Irons Test Results 2010

When selcting irons, the two main considerations that come into play are: A) How do they look or feel and B) How close can I hit them to the target? Over sixty total sets of clubs were submitted if you take into account that each manufacturer was asked to provide three different shafts (stiff, regular, & senior). A few manufacturers wanted to send six clubs, two different sets with three shaft configurations for each.

We then divided the testers into 2 groups, those with 15 or higher handicaps (average players) and those with 14 or less (better players).

One interesting note, we had a set of clubs from a small manufacturer that we had a large number of golfers try. Most were very surprised, the clubs performed much better than they had expected but invariably they did not place them near the top. The clubs did not look like the top clubs and were a little rough which we feel influenced the golfers. So looks and the lack of advertising really hurt these clubs.

Remember, Rankmark tests are designed to simply give golfers a starting point when they are trying their very best to make an "educated selection". If you wish to read our testing philosophy, click here.