Best Srixon & Cleveland Irons 2024: tested with data

Last updated: 24 October 2024

The best Srixon and Cleveland golf irons.

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Srixon don’t spend as much on marketing or have as large a market share as some of the bigger brands, but they have been making some of the best golf irons available for quite some time.

Better players in particular tend to love the design, craftmanship and feel delivered by Srixon irons.

Tour pros including Shane Lowry, Brooks Koepka and Hideki Matsuyama use Srixon irons, but Srixon (alongside partner brand Cleveland, especially) also cater to higher handicappers and even beginner golfers.

The Srixon & Cleveland iron range includes everything from slimline musclebacks aimed at very good golfers all the way to hollow-headed hybrid irons aimed at those who struggle to hit any kind of traditional iron. But which Srixon & Cleveland iron is best for your game? Let’s take a look…

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To test golf equipment, we create a controlled indoor environment at Keele Golf Centre and use a premium tour-level golf ball (the Srixon Z-Star). We collect all the data from every shot hit, using a Foresight GC Quad launch monitor.

Why do we use a Srixon Z-Star golf ball?

It would be easy to use just one test golf ball brand every year, but that inevitably leads to criticism for being too closely aligned to one manufacturer, especially if that brand’s equipment performs particularly well. To ensure fairness we like to switch manufacturers for the Top Gear test ball each year. For 2023 we’ve used the Srizon Z-Star.

The brand have just revealed their eighth-generation model, and Srixon General Manager Brian Schielke says “finding the right ball for your game is just as important as finding the right irons or driver, it’s the one piece of equipment you use on every single shot”.

Thanks to the previous Z-Star mopping up 31 wins across all tour global tours last year (that’s 15.5% of the wins available) we know the model is trusted by the world’s very best.

Why do we use a pro tester?

Speak to any golf club engineer about product testing and they all talk about needing a repeatable, reliable strike to offer any sort of valuable comparison. So, whilst we accept not all of the equipment included within our tests was designed for our test pro, what our data shows is a great comparison of how clubs in each particular category differ, which is hugely valuable in helping you narrow your choice as a consumer.

We tested 83 different 7-irons, during which our test pro missed a target green at 170 to 200 yards no more than a dozen times. He got a hole-in-one, lipped out, and hit the flag several times, he also loves hitting golf balls all day long. In short, Neil Wain is the perfect club tester due to his consistency in delivering accurate and reliable comparative data.

We would of course always recommend attending a proper fitting session, to ensure any purchase is tailored to your game.

See more about how Today’s Golfer tests equipment.

The Srixon ZX4 are the most forgiving Srixon irons available. Srixon’s partner brand, Cleveland, make irons that are even more forgiving; namely the Cleveland Launcher XL and Launcher XL Halo.

The Srixon ZX4 irons are good for high-handicappers, particularly those hoping to improve, as they will still serve you well into a mid-handicap and below.

Whilst specifying handicap ranges for irons is always tricky (you could be an excellent ball-striker but have a high handicap due to other areas of the game, for instance) the Srixon ZX7 will typically suit golfers with handicaps of six and below.

The Srixon ZX7 are a little less forgiving than the ZX5 and have marginally weaker lofts. They are purposely designed to look similar at address, making them a great option for a combo set of the two.

Tour pros using the Srixon ZX5 include Keegan Bradley, Graeme McDowell and Shane Lowry.

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