How XXIO's light-weight golf equipment make golf a lot simpler | Proving Floor

Welcome to GOLF.com’s ClubTest Proving Floor, the place Managing Equipment Editor Jonathan Wall and Senior Equipment Editor Ryan Barath put the newest designs and groundbreaking expertise within the tools area to the check on the vary and the course.

This installment, nonetheless, is slightly completely different. Moderately than one among our editors testing the golf equipment, we introduced in somebody to assist us consider golf equipment which might be slightly out of our spec vary. Dana Barath (16 handicap, avid golfer, and sure, my spouse) is leaping in to interrupt down her firsthand expertise with XXIO’s latest line of ladies’s golf equipment.

Let’s have Dana take it from right here.

Instruments: A full set of XXIO 13 girls’s golf equipment from the driving force right down to the sand wedge.

The set included mentioned driver, 3-wood, 7-wood, 5-hybrid, 5-iron to pitching wedge, sand wedge, and a By no means Compromise Mannequin 1 putter. I selected these golf equipment to check because it’s how the golf equipment in my bag are normally arrange.

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The check additionally included two Cleveland CBX4 women’ spec wedges within the lofts of fifty and 56 levels, since I used to be curious to match the XXIO sand wedge to the extra conventional Cleveland providing.

The check: Moderately than merely grabbing numbers with a launch monitor and calling it a day, I’ve been utilizing these XXIO 13 golf equipment since they arrived in March and have performed a whole lot of golf with them. From my native nine-hole course to some current journey that took me to Pinehurst and Prince Edward Island, I’ve used these golf equipment beneath completely different circumstances and on numerous course sorts to see how they really profit my golf sport.

The outcomes are targeted on qualitative observations, together with specifics about how sure golf equipment made the most important variations for my on-course outcomes.

XXIO 13 design notes

I’ll depart this half for Ryan…

As one of many leaders within the light-weight membership market, XXIO presents premium expertise designed to assist golfers with reasonable clubhead speeds hit the ball greater and longer by all the set.

The motive force contains applied sciences like Rebound body to spice up ball speeds and forgiveness together with ActivWing aerodynamics to assist stabilize the clubhead in the course of the begin of the backswing, making it simpler to shut the membership face and sq. it up at impression.

The fairways and hybrids supply an analogous BiFlex Rebound body design and cannon sole to a considerable quantity of mass low within the head. This supplies a deeper middle of gravity to extend launch and normalize spin on mishits — particularly on widespread decrease face strikes.

As for the irons, the four-piece, hollow-cavity XXIO 13 irons are outfitted with a skinny titanium face and tungsten-nickel sole weight (on the longer 5- by 7-irons) to maneuver the CG low and away from the face to assist get the ball within the air simpler and peaking greater. This helps with carry distance and stopping energy on method photographs.

XXIO testing outcomes

OK, now it’s my flip once more.

How may I not begin with the driving force?

Although I’ve used numerous girls’s-specific golf equipment prior to now, the burden and stability of the XXIO 13 driver felt extraordinarily straightforward to swing quicker and with larger management. To achieve management with earlier drivers that all the time felt heavier, I normally performed them at 44 inches or much less although I knew I used to be giving up some swing pace.

With the XXIO I don’t really feel like I hand over something off the tee, and with the lighter weight and additional size (44.5 inches) I’ve hit a number of the longest drives of my life — and I’m hitting it greater! This has helped a lot on par-4s and 5s and at my native course the place circumstances may be on the mushy aspect.

Gaining peak and distance is a giant theme with these new golf equipment.

Just like the driving force, the XXIO 13 3-wood has been an amazing addition to my golf bag and added a whole lot of distance. With my earlier 3-wood, I’d solely ever hit it off the tee as a result of I discovered it exhausting to rise up into the air, however with the XXIO I’ve full confidence off the bottom and the tee. I even hit it not less than 50 p.c greater than I did earlier than, and that’s with the identical 16 levels of loft.

The hybrid and irons observe the identical development as the driving force and fairway wooden with additional distance and peak. Since altering to the XXIOs I play a way more constant straight-to-drawing shot with my irons, whereas with my earlier irons I used to default to a fade.

I additionally used to dread par-3s however now I’m extra excited than ever to play them. On our current golf journey to PEI, I made two par-3 birdies in the identical spherical at Andersons Creek, and I can’t consider a time the place I’ve ever carried out that earlier than.

Common carry distances based mostly on launch monitor information
Driver: 170 yards
3-wood: 150 yards
7-wood: 132 yards
5-hybrid: 125 yards (I actually prefer it from the tough)
5-iron: 125 yards
6-iron: 116 yards
7-iron: 104 yards
8-iron: 90 yards
9-iron: 78 yards
Pitching wedge: 70 yards

As for the wedges, the matching XXIO 13 sand wedge is, for my part, an amazing choice for golfers who don’t attempt to do an excessive amount of across the inexperienced with their brief sport and are extra targeted on most forgiveness.

As a golfer who has all the time used blade-style wedges, I most popular the Cleveland CBX4’s distinction to the XXIO due to their conventional look from tackle and the rounded sole form. They felt like they moved by the grass a bit simpler when chipping with the face open and the entrance fringe of the membership sat nearer to the bottom on the sand wedge when opening it in bunkers too.

I nonetheless assume the XXIO wedge is a superb choice, however the Cleveland was only a higher match for me.

Conclusion: From the highest to the underside of my set, the XXIO 13s have improved not simply my golf sport, but additionally the arrogance to execute photographs that I wasn’t capable of earlier than, particularly with regards to my woods and irons.

As a golfer who typically seems like I make good contact however struggles to cease method photographs into greens, I discovered the XXIO irons to be an enormous assist to my sport, particularly on par-3s the place I typically discovered myself rolling off the again. The additional peak and easy-to-swing really feel the XXIO 13 golf equipment present is one thing I imagine any golfer can profit from, particularly for a golfer like me who lives in that reasonable swing pace vary.

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Ryan Barath is GOLF Journal and GOLF.com’s senior editor for tools. He has an in depth club-fitting and -building background with greater than 20 years of expertise working with golfers of all ability ranges, together with PGA Tour gamers. Earlier than becoming a member of the workers, he was the lead content material strategist for Tour Expertise Golf, in Toronto, Canada.