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TaylorMade prototype irons spotted at The Memorial

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What we know: Select TaylorMade Staff Members were testing one-off, milled prototype irons from the company at the range of The Memorial. The irons had three slots: a “Speed Pocket” in the sole and two “Face Slots” that were positioned just outside the grooves on the club face.

What we don’t know: The club’s name, release date and potential construction (forged or cast). The irons appear to have a size and shape that’s similar to the company’s current RSi TP irons.

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TaylorMade’s prototype irons (left) and John Huh’s custom RocketBladez Tour irons.

Click here to see what GolfWRX Members are saying about the iron in our forum. 

 

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  1. dcorun

    Jun 12, 2015 at 6:17 pm

    I play the TM RBZ Stage 2 Bonded driver and have for 2 years. I compare it to all the new ones that have come out since I bought it and it hasn’t been worth trading in yet. The Fly-Z and D200 came awful close though. I play the Cleveland 588 MT irons (1 1/2 yrs), a Cobra T-Rail+ Baffler hybrid (1 1/2 yrs) and a Ping Karsten TR PAL putter (1yr). My point is… who cares if TM and Callaway come out with new clubs every 3 months, just play what you like and feels right to you. Try them out against the new clubs and see if it’s time for a change but, like I said, who cares how many or how soon some companies come out with new clubs. No one is twisting arms to run out and buy them but, I do feel for the guy who just bought that new long distance driver to find out 3 months later that a new one just came out that’s even faster and longer. 🙂

  2. Christosterone

    Jun 7, 2015 at 3:13 pm

    Like with all clubs, I see Ping influences….the s series in particular.

  3. tim

    Jun 5, 2015 at 11:28 am

    The “they release too many clubs” comments are so beyond stale at this point. And I’ not a TM guy either. I didn’t like the feel of the RSI’s or any iron with a slot, at least not yet.

  4. Graeme

    Jun 4, 2015 at 8:15 am

    Love the way people on here see a prototype and start hating on TM bringing out too many clubs too often. If it’s a prototype, good luck seeing it in any shops this year.
    Also, no one is making you buy it or even making you read this article. It’s not like people buy the newest range of clubs every time they are released. Plus it’s better for the buyer because the ‘older’ technology will drop in price with each new release.

  5. Sean Paul

    Jun 3, 2015 at 3:58 pm

    Love how people rip on Taylormade for coming out with new clubs “every four weeks” when Callaway does the same exact thing in addition to coming out with a new paint job for their putters every 4 months and marketing it as a whole new putter. Y’all just mad that Taylormade wins more tournaments than anyone else.

    • Jeff C

      Jun 3, 2015 at 10:22 pm

      What tournaments are you watching. TM isn’t even close to the #1 OEM winning the
      most tourny’s. Different winner every week.

      I really doubt you’re so poor you can’t pay attention………

    • mike

      Jun 6, 2015 at 12:42 pm

      Last time I checked tm doesn’t win that many. Go back and check this years winners. Not many tm.

  6. Dan

    Jun 3, 2015 at 3:27 pm

    Mizuno MP-59 influence?

  7. Tom p

    Jun 3, 2015 at 2:44 pm

    All these haters that keep commenting on the frequency of release need to get over it and get a life. We would have 12 different models of they released every 4 weeks. They have released a new iron and a new wood every year since 2015.

    Go complain about phones and tvs and cars that get released every year. The Taylormade bashing is getting old. Some of us like to see what is coming out or a prototype.

    By the way if you are counting Callaway has released more than TaylorMade the last three years…might want to give them some hateraid too.

  8. Steve

    Jun 3, 2015 at 9:02 am

    Hard to make any judgements with the pics here. But sounds like the same old with the speed slots and a new 7 yards longer campaign.

  9. G

    Jun 3, 2015 at 3:32 am

    Did TM actually say they were launching this iron? didn’t think so…hint for future, learn to read…

    • Lee

      Jun 3, 2015 at 12:50 pm

      Hint for commenter, the title of this article says nothing about Taylormade “launching” anything.

      • Steven

        Jun 3, 2015 at 2:40 pm

        I agree. Reading is fundamental. Such a bias against TaylorMade these days. Jealous much?

        • mike

          Jun 6, 2015 at 12:58 pm

          Jealously no, tired of the market being flooded with crap and over marketing more distance…… yes. Last time I checked the usga hasn’t changed the rules.

  10. moses

    Jun 3, 2015 at 2:12 am

    All good by me. Can’t wait for the RSi TP’s to come down to about $300

    • Lowell Madanes

      Jun 5, 2015 at 9:45 am

      Im on the same mind set…. Or should I say RSI TP/MC’s since they are very similar
      Go TMAG!!!

      • gabriel

        Jun 6, 2015 at 7:03 pm

        the mc are 599.99 right know AT GOLF TOWN

  11. Jengus

    Jun 3, 2015 at 2:05 am

    lel @ everyone

  12. golfprotj

    Jun 2, 2015 at 9:49 pm

    They change there line more often than some people change the underwear! J/k, lol/sorry T-Made fans, Complete joke, Any makes you wonder!!!

  13. Lee H.

    Jun 2, 2015 at 9:45 pm

    Who cares if they put out a club every 6 months? If people are buying it, Taylormade will keep building it. If we, as consumers, don’t like the latest and greatest that seems to be coming out quite often from them, then we don’t buy it. If it ever gets to the point where Taylormade feels their marketing strategy is not working, then they will ease back. But until then, they will come out with as much new stuff as they feel is needed. We can choose to buy it or stick with what we got. The good thing about living in a democratic society is that no one is forcing us to do or buy anything that we don’t want to.

  14. Barack

    Jun 2, 2015 at 9:17 pm

    I was getting worried, they haven’t put out a new club in a couple of weeks

  15. BigBoy

    Jun 2, 2015 at 8:22 pm

    How long is this BS going to go on for by the manufacturers, they chop and change and go no-where….at least the Japanese forged boys produce something you can hit till they wear out and not give you a new model every 4 weeks.

  16. Winmac80

    Jun 2, 2015 at 7:24 pm

    Am I the only ones that feels weird of a mark on John Huh’s heel that could indicate a shank? maybe more than once? But RSi has been quite a solid iron and we should expect better irons from TM (and better price for RSi)

  17. chad ryan

    Jun 2, 2015 at 6:43 pm

    Yea looks like a slightly chunkier mp 15. Not bad though. Their “slots” kinda ruin their irons for me though.

  18. Sherwin

    Jun 2, 2015 at 6:33 pm

    More new TaylorMade irons! What is up with their product cycles?

  19. RValdez

    Jun 2, 2015 at 5:50 pm

    If that is a tungsten weight behind the sweetspot it kind of reminds me of the Mizuno MP-59 with the TM/Adams slots.

    • Rip Torn

      Jun 2, 2015 at 6:23 pm

      Or it’s a TITANIUM slab to move the weight distribution to the heel and toe like the MP-59 or MP-15.

      Yet another TM rip of Mizuno.

      It’s a bit thick looking but I like it.

    • MHendon

      Jun 2, 2015 at 6:23 pm

      That would be titanium not tungsten

    • StG

      Jun 2, 2015 at 6:27 pm

      You mean Titanium. Not tungsten. Titanium is light, so that helps to distribute the steel’s mass towards the heel and toe and also adds anti-vibration feel to the middle.

      • Richard Valdez

        Jun 2, 2015 at 11:29 pm

        My fault on that one. I forgot it was titanium.

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Chesson Hadley WITB 2024 (March)

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Driver: Titleist TSR3 (10 degrees, D1 SureFit setting)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Diamana D+ 70 TX

3-wood: Titleist TSR2+ (14.5 degrees, A1 SureFit setting)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Diamana D+ 80 TX

Irons: Titleist T200 (3), Titleist 620 CB (4, 5), Titleist 620 MB (6-PW)
Shafts: Graphite Design Tour AD DI 105 X (3), True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100 (4-PW)

Wedges: Titleist Vokey Design SM10 (52-12F, 56-14F), WedgeWorks (60-K)
Shafts: True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400

Putter: Odyssey White Hot OG 2-Ball
Grip: Odyssey

Grips: Golf Pride Tour Velvet

Ball: Titleist Pro V1x

Check out more in-hand photos Chesson Hadley’s clubs here.

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Gary Woodland WITB 2024 (March)

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Driver: Cobra Darkspeed X (8 degrees)
Shaft: Accra TZ5 70 M5

  • The white circle that appears at the top of the face a removable sticker that’s used for launch monitor tracking, and Woodland removes it for competition!

3-wood: Cobra Darkspeed X (14 degrees)
Shaft: Accra TZ5 GW100 Prototype

7-wood: Cobra LTDx LS prototype (20 degrees)
Shaft: Accra TZ5 GW100 Prototype

Irons: Wilson Staff (18 degrees), Cobra King MB (4-PW)
Shafts: KBS Tour C-Taper Limited X

Wedges: Cobra SB (48), Titleist Vokey Design SM10 (52-08F, 56-14F), Cobra King (60)
Shafts: KBS Tour C-Taper Limited X (48 degrees), KBS Tour V-Ten 125

Putter: Scotty Cameron T-5 Proto
Grip: SuperStroke Zenergy Tour 3.0P

Ball: Titleist Pro V1x

Grips: Golf Pride Tour Velvet Cord

See more in-hand photos of Gary Woodland’s WITB in the forums.

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Q&A: Martin Trainer on his Bobby Grace “Greg Chalmers” putter, 6.5-degree driver, and “butter knife” 2-iron

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As unbiasedly as I can put it, Martin Trainer has one of the coolest club setups in professional golf. (At some point soon, I’ll put together a top-10 list of “coolest club setups on Tour,” but I know that Trainer will be in the top-10)

What a lineup. He plays a 6.5-degree Wilson prototype driver, a 13-degree Wilson prototype 3-wood, a true blade Wilson Staff Model 2-iron, and a Bobby Grace “Greg Chalmers Commemorative” putter!

 

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I mean, look at this 2-iron from address…

To quote the great author R.L. Stine: “Goosebumps.”

On Wednesday at the 2024 Texas Children’s Houston Open, I caught up with Trainer to learn more about his bag setup.

Here’s what he had to say:

You have the Internet going crazy over your bag setup, and your putter. Where’d you pick the Bobby Grace-Greg Chalmers putter up? How long have you had it?

MT: This was from when Bobby Grace came to my course in California: Cal Club. And for whatever reason, they just started having them in the shop. So then I took my buddy’s, started using it, and made, like, a million putts in a row, which is how every putter story begins, I guess.

And then, I bought a couple of my own, used it for years, got to the Tour with it, won on Tour with it (the 2019 Puerto Rico Open). Then, about a year later, started using another putter, did that for a couple years, but now it’s back in the bag.

When did it come back in the bag?

MT: December of this past year. So a few months ago.

What year would you say was the first time you threw that in the bag, or, like, when you bought it?

MT: God…Probably, 2016, maybe? 2018?

Do you remember how much you paid for it?

MT: I don’t know, actually. Maybe $100-150 bucks or something. I think that’s the only golf club I’ve bought between high school and now. Well, two, since I bought two of them.

The driver is interesting, too. What went into the prototyping process?

MT: That was a version of the current driver, but it was the prototype that they first came out with for Tour guys to try. And for whatever reason, I just never switched out to the new one.

It’s just 6.5 degrees, right?

MT: Yeah. Very low loft, yeah.

What kind of ball speed do you have with that these days?

MT: Like high 170’s.

Yeah, that’ll work. And then a 2-iron blade? We’re seeing fewer and fewer of those out here.

MT: Yeah. The butter knife.

Very cool thing to have in the bag. Have you done any testing with driving irons? 

MT: Yeah, I used to have a thicker one, but it was a little offset, and I never hit it that well. And then finally, I started messing around with the butter knife. And I remember the first time I looked down at it, I was terrified. And then I ended up getting used to it, putting it in play, and it’s been in place since. It’s a pretty good club for me.

How far do you carry that? 

MT: Like 235.

A good little wind club, I’m sure.

MTL Yeah, exactly. I can hit it very low. It’s great.

I love it. You have people shook looking at that. Thanks for the time, man. 

MT: Absolutely.

To see more photos and discussion of Trainer’s bag, click here.

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