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Best: overall It’s been a great year for Srixon. They’re known by many for making some of the best value golf balls on the market, and by purists for their excellent irons. The ZX irons are some of the best clubs players can buy in 2025, in fact, and this year they’ve really upped the standard of their woods, too. Aesthetically, the ZXi is a clear step up for Srixon compared to previous fairway wood models. There’s a sleek, understated carbon top and a nice glossy sole that combine to create one of the best-looking we tried. There’s an awful lot of good stuff going on under the hood, too. The big addition this time round is the Srixon-exclusive Iflex face technology, which is designed to produce greater energy transfer into the ball, boosting club speed by creating a thinner middle and adding more thickness to the heel and toe. The work has clearly paid off, as we saw results which offered a great mix of ball speed and forgiveness across a number of rounds and practice sessions. Players who hit down on their fairway woods will find a lot to like with the deep face, and we instantly got on well with it from the first moment of testing. The ZXi fairway wood is our pick for the best new model on the market this year, and definitely the best that Srixon has produced to date. It’s hot off the face and offers good distance - useful as a second option off the tee for when the driver is misbehaving, but it’s still easy to launch off the deck for those longer par 5s. In many ways, it’s a fantastic allrounder which will suit different types of players of different ability levels. It’s the kind of club that will find its way into players' bags and stay there for a long time, and our pick of the best all-round option available in 2025.
