this channel you'll also know there's another set of irons that continually creep into my mind I'll pick them up every now and again and I really do question Why they might ultimately seem to be right amongst my favourite irons, but for whatever reason they never get into my bag That's a great six iron and I do like these irons, but you see as much as I love these irons There's still one thing that's sort of one minor issue I suppose and I reckon that's largely down to maybe nostalgia, maybe even sentiment You see when I grew up the clubs that I learned to play golf with well they were there were blades There was no choice it was blade or blade and in situations like this well uh You had to manufacture shots because you didn't have many wedges either kick on kick on and when you didn't get a ball out the middle of those blades well uh You certainly knew about it you knew when you'd hit a bad shot There was no getting away with things right birdie roll out ball But you see the thing is in my pxg irons they've got in the words of one of the words of bob himself They've got the sweet spot the size of texas and no matter where I hit them on the clubface Pretty much nothing has a drop-off so i'm not losing any performance From my poor strike if you like Now is that a good thing or a bad thing and I know some of you you think it's a bad thing Right Don't make me eat my words Well it didn't eat me words it wasn't a great shot and it did exactly what So it was right on cue in many ways Again I ain't striking a ball great in this video that came off the bottom grooves But it did exactly what I've just tried to explain and the question is I suppose What would have happened if I would have hit that same sort of strike With a blade in hand It's questionable isn't it but with all these videos that I try to post there is always a butt And yeah there's a butt in this one as well and that butt is a simple question by using Golf clubs that help you in such a way that you get away with bad shots Is that not helping you improve your game? So I've got a blade in hand right now I'm pretty much saying I've got to find the centre spot otherwise I'm going to be punished So therefore I'm going to improve my game if we're going to get good with these things Oh that is right on the flag here Get up that was on the middle So how many of you feel that's uh well the statements I've just made it's an element of almost Well cheating yourself I suppose certainly not cheating playing golf but By making it easy have you decided to opt away from those I know over the years I've seen plenty of comments where some of you some of you even practice with blades On the idea that it'll improve your your ability and strike and when you go into your sort of regular irons Your the ones you've gained the ones you play in competition you find that is a useful help so Comments down below The theory behind playing with blades makes you a better player or practicing with blades perhaps makes you a better player I'd be interested to know I'd also like to get a birdie We're going to get one So in today's video we're going to put that theory to the test and I'm going to play I've got the five seven and nine nine in the p seven mbs and I've got their equivalent lofts which is a wedge eight And six iron in the pxg gen fives Now what I want to see is when I hit some shots side by side What is the real difference in terms of performance out here? Okay, so let's start that comparison off with perhaps the toughest Elements and the bit where you'd expect to see the major difference through that's a long end So I've got five iron in a p seven mb. I'll play the six iron which is equivalent loft I think there's one degree difference between the two But this is where like I said you're faced with a real blade like looking club And perhaps at this end of the bag you're wanting to see visually that more mass And bulk But what does it do in terms of performance out here on the golf course right? Let's concentrate a little while I've just leaked it out down the right a tad We've got a nice bounce back into the fairway. There's certainly a camera from right to left But that went okay a decent enough strike like I said Perhaps a little bit tentative and leaked it a little so we'll go to the six iron We'll pray from exactly the same position and we'll just see What kind of difference and all of a sudden Mentality wise like I said, this is why these are in the bag I suppose I'm thinking That these are going to help me a bit more am I right or wrong That's a very similar line Not as good of a strike slightly off the bottom And it'll be interesting to see where those two have finished and I've got a feeling They're not too far different Okay, so you can see interestingly just how little separated those two We're just going to move to the forward ball because we've sort of got 145 in now That's right on the number with my um At the top end of my wedge shot So we're going to be pitching wedge in the um in the pxg and that's a nine aisle equivalent So in theory we're perhaps a little bit short coming up here Bit of a hanging lie, but all the same like Classic look again as soon as you look down you're thinking right this is a golf club I've got in hand right now looks beautiful the p7 mb, but again It's not offering me a lot of confidence With that strike that's what gives me the confidence and that's right on it if it's got the legs This could almost go in Wow, okay, so that's a really good effort But first of all we're going to make sure that monopod stands over we've got a bit of breeze here Anyway, we're going to bring that down to the kind of hopefully we're in shot there to where we were at with that club Now the issue is again, we've just got that kind of bit more bulk and mass, so uh exactly what I explained We're looking at confidence wise From that five iron right That's a higher launching ball Bit more meat on it slightly down the left hand side And I said a bit more meat on it it launched higher the ball flight was slightly different than what that meant was it just held a little bit So if anything I would suggest that the p7 mb is just travel that a little bit further But we'll go and have a closer look Right, so we're in a situation where arguably now The sort of favour would turn or lean towards that the finesse of the p7 mb So I've got nine iron in hand Looks beautiful looks like, uh, you know, I'm not going to get that flyer that sometimes is suggested That comes off those players distance science. So, uh, let's see in this situation Which one might be for the best Oh, it's beautiful the way it picks it up it feel I was going to hold me breath for a minute because I felt like that was going to go in It feels really good off the face and it feels like I'm playing the kind of bladed Um a blade club like I said that I've got plenty of control over But how does it feel what is the difference now when I go to, uh, well, this is a wedge With the pxg club like I said again more bulk That feels really good as well. I can't argue again with just how good they've made these feel And I'll be honest with you from that position with that flag there I'd take any of those When you play A forge club a pure forge club up against a hollow bodied forge club That's when you start to notice just those little differences in terms of sound and feel I've said on numerous occasions pxg do an incredible job of getting that so much like that pure forged feel But like I said out here in reality when you've got those two pure forged hollow bodied forge You can still feel and sound that slight bit of difference that lean you towards that proper forged iron But arguably when you do manage to find the centre of that club face with a pure forge blade Well, there's no better feeling in the game of golf in my opinion Also, I think it's worth pointing out that my videos are to ask questions that Opposed by that I think you as an audience might be asking yourselves from time to time So don't get confused with this is all about me and my dilemma My irons will stay in the bag. I'm not looking to change But I might have to get myself a set of second hand blades. I think to Clench the thirst The two shots you're watching me play now. Well again Arguably finished in the end no difference at all You can see that I went into well two different bunkers the one I'm studying Right now and the one slightly to the right of me But either way both came out the rough pretty similar to be fair Right, let's see if we can get this one close Sit down Yep, we're happy with that Right, the next two shots you're going to see are from the previous haul I've just played five iron six iron respectively Both again did very very similar things. I'll leave them slightly out to the right in terms of The distance they traveled you can see here very little split them at all And then I played two a well a seven iron and an eight iron in from just shy of 150 and again Really decent strikes with both of these interesting enough the seven iron at the higher ball flight And held a little bit in the wind one just about cleared the bunker and one left me where you can see so Not great results, but interesting enough nothing to separate them in terms of distance there The one thing I've really seen is obviously even though the loft is the same This is a bit of an interesting slightly higher ball flight if anything coming from the p7 mb So I'm going to finish things off when it won last shot off the turf here Ninth hole and it's two five irons and I'll give you what my opinion is But maybe you've already drawn your own conclusions to the way you see this one has gone I'm going to finish off with two really good strikes with both of the Right, so we've finished this video off with well It was a wedge and a nine iron into the green behind me and Interesting enough it was the uh Well, it was the tailor made club that ended up being close But again nothing to split them to be quite honest with you and probably like I said My favorite clubs don't get in my bag and why and the the real answer is I'm not 100% sure I think it's a fear factor more than anything It's moving over to a blade going sort of back in time if you like and I think also the kind of Almost the message that's sent out by manufacturers that well They tell me that I'm not good enough to use blades anymore in terms of that's kind of You know lower single figure player So again, it's all about the mental side of the game that tends you to sway it away from What I've actually seen in reality here today is that when you when you get loft for loft And I was going to say when you're hitting out the middle But to be honest with you even some of the balls that I got out of the bottom grooves On the mb still did incredibly well And I think that's where technology has changed significantly Is that when you get an mb that is still managing to Perform as well as they did then that's pretty impressive to be honest with you there So like I said at the beginning the whole idea of this video is to pose all my channel full stop is to pose questions Not always provide answers in this case. It was kind of I'm not really sure what we got to in the end But a real interesting video for me personally the performance of the two Well, it was it was as good as the person that Put the swing on the end of them I think anyway as ever. Thanks for watching. Give me your feedback as you're going to see I'm a little bit baffled by the results. So maybe you can shed some light and see what you think. Thanks for watching See you all soon