Callaway X-Tour

This Callaway X-Tour is the best wedge I've used in 30+ years of playing golf !

Quite simply brilliant - but it comes at a cost.

The club (58' L 11' B MD grooves) has a tremendous feel both for short chips around the green and for longer attacking shots of around 50 or so yards. In either case the the ball stops very quickly eliminating the need to try and navigate the contours of the green, and additionaly for the fuller shots you often can get the ball to easily spin back a bit (obviously using a softer ball and the greens aren't baked hard etc).

Like I said though it comes at a cost - shredded golf balls. With the MD model especialy, the grooves are a little wider and specially designed to grab more of the ball during the shot helping you get that extra spin. The result is often fine slivers of the balls outer coating being left in the grooves and some being left hanging off the ball that you need to pick off when you are on the green.

Dont get me wrong the ball doesnt look like its been in a food blender for five minutes and is still very usable, but the pristine look it had when it came out of the box will certainly be lost after a few holes.

As most 'better' golfers are unlikely to use the same ball for more than a couple of rounds (pros tend to use a new ball each hole) in serious competitions it is a small price to pay to potentialy save yourself several shots in a round.

Which loft variant is best for you is down to personal preferance as there are a lot of variations. If your worried out damaged balls then the non MD version may be better but at the cost of extra roll.

Which ever you choose KEEP THOSE GROOVES CLEAN, or you might as well get the cheepest wedge out of the pro's bargin bucket. Let the grooves do the work !!!

Overall good club for the 5 -10 handicap. Excellent price available on Ebay at this point. The Callaway X-tour irons have a very nice feel to them, i am hitting very solid shots. I found though that the standard DG shafts dont compare to the Rifle Proj. X Flighted shafts.

I was a 15 h/c that plays EVERY Saturday in my local comp and sometimes hit mid to late 70's but mostly hit mid to late 80's and had been using MacGregor m685 forged irons. These MacGregor irons are truely pure with shots that come "out of the middle" but as i am not a "touring professional" i cannot confess to being able to hit the absolute centre ALL the time. As a consequence i find that shots hit just off centre have the feeling of hitting a brick and the ball going virtually nowhere.

So after i accepted the fact that i am playing with irons that are better than my talent i decided that i should probably go back to a (much) more forgiving iron and i went looking. I tried many brands that included Taylor Made, ping, titleist, and mizuno. Now i must admit that i am one of those guys that wants the latest and greatest of everything in life and had my heart set on the mizuno's as i have heard all the scratch players at my club raving about the quality of these clubs but then i tried the callaways after the salesman suggested them. I have NEVER been interested in Callaway as i always thought they were the "rich person/poor player" clubs. I tried 3 types of Callaway and decided the X Forged were too unforgiving (like my current MacGregors) and the X-20 Tours were lacking in off centre feel. I must admit that they were beuatiful to hit but i had very little feedback. Then i tried the X-Tour and.........WOW!!!!!!!!! what a club.

I was shocked that a club could provide SO MUCH feedback but with consistant length even when hit just off centre. I was hitting them in the shop on the simulator and was calling each shot as i hit it and the salesman was confiming each and EVERY shot as i called it. The other surprise was that even when i hit it "off centre" i could tell but the distance wasn't as big a loss as my MacGregor's had been. So.......... i had to have them and bought them there and then and 2 days later (after having the grigs thickened and the lie adjusted) it was off to the range.

This would have to have been the best i have hit a ball since i was off 5 h/c when i was a teenager and the ball flight and consistency even with an average swing was astonishing.

Feel, control, balance everything was just superb.

I cannot speak highly enough of the forgivness of the clubs. I pulled my old MacGregors out just to compare one on one and the difference is night and day apart. The pure hits are similar but the Callaways have a higher ball flight with the same/very similar distance and land softer and often suck or very quickly stop on the greens. I have matched these irons with the X-Tour wedges in vintage finish 50, 54 and 58 deg which not only look great but have totally transformed my game around the green. A must have with this set of irons but i wont go into that on this review.

So to wrap up, if your game is improving and you want to take the next step to a forged iron but have baulked at the lack of forgiveness that forged irons so often bring, then look no more and go and try these amazing irons.

YOU WILL NOT BE DISSAPOINTED.

Word of warning though.........either leave your wallet in the car or have a healthy bank balance as you will want these after trying them.

My handicap has now gone from 15 to 9 and haven't hit over 82 since having these irons and this is only in 3 weeks!!!!!!!!!

do i like them??????...............what do you reackon???????

A Great club that i would recommend buying, I liked it because it had good spin and fantastic feel, the Callaway X tour is a great wedge. I get so much control around the green and i can pop the ball out of any green so much easier than i could with my old wedges