Ping G400 vs Callaway Rogue X Irons

[Long Gone]

Been fitted for both the Ping G400(stock shafts) and the Callaway Rouge X.(recoil shafts) with these two being the top two of all of the irons I tested. Ping a little softer feel and less accurate with Rouge X being longer and surprisingly more accurate. Which would you choose? (also Ping had a little more higher ball flight). Big decision....both are the same price.

[Vinsk]

6 hours ago, Long Gone said:

Been fitted for both the Ping G400(stock shafts) and the Callaway Rouge X.(recoil shafts) with these two being the top two of all of the irons I tested. Ping a little softer feel and less accurate with Rouge X being longer and surprisingly more accurate. Which would you choose? (also Ping had a little more higher ball flight). Big decision....both are the same price.

Rogue X yielded more distance and more accuracy? What was the question? 

[Long Gone]

18 minutes ago, Vinsk said:

Rogue X yielded more distance and more accuracy? What was the question? 

Thanks for the reply. Do you think the Ping G400 would hold the greens better since it has a higher ball flight?

 

[Vinsk]

Well I’m not sure what your numbers were or your hcp, but I can’t imagine putting more emphasis on holding greens over distance and accuracy. Go with the Rogue X.

[mvmac]

22 hours ago, Long Gone said:

Been fitted for both the Ping G400(stock shafts) and the Callaway Rouge X.(recoil shafts) with these two being the top two of all of the irons I tested. Ping a little softer feel and less accurate with Rouge X being longer and surprisingly more accurate. Which would you choose? (also Ping had a little more higher ball flight). Big decision....both are the same price.

Just from my experience playing with golfers that use these kind of irons. 

PING's tend to be better with distance control, TaylorMade or Callaway game improvement irons can come off "hotter" but less reliable with how much and when. PING says they heat treat the heads to get rid of hot spots.

From Marty Jertson, Director of Product Development.

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“We were on a mission with this iron to produce distance but do it in a very unique way that gives this iron a direct competitive advantage in that it does several things that other distance irons on the market simply don’t do,” said Jertson of the G400. “Number one, it goes really high, so you can hit towering iron shots. It doesn’t have hot spots, so even though it’s hot you don’t have those impacts on the face that go flying ten or fifteen yards over the green. And for a distance iron, it feels amazing.”

 

[WUTiger]

54 minutes ago, mvmac said:

PING's tend to be better with distance control, TaylorMade or Callaway game improvement irons can come off "hotter" but less reliable with how much and when.

When I tested the SLDR irons in 2014, TM was working to solve the hot spot problem. Not sure what they've accomplished.

Two weeks ago a clubfitter told me the pros don't like the TM P790 irons because they're too hot. I'm not too sure just what he meant.Have you heard anything like this, @mvmac?

[pganapathy]

Select based on the following.  Your dispersion (left/right and distance) > accuracy (left/right) > distance. Distance is the least important thing. Hit a longer iron from the more accurate set than a shorter iron from the less accurate set

[mvmac]

1 hour ago, WUTiger said:

Two weeks ago a clubfitter told me the pros don't like the TM P790 irons because they're too hot. I'm not too sure just what he meant.Have you heard anything like this, @mvmac?

I think that's different to what I was referring to in my other post.

Yes the 790's are long, they're basically mini-hybrids with fasts faces. Doesn't do the pros much good because it would create too big of a gap with their wedges. Also they might have been referring to how the balls react on the greens because like a hybrid they are high launch, "low spin" irons.

[Vinsk]

3 hours ago, pganapathy said:

Hit a longer iron from the more accurate set than a shorter iron from the less accurate set

Not sure about this. It’s primarily the player making the shot. Most golfers hit a 9i more accurately than a 7i. I don’t think equipment alone changes that concept unless we include extremes I.e. A Thunderbird blade 9i and Ping GMax 7i.

[kpaulhus]

7 hours ago, WUTiger said:

When I tested the SLDR irons in 2014, TM was working to solve the hot spot problem. Not sure what they've accomplished.

Two weeks ago a clubfitter told me the pros don't like the TM P790 irons because they're too hot. I'm not too sure just what he meant.Have you heard anything like this, @mvmac?

I have the 790 3 iron and I use it mainly for off the tee because it goes so far. 

[Typhoon92]

U need to find out the spin or the max height/angle of decent.  The Rogue will be stupid if u can't hold a green.

Big fan of the recoil shaft, especially if u are older...good on the joints.  Can u try the recoils in the Pings?  That would maybe be the perfect match.