PXG has announced 0311 GEN5 fairway woods and hybrids.The new lineup features two models (0311, 0311XF).Retail price is $379 for each.

As expected, the PXG 0311 GEN5 launch includes new fairway wood and hybrid models. With that said, part of the story revolves around requisite features and benefits. New materials, different weighting schemes and a revamped geometry. That sort of thing. But with PXG, there’s always something else.

Subtext. Nuance. Whatever you want to call it. Once upon a time, PXG founder Bob Parsons likened his upstart golf brand to that of luxury automaker Ferrari. But that was pre-pandemic.

Now we must consider whether PXG can exist as both a value-driven (the 0211 driver is $229) and premium-priced brand ($500 milled wedges). Naysayers and critics already have their answer. But they were wrong before. We will file this one under the “topic for another day” tab for now.

That aside, let’s dive into PXG’s 0311 GEN5 fairway woods and hybrids.

The PXG 0311 GEN5 iron family includes three models (0311 T, 0311 P, 0311 XP).According to PXG, GEN5 irons are longer and more forgiving than their predecessors.An all-black “Black Label Elite” version is also available.Retail price is $349 each for chrome and $449 each for Black Label Elite.

Technically, PXG doesn’t have release cycles but that doesn’t mean the company has ever been content to sit on what it has. Its GEN4 lineup launched about a year and a half ago. By industry standards, more than enough time has passed to justify the release of the new PXG 0311 GEN5 irons.

Those close to the development of the new irons believe GEN5 represents the biggest model-to-model advancement in the company’s history. And while that’s the kind of bravado that accompanies nearly every product release, the jump from GEN4 to GEN5 is certainly the most intriguing I’ve seen from the company to date.

Let’s dig in.

PXG 0311 GEN5 Iron Construction

It’s not the most fascinating stuff. It’s also not likely to be the reason you buy (or don’t buy) the PXG 0311 GEN5 irons but I wanted to start with an overview of the construction of the PXG’s latest flagship irons.

PXG has announced 0311 GEN5 drivers, featuring two models.The 0311 GEN5 is designed for the majority of golfers while the 0311 XF GEN5 offers extreme forgiveness.Retail price is $499.

As the GEN5 product line which includes PXG 0311 GEN5 drivers launches, there’s a larger discussion to be had about PXG and how its business evolved during two years of COVID. Suffice it to say PXG is emerging from the pandemic as a dramatically different company from the one that went in. Chalk that up to a mix of necessity and opportunity.

While some of the lowest equipment prices we’ve ever seen have led some to believe otherwise, rumors of PXG’s demise have been greatly exaggerated. Again, that’s something we’ll explore in detail later. For now, take the release of the 0311 GEN5 lineup (and the opening of another handful of retail stores) as evidence that the company isn’t going belly up any time soon.

With that out of the way, let’s take a closer look at PXG’s 0311 GEN5 driver lineup.

PXG 0311 GEN5 Drivers – A New Naming Convention

It’s a small detail but with the GEN5 lineup, PXG has changed the naming convention of its products. Previously, drivers were 0811, fairways were 0341, hybrids 0317 and flagship irons 0311. The names were based on MOS (military occupational specialty) codes. Call it a nod to PXG CEO and Founder Bob Parsons’ dedication to the Marine Corps. A worthy tribute, perhaps, but for many, myself included, pretty damned confusing. I’ve been covering PXG since before it launched its first clubs and I could never commit model numbers for fairways and hybrids to memory.

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Are you one of those golfers who occasionally yips your chips? You know those short chips near the green when you want to reach the putting surface and roll out to the hole. How often do you blade your chips across the green or bouncing your club into the ground before you brush you ball with a weak result? Imagine the strokes you could save if you could make every chip count.

I am one of those golfers who tends to miss-hit my chips when the pressure is on to lift my ball out of deep rough with a very short run-out to the hole. Of course, I also stub those easy chips from a tight lie about 20 yards from the green. I have purchased a few special chipping clubs that promise success but the weight of these heavier clubs have a different feel than my set of clubs, so my swing cadence is inconsistent and my results were poor.

Opportunity!
I found the perfect solution where I can use my existing clubs as well as the different lofts of each of my clubs. Danny Maude teaches the proper swing for chipping (the way Scottie Scheffler or any other pro chips), but he also provides this much simpler chipping method with a putting stroke. What could be easier to use for recreational golfers?

Learn to Make a Putting-Chip: By gripping down on any of your irons and standing with your eyes almost directly over your ball you can chip your ball from any lie to clear 1 to 20 feet of rough and settle on the putting surface.

1/ For shorter chips with shorter run-outs, use your highest lofted wedge and for longer chips with longer run-outs you can select a lower lofted club like a 6 iron or an 8 iron.
2/ Setup with a normal putting stance with your feet close together but your hands will be placed on the lower end of your grip so that your shaft is almost pointing vertically from your face down to the ball.
3/ The toe of your club will be pointing on an angle down to your ball [Sorry about the image above as the grass is hiding the toe pointing down] as you will be swinging as you would with a putter (with a flat leading wrist) to lift your ball with the TOE of your club. Use a limited backswing to chip your ball and let it run-out 1 to 35 feet across the green.
4/ You will have to experiment with different amounts of backswing and follow-through with each of your lofted clubs to sort out what works best for the air time and roll-out that you want to execute.

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