Are Single Length Irons Actually Better?

🏌️‍♂️ Single length irons are designed to be the same length for every club in the set.

🤔 The concept behind single length irons is to maintain a consistent distance from the ball for every shot.

🛠️ Cobra is currently the only major manufacturer offering single length irons.

📏 Single length irons can help eliminate inconsistencies in hitting the ball from the toe or heel.

⛳ Shorter clubs like the 9 and 8 irons may go further because they are longer than typical irons.

🎯 Single length irons can make hitting longer irons like the 5 iron more consistent.

🔄 The lie angle of single length irons is adjusted differently compared to traditional sets to control the starting direction.

🧪 Testing single length irons is crucial to determine if they are right for your game.

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00:00:00 - and there's only one set that's really offered by a major manufacturer with with Cobra there okay so the hype is still there and the question still remains are are single length irons right for me you really don't know until you start testing

00:00:17 - all right Alexi let's explore some clubs yeah let's do it i know you're new to this game uh and I'm going to bring you to light on a certain set of irons that uh you may or may not known exist in the golf world um they make these irons which are the same length for every single iron yeah I don't know how I feel about that and that's where a lot of people are right now and that might have led you to this video just figuring out is a single length iron going to be right for my

00:00:46 - game um or or whatever it is question that you may have so let's talk about this set let's let's talk about uh the offerings that are out there and everything and just the reasoning behind it okay so the very first with the the reasoning behind it is that it is the probably the most genius idea at first is that we're we're just so used to clubs interchangeable from the shortest club is going to be the highest loft all the way up as you get to like your 4 iron is going to be the longest club in

00:01:13 - your iron set which makes sense that's kind of how you what you have right now okay uh but now every single club would be the same exact length this is the King Tech X from Cobra this is the one that they do offer in a single length set and I believe the only one right now that's on market that offers a single length set especially for what we can do fitting here at Golf Tech but overall we can test out the five and 9 iron to each other and just kind of see how they

00:01:39 - perform and such but if you're thinking about it uh like I said genius idea because every single club is the same length so technically the distance from the ball will be the same yeah a lot of individuals have a tough time with hitting say like toe and heel so this el eliminates that in theory right if you're always the same distance from the ball ultimately should always be consistent hitting the ball say center of the face or maybe always on the toe but at least you know where it's going

00:02:04 - to be each and every time now there's a lot of benefits to doing this and they do a good job with adjusting the shaft a little bit and I'll explain that further okay because once you start getting into say like a nine iron that's obviously higher in loft yeah okay but you do have a longer 9 iron than you're typically used to so what a lot of individuals have found is that these shorter clubs the nine the eight they go further because it's a longer club there's

00:02:29 - potential for more distance and then like the five iron okay it's now shorter than it typically is so you're going to run into not hitting the ball as far with the five iron hit it more consistently because you know what to expect at the length but it it may or may not be for all of the individuals that could be watching this video say if you want to hit your shorter irons a little bit further single length might be for you you want to hit your longer irons a little bit more consistent in

00:02:54 - the face single length irons might be for you you don't know until you test the idea of it is cool um because I do have a hard time switching between my longer irons to my shorter irons when I'm playing um sometimes I feel like I top the ball with my shorter irons but I love my shorter irons i've hit them so much more consistently so I don't know if I'd want to give up the being closer to the ball and having an easier time hitting for single length irons yeah and

00:03:22 - there's even offerings with like hybrids through Cobra that is a seven iron length which is it's it's wild uh and and and some individuals out there that's their favorite club in the back you really don't know until you test it out yourself yeah but just some really good items about this is that the five irons are actually more upright in terms of lie angle so the toe here can I borrow that 9 iron right there um so like the nine and the 5 iron the 9 iron is going to be flatter than the 5 iron

00:03:53 - which is opposite in the set so what that means is that the nine iron that you see right here the toe is pointing down to the ground more whereas the 5 iron the toe is going to be pointed up in the air more now what does that account for like are they expecting you to stand further away with the nine or so not necessarily no so they're just trying to control the starting direction a little bit but the lie angle is actually opposite than what it was on a like a traditional set typically you

00:04:18 - have a 9 iron okay one it's shorter so you kind of have to adjust the line angle anyways okay to be a little bit more upright okay so the the 9 iron that you typically have is more upright uh with the toe being up than it would be for the 5iron the five iron would be flatter and it's longer okay so it's going to play a little bit more upright anyways but in the sense of as to why they did that it has a a case of loft so if you start adding loft and decreasing loft you're pointing the face in a

00:04:46 - different direction yeah so if you're going up in loft you're ultimately pointing that face a little bit more to the left okay now you go ahead and reduce the line angle or just make that flatter so put the toe down more and that can aim it straighter okay and then if you say go down in loft okay that's ultimately going to essentially point the face more to the right so you need to have that toe pointed up more so the line angle can adjust just to make sure that the starting direction for these

00:05:14 - clubs isn't going to get too too off off track there okay so what length are all of these comparable to is this like all of them are seven iron length okay every single one is a 7 iron length okay so apologies if I didn't even start off with that so that's okay that's why we're here so every single one being a seven iron length um they even offer wedges that go throughout it but you really don't know if it's for you until you test it out here so we got the

00:05:45 - Nvit 9 iron we'll hit it a couple of times okay all right hitting the 9 iron first yeah test that uh seven length iron nine iron honestly I think these are a little longer than my clubs too so this right now feels like I'm holding a sixiron i don't know how I feel about it so a little bit of ground which is to be expected for our first shot that's fine and typically what you do carry-wise is around 130 around 130 yeah gotcha so right now pretty comparable to what I

00:06:22 - typically hit it but I also grabbed a lot of the ground with that so yeah you can see that with that low backspin number right there go ahead and hit it again i still got some of the ground it's all good but as you were saying already for yourself you might not have enjoyed this set because I mean look at your 9 iron compared to the 9 iron that you're hitting right now so much longer that's a significant difference right there so you loving those shorter irons we're

00:06:50 - probably going to get a little bit better result off of your 9 iron so let's just let's test it out might as well we saw a couple of them land close to that 130 but you're a big fan of this 9 iron i love my 9 iron i know I missed it shorter clubs are just typically easier to hit in the first place

00:07:13 - something that you're very comfortable with we had 127 or 127 was a the furthest you have with this one I think yeah 127 was the furthest I had with the single length 9 iron so this slightly shorter and I had pretty good I made pretty good contact with this one whereas that one I wasn't making great contact so Mhm i think you could assume that that one would go pretty at least a bit further than my current 9 iron there's definitely potential there you're just so comfortable with that

00:07:43 - club aren't you it Yeah it feels so much better mhm but and that's the thing you don't know until you test if they're actually right for you or not but something that you did mention is that the longer clubs you're not really a fan of like your five and six irons yeah so this might be where the the one link could show it could be beneficial to you so we'll take a couple of hacks with that one see how much Yeah go ahead i will rarely reach for my five iron even if I have a

00:08:13 - distance that would be ideal for my five iron sometimes I'll go with my seven and then just um You're telling your golf coach that I definitely don't do that actually i take it back um but no like with my five iron I just know that it's so much more likely that I might top it or like shank it and so if I'm like when I was trying to break a 100 Yeah i was going for comfort instead of Mhm my five iron yeah yeah ooh there we go that was better little right a little bit of a flatter club this is

00:08:46 - what This is what I found with these uh one length when I was trying them myself is I just wasn't getting the enough backspin rate so uh I forgot to change it from the 9 iron oh yeah if you can change that to the 5 iron yeah why why is that it's a low backend it's a low loft plus we're not necessarily hitting the 5iron shaft that would be inside of that so it's going to be at least the shaft's going to encourage a little bit more deflection up in the air okay so

00:09:12 - you're going to get a little bit more backspin rate for say like a set that's coming from the manufacturer they're going to at least adjust the shaft appropriately to get a better spin and launch but that's why I was finding with a lot of the ones I was hitting really well is that that backspin rate was just so low i just couldn't get it up in the air enough yeah that the nine iron was a lot of fun because it went a lot further than my current 9 iron and that was what

00:09:36 - I found when I tested them and you just don't know until you really start getting into the weeds with this yeah but you you got a lot of hype behind it when Bryson first came on the tour um a couple manufacturers kind of flirted with the idea and such but now it kind of fizzled off a little bit and there's only one set that's really offered by a major manufacturer with with Cobra there okay so the hype is still there and the question still remains are are single

00:10:01 - length irons right for me you really don't know until you start testing so do you know does Bryson still use the single length irons okay yeah he sure does and with this cuz I see on the head it says one length um do the heads have to be specifically designed for single length irons as well okay yeah exactly so all the manufacturing I'm not going I'm not part of Cobra so I can't really speak all to the to what they do to the technology of their one length but

00:10:23 - typically you just have the measurements and the static measurements that we can really go off length the lie the things that they just do to the shaft and everything that we know is trying to encourage a ball flight that's going to be usable from your your 5iron all down to your 9 iron and such so go and hit that one again okay i think you like that that second shot yeah that second shot was good let's hope I can repeat it so there's just kind of like the benefit

00:10:49 - of of having this but like I said I couldn't get the ball airborne as much cuz I'm guessing your fire might be going just a little bit further and the spin is again really good so low not a bad shot though i mean you got 2,000 worth of backspin right with your club head speed around 3,800 to 4600 would be optimal for you okay the launch angle being relatively low that one might have been just a little bit chunky but overall you don't know until you test so that really just is kind of the

00:11:20 - message I kind of keep driving towards you really have no idea maybe the hybrid might be really cool for you instead of avoiding your five iron all the time like you admitted to me uh maybe a short a shorter hybrid or something of that sort would benefit your game and and like I said keep saying it don't know until you test yeah definitely so so if you guys want to test out these single length irons you can head to your local golf tech and schedule a club fitting [Music]

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