Did Titleist’s T-Series Iron solve the flyer problem?
Earlier this summer, my T-Series had a lot of impressive aspects with the TPI Fitter Lucas Bro (pictured below), and if you watch it you see the level of thoroughness that fit brings.
Titleist 3D fitting platform (distance, dispersion, decent angle) is designed to be in bags and No – It’s not all about distance. Yes, that’s part of it, but the ultimate goal is to make sure you (the player) are capable of dealing with whatever situations that may occur on the battlefield.
According to Titleists, this is how it works.
Your current 7, 5 and 4-irons hit 3-5. Using the Start Monitor your fitter will view:
- Distance control: Each club is looking for plane ball speed, with a 5 mph gap between irons
- Dispersive control: Make sure your shooting pattern is relatively tight and predictable to each iron
- Descent angle: Seek a land angle of about 45-50 degrees per club to ensure effective stopping power on green
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In this particular video (pictured below), we focus on rough controls. Titleist and Vokey Wedge R&D dig in the T-series grooves to create a groove that you might find on Vokey and previous Titleist Irons.
Why is this important?
Flyers and loss of control are serious matters at all levels. Due to the huge loss of rotation, this type of shooting fly is 10-15 yards away from roughness. Although some players prefer this on the tour, the numbers are small. Other OEMs are trying to fight flyer lies by putting more grooves on the face (think older Nike Irons or Callaway’s Tour-ther-limel Thin grooves).
Titleist T200 Custom Iron
The distance between the players on the tour has ideal shape, performance and a significantly enhanced feel. With the new T200, distance has never been more outstanding. It is built from forged faces, hollow structures and shaped by travel technology, providing incredible launch and forgiveness in purely player-friendly design. The T200 represents a huge leap in feeling. The entire interior of the forged iron has been redesigned – with a more stable chassis, refined maximum impact technology and new double-conical facets for top speeds with a tour-class feel. Strengthening the feeling of each component of the T200 leads to its solid feeling. The redesigned chassis creates a stiffer structure while allowing for the refining maximum impact technology to be closer to the new double-cone forged face. This leads to a better feeling and performance throughout the surface. The clean and confident shape has changed all the changes, and the T200’s travel shape remains consistent. Players will still draw confidence from distance iron that looks clean and offset less, based on player feedback, optimal blade length and top line thickness. With an easy interaction with travel professionals and Grind experts at Vokey Design, our engineers were able to further improve our variable bounce soles by softening the edges of the trail, allowing clubs to flow through the turf faster even after contact. It was developed for the T100, bringing tours to the T200. By leveraging dense D18 tungsten and 2000º aerospace foam process, Titleist engineers can eliminate welding points and transfer CG more accurately, optimizing every club in the field, from fast, tall irons to accurate, tolerant short tires, which can optimize CG more accurately for better scores and better scores.
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But the T-Series offers benefits to all irons in the line due to their progressive groove design, allowing players to have more “standard grooves” in longer irons and gradually become more aggressive in scoring irons.
I’ve heard a lot about marketing about things like this, but after watching the video below, I’m shocked by the difference in numbers. When the normal 7 iron obtained from the rough roughness makes me spin at 4,000 rpms (sometimes lower) and you hand my iron to my 5,000 people and my brain explodes.
Check out the video below for more information.
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Johnny Wunder
Golf.comEdit
Johnny is currently the equipment director of Golf.com, and has contributed to fully equipped golf and other platforms. Prior to this position, he was a content marketing manager for Callaway Golf, where he led the “Winder of Wunder”, a platform dedicated to in-depth content in golf equipment. Prior to joining Callaway, he was the director of original content on Golfwrx.com and host of the “Gear Dive” podcast. Aside from his professional efforts, Johnny is an avid golfer with a passion for the game since he played in Seattle, Washington when he was young.
