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“It’ not a set for everybody,” says White. From there, you can choose what you want to serve as your 4-iron: a PTx PRO, a new UiHi utility iron or a VKTR+ hybrid.
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The core of each set includes PTx PRO 5- through 7-irons and ICON blades in the 8-iron through pitching wedge. So today is a better day to buy a golf club than it was 10 years ago.Actually, the Hogan Player’s Iron Combo is three Frankenstein sets. You know, five years ago to be able to do this kind of forging technique and weld the faces on with lasers wasn't even something we could have imagined. Ideas kind of sit around and percolate for a few years until the technology comes along. So with the new pro-combo, being able to put that pocket in it, we were able to move the center of gravity back so the club plays like it's larger and it's actually a smaller head and it matches the rest of the set much better. If we could move the center of gravity back off the face, then we wouldn't have to make as large a profile. That was an idea that we actually wanted to put into the original Pro Combo. The VR Pro Combo Forged iron that we just recently introduced. We're just not grinding off as much by hand, so everything's quite a bit better in terms of the game improvement aspects and how we're able to adjust things in three dimensions. It's really become the golden age of golf clubs because of how we can control the process of manufacturing and limit variability. Stites: Golf clubs today are functionally more accurate because of the manufacturing techniques that are available to us today than were ten years ago and certainly 25 years ago when i started my career in club design. GD: It seems you're talking about some precise refinements. Everybody in the industry has adopted that kind of philosophy in their drivers, and the same thing can be applied to irons.
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It's the same reason we made drivers real wide front to back a few years ago. If the designer has positioned the center of gravity further back from the face, he's helped the fitter or the person selling the club help people get the ball up in the air in a way that they couldn't do with a blade or just a semi-improvement golf club. It's a function of the club design itself, how wide's the sole, how tall the face is, how long the club is from toe to heel, and it's also where that center of gravity is. The other is that by moving it back away from the face, the club becomes more stable so that when you hit off center, the toe and heel hits add more energy to the shot. It's not just up and down, it's toe and heel, and it's also front to back, so the further back we can put it, the more that golf club tries to naturally squat down at impact and launch the ball higher with a lower spin rate.
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GD: When you're talking about center of gravity, how can you move it to help improve launch conditions? Stites: The center of gravity is a three-dimensional function. So game improvement's real important in the long irons, but it becomes less important as you get closer to the short irons. The cavity back game-improvement golf clubs will launch the ball higher, they'll also send it off with more speed when you miss out on the toe or the heel. But the further you move toward the 5-iron, the 4-, the 3-, and the 2-irons, the more the game-improvement features of an iron can help average people that are missing it off-center. So there's very little efficiencies lost on short irons, very little need for a cavity and perimeter weighting.
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If they're hitting it anywhere close to properly, the angle of attack is so steep for the loft they're using and there's so much spin going on that the ball is relatively stable no matter where you hit it: toe, center, or heel. Truth be known, most amateurs, well pretty much all amateurs, could play with a blade 8-iron because of the angle of attack. They become less important the closer I get to the pitching wedge. So the further I get from the hole, the more things like cavity back, high moments of inertia, low centers of gravity, all those kinds of things, become extremely important, especially in the long irons. I'm going to have to use some technology if i don't have a lot of skill to be able to control the trajectory and to get the ball solidly down range and land it soft.
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GD: How are the challenges different when you start designing for non-elite players? Stites: The magic of the game-improvement category for irons is the further I am away from the hole, the more I'm going to need help.