2024 MOST FORGIVING DRIVER!? 90mph Swing Speed....Who Will Take The Crown??

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In this video we test 4 of the most forgiving drivers of 2024 to see who will take the crown.
Putting head to head the Ping G430 10k Max, the Taylormade Qi10 Max, the Callaway Ai Smoke Max and the new Mizuno ST 230 Max.
Who will we crown the most forgiving driver of 2024?
Timecodes:
0:00 - Intro
01:25 - Qi10 Max Centre Strikes
05:38 - Qi10 Max Terrible Strikes
08:35 - Ai Smoke Max Centre Strikes
10:50 - Ai Smoke Max Terrible Strikes
12:50 - Ping 10k Max Centre Strikes
16:43 - Ping 10k Max Terrible Strikes
18:43 - Mizuno ST Max Centre Strikes
22:21 - Mizuno ST Max Terrible Strikes
25:23 - Results - Club Data Comparison
27:17 - Results - Ball Data Comparison
29:26 - My Forgiveness Ratings
31:25 - Best Looking Behind the Ball
31:53 - Best Feeling
32:07 - Best Sounding
32:17 - Outro

Пікірлер: 100

@billdunlop8683 Ай бұрын

When the video said " now for some Horrific strikes" I thought to myself how the hell did this guy get a video of my last round ??

@anthonyfarmer8387 Ай бұрын

Great video and props to you for using a swing speed which equates well to the likely buyers of these clubs. Loved the fact that you groaned at the mishits even when you were doing it deliberately 😂 Interesting to see the difference 4Mph swing speed makes, need to work on that! Love the channel.

@epgolfstudios Ай бұрын

Thanks Anthony, glad you enjoyed the video. And yeah, they were honestly such bad hits they felt horrendous even though I was trying to do it 😂 just a golfers natural reaction I guess 😂

@dropkickdrones4569 Ай бұрын

Best golf channel hands down!!

@epgolfstudios Ай бұрын

Thanks a lot we really appreciate the support 🙌🙌

@gavversify Ай бұрын

Great video, Thank you 👍

@MrKoi13 Ай бұрын

Great review!!

@MichaelPowers-ow9ld Ай бұрын

Another great video! Really appreciate the effort you put in to give us all such meaningful content.

@epgolfstudios Ай бұрын

Thanks Michael glad you appreciate the effort that goes into the vids 🙌🙌

@desmonix Ай бұрын

Thank you for the video.

@raymondbooth3189 Ай бұрын

Just watched absolutely outstanding test. Just subscribed 👍

@epgolfstudios Ай бұрын

Thanks Raymond 👌👌

@geoffhiggins742 Ай бұрын

Excellent. Very interesting video. It seems like if I could put a good swing on it and square the face, then more or less anywhere on the face will do! Also seems like any of these clubs would do a job too. In a couple of years time I'll know it's fine to pick the one in the best condition.😆

@jim9win Ай бұрын

Happy for you keep it going

@cleve0h 3 күн бұрын

Love your reviews. It may not be fun dropping your swing speed to 90 mph but they do speak to the masses.

@patrickcosgrove5272 Ай бұрын

Really enjoyed that test , especially keeping the club speed at 90. mph ! Loved that you used off- centered hits ! I was really impressed with the Mizuno, being so much less in price, compared to the others ! Thanks

@dougpulsford4721 Ай бұрын

Great test, as you say they all are really good!

@epgolfstudios Ай бұрын

Thanks Doug, and yes all brilliant drivers as expected nowadays

@billburbank4314 Ай бұрын

Ross, this was so cool. You looked like you were swinging half speed from your normal! Really enlightening to to carry dist from 88 to 92. Seems the Ping grew on you a bit from initial...hope that is not result of Ping pressure! Be really interesting to see older model to current model...and mishit performance. But you path and delivery are so solid. Love your channel and choice of content. Cheers mate.

@jacquesvdmerwe5586 Ай бұрын

Great to see the Brava making an appearance! I currently game the x-flex with an Cobra Darkspeed LS. Dropping absolute straight bombs

@russellmills2044 Ай бұрын

Great test

@andythomas2796 25 күн бұрын

Great test, I'll follow this site.

@epgolfstudios 25 күн бұрын

Thanks Andy 👍

@jrickett630 Ай бұрын

Excellent video! Would love to see something similar with hybrids and/or fairway woods. Keep the great content coming!

@epgolfstudios Ай бұрын

Thanks! And yes we may well do something like that 👍👍

@peterbuzz7279 Ай бұрын

Great video. Amazing effort to creat this content. Plenty of launch with the ping for that swing speed. Could easily deloft and lower spin with more rollout?

@michandcat Ай бұрын

Good stuff. Would love to see this test done with the low spin models with a results comparison. 2 thumbs up

@rufussthoo4083 Ай бұрын

A very worthwhile test. Thanks for putting the hours in and getting it done, Ross. While the results may have been somewhat predictable, it is good to see someone perform the test at the average speed and provide confirmation. I did find it interesting that you didn't (couldn't?) produce one the most common mishits - the high toe. It would have been good to see the performance from that particular strike too. Now that the 'most forgiving' has been identified, I'd love to see the longest/hotest driver for 90 mph. Perhaps the Ai Smoke vs Cobra Darkspeed vs PXG Black Ops?

@MrBrendon7 Ай бұрын

Love your work mate, so they are all pretty good, guess it comes down to how they act in other hands, which you've proven time again

@kevinbryant2367 Ай бұрын

Great test and content, keep up the good work, I hope to be in contact for a fitting after July when I retire and hope to play a lot more golf 🙂

@thscott05 Ай бұрын

Disappointed the Cobra Darkspeed Max wasn't included but otherwise a great vid

@p1nkfl0yd1an Ай бұрын

Upgraded to the Darkspeed Max this spring. Can confirm at the very least it's wildly forgiving when compared to my 20 year old Cobra lol.

@CharlotteK2008 Ай бұрын

Cos it’s just not as good as all the rest….. Simples

@Pud56 Ай бұрын

I span the Ping so much, was fitted into the AiMax and spins at around 2300, so effective for me. Great distance and dispersion, shows how fitting and testing all the options pays dividends. All the drivers are good, but it’s horses for courses. The light weight of the AiMax certainly increased my club head speed, as i was 4mph faster than with any of the other drivers, however it might be that i was confident with it?

@AlphaBravo73 Ай бұрын

interesting results. It would be great to see a comparison with the drivers below these in the upper budget range like the clevelands

@mufc778 Ай бұрын

Can we see the difference of a 95 mph swing results with regular and stiff shafts..love the channel

@epgolfstudios Ай бұрын

Have done this one my Chanel already. Did senior, reg, stiff and X in a blind test

@jasonmiller4080 Ай бұрын

Take your pick, they’re all so good

@cameronloveless1751 Ай бұрын

Ross, you mentioned the Ping was clearly a winner from low strikes, but did you find any driver was a clear winner from the toe, or from the heel? Thanks for the great review

@JiKimbo Ай бұрын

I'm only half way through, and it's amazing how well your mis-hits work out when you club face is square with a decent swing path. Great test by the way. Lots of hard work went into that one! 👏👏

@epgolfstudios Ай бұрын

Thanks bud! Yeah I try to be as in depth as I can be and be fair to all the clubs in the test....and yeah in all fairness I find that with pretty much every driver nowadays, even the 'less forgiving' models. If you deliver a good face to path you get away with the mishits..which is sometimes why I'm now completely sold by the whole 10k thing

@papashuk26 13 күн бұрын

Thanks for the 90 mph test as most don’t bother with slower speeds. So it’s just marketing as I think the Mizuno is much cheaper than the rest. Great job!

@robertlinde-gs9mn Ай бұрын

Thank you for pulling this together- it is very informative. Which foresight software do you use to display the comparison betwen clubs?

@epgolfstudios Ай бұрын

It's just the Foresight FSX software 👍

@robertlinde-gs9mn 29 күн бұрын

@@epgolfstudios thanks I have been using FSX Pro and I separate Driver from 3 wood but if I select driver and use a tag for Mizuno and a tag for titleist the software wont let me separate them in the display- I wonder what I am doing wrong.

@wes9588 Ай бұрын

Miz is the answer. A head that large and forgiving to be that low spinning *with* that gear effect on heel shots is amazing.

@wesleynuttall5 Ай бұрын

Great test, amazing how slow you have to swing to get to 90mph. But my swing only averages about 96 while im trying to give it some. So annoying when im a fairly big lad eho can throw some decent weights around the gym.

@vroomgc Ай бұрын

Its all in the technique and fast twitch muscles, not big muscles

@NovaScene Ай бұрын

Been gaming the 10K in a Ventus Black this season, at about 107 mph and it's a beast!

@jday4217 Ай бұрын

Need the Cleveland in there to compare too

@richb326 13 күн бұрын

Currently playing Stealth 2 but would really like to try the Callaway, Ping looks too busy, Qi10 not different enough to Stealth and never even seen the Mizuno

@ecliqxse9591 Ай бұрын

Lucky to win a bidding on a Pxg black ops 10.5* for $380 … Pxg should be here for the test lol

@johngibson2639 Ай бұрын

Another great test, keeping it all as fair as you can. The only issue I have with people like you testing ‘forgiveness’ is that, even though you dial down the speed and hit it all over the face, your delivery is always so good. IMV the true test would be with an 18 handicapper, swinging 90mph, hitting it all over the face (just like you did) but, crucially, with typically variable delivery and path. I have suspicion that the lack of gear effect on these clubs would mean horrid delivery equates to even more horrid results than with a less ‘forgiving’ head. I could be wrong, of course 😊

@epgolfstudios Ай бұрын

Yeah I think that you're just thinking a bit too much into it. The reality is there's not much between these models at all anymore, and even between these type of heads and the less 'forgiving' heads, there still isn't that much difference at all on mishits. As you say the delivery has far more of an impact and if it's a bad delivery it will generally be a bad result regardless of the club. If it's a good delivery and a mishit you will get away with it with pretty much any driver nowadays. We could do it with an 18 handicap but it would prob just be too sporadic to actually get a realistic idea of how each club performs, I think a better player has to do it. IMO tests like this are really a bit pointless, as there's never really any difference on mishits. Good to see the difference of how they perform out the middle though. That's probably more of a takeaway for most than the actual 'forgiveness' part.

@johngibson2639 Ай бұрын

@@epgolfstudios I agree, the average 18 handicapper would need to hit an awful lot of shots to get a decent set of ‘good’ drives but that’s the point, really. Please don’t think I’m saying your tests aren’t worthwhile - they absolutely are. It’s just that I’m not convinced really good golfers are best placed to test real-World ‘forgiveness’. Keep up the good work 😊 FWIW, most days, ‘The Middle’ is a foreign land to me 😢

@vroomgc Ай бұрын

@@johngibson2639 NO club is going to fix a bad swing. So your point is moot.

@jamesdaniels85 Ай бұрын

I tried them all and ended up with the AI smoke for the extra distance and low spin it seemed to get. I have just received a PXG Black ops tour as an upgrade/replacement for the old 0311 which had a faulty face. Seems to keep up with the smoke so far.

@epgolfstudios Ай бұрын

Nice! Yeah we don't do PXG but I have heard pretty good things about their new driver

@briandavidson2684 Ай бұрын

Great comparison test. Can you do it for 100-105 mph.

@epgolfstudios Ай бұрын

Thanks Brian. And no 😂 it's not worth the effort the results would be the same

@kooijbas Ай бұрын

I really have to work on my technique. I see you swinging with barely any effort at all and still hitting it further than my best efforts.

@marcoscado5478 Ай бұрын

Do low spin next!!! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

@tomgregory6275 Ай бұрын

I am a senior golfer (78 years old) and I too play the "BGT Brava shaft in Stiff flex, at 44.75 inches length" at 54 grams with a midsize grip, 102 gram total. I know very few golfers and fitters believe that this would allow me the best results for forgiveness, distance, and dispersion, but I shoot in Low 70s with a triple diamond Callaway at 10.5 degrees, set netural... I use a 14 gram weight in back and 2 gram in front, with an average of 225 carry distance and most shots, the center of the fairway...Why? It works where I play, here in the Southern Rocky Mountains about 7,000 ft altitude, just south of Santa Fe, NM. Could "Elite Golf fitters" tell me if there is any change I should try to get better results??? My Ghin is 6...

@rgrpncs Ай бұрын

Always look forward to your videos but what about the Cobra?

@epgolfstudios Ай бұрын

Thanks Michael. Yeah that was only purely down to time and exhaustion. As I said in the video I already hit just over 140 shots to get the best data and comparison shots possibly with these 4 drivers, adding another would have meant hitting 170/180 shots which I just didn't feel I could do and didn't really have time to do either unfortunately. I only have a small filming slot each week that I fit in between my 6 days of fully booked fittings.

@awchiu Ай бұрын

I using the Ping 430 Max currently and hit it really well. Do you think it’s worth upgrading to the 10K for a bit more forgiveness?

@TOsure719 Ай бұрын

I have both.. no, not worth it.

@awchiu Ай бұрын

Thanks! You saved me some money!

@epgolfstudios Ай бұрын

I agree with the above. Not worth the upgrade.

@v205 Ай бұрын

What's the benefit of the LS you're drivers? Bit more distance on centre strikes?

@epgolfstudios Ай бұрын

Yeah like for me at my normal speed if I played one of these drivers I'd hit the ball about 150ft+ in the air and it would land like a PW and lose me about 30/40 yards. So yeah much more penetrating ball flight, more roll out and more distance overall. Plus the LS drivers really aren't that much less forging anymore

@kev12558 Ай бұрын

I have both the Ping G430 max and 10k. 10k in the bag at the moment, but have a big issue squaring the club face at impact. £40 a week on lessons with one of our pro’s in a studio, still can’t seem to get it right. Tried the 430 max with the weight to draw, still hopeless. Any tips? Would the AI with a sliding weight help? Yes, I was fitted.

@epgolfstudios Ай бұрын

No it wouldn't, my best advice would be to stop spending money on equipment and find another pro. Definitely it can be sorted by seeing the right person. Where abouts are you based?

@kev12558 Ай бұрын

Hayling Island. Tough links course, rarely play without less than 15mph winds, gorse everywhere, at the moment rough is up. Ball easily lost a foot off the fairway. Most weeks at least 25% of the field NR 🤪

@epgolfstudios Ай бұрын

@@kev12558 come and see me you're only a tiny bit over an hour away I'll take a proper look for you

@kingtosin Ай бұрын

The indoor driving range I go to uses Rangex, a korean brand. My data 87.8 club speed/Ball speed 130/Smash 1.48/Carry 193 yds/Total distance 231 yds/ spin 1717/launch angle 12.9/attach angle 2. Use a Taylormade Gloire driver (Japanese model) with an Autoflex SF405 shaft. Driver is 10.5 degree but I set it 2 clicks lower for the loft. I think the shaft plays a bigger role in the stats. When I hit poorer shots my smash factor goes to 1.38 and the distance is lesser. My question is will a 10K head deliver a better smash factor which in turn will deliver longer carry and total distance? I notice the 10K heads has almost 1000 more spin than my current driver. Wonder how that will affect my distance. Would be nice if you can do the same comparison but with different shafts to see how the results differ.

@epgolfstudios Ай бұрын

Possibly the smash would be marginally better with a 10k head but really you would need to get fitted and do some proper testing to actually determine whether or not the improvements would be worth the investment. Likely it wouldn't be. Shaft wise it depends what you're talking about. Shafts have a very small influence on launch and spin, that all comes from the head. So if I did this test again even with multiple different shafts the results and numbers would be pretty much the same. If I wanted to lower the spin I'd just go from the 10.5 head down to a 9. Or move into the lower spinning head model.

@nisch2379 Ай бұрын

I currently game the TM Sim Max driver and have been hitting it really well lately. I went and bought the Ping 10k. Should I return it?

@epgolfstudios Ай бұрын

Absolutely no idea 😂 not sure how I can answer that one tbh. If your SIM Max was hitting fairways and you were confident with it then was prob no reason to change, unless the Ping is also hitting fairways and going longer 🤷

@shaunkelley55 Ай бұрын

I game the Mizuno ST Max it’s as good as anything in this category, unbelievably forgiving, and long too, I average 275 yrds carry you literally can’t miss the fairway

@epgolfstudios Ай бұрын

Yeah this could be the driver that really takes them up into the big leagues with the other top driver brands. It's really good

@CharlotteK2008 Ай бұрын

You average carry 275 and never miss a fairway…. YOU ARE INCREDIBLE. You must be a hell of a golfer. Pro numbers that

@pgowan357 Ай бұрын

Why no Cobra?

@damiensmith8351 Ай бұрын

Just went to book a driver fitting on your website, and I can't believe it's right-handed fitting only. Is that correct?

@epgolfstudios Ай бұрын

Hey Damien, I'm afraid that is correct. After a couple of years we decided to move away from offering LH fittings as we were losing money year on year from offering it. We obviously offer quite an extensive fitting matrix that costs a lot of money to put together, and we would only see probably less than 10 lefties per year. So unfortunately commercially just makes absolutely no sense.

@scottfrench6128 Ай бұрын

No Titleist TSR1?

@davidquinn7144 Ай бұрын

Qi10 max is unbeatable for high handicap golfer .nice review by a golfer who likes ping .

@epgolfstudios Ай бұрын

It's definitely not 😂😂 tbh I've never been a massive ping fan. I go by data, can't argue with data

@glenburr6755 Ай бұрын

New here? 😂😂

@kevinjohnson2779 Ай бұрын

No Black Ops?

@epgolfstudios Ай бұрын

@SpudOutdoors Ай бұрын

Left out black ops and black ops tour 1.

@epgolfstudios Ай бұрын

We don't do PXG unfortunately and no plans to in the future

@SpudOutdoors Ай бұрын

@@epgolfstudios and the reason is ?

@epgolfstudios Ай бұрын

No need. Extra cash spend for a very small business with no benefit. Their business model is all over the shop so would rather let them do their own DTC thing. We already have more than enough brands to fit any golfer out there to the highest level.

@SpudOutdoors Ай бұрын

@@epgolfstudioswhich means you don’t believe in their products got it. Last video I watch.

@epgolfstudios Ай бұрын

@@SpudOutdoors it's not that I don't believe in their products, I'm sure they are fine. As I said, it's more of a business decision. We know they aren't better than Ping, Titleist, Callaway, Cobra, etc. I'm sure they are up there close with them. But there's just no need to have them. It's not easy running a small business where money is tight. Every decision needs to have clear positives. We are happy with the 7 brands we have it's more than a good enough offering.