0-Iron Blade Review

Okay, I don't know how to feel about this video today. I've got a whole mix of emotions. I'm sort

of excited, but I'm sort of terrified, and let me show you why. Let me introduce you to the Bose

Iron Factory JCM01 Zero Iron. Now, this thing has 12 degrees, yes, 12 degrees of loft

precisely zero offset, and a top line you could cut yourself on. This is not for the faint-hearted

This Zero Iron was actually sent to me by master craftsman, Falcon Mastabara, who founded the Bose Iron Factory in Japan

And they make some unbelievable products. He sent me a couple of other bits just to tease me

Take a look at these wedges. These are some of the most beautifully crafted wedges I've ever

laid my eyes on. The shaping and the finish is just extraordinary and it seems indicative of

what they do at the Bose Iron Factory. So I put a link in the description down below to their

website go and check out their products you won't be disappointed but we're not here to talk about

wedges we're going to try this zero iron this isn't the first zero iron i've ever seen john

daly actually had one in the bag at st andrews in 1995 that wilson made specifically for him for

that golf course but even that one had a slight cavity in the back to give him some help right

i can't put it off any longer i'm going to charge up gc quad hit some away get some numbers and see

see what it can do. Whoa that's going to be interesting to see the numbers. In terms of the

spec on this thing as I said it's got 12 degrees of loft which is essentially a driver or at a push

a really, really strong three-wood. And it is long as well. They build this as standard 42 and three quarters inches

which is just quarter of an inch shy of a standard three So this thing is really built for speed and distance Well I already had a sneaky look at the data from those two swipes so I going to hit a few more away and then I going to take a closer look at the averages

okay so the numbers now these are really really interesting and i'm surprised in some ways

and not surprised in others the surprise was that i can actually hit this thing i can get it off the

floor and I can get it going and that resulted in some pretty good average numbers for me so I was

getting an average ball speed of 152.8 miles per hour launching at nine and a half degrees and

spinning around the 3,000 mark which is aggressive but culminated in an average carry distance of

2, 4, 6 off the deck with a zero iron which I'm actually quite pleased with but it's how it got

there that concerned me a little bit and this is the bit that didn't surprise me the slight lack

of consistency. I wasn't getting much help if I missed the direct middle of this golf club. So my

ball speed fluctuated quite a lot. My lowest ball speed here, 145.3 miles an hour versus my highest

ball speed of 158.5. That's quite a big gap. And again, you can see that in the yardage

My shortest carry was 229 and my longest carry was 261. So over 30 yards of difference there

I'm just not sure that's that playable. I was unsure as to where to place this club as well

and I've never hit anything as long or anything as low lofted in an iron but it seems to me I've

hit a few three irons and I've hit a few three woods here. It seems to sit somewhere between the

two certainly from a yardage point of view and a ball speed point of view although because of the

makeup and the loft and the MOI situation the spin is lower than both. So you can see from the numbers

this thing's pretty adept at hitting stingers, low penetrating ball flights But I want to see if this is just a one pony Can I manipulate that ball flight Can I get it high Can I go left to right Can I go right to left Let go to the practice ground and find out Right so you join me here at a very blustery Churston practice ground and as you can

see from that ball flight that I've just hit this thing as we know has no problem hitting that

stinging low knuckleball but I want to see if I can get this thing flighted up a bit. So I'm

I'm gonna move the ball up in my stance a bit, sweep it away just a little bit more

and see if I can get that trajectory up. Okay, well, I think you can see from that I can

I did clip that nicely, a nice high trajectory. I mean, it's helped by on coming into the winds

the winds buffered it up a little bit. But I can certainly maneuver that more than I thought I could up

So let's see if I can now do it left to right and right to left. So if you're enjoying learning about this zero iron

hit that like button, subscribe to the channel if you haven't already, comment down below, how do you think you'd get on with this

Okay, well I think you can probably see from that, I'm not having too much trouble

manoeuvring the ball left to right. Right to left was a bit more of a struggle

which you tend to see when there's less loft on a club. It did turn over, but it certainly wasn't

as easy as cutting it. That's enough of the practice stuff, let's get out on the course

and see if this thing's good on a hole. Right, so I wanted to see what this thing can do

out on a golf course and I've given myself a pretty tough challenge if I'm honest

I'm here on the fifth hole at Cherston Golf Club, It's a 550 yard par five playing straight into a very, very cold wind

And I'm going to play the entire hole with my zero iron and see if I can make a par. Right, well I found my ball. It was a good hit. I've turned it over a little bit

Bit disappointed to find it in some overhanging trees. However, this might actually be a really good chance to showcase what this zero iron can do

I've got to keep this really, really low and advance it as far as possible because I've still got about 300 plus yards to go so this might be the tool for the job

I got that absolutely perfect as I wanted it Started really really low stayed under these branches and I reckon even into this cold wind i got that about 220 up there which i chuffed with from here okay well now is where the fun and

games really start because i found myself here 139 yards away yes i've got a very cold wind but

i've still got to take about 100 yards off the zero iron i've coming out of some rough here

although it's sitting well it can be difficult to get enough club on ball when you've got such

little loft. Let's see if I can manipulate something here. Well, I'm pretty chuffed with that. 139 yards dead pin high. I've left myself 10

foot up the hill for a birdie. Let's see if I can putt

Would have been the greatest birdie of my life. Pretty chuffed with a five though

Well that was a bit of fun, I hope you enjoyed that, and that would have been the best birdie of my life

And it was just a bit of fun, obviously I wouldn't play an entire hole with a zero eye, but I hope it showed

some of the versatility of this club. Hit a really nice tee shot, turned it over a little bit

into the trees, but then it showed it's metal with that low raking hook out of it

I even managed a 139 yard bump and run to 10 feet, and it very nearly hold the birdie putt

But the point of this is to see whether this might be a playable club

And first requirement you need, if you did think it was gonna be a playable club, would be speed

If you haven't got speed, you're simply not gonna get this club airborne

So that would be requirement number one. But my conclusion really is it probably just is too high tariff

Although I thoroughly enjoyed hitting it, and off the centre it just feels like butter

the forgiveness and the lack of MOI would probably make it just too high tariff to me

but I do think there's merit in an iron of this loft somewhere

And this is a call out to the manufacturers out there. If you can make an iron of 11, 12 degrees of loft

but build it a bit more MOI and a bit more friendliness, I really think you might be onto something