Amateur champion and top 20 pga tour player bryson dechambeau has played his way onto the 2018 ryder cup team his well documented success with cobra golf s one length irons will get plenty of fresh exposure in golf media.
Single length irons vs standard.
Players generated faster swing speeds with the standard length 4 to 6 irons and single length short irons 8 pw.
Theory behind the one length irons.
Single length irons are exactly what they sound like.
The reality is that mid high handicap players don t strike their 4 and 5 irons out of the middle on a regular basis.
The shorter irons are the wedges nine iron and 8 iron.
The speedzone one length irons are designed to 7 iron length 37 50 through the set to promote one repeatable setup and swing between clubs for more consistency and accuracy.
Rather than variable length irons where distance gaps are created in part because the shaft is longer in the longer irons and shorter in the shorter irons hence the names single length irons.
So i had been.
Forged tec one length engineered to deliver distance consistency and playability in a compact muscle back shape preferred by better players.
Now that former u s.
For the most part.
Equipment editor james savage has put them head to head in an extensive long term test.
Then you have mid length irons and then finally long irons like the five four and three iron.
The irons get shorter as the number gets higher.
As you move up in the set the irons get quite a bit longer.
This is not surprising given the longer shafts in these clubs.
Every iron in the set is the same length.
This is a reasonable assumption to make because there s a good chance you will swing your shorter irons faster when using one length irons.
We ve found that the strike with the single length irons in the 5 and 4 iron is much more consistent than with variable length irons.
Bryson dechambeau is the game s biggest one length irons proponent.
Single length irons are the biggest thing to hit the golf industry in 15 years.
That s where the single length irons can really help.
How do single length irons compare to variable length.
Everyone thinks that the problem with the single length irons is that the short irons will go to far and the long irons won t go far enough.
In a traditional iron set what some have started referring to as variable length irons each iron in the set is a different length.