If there’s one thing amateur golfers can learn from Tour players, it’s that you shouldn’t be afraid to go with a little bit more help and forgiveness in your irons, especially the long irons.
This past season, Rory McIlroy, a noted blade player throughout his career, was one of the early adopters of the prototype that became the TaylorMade P7CB iron, adding a 4-iron to his bag at the Valero Texas Open. Collin Morikawa also added the proto version of the forged cavity-back iron at the RBC Heritage.
On this week’s episode of GOLF’s Fully Equipped, co-host Kris McCormack explained how he loved testing the P7CB irons on a recent trip to TaylorMade’s Kingdom headquarters in Carlsbad, California, but they might not be perfect for him for the entire set.
“I’m a low-launch, low-spin player, left miss, and so CB really suits my eye,” McCormack said. “But I’ve always been a little hesitant to put something like that in the bag just because of the forgiveness factor. I’m not the most solid ball striker in the world, but in testing these out at the Kingdom, I was like, ‘You know? I could play these.’
“I had an opportunity to hit them from the wedge all the way up to the 4-iron. And while I’m probably still more of a 770 guy in that 4- or 5-iron, 6-iron was surprisingly easy to hit. The 4-iron was OK for me, I’m just not a good enough player to maybe build that full set all the way through.”
That’s when co-host Wadeh Maroun, explained that if McCormack doesn’t feel comfortable enough with the 4- or 5-iron in the P7CB set, he can seamlessly blend in the 4- or 5-iron from the more forgiving P770.
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“They’ve been made to blend with each other perfectly,” Maroun said. “The same lot, the same lie, everything exactly the same, right? If you do want to do a blended set, you can go to whatever you want and get it done.”
