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Spotted: “Titleist CNCPT-01” irons, via Instagram
In recent weeks and months, we’ve seen photos and information surface regarding new “Titleist CNCPT-02” irons. That begged the question, “What about CNCPT-01 irons?” Well, it appears we may now have that answer.
A photo, allegedly of the “Titleist CNCPT-01” iron in question, was posted on Instagram today by user Chris92009, with Titleist Performance Institute in Oceanside, California as the tagged location.
Here’s his post:
And below are the two CNCPT irons side-by-side (CNCPT-01 on the left, CNCPT-02 on the right):
Judging by the photos, it appears the CNCPT-01 irons will be the more forgiving option of the two CNCPT irons. As such, you’d expect the 01 irons to have slightly thicker soles and toplines, offering more forgiveness across the face, a higher launch, and higher ball speeds than the 02 irons. But, of course, that remains to be seen.
As some GolfWRX Members have speculated, it’s also likely these irons will come with a hefty price tag; one member, John Golia, said his inside information tells him $4,000 for an 8-piece set. That is simply speculation and rumor, however, until we have confirmation about the irons and their availability from Titleist itself.
Join the discussion about Titleist’s new CNCPT-01 and CNCPT-02 irons here.
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Editor’s note: This is an excerpt from a piece our Andrew Tursky originally wrote for PGATour.com’s Equipment Report. Head over there for the full article.
The timing of Lowry’s putter changeup was curious: Was he just using a Spider putter because he was paired with McIlroy, who’s been using a Spider Tour X head throughout 2024? Was Lowry just being festive because it’s the Zurich Classic, and he wanted to match his teammate? Did McIlroy let Lowry try his putter, and he liked it so much he actually switched into it?
Well, as it turns out, McIlroy’s only influence was inspiring Lowry to make more putts.
When asked if McIlroy had an influence on the putter switch, Lowry had this to say: “No, it’s actually a different putter than what he uses. Maybe there was more pressure there because I needed to hole some more putts if we wanted to win,” he said with a laugh.
To Lowry’s point, McIlroy plays the Tour X model, whereas Lowry switched into the Tour Z model, which has a sleeker shape in comparison, and the two sole weights of the club are more towards the face.
Lowry’s Spider Tour Z has a white True Path Alignment channel on the crown of his putter, which is reminiscent of Lowry’s former 2-ball designs, thus helping to provide a comfort factor despite the departure from his norm. Instead of a double-bend hosel, which Lowry used in his 2-ball putters, his new Spider Tour Z is designed with a short slant neck.
“I’ve been struggling on the greens, and I just needed something with a fresh look,” Lowry told GolfWRX.com on Wednesday at the 2024 Wells Fargo Championship. “It has a different neck on it, as well, so it moves a bit differently, but it’s similar. It has a white line on the back of it [like my 2-ball], and it’s a mallet style. So it’s not too drastic of a change.
“I just picked it up on the putting green and I liked the look of it, so I was like, ‘Let’s give it a go.’”
Read the rest of the piece over at PGATour.com.
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Tommy Fleetwood has been attached to his Odyssey White Hot Pro #3 putter for years now. However, this week at the Wells Fargo Championship, we did spot him testing a new putter that is very different, yet somewhat similar, to his current gamer.
This new putter is a TaylorMade Spider Tour X head but with a brand new neck we haven’t seen on a Spider before. A flow neck is attached to the Spider head and gives the putter about a 1/2 shaft offset. This style neck will usually increase the toe hang of the putter and we can guess it gets the putter close to his White Hot Pro #3.
Another interesting design is that lack of TaylorMade’s True Path alignment on the top of the putter. Instead of the large white center stripe, Tommy’s Spider just has a very short white site line milled into it. As with his Odyssey, Tommy seems to be a fan of soft inserts and this Spider prototype looks to have the TPU Pure Roll insert with 45° grooves for immediate topspin and less hopping and skidding.
The sole is interesting as well in that the rear weights don’t look to be interchangeable and are recessed deep into the ports. This setup could be used to push the CG forward in the putter for a more blade-like feel during the stroke, like TaylorMade did with the Spider X Proto Scottie Scheffler tested out.
Tommy’s putter is finished off with an older Super Stroke Mid Slim 2.0 grip in blue and white. The Mid Slim was designed to fit in between the Ultra Slim 1.0 and the Slim 3.0 that was a popular grip on tour.
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Editor’s note: This is an excerpt from a piece our Andrew Tursky originally wrote for PGATour.com’s Equipment Report. Head over there for the full article.
…The Jailbird craze hasn’t really slowed down in 2024, either. According to Odyssey rep Joe Toulon, there are about 18-20 Jailbird putter users on the PGA TOUR.
Most recently, Akshay Bhatia won the 2024 Valero Texas Open using a broomstick-style Odyssey Jailbird 380 putter and Webb Simpson is switching into a replica of that putter at the 2024 Wells Fargo Championship.
Now, Fowler, who essentially started the whole Jailbird craze, is making a significant change to his putter setup.
Fowler, who has had a couple weeks off since the 2024 RBC Heritage, started experimenting with a new, custom-orange Jailbird 380 head that’s equipped with a standard 35-inch putter build, rather than his previous 38-inch counter-balanced setup.
According to Fowler, while he still likes the look and forgiveness of his Jailbird putter head, he’s looking to re-incorporate more feel into his hands during the putting stroke.
He told GolfWRX.com on Tuesday at the Wells Fargo Championship that the 38-inch counterbalanced setup “served its purpose” by helping him to neutralize his hands during the stroke, but now it’s time to try the standard-length putter with a standard-size SuperStroke Pistol Tour grip to help with his feel and speed control.
Although Fowler was also spotted testing standard-length mallets from L.A.B. Golf and Axis1 on Tuesday, he confirmed that the custom Odyssey Jailbird 380 is the putter he’ll use this week at the 2024 Wells Fargo Championship.
Head over to PGATour.com for the full article.
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geohogan
Dec 11, 2018 at 3:21 pm
High prices are due to the tariffs. When the tariffs come off in 2025
and we are at the bottom of the next great depression prices will be much lower.
So much to look forward to!
stephenf
Dec 2, 2018 at 4:11 am
Better be brought to me on each shot by a topless, extremely fit young woman, with an “I’m just bad enough” look.
joey
Nov 25, 2018 at 3:09 pm
$500 per club… now that’s more like in my price range for the best of the best golf clubs.
Tika
Nov 12, 2018 at 1:01 am
So one is redefined c16 iron and another a TMB rebadged…..but cost 2k more……like to see these companies explain why these gonna be so expensive rather than just polish em up and give general “political vague statements”……tungsten, titanium, multi alloys and hollow designs are already being used so what makes these so special……injected with foam or rubber isn’t gonna cut it, lol
Curt
Dec 13, 2018 at 4:14 pm
Same rubber as the proV1’s lol
Ken Tucky
Nov 11, 2018 at 4:45 am
Why the Nike designers gotta be lost and now found?!! Hahaha!! =D That was a good one!!
Scheiss
Nov 10, 2018 at 9:39 pm
In the meantime, Spieth removes the TS2 and puts back the 915 in the bag, and misses the cut
Andrew Levy
Nov 10, 2018 at 2:05 pm
I have hit them both. They were fitting at my club. The 01 is a tmb but a little bit slimmer and short bladed. It was nothing special it just felt clunky. It also didn’t feel that soft. The blade one is the best forged titleist club ever. It felt amazing jumped off the face everything. They even had the four iron with some hybrid shafts in it and it was amazing. But the price tag is so high I will not be giving up my current sticks. Hopefully we see some progression into the 720s. The c16 irons do have characteristics we now see in the 718 tmbs. I am going away next week to try out the proto prov1 and prov1x.
doug
Nov 9, 2018 at 4:59 pm
And fine and dandy and all that, but what’s the point?
These clubs have no connection to the average golfer; none.
And here in Australia, because of the relative weakness of our dollar, they have w@anker/show-pony value, but not much else.
Time for top-end brands like Titleist to take a good, hard look at what Wilson and Cleveland are doing with their ‘Infinite’ and ‘Huntington Beach’ brand of putters. Excellent and affordable kit, at a price that the player on a regular budget can actually afford to buy.
I- and most players I know – are no more likely to spend the kind of money these new irons command, than we are to walk to the Moon. But if Titleist can afford to spend zillions on R&D, just to sell a few thousand sets World-wide…well, good luck to them.
Even at my Australian Top 100 club, most guys I know get the irons they need, spend dollars adjusting the lie/loft/length etc etc…then play those perfect babies until the grooves go.
Mike
Nov 9, 2018 at 12:16 pm
Iron tech is just not evolving fast enough to justify this cost… unless it comes with my own personal RoboCop, which by the looks of the 01 model here, may be a possibility.
ronnie
Nov 9, 2018 at 3:14 pm
I love the shinyer CNCPT 01 model cause its more pretty.
Tom Donnelly
Nov 9, 2018 at 9:43 am
At least we know where the Nike club designers ended up.
ogo
Nov 9, 2018 at 3:10 pm
A second year engineering student could design golf clubs …. which are no technological design challenge. The only challenge is to sculpt the back of irons and the bottom of drivers to suck in the gearhead suckers… it’s called “marketing” and marketing also involves manufacturing decisions…
Dan
Dec 11, 2018 at 1:33 am
Your either trolling or very ignorant. You have no idea what goes into designing a golf club. Is the industry littered with marketing, yes. Why? Because most people are uneducated as to the game so that the marketing jargon is the only way they’ll understand it. Every design change that improves something negatively affects something else. It’s that fact that challenges designers to come up with new ideas to fight physics. Your comment reeks of ignorance
ogo
Nov 9, 2018 at 12:12 am
BREAKING NEWS******* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kuFf8cCQlg
Hailstorm in New South Wales, Australia, hailstones the size of GOLF BALLS!!!
Those Aussies really take their golf seriously !!!!!! 😮
Tom
Nov 8, 2018 at 7:25 pm
If you place an order immediately, you get the sail boat model? “I want that!”
Tom
Nov 8, 2018 at 6:03 pm
Uncle Rico tested these prototypes and “hit the ball clear over that there mountain!”
Blake
Nov 8, 2018 at 4:34 pm
The thing is if im in this price range for irons im just going to get a boutique companies offering before titleist. And i currently play titleist
Robert Pfeil
Nov 8, 2018 at 3:01 pm
Just wait another year and they have a retail set with this technology. That’s how it was with the previous Titleist concept irons/woods.
Ryan Michael
Nov 8, 2018 at 2:54 pm
The rising price of clubs in general will drive new people from picking up the game let alone releases like this! The game needs go down in overall cost. I know you can go cheap with used equipment and put a decent set together for peanuts but there are also people out there who are on the fences about giving golf a try and they read an article about a $4,000 set of clubs and it turns them of to the game all together.
Tom
Nov 8, 2018 at 1:51 pm
They should price them at $1,000,000 per iron and just sell a few hundred sets.
stephenf
Dec 2, 2018 at 4:07 am
you said it.
G-head
Nov 8, 2018 at 12:45 pm
PXG… CNCPT… PXG… CNCPT… PXG… CNCPT… ???? {{{sigh}}}
HBO
Nov 8, 2018 at 12:26 pm
They better hit themselves at that price. Regardless how much you pay for clubs they can’t make you much better than you already are.
Richard Rorty
Nov 8, 2018 at 10:42 am
Flashy equipment for discriminating golfers who are in need of a certain, postmodern, ‘je ne sais quoi’. . .
stephenf
Dec 2, 2018 at 4:08 am
Yeah, something like that. 😉
dat
Nov 8, 2018 at 10:20 am
Should have gone for at least $400,000 per club.
TONEY P
Nov 8, 2018 at 10:06 am
Only a salesman could love those ugly sticks. Now the rich have something else to waste money on.
Brian
Nov 8, 2018 at 8:55 am
Good god are those ugly. A face only a mother could love.
dick head
Nov 10, 2018 at 4:04 pm
you have no idea – a recent online survey showed 85% thought they looked awesome
Ardbegger
Nov 8, 2018 at 8:35 am
Can’t replace my Mizuno SC’s
James Awad
Nov 8, 2018 at 8:34 am
Looks like something some man-bun wearin’ dipstick would think “looks awesome”. Looks like Nike & Cobra had an ugly kid
4K for Titleist?? The cats who can’t properly headweight a custom ordered set – or get the lofts right?
not even if Tiger used ’em to win another major
Yup
Nov 8, 2018 at 2:36 am
CUNcpT
po' boy
Nov 8, 2018 at 1:06 am
OMG!!!! I wish I was the first to see these awesome irons! At $4000 they are boutique clubs for the uber-rich gearheads who don’t have the time to practice… only play at their plush country clubs… oh well…
Tom
Nov 7, 2018 at 9:26 pm
More lipstick on the pigs…..
Roy
Nov 7, 2018 at 4:57 pm
Seems pretty obvious you can build a better product if you are given a higher budget to work with – what makes golf clubs any different??
po' boy
Nov 8, 2018 at 1:08 am
They are status clubs for the uber-rich gearheads who likely can’t play a snot anyway… a statement that I am rich and you aren’t…
Carter
Nov 9, 2018 at 11:51 am
USGA regulations of what clubs can do. That makes clubs different.
Gerald
Nov 7, 2018 at 3:41 pm
So are they saying my tungsten in my AP2s are useless?
Its a hard pass for me.
Ajc273
Nov 7, 2018 at 3:36 pm
I don’t understand the point of this product, especially if they are going to come with a $4,000 price tag. With their MB, CB, T-MB, and AP1, 2, & 3 they seem to have all handicaps and ability levels covered with great clubs. Why would anyone want to pay $4,000 for a set on CNCPT-01 irons when they can get a set of AP1’s for 1/4 the price, unless they just want to tell their friends they paid 4 grand for a set of clubs??
JP
Nov 7, 2018 at 8:30 pm
It’s the pxg effect. My Dad caught a fish THIS big…
golfraven
Nov 7, 2018 at 3:28 pm
Nice but note really hyped about those. Very pleased with my Ap3, T-MB set