Golf Information Editor Nick Bayly places the brand new Callaway Apex Ai300 irons by their paces
As a 13 handicapper with an 18 handicapper’s iron sport, I like loads of forgiveness constructed into my irons, and whereas Callaway’s new Ai300 irons are billed as a sport enchancment mannequin, their dimensions and general take a look at deal with are barely extra compact that you just’d look forward to finding in a membership that’s constructed for this class of the market.
Having mentioned that, it’s a broad spectrum and this Ai300 irons positively sit on the low finish of that handicap class in that they may swimsuit and attraction to respectable ball strikers, and positively end in some efficiency features, whether or not it’s in ball speeds, constant distance off the center, in addition to those who aren’t struck off the lifeless centre of the clubface.
My ball flight with the Ai300s was increased than common, helped by the weighting within the head of the membership, and pictures into greens ‘dropped and stopped’ which confirmed me simply how rather more spin Callaway have of their up to date Apex mannequin.
My pictures had been additionally longer than common distance-wise, and dispersion was fairly tight and constant once I hit a variety of pictures with every iron within the set.
The decrease irons, the 9 and PW, felt easy when it got here to getting the ball up within the air, making them supreme for gamers like me who usually battle to maintain their approaches on the inexperienced, as these irons create excessive ball flight for softer landings.
Like many mid-handicappers I usually really feel as if I lose a little bit of management when hitting longer irons, and consequently solely go as much as a 5-iron in my present set.
Though there was no 3- or 4-iron provided with my take a look at set, I appreciated how the ball got here off the membership with the 5-iron, and the mid-to-high ball flight offered a pleasant mixture of distance and dispersion management.
What additionally impressed me, all through the bag, was the efficiency I used to be nonetheless capable of generate with lower than good strike. Having irons with enhanced turf interplay for mishits can be supreme for many who battle for consistency with their swing.
General, I believe these are a really well-conceived and executed set of game-improvement irons. The efficiency features are evident for mid-to-high handicappers they usually additionally made me need to turn into a greater ball striker, fairly than doing all of the give you the results you want.
RRP: £1,199/£1,299 (st/gr, 4-PW). For extra particulars, go to eu.callawaygolf.com.
