All I can say is YES!!! Yes, want more videos of this type!!! THIS one along with your blade vs. cavity workability are just so satisfying! Full disclosure: I do happen to be an engineer! And if I could get a nickel (I'm here in the USA) for every time I heard "blades just feel so much better" or "why are you using those game improvement monsters? You should be hitting a blade man!" (I'm a +1 index but use game improvement irons). Thank you Mr. Crossfield. Been a view and subscriber for a long time, but this brought out the commenter in me!
My favourite video you have ever done! Very funny but also extremely educational👏 Challeges all the bullshit you hear, especially from people working in the proshops.... Great job Mark! More of this please😍🏌️♂️
Loved the test! For me, I use forged blades now and I think you can feel a difference, purely that I feel every shot. Good or bad, when I mess about with my friends cast taylormade clubs I have no clue how I have hit them. So my idea of forging doesn’t mean softer it’s just a feedback cast clubs don’t offer
paul harrison dead on man. So technically if you don’t feel that bad feedback for a toe or heel strike. Then that should make it forgiving? But as soon as you hit a forged or blades iron you have the instant feedback and you are like oh I miss hit that. Don’t get me wrong you can feel that miss hits of a cast iron. But not as badly as a forged iron.
Great video Mark. Love your content, perspective, passion to open our eyes and show the truth. Best golf youtube channel by a mile. You bois deserve a knighthood 😊
Could be something in the no look swing :-) I remember an interview with Bob Vokey and he was asked why the wedges weren't forged and he said there is really not any difference with the new casting techniques.
What a great test. I just found out this week that Vokey wedges are cast, I was shocked, they feel so so good, but they're cast. So what's at play here? Great test
Brilliant brilliant brilliant fun poor Dan being first up I bet his insides were twitching 😂😂😂😂with what you were going to do to him but again very interesting information Mark, Dan and Lockey. I play with a set of John Letters forged irons just love them.
Love the video and content Mr. Crossfield and co. Played golf for 20+ years and quit last year due to medical issues. I have missed it and just this week I have been trying to get back in there with severely diminished swing speed (96+mph 6 iron to 70+mph) the golf journey I am on is very different than I hoped but your videos have always been fun and could possibly be one of the reason I am looking to get stuck in again.
Simultaneously one of the funniest and most interesting videos I’ve seen! I played AP1 hire clubs on holiday and loved em, hit them great but I always prefer to look down on a smaller head 🤷♂️
Bloody brilliant guys. It astonished me that your set up is so good , even when you cant see the ball. But a lightbulb moment has just occurred which is why I love this type of video. Massive thanks
I really love this test. I played cavity and forged irons. After watching the video I have come to the conclusion that it's the sound that makes me love the forged irons more. Just like the sound of the driver.
The term “feel” is used in a broad sense, not restricted to touch but rather all the senses, perceptions and even emotions. Therefore when someone says it “feels” different they are describing the full package. I am not surprised that we cannot feel (touch only) the difference in this example. I recently had my first club fitting (after many, many years of playing) and I struggled to really feel (touch only) a difference between club heads and shaft changes (and I would say I have a sensitive hand as I am a commercial helicopter pilot...helicopters are very sensitive). But in the end, using all available information I do feel a difference, or rather I “feel” a different experience. Great stuff guys, great stuff!
Watched this video when it came out and now watching again. What a great video and what a great dynamic between Mark & Coach (Dan also). Love this stuff man, love it!
In the 1980s, Honma made sets of what were cast blades. They certainly felt softer than most forged blades at the time, particularly Mizunos. They also could be adjusted more easily. Perhaps more a metallurgy question than a golf question
Great video, clearly we use all our senses when using a club. So impressed that Dan and Coach actually hot the ball when they were blind folded. Loved that Dan considered Coach's sponsors!
That's the feeling I got when I tried some chunky cast clubs...with the forged blades you pretty much know where your struck the ball on the club face.
Love it! I'll admit that I have my biases, but to me, it's comfort and confidence... which I have with my current set. Familiarity breeds confidence in golf.
It is funny how our preconceived ideas of how equipment is suppose to work, influences what we "feel". All things being equal (spin, loft, cg, strike), it boils down to vanity. Excellent content Mark, I learned something new.
How I hate having my preconceived perceptions challenged! Forged just feels better doesn't it? I think I'll need to keep my mind open next time I have a club fitting. A very thought provoking video.
Great idea! I was wonderiggg whether you could do another without you hitting shots and lockey calling forged or cast without looking (just on sound) that would prove his ideas correct I think?
Really great video, thanks. The conclusion I am drawn to is: "feel" = looks and sound. I have an old golf book written by David Graham, who discusses golf club design. He says that ultimately if you look down on a club and don't like its look, you won't hit it as well. Have seen many tests where the sound is criticised. So if the looks are personally pleasing, and the sound is nice = a great feeling club!
This validates what I am experiencing. I have player in sequence Mizuno MX 200 forged irons to Mizuno MP 32 irons to Titleist ZB irons.... I recently switched to Nike VR Full Cavity due simply to the looks of them. They honestly feel the softest of any of the previous sets and they are the only cast set. I even made the comment to my father this week as we were on vacation and got in 4 rounds, how shocked I was to how soft they feel compared to my previous sets. Very interesting video, love it!
Had a chance to watch the rest. That was so fascinating! I love this stuff! Amazing when you can make people challenge what they “know”. I’m surprised how often you mention sound in these videos and course vlogs. Wonder how sound affects my game? 🤔 Cheers boys!
I just got the AP3s and there was so much talk about forged vs cast feel and it feels just fine. I have a set of Miz MP-18s and it definitely isn't night and day. Sound definitely has a lot to do with the feeling bias... great video.. and fun.
Absolutely fantastic video Mark! Well done to you and your friends. Special recognition to Matt - it's tough to change your mind and beliefs and to be proven "wrong", especially in front of an audience, especially in your area of expertise. Hats off to Matt - I'd now like to sign up for the Lockey army.
Very unique test. I loved the fact that you attack Matt's feeling by changing the setting. My biggest takeaway was our brains learn through conclusions even if those conclusions are brought through different settings. Awesome. Well done.
Strike...you can definitely hear and feel a good shot. My friends and I have ran out of time at twilight on occasions and we play a 7 iron challenge on a par 5 in near dark. You cannot see the ball and yet we all seem to know where we have hit. Short, knuckles, left & right.
What a great video 👍 Not just figured out you can’t tell which one 🤔 But figured out dans a ringer for rod Stewart in a fancy dress competition and mat could go a zz top 😂😂😂
That was an awesome test and I was surprised that you guys couldn't tell the difference. I have always played cavity backs due to my skill level and love the forgiveness of my Ping G irons but may try to hit some forged clubs when I replace them down the road to see if they are a good fit for me.
Great video ... definitely goons to share it with some friends who think they can feel the difference. You have made a few comments about this in the past (feel is mostly sound) so I actually tested it myself just using headphones... I obviously knew which was which because I wasn’t blindfolded but, I was honestly unable to feel any difference without being able to hear impact
Great video! I so wanted Coach to just pipe them down the middle. The eyes can deceive you Luke. One thing I noticed when I started playing golf was the feel of making contact. When I played baseball I knew when I hit a ball well when I heard the crack but felt almost nothing. With golf it seems like there is almost always some sort of feel; toe, heel, high, low. Even when you sweet spot a driver you feel something different. Of course maybe if I didn't have all the different feels I would be better than I am???
Very interesting as I consider options for replacement irons. Having come down 10 shots in 18 months to be at 10. I am looking for some forgiveness but more workability. What this and some other of your videos tells me is to try lots of clubs and shafts and find what ‘feels’ and works best and consider blending too. Off for some fittings I think.
This type of insight is why I like your channel above the rest of TH-cam golf output. I am sure it is almost impossible for you to consistently know which type of club you hit, if you remove the sense of sight and sound. It would be great to set up an experiment with a group of professional golfers and publish the results. The manufacturers would hate it!
Most entertaining vid in a while, boys! Something Mr. Vokey has known for a long time. The deal is if you can "stamp" forged on an iron, you've just increased your asking price by 30%. Marketing stuff? No way?!?!?
Great strikes boys! As someone who has tried it just blind, it's not easy. Sound and tactile feel through the hands is what feel is all about IMHO. Once you've hit a million or so balls (20 years of most days golf and practice) it is all the senses making the determination but for weekend warriors ... not so much.
Mark great one here! Love the concept of feel that you’ve highlighted. In regards to comparison videos, have you ever put a video together based on putter grip or hand placement, I.e. conventional, swapped, claw, pointed finger, etc.? Would love to here your thoughts on it.
Hi Mark, great video proving that marketing and "common knowledge" is not always true. Do you think it would be interesting to try this with "softer feel" golf balls too?
Awesome video Mark. These videos help me think and question everything about golf which is probably a good thing...but not sure the golf industry would agree.
Really great video. As I've come back to the game with 15yrs off, use to be a 6.5 Project X AP2 / Taylormade C300 cavity blade player, then last year a Regular Flex Callaway CF-16 bomb-ball player, and now this year a weakened loft Mizuno Hot Metal Pro Dynamic Gold 120 S300 player, and finally a guy who hangs out on the range, helps some people and swamps clubs etc, I absolutely agree with this video - the word FEEL is not FEEL, it is a summary term used to describe a lot of things which are only feel if it's 0 Celsius and you hit a frozen range ball off the toe of a bladed 4iron with an X shaft - because that feels like you need to visit a dentist. We can feel overall club weight, we can feel swing weight, we can feel a big or small grip, we can feel hitting 3 groves low, hitting it way in the toe or heel. If you have a lot of practice, these feelings are quickly confirmed by the 'sound' of impact and then the first .5 second of the ball leaving the face - we wrap these all together and like coach we call this feel. We do feel the location a ball hits - far more so with a muscle back blade than a massive game improvement iron because of GQ / face dampening - possibly also graphite shaft and grip dampening as well. Your ears feel sound waves - so in that way we also feel soft forged clubs being softer than clicky cast distance irons. Make Ears Great AGain - embrace your feelings.
Great test! I'm 18hc and playing blades (Miura MC 501) for 1 month now. I play them better... Anyway, They play the same as my old M1s, except on mishits, which give me a lot of feedback on the blades (so eventually I end up with a better strike?). The M1s were straight and the blades are twitchy - think about turning it and the ball goes there. I think ball flight can be a big difference. And dispersion when well hit is better for me. The biggest difference is that the blades are shiny and more, well, shiny. And the sound! I don't really know why I play them better except the turf interaction is really nice and I tend to focus on a centre strike more. Unless I want to hit it on another part of the club of course. Thanks for the great vid. All of your vids :)
Come on Brah. Dan's cross bone shirt. The wig. The ARMY ISN'T REAL. And Arcade Fire. Bust out the Duffy Gretsch and jam some Cords. Busting perceptions through reality. LOVE IT.
I recently tested a new, harder golf ball this way (music only) and found that there was almost no difference in real feel off the face compared to a softer ball from the same manufacturer. I switched golf balls and got more distance with no discernable difference around the green. Great way to test and much more enjoyable with music. #TheArmyIsReal
I like this! I did some testing of G410 irons with Andy, Average Golfer. When asked about feel, I was like we'll when I hit it well feels good, can't tell difference between my AP2s. I don't think as 13 hcap I can feel difference between the two on a good strike!
This test has to be the best yet. I've been laughing on my own watching , which is a bit worrying. Perhaps an on course test using drivers would be fun, especially with Matt in the wig and blindfold. Keep up the good work brah!
Loved that. Shows that feel is not just tactile but also a mixture of that with other inputs, audible, visual etc. In the end don't follow the crowd, get out there and try these clubs out. Great vid.
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All I can say is YES!!! Yes, want more videos of this type!!! THIS one along with your blade vs. cavity workability are just so satisfying!
Full disclosure: I do happen to be an engineer! And if I could get a nickel (I'm here in the USA) for every time I heard "blades just feel so much better" or "why are you using those game improvement monsters? You should be hitting a blade man!" (I'm a +1 index but use game improvement irons).
Thank you Mr. Crossfield. Been a view and subscriber for a long time, but this brought out the commenter in me!
Dan jumping when the music comes on is about the funniest thing I’ve seen in ages. I watched that about 20 times.
My favourite video you have ever done! Very funny but also extremely educational👏 Challeges all the bullshit you hear, especially from people working in the proshops....
Great job Mark! More of this please😍🏌️♂️
This is the best damn video from you guys in a long time. Fantastic!
I loved the test but I laughed so hard with Dan and Matt in the wig! 🤣🤣🤣
I'm impressed that you both hit it so well blindfolded tbh.
Nice to see Lockey back:)
Particularly liked your summation. All things being equal, hit what you like.
Mark you make the most interesting 'discussions' videos. Honest and informative. Well done!
one of your best ever videos bruh , challenges all what we SEE and HEAR about clubs from the manafacturers
Loved the test! For me, I use forged blades now and I think you can feel a difference, purely that I feel every shot. Good or bad, when I mess about with my friends cast taylormade clubs I have no clue how I have hit them. So my idea of forging doesn’t mean softer it’s just a feedback cast clubs don’t offer
paul harrison dead on man. So technically if you don’t feel that bad feedback for a toe or heel strike. Then that should make it forgiving? But as soon as you hit a forged or blades iron you have the instant feedback and you are like oh I miss hit that. Don’t get me wrong you can feel that miss hits of a cast iron. But not as badly as a forged iron.
Great content brah! Love that you always tackle the myths! Keep it up!
One of the most interesting and funny golf videos I have ever watched.
One of your best videos yet. Informative, eye opening and hilarious in equal measure. Nice one.
WE LIKE BLADES BECAUSE THEY LOOK PRETTY. SORRY NOT SORRY
You think so OUTSIDE of the REGULAR GOLF BOX and I personally love that !!!
Great video Mark. Love your content, perspective, passion to open our eyes and show the truth. Best golf youtube channel by a mile. You bois deserve a knighthood 😊
The Editing quality of these videos is just getting silly good now, hats off
Could be something in the no look swing :-)
I remember an interview with Bob Vokey and he was asked why the wedges weren't forged and he said there is really not any difference with the new casting techniques.
What a great test. I just found out this week that Vokey wedges are cast, I was shocked, they feel so so good, but they're cast. So what's at play here? Great test
Brilliant brilliant brilliant fun poor Dan being first up I bet his insides were twitching 😂😂😂😂with what you were going to do to him but again very interesting information Mark, Dan and Lockey.
I play with a set of John Letters forged irons just love them.
Love the video and content Mr. Crossfield and co. Played golf for 20+ years and quit last year due to medical issues. I have missed it and just this week I have been trying to get back in there with severely diminished swing speed (96+mph 6 iron to 70+mph) the golf journey I am on is very different than I hoped but your videos have always been fun and could possibly be one of the reason I am looking to get stuck in again.
Simultaneously one of the funniest and most interesting videos I’ve seen! I played AP1 hire clubs on holiday and loved em, hit them great but I always prefer to look down on a smaller head 🤷♂️
Bloody brilliant guys. It astonished me that your set up is so good , even when you cant see the ball. But a lightbulb moment has just occurred which is why I love this type of video. Massive thanks
I really love this test. I played cavity and forged irons. After watching the video I have come to the conclusion that it's the sound that makes me love the forged irons more. Just like the sound of the driver.
The term “feel” is used in a broad sense, not restricted to touch but rather all the senses, perceptions and even emotions. Therefore when someone says it “feels” different they are describing the full package. I am not surprised that we cannot feel (touch only) the difference in this example. I recently had my first club fitting (after many, many years of playing) and I struggled to really feel (touch only) a difference between club heads and shaft changes (and I would say I have a sensitive hand as I am a commercial helicopter pilot...helicopters are very sensitive). But in the end, using all available information I do feel a difference, or rather I “feel” a different experience.
Great stuff guys, great stuff!
Watched this video when it came out and now watching again. What a great video and what a great dynamic between Mark & Coach (Dan also). Love this stuff man, love it!
In the 1980s, Honma made sets of what were cast blades. They certainly felt softer than most forged blades at the time, particularly Mizunos. They also could be adjusted more easily. Perhaps more a metallurgy question than a golf question
Great video, clearly we use all our senses when using a club. So impressed that Dan and Coach actually hot the ball when they were blind folded. Loved that Dan considered Coach's sponsors!
One of your best videos Mark, keep it up brah....
Brilliant job guys!! Dan..."I don't think I hit anything?"
That's the feeling I got when I tried some chunky cast clubs...with the forged blades you pretty much know where your struck the ball on the club face.
Unbelievable video Mark. So interesting. Love how much depth you guys go into to find answers to these golfing myths 😂
Great hit Dan haha
THIS is the test I've been waiting for!
Love it! I'll admit that I have my biases, but to me, it's comfort and confidence... which I have with my current set. Familiarity breeds confidence in golf.
It is funny how our preconceived ideas of how equipment is suppose to work, influences what we "feel". All things being equal (spin, loft, cg, strike), it boils down to vanity. Excellent content Mark, I learned something new.
How I hate having my preconceived perceptions challenged! Forged just feels better doesn't it? I think I'll need to keep my mind open next time I have a club fitting. A very thought provoking video.
Very interesting test... which shows how much we can be influenced and how much perception of others also influence your feelings.
Well, I've seen some club tests, but this takes the biscuit 🤣 but it worked 👍........I'm a bit worried that you owned a blonde wig though....🤔
Ah, bloody interesting lads. More of these vids please. Great for the grey matter maintenance!
Great vlog, it shows how sound and vision play apart of 'feel', keep up the good work.
Naughty boy, tricking Matt like that! Love stuff like this #mythbusters
Great idea! I was wonderiggg whether you could do another without you hitting shots and lockey calling forged or cast without looking (just on sound) that would prove his ideas correct I think?
Great video. I would have bet both of them would be able to tell the difference. Shows people that equipment not the issue as much as most think.
Arcade Fire! Cool band. Great vid and interesting subject. And some really good strikes of the ball blindfolded. Amazing.
Great video Mark... i want to see more of these tests but a double blind control with more replicates!!
Very interesting and informative video. Good stuff. Perception can be your own reality!
Really great video, thanks. The conclusion I am drawn to is: "feel" = looks and sound.
I have an old golf book written by David Graham, who discusses golf club design. He says that ultimately if you look down on a club and don't like its look, you won't hit it as well.
Have seen many tests where the sound is criticised. So if the looks are personally pleasing, and the sound is nice = a great feeling club!
This validates what I am experiencing. I have player in sequence Mizuno MX 200 forged irons to Mizuno MP 32 irons to Titleist ZB irons.... I recently switched to Nike VR Full Cavity due simply to the looks of them. They honestly feel the softest of any of the previous sets and they are the only cast set. I even made the comment to my father this week as we were on vacation and got in 4 rounds, how shocked I was to how soft they feel compared to my previous sets. Very interesting video, love it!
Had a chance to watch the rest. That was so fascinating! I love this stuff! Amazing when you can make people challenge what they “know”. I’m surprised how often you mention sound in these videos and course vlogs. Wonder how sound affects my game? 🤔 Cheers boys!
Always Loving the content Golf Guru, nothing but Gold👌
Fascinating test, this is really, really interesting, great video Mark. Keep them coming !
I just got the AP3s and there was so much talk about forged vs cast feel and it feels just fine. I have a set of Miz MP-18s and it definitely isn't night and day. Sound definitely has a lot to do with the feeling bias... great video.. and fun.
Changing my opinions toward clubs and potential future set
Absolutely fantastic video Mark! Well done to you and your friends. Special recognition to Matt - it's tough to change your mind and beliefs and to be proven "wrong", especially in front of an audience, especially in your area of expertise. Hats off to Matt - I'd now like to sign up for the Lockey army.
Great test Mark. I’ve tried the Ping i210’s and they felt the same as my Mizuno MP18 MB’s and that’s with using my ears
Very unique test. I loved the fact that you attack Matt's feeling by changing the setting. My biggest takeaway was our brains learn through conclusions even if those conclusions are brought through different settings. Awesome. Well done.
The Watchmen...Rorschach mask. Brilliant!!
Strike...you can definitely hear and feel a good shot. My friends and I have ran out of time at twilight on occasions and we play a 7 iron challenge on a par 5 in near dark. You cannot see the ball and yet we all seem to know where we have hit. Short, knuckles, left & right.
What a great video 👍
Not just figured out you can’t tell which one 🤔
But figured out dans a ringer for rod Stewart in a fancy dress competition and mat could go a zz top 😂😂😂
That was an awesome test and I was surprised that you guys couldn't tell the difference. I have always played cavity backs due to my skill level and love the forgiveness of my Ping G irons but may try to hit some forged clubs when I replace them down the road to see if they are a good fit for me.
Great video ... definitely goons to share it with some friends who think they can feel the difference. You have made a few comments about this in the past (feel is mostly sound) so I actually tested it myself just using headphones... I obviously knew which was which because I wasn’t blindfolded but, I was honestly unable to feel any difference without being able to hear impact
So this was brilliant. And I screen-shot the heck out of Dan and Coach in the wig...
Great video! I so wanted Coach to just pipe them down the middle. The eyes can deceive you Luke. One thing I noticed when I started playing golf was the feel of making contact. When I played baseball I knew when I hit a ball well when I heard the crack but felt almost nothing. With golf it seems like there is almost always some sort of feel; toe, heel, high, low. Even when you sweet spot a driver you feel something different. Of course maybe if I didn't have all the different feels I would be better than I am???
Very interesting as I consider options for replacement irons. Having come down 10 shots in 18 months to be at 10. I am looking for some forgiveness but more workability. What this and some other of your videos tells me is to try lots of clubs and shafts and find what ‘feels’ and works best and consider blending too. Off for some fittings I think.
Brilliant video guys 👏👏👍
My view before seeing till the end was sound is the major difference between cast & forged.
This type of insight is why I like your channel above the rest of TH-cam golf output. I am sure it is almost impossible for you to consistently know which type of club you hit, if you remove the sense of sight and sound. It would be great to set up an experiment with a group of professional golfers and publish the results. The manufacturers would hate it!
always immaculate music taste: Arcade Fire, Talk Talk, Sonic Youth.
Most entertaining vid in a while, boys!
Something Mr. Vokey has known for a long time. The deal is if you can "stamp" forged on an iron, you've just increased your asking price by 30%. Marketing stuff? No way?!?!?
Great strikes boys! As someone who has tried it just blind, it's not easy.
Sound and tactile feel through the hands is what feel is all about IMHO. Once you've hit a million or so balls (20 years of most days golf and practice) it is all the senses making the determination but for weekend warriors ... not so much.
Mark great one here! Love the concept of feel that you’ve highlighted. In regards to comparison videos, have you ever put a video together based on putter grip or hand placement, I.e. conventional, swapped, claw, pointed finger, etc.? Would love to here your thoughts on it.
Mark, that was a great test/show. Keep it coming bruh.
Great video. You get extra points for playing Arcade Fire.
Hi Mark, great video proving that marketing and "common knowledge" is not always true. Do you think it would be interesting to try this with "softer feel" golf balls too?
Brilliant video Mark
Awesome video Mark. These videos help me think and question everything about golf which is probably a good thing...but not sure the golf industry would agree.
Best testing video this year well done 👍
Excellent video. It's always worth challenging marketing ideas as they are designed to make people buy clubs before they have even tried them.
This is great Guys, thought you guys would have picked the different feels with all that experience . awesome content
Incredibly interesting. I started wondering about this after switching from cast to forged club. The forged club didn’t “ feel” as soft.
Really great video. As I've come back to the game with 15yrs off, use to be a 6.5 Project X AP2 / Taylormade C300 cavity blade player, then last year a Regular Flex Callaway CF-16 bomb-ball player, and now this year a weakened loft Mizuno Hot Metal Pro Dynamic Gold 120 S300 player, and finally a guy who hangs out on the range, helps some people and swamps clubs etc, I absolutely agree with this video - the word FEEL is not FEEL, it is a summary term used to describe a lot of things which are only feel if it's 0 Celsius and you hit a frozen range ball off the toe of a bladed 4iron with an X shaft - because that feels like you need to visit a dentist. We can feel overall club weight, we can feel swing weight, we can feel a big or small grip, we can feel hitting 3 groves low, hitting it way in the toe or heel. If you have a lot of practice, these feelings are quickly confirmed by the 'sound' of impact and then the first .5 second of the ball leaving the face - we wrap these all together and like coach we call this feel. We do feel the location a ball hits - far more so with a muscle back blade than a massive game improvement iron because of GQ / face dampening - possibly also graphite shaft and grip dampening as well. Your ears feel sound waves - so in that way we also feel soft forged clubs being softer than clicky cast distance irons. Make Ears Great AGain - embrace your feelings.
Great test! I'm 18hc and playing blades (Miura MC 501) for 1 month now. I play them better... Anyway, They play the same as my old M1s, except on mishits, which give me a lot of feedback on the blades (so eventually I end up with a better strike?). The M1s were straight and the blades are twitchy - think about turning it and the ball goes there. I think ball flight can be a big difference. And dispersion when well hit is better for me. The biggest difference is that the blades are shiny and more, well, shiny. And the sound!
I don't really know why I play them better except the turf interaction is really nice and I tend to focus on a centre strike more. Unless I want to hit it on another part of the club of course. Thanks for the great vid. All of your vids :)
Come on Brah. Dan's cross bone shirt. The wig. The ARMY ISN'T REAL. And Arcade Fire. Bust out the Duffy Gretsch and jam some Cords. Busting perceptions through reality. LOVE IT.
Not sure what to put on my toast now that you've convinced me that what I thought was Buttery Soft...isn’t Buttery Soft at all...
Excellent once again. Wonder if you would get to the same conclusion with say a tour player who is hitting a ball more regularly. Great video boys.
Brilliant test. Thanks.
More really interesting content! Thanks guys.
Probably the MOST interesting equipment test I have seen! It just proves (a) feel is visual & aural and (b) what does Mark have the wig for? 😉
I recently tested a new, harder golf ball this way (music only) and found that there was almost no difference in real feel off the face compared to a softer ball from the same manufacturer. I switched golf balls and got more distance with no discernable difference around the green. Great way to test and much more enjoyable with music. #TheArmyIsReal
More content like this!!! Pure classs
This was a good one...proves that feel is all about sound and look... great test
would love to see the same test on balls... hard vs soft
Good testing. Very eye opening.
I like this! I did some testing of G410 irons with Andy, Average Golfer. When asked about feel, I was like we'll when I hit it well feels good, can't tell difference between my AP2s. I don't think as 13 hcap I can feel difference between the two on a good strike!
Great pick up Matt , absolute hitting the blade off center would feel crappier , compared to the cavity designed to feel better off center
I remember a Ping rep telling me “sound is feel.” Ping rep was correct.
PING often seem to be right in comparison to many other companies
Fantastic video. Shows why companies but so much focus on the sound of a club.
This test has to be the best yet. I've been laughing on my own watching , which is a bit worrying. Perhaps an on course test using drivers would be fun, especially with Matt in the wig and blindfold. Keep up the good work brah!
Thank God.... Coach is back baby!!!
Great test, I thought that ap1 were quite soft when I hit them right, but maybe it’s about the strike and combination with other senses, interesting
Showed how important sound is in golf. Explains why i missed that birdy putt today when someone was talking. Also #lockeyarmy is real
Loved that. Shows that feel is not just tactile but also a mixture of that with other inputs, audible, visual etc. In the end don't follow the crowd, get out there and try these clubs out. Great vid.