Just because you use a certain type of club in one model, doesn’t mean you’ll use that same type of club with a different model or brand.
Fully Equipped co-host Kris McCormack had that experience in testing Bridgestone’s new 200 series irons.
Bridgestone Golf announced their first new golf clubs in five years — the 220 MB, 221 CB and 222 CB+, along with two forged wedges — earlier this week and on this week’s Fully Equipped podcast, McCormack, a 2-handicap golfer, revealed he had been testing the irons and surprisingly found the best results with the 220 MBs.
“I was even surprising myself with how consistent that ball flight was, because I don’t consider myself a good ball striker by today’s standards, but I would say that I’m better than average for iron play, but I wouldn’t call myself good. And that MB was awesome,” McCormack told fellow co-host Wadeh Maroun.
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McCormack has regularly been gaming a split set of cavity back irons, so to really find success with a set of muscle backs caught him off guard. But the interesting thing is that the set McCormack uses has forged short irons and cast long irons. He makes the split after the 6-iron, the same iron he was testing in the forged Bridgestone product.
Maroun wanted to find out more about the difference in feel between the new cubs and McCormack’s current set where he has Ping i230 long irons.
“Feel wise, definitely a little more responsive, more feedback. I had a little more control with the Bridgestone as far as being able to shape shots,” McCormack said. “The thing that I noticed was the 230 for me, higher launch, a little bit higher spin, so obviously gave me more control and stopping power coming into the greens.
“But the Bridgestone, I was really, really happy with look, sound, feel. Would I put it in the bag? Definitely needs more testing outside just to see kind of what turf interaction looks like. But it checks all the boxes in the bay for numbers that I would be ideally looking for. Just haven’t had a chance to take them on the golf course yet.”
For more from this week’s episode of GOLF’s Fully Equipped, listen to the full episode here or watch it below.
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