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Choose the i230 if you strike it well and want to control your distances.
Choose the i525 if you want more distance and a little more help from a head that still looks like a players iron.
Both are compact PING irons of the same year, and both are now bought used: PING builds the i230 only as fill-in or replacement clubs and no longer sells the i525. The i525 is the more forgiving. PING built it as a players distance iron, perimeter weighted "to elevate forgiveness", with a forged face on a body undercut in the sole so the face flexes more; the i230 is its players iron, for distance control and tight dispersion. Their offsets are close (2.0 mm against 2.3 mm at the 7-iron), but the i525's lofts are two to two and a half degrees stronger from the 5- to the 8-iron (a 30.5° 7-iron against 33°), and the two sets meet at a 45° PW and a 50° UW. Both came in either hand, from a senior flex to extra stiff. We score the i525 2 of 5 and the i230 1.
PING's players iron before the i240: a compact head, 2.3 mm of offset and a 33° 7-iron, the same lofts and offsets as the i240's. Tungsten weights in the toe and tip add a little help on a mishit, but it is built for good strikers, and no set we score forgives less.
PING's players distance iron of 2022, two generations before the i540: a compact head with a forged face, 2.0 mm of offset and a 30.5° 7-iron, a degree and a half weaker than the i540's. Tungsten weights in the toe and shaft tip add some help on a mishit, though less than PING's G-series heads give.
PING's players iron before the i240: a compact head, 2.3 mm of offset and a 33° 7-iron, the same lofts and offsets as the i240's. Tungsten weights in the toe and tip add a little help on a mishit, but it is built for good strikers, and no set we score forgives less.
PING's players distance iron of 2022, two generations before the i540: a compact head with a forged face, 2.0 mm of offset and a 30.5° 7-iron, a degree and a half weaker than the i540's. Tungsten weights in the toe and shaft tip add some help on a mishit, though less than PING's G-series heads give.
Two compact players irons with nearly the same lofts: a 33° 7-iron, a 45° PW and a 50° wedge in both, and the P770 half a degree stronger in the 4-, 5- and 6-irons.
