Equipment
Bryson DeChambeau unveils Cobra One-Length prototype irons
When Bryson DeChambeau turned professional earlier this year, he signed an equipment contract with Cobra-Puma, but wasn’t quick to make the switch to Cobra irons. That’s because his previous set, made by Edel Golf, was a specially engineered set of single-length irons — a rare setup in which every iron has the same length and lie angles, but different lofts.
After spending more than a week at Cobra’s Headquarters in Carlsbad just a few weeks ago, however, DeChambeau finally found irons from the company that he’s comfortable bagging.
A look at the prototypes before the duct tape was removed.
DeChambeau put new Cobra prototype irons in the bag at the RBC Canadian Open, but since they were covered in duct tape to guard against photographers from nosey equipment sites (such as, say… GolfWRX) we weren’t able to see much of the technology. At this week’s Travelers Championship, however, the tape came off and we were able to catch a glimpse at his new, single-length Cobra “Forged One-Length” irons.
Specs
The swing weight for each of DeChambeau’s irons is C7.5, and their lengths are 37.5 inches. Below are his lofts:
- 3 iron: 20 degrees
- 5 iron: 25 degrees
- 6 iron: 30 degrees
- 7 iron: 34 degrees
- 8 iron: 38 degrees
- 9 iron: 42 degrees
- PW: 46 degrees
Related: In-hand photos of all of Bryson DeChambeau’s clubs
To learn more, we spoke to the Vice President of Research and Development at Cobra, Tom Olsavsky, about the switch, and discussed what makes fitting DeChambeau so difficult.
“He’s not into the feel of a club,” Olsavsky says. “He has a method and setup to make a repeatable motion. The mechanical swing allows him to just let the club do the work.”
With his repeatable, physics-based swing, it’s imperative that each of DeChambeau’s irons perform exactly to his needs. And the changes DeChambeau requires due to his unique swing don’t necessarily come off the rack. For example, he needs his irons to have 73-degree lie angles. That’s astoundingly more upright than standard irons, which generally range between 60-64 degrees in an iron set.
“Each set takes about a week to build,” Olsavsky says. “He has upright lie angles… so we have to bend them very up and grind the soles. We use a lot of the same technologies that we do in our new irons, but the milling and cutting are set to the way he likes it.”
Based on his long-time work with swing coach Mike Schy, DeChambeau developed an unconventional approach to the game based around a single-plane swing. His motion and his club heads aren’t the only thing different, though; he also has tremendously large grips on his clubs, too.
According to Olsavsky, Bryson’s theory is that in no other sport do athletes use sticks that have a grip as small as a golf club, so why should golf clubs have small grips when no other sport does? He also holds the grip of a club more in the palm of his hands than golfers with conventional swings, so using his extra-large grips provides more control.
“He’s not tied to convention,” Olsavsky says. “He wants to know how we can make [clubs] better.”
While DeChambeau was on the 9-to-10-day trip to Cobra headquarters, he was given full access to the facilities, and he spent most of his time hitting balls on the range, sitting down with Cobra’s R&D team to learn from the engineers, but also teaching them things, according to Olsavsky. As a physics major at Southern Methodist University, he’s a sponge for scientific knowledge, especially about golf club design. He “studies stats like a hawk,” Olsavsky says, and is very interested in performance stats. Plus, he studies the biomechanics of the golf swing, which he wants to “take it to the next level.”
Every golfer on the PGA Tour strives to be better; it’s just that DeChambeau does things a bit differently. Surely that’s not a problem with the 2015 U.S. Amateur and NCAA Men’s Individual Champion, because like Oslavsky says, he’s not tied to convention.
Related: See what GolfWRX members are saying about DeChambeau’s irons in our forums.
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At the 2022 Masters, Scottie Scheffler delivered a steely Sunday performance to capture the green jacket in the 86th contesting of the tournament. Beginning the final round with a three-stroke lead, Scheffler was steady all day, tallying a final-round 1-under 71 to finish three strokes ahead of Rory McIlroy.
Here’s a look at what Scheffler had in the bag two years ago.
Driver: TaylorMade Stealth Plus (8 degrees @7.5)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Black 7 X
3-wood: TaylorMade Stealth Plus (16.5 degrees @15)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Black 8 X
Utility: Srixon Z U85 (3)
Shaft: Nippon Pro Modus3 Hybrid Tour X
Irons: Srixon ZU85 (4), TaylorMade P7TW (5-PW)
Shaft: True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100
Wedges: Titleist Vokey Design SM8 (50-12F, 56-14F, 60-06K)
Shafts: True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400
Putter: Scotty Cameron Special Select Timeless Tourtype GSS Prototype
Ball: Titleist Pro V1
Grips: Golf Pride Tour Velvet
More photos of Scottie Scheffler’s WITB in the forums.
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In our effort to assemble the 2024 best irons, we have again compiled an expert panel of fitters to help you find out which of the 2024 irons is best for your game.
Ultimately the best way to find your personal best iron set is to work with a professional fitter using a launch monitor. The difficult part is a lot of people don’t have easy access to fitters, launch monitors, and club builders — so at GolfWRX, we have done a lot of the work for you.
We are in the era of not just maximizing distance but also minimizing the penalty of common misses for each player — this applies to irons just as much as it does with any other club in the bag. And of course, proper set makeup and gapping is essential. This is why, now more than ever, custom fitting is essential to help you see results on every swing you make.
We want to give you the tools and information to go out and find what works best for you by offering recommendations for your individual iron set wants and needs with insight and feedback from the people who work every single day to help golfers get peak performance out of their equipment.
Best irons of 2024: The process
The best fitters in the world see all the options available in the marketplace, analyze their performance traits, and pull from that internal database of knowledge and experience like a supercomputer when they are working with a golfer.
It’s essentially a huge decision tree derived from experience and boiled down to a starting point of options—and it has nothing to do with a handicap!
Modern iron sets are designed into player categories that overlap the outdated “what’s your handicap?” model, and at GolfWRX we believe it was important to go beyond handicap and ask specific questions about the most crucial performance elements fitters are looking at.
These are the best iron categories we have developed to help you determine which category is most important for your swing and game.
Best irons of 2024: The categories
- Overall performance
- Easiest to launch/Slower swing speed
- Pure enjoyment
- Shotmakers
- Most technology-packed
- Best blade
2024 Best irons: Most technology packed
This is the “give me everything you got” list. These irons are the cream of the crop for offering technology to improve feel, distance, and ball speed. The great thing about the technology category is it’s not reserved for higher handicap golfers — it’s for anyone looking to get everything they can out of their game in an iron that also suits their eye.
Callaway Paradym Ai Smoke
Their story: At the core of Callaway’s new Ai Paradym Smoke irons is the Ai Smart Face. With the Ai Smart Face, these irons are designed to promote exceptional distance, tight dispersion into the green, and optimal launch in a modern construction. The new shape consists of longer blade lengths, thinner toplines, and optimized sole widths in a bid to create a forgiving, yet streamlined look at address. In addition, an all-new Dynamic Sole Design features a pre-worn leading edge with variable bounce that cuts through the turf with efficiency.
Fitter comments:
- “That thing is an absolute rocket launcher. For the guy who flips at it, it’s perfect. It definitely launches lower spins less. it just goes forever compared to, you know, compared to a lot of them that we, that we tested.”
- “I mean, it’s actually probably one of the cleaner-looking kind of game improvement irons. You know, some of them, they can get kind of beefy, but the look of that one that’s very appealing to the eye. The AI technology that Callaway has been using for a couple of years now, it’s generating a ton of ball speed for guys, but also at a point where they’re still getting a lot of peak heights on it. So it’s not like you feel like you’re just hitting bullets out there.”
- “If a guy is looking to just hit it far, that’s probably the best thing out there. Callaway’s always had like crazy hot iron faces in that mid-size game improvement-type club. And this is just the next version of it. This thing is crazy fast. Shockingly, for how strong the lofts are, the ball still gets up in the air pretty good.”
- “When it comes to pure technology the Paradym Ai Smoke iron has it all. Super computers helping engineers design the back of the face based on over 250,000 shots make it an amazing tech iron alone.”
- “Classic Callaway story with face variability that is AI-driven along with material and design. Tons of tech. With Ai Smart Face and a hollow body design, they make it to the top as far as technology goes.”
For more photos/info, read our launch piece.
TaylorMade P790
Their story: Engineers utilized the variables of tungsten weighting, SpeedFoam Air, and internal mass — with an assist from AI — to precisely give golfers what they need in each iron. For example, launch and forgiveness in the long irons. More specifically, TaylorMade is using what the company calls FLTD CG (flighted CG) to strategically position CG throughout the set (lower in the long irons, higher in the short irons). CG is positioned almost a millimeter lower in the long irons compared to previous generations. In the shorter irons, the higher CG positions allowed engineers to dial in spin and promote accuracy.
Fitter comments:
- “Best combination of everything. The amalgamation of all irons on the market blended into one mathematically perfect design.”
- “I think people recognize the name. It’s a very popular club. It stands up to every model in a category.”
- “That’s the staple in the players distance category. It’s year-in, year-out. It’s tough to beat TaylorMade — they don’t go wrong with that iron, for sure. They make little refinements, but it’s almost like, yeah, just keep making little refinements. Don’t kind of mess that up just because the, I mean, it, it fits such a wide range of players and it’s just such a good iron that fits a wide, wide range of handicaps.”
- “I think where TaylorMade kind of struggled over the past is getting that spin on the golf club, and I think each generation it just keeps getting better. I think they did an awesome job.”
- “If it’s not our best-selling iron in the fitting center, it’s always like number two. It’s such a great, great performer across the board. And yeah, it just keeps getting better every year. It’s really awesome; crazy distance on that thing too.”
For more photos/info, read our launch piece.
Titleist T350
Their story: The new T350 irons are still built for maximum distance and forgiveness, but they were redesigned with a hollow-body construction that’s inspired by the T200. Like the T200, the T350 also uses Max Impact Technology behind the face to maximize speed and forgiveness, and dual-tungsten weights in the back cavity. The T350 irons are noticeably larger, and with thicker toplines, than the T200 irons for golfers who need the additional surface area and stability.
Fitter comments:
- “The T350 is super good. They definitely cleaned it up, cleaned up that topline a little bit and made it…a little bit more compact, a little bit smaller for sure.”
- “You know, I think is one of those irons that maybe sometimes can get overlooked. I don’t know…some guys, they think ‘Titleist,’ they can’t hit it. If someone’s in this category, it’s always a club you’re gonna have.”
- “So like this is the first one in that model that’s had like a forged face and, and, and, and I think that just improved the feel of it. Topline to me looks a little bit cleaner and, they do a nice job of hiding the offset doesn’t look quite obnoxious when you look down at it. I don’t know if it’s like the chrome that they put or whatever, but it looks a lot cleaner at address. The iron’s always been super easy to get up in here.”
- “That type of customer, I know they all want to do is just hit it nice and far. But we’re seeing so many guys come in that just need help getting it airborne in that moderate kind of clubhead speed category. And this thing is probably, if not the easiest, one of the easiest irons in this category to launch. And I think that’s what makes it so great.”
- “High launch is a key component to this iron. Clean look, with reduced offset and a better look for a players game improvement iron. Players are surprised that this is a game improvement iron based on the looks and package size.”
For more photos/info, read our launch piece.
Srixon ZX5 Mk II
Their story: MainFrame v2 was developed with an Automated Intelligence process, flex-maximizing variable thickness pattern of grooves, channels, and cavities carefully milled into the backside of ZX5 iron faces for high ball speeds. Not only does MainFrame boost COR, but it also repositions mass away from the face and into the toe and sole for a lower CG for easier launch, more consistency, and forgiveness.
Fitter comments:
- “I’m a big believer in the V-Sole. For high-speed guys who want a little forgiveness and are steep, it just doesn’t stick in the ground. Super soft and high launching. Not a ton of offset. It’s also been a good fit for moderate-to-high handicappers.”
- “So I would say it, it kind of stands out in its category because it does launch higher than its competitors. It also sits in between some of the models, like, it doesn’t directly compete with a hollow cavity and it doesn’t compete with, like the Cobra King Tour. Like, it’s a degree stronger. For a forged iron, it performs great for us. The only problem is that it is a little bit light in a swing weight, so we have to be careful of who we fit.”
- “It’s definitely one of our more popular irons for sure. You know, you get a guy who wants to play something small but still wants something more forgiving, and they don’t want kind of that full hollow body iron. I mean, that’s definitely one of our best sellers for sure. We’re seeing that a lot of combos — that’s a one iron that you can definitely combo with the ZX7 for sure.”
- “I think a lot of guys like the concept of the V-Sole with them…If you’re talking an overall package, you know, for the guy that is looking for something clean. That’s a spectacular golf club. Good looks and good feel and great, you know, great performance, and it fits a lot of categories.”
- “I think the one struggle a lot of companies have with that category is getting something to spin, so to try and give like guys so they don’t get those knuckleball shots or that fly out of the rough that goes 20 yards longer. I kind of think that that’s what I think makes that item so good is you get some spin on it, and I think it, it looks and feels good enough that like it, a guy that’s a mid-single digit can play it and be like, yeah, that’s good enough for me. But it’s also forgiving enough that a guy that’s in that kind of 12-to-15 kind of category if he wants to reach a little bit and play something that might look a little bit better. It just fits such a huge, huge range of players. I think it’s just awesome.”
For more photos/info, read our launch piece.
Ping G430
Their story: Billed as Ping’s “longest iron ever,” the G430 irons combine a lower CG with stronger, custom- engineered lofts and a thinner face that delivers up to two more mph of ball speed, per the company. At the heart of the new addition is the PurFlex cavity badge, an innovation that features seven flex zones that allow more free bending in design to increase ball speed across the face. In combination with a lower CG, the badge aims to contribute to a solid feel and pleasing impact sound.
Fitter comments:
- “The best G.I. iron on the market. Easy to hit and launch while making great ball speed for distance.”
- “The best iron in the game improvement category. High launch and packed with forgiveness on those off-center hits. It’s one of the easiest irons to hit. So easy to hit and look at for the average golfer.”
- “Yeah, I mean, that’s definitely a go-to and in the matrix for sure. I mean, it’s just super easy to hit, super forgiving. They don’t mess that iron up.”
- “Ping does a great job of building golf clubs. Their design is fantastic and it’s not for everybody, you know, it’s not the lowest-spinning club…but it sure is one of the most forgiving golf clubs and most consistent golf clubs. Ping G430 in that category of club, you can have something that a good player who needs a little help maybe can use because it’s consistent across the face, and you can’t do that with some of the other clubs because they’re not as consistent across the face for the ball speeds. It is a monster for us.”
- “The best iron in the game improvement category. It’s one of the easiest irons to hit.”
Best irons of 2024: Meet the fitters
- Adam Rathe: Club Champion
- Adam Scotto: Club Champion
- Adam Seitz: Club Champion
- Aidan Mena: Club Champion
- Alex Dice: Carl’s Golfland
- Alex Praeger: Club Champion
- Ben Giunta: The Tour Van
- Blake Smith, PGA: True Spec
- Bo Gorman: True Spec
- Brad Coffield: Carl’s Golfland
- Brett Ott: Club Champion
- Brian Riley: Club Champion
- Cameron Scudder: Club Champion
- Carmen Corvino: True Spec
- Christian Sandler: Club Champion
- Clare Cornelius: Cool Clubs
- Dan Palmisano: Club Champion
- Dane Byers: Club Champion
- Darren Joubert: Club Champion
- Dennis Huggins: Club Champion
- Drew Koch: Club Champion
- Eric Touchet: Touchet Performance Golf
- Erik Gonzales: Club Champion
- Evan Morrison: Club Champion
- Gus Alzate: True Spec
- Jake Medlen: Stripe Show Club Fitters
- Jake Woolston: Club Champion
- Jake Wynd: Club Champion
- Jay Marino: Club Champion
- Jeremy Olsen: Club Champion
- Jim Yenser: Club Champion
- Joe Stefan: Club Champion
- Joey Simon, PGA: Club Champion
- Jonathan Kaye: Club Champion
- Jordan Patrick: True Spec
- Jordan Rollins: Club Champion
- Kevin Arabejo: Club Champion
- Kevin Downey: Club Champion
- Kirk Oguri: Pete’s Golf
- Kyle Lane: Club Champion
- Kyle Murao: Club Champion
- Marc Roybal: True Spec
- Mark Hymerling: Club Champion
- Mark Knapp: Carl’s Golfland
- Matt Miller: Club Champion
- Matt Rish: Club Champion
- Matthew Gandolfi: Club Champion
- Mike Martysiewicz: Club Champion
- Mike Weis: Club Champion
- Mitch Schneider: Club Champion
- Nicholas Barone: Club Champion
- Nick Sherburne: Club Champion
- Nick Waterworth: Haggin Oaks
- Preston Vanderfinch: Club Champion
- Rick Lane: Club Champion
- Rob Anderson, PGA: Club Champion
- Russell Hubby: Club Champion
- Ryan Fisher: Grips Golf
- Ryan Grimes: Club Champion
- Ryan Johnson: Carl’s Golfland Bloomfield Hills
- Sam Kim: True Spec
- Scott Sikorski: Club Champion
- Scott Felix: Felix Club Works
- Scott Trent: Club Champion
- Sean Pfeil: Club Champion
- Shaun Fagan: True Spec
- Steve Harrow: Club Champion
- Tad Artrip: Club Champion
- Thomas Mattaini: Pull the Pin
- Tony Rhode: True Clubs
- William Buse: Club Champion
- William Cho: NovoGolf
- William Fields: Club Champion
RELATED: Best driver 2024
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Editor’s note: This is an excerpt of a piece we originally filed this piece for PGATour.com’s Equipment Report. You can read the full piece there.
Now, for the 2024 Masters specifically, Finau is planning to put another Ping G430 LST driver into play, in order to help him on the right-to-left holes at Augusta. The second driver, which is set to replace his 3-wood, will measure about the length of his 3-wood, and it has 10.5 degrees of loft, according to Ping Tour rep Kenton Oates.
“Tony Finau, most likely, will be playing two G430 LST drivers this week; his gamer, and a new shorter 10.5 headed option,” Oates told GolfWRX.com on Wednesday. “In the ramp-up towards The Masters, Tony and his team discussed options to optimize his performance off the tee. In discussing the tee shots around Augusta and second shots, Tony realized he would never hit 3-wood off the ground, minus maybe 8 if it was soft and into the wind.
“With that in mind, we felt it would be worth exploring a driver built to more 3-wood specs – shorter, more loft, etc. We build the driver in Houston and Tony carried it to Augusta to test. Right away it was giving him the performance he was looking for, allowing him to hit a straighter shot off the tee, or even draw it easier than his gamer driver, along with the added forgiveness benefits of using a driver instead of a 3-wood. Tony potentially could use the little driver on 2-7-10-14-17-18, pending course and wind conditions.”
Since Finau’s stock driver swing is grooved for a cut shot, maybe it’s unrealistic that Finau will hit big sweeping draws with the new, second driver option. But, according to Finau, it’s still a useful option, especially since he won’t need the 3-wood much this week.
“The [second] driver really goes straight, so there’s just no fade on it,” Finau told GolfWRX.com. “The draw holes out here, you don’t really have to turn it over, you just can’t hit a fade. But yeah, I’m going with two drivers.”
Read the full piece on PGATour.com.
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300 Yard Pro
Aug 7, 2016 at 1:47 am
100% total headcase. Needs to quit worrying about stats and just play golf or else he is going to end up on the Iranian Golf Tour.
Messico Smizzle
Aug 6, 2016 at 9:34 pm
prego
Shallowface
Aug 5, 2016 at 9:04 am
One nice thing about the Armour EQLs that should be in included on any new efforts for single length irons is extra long grips in the 7 iron through the wedges. I have an EQL 7 iron with its original grip and it is 12.25 inches long as opposed to the standard of that time which was 10.75 inches (and many grips today are shorter than that). Longer grips allow one to choke down to a more familiar position for short game shots, and would be best if they were designed with reduced taper under the trail hand as some grips are being made today.
Shallowface
Aug 4, 2016 at 5:36 pm
If this method was truly revolutionary, shouldn’t we be seeing dominance from Bryson with multiple wins and high finishes by this point? Fact is, his record to date has no wins and is as spotty as a hundred other guys. I like him and hope he is successful, but there’s nothing about this to indicate that it is a better way to play. The results speak for themselves.
tzed
Aug 9, 2016 at 11:37 am
The US Amateur and NCAA Individual are not wins? Golf is hard, no matter how you swing.
jgpl001
Aug 4, 2016 at 3:37 pm
Cobra can’t even sell their std line of clubs, these would be a total flop….????
After Nike your next Cobra
What’s that I hear -walking the mile, walking the green mile…..
Best of luck to Bryson though, he’s a good guy and a real good player
Kevin
Aug 3, 2016 at 2:39 pm
Hi, What about Tom Wishon Golf and the SL clubs he has designed? Kevin
sean
Aug 3, 2016 at 1:28 pm
I like the idea of single length long irons, 3,4,5,6,7 but not in the short irons and wedges.
talljohn777
Aug 3, 2016 at 12:58 pm
Hear the Crowd ROAR!!!
todd the golf guy
Aug 3, 2016 at 12:53 pm
I spent several months looking into SL irons. Then several months building my PinHawl set. I have spent most of the summer refining my understanding of how to controll distances given differing elevation and temperature. I have limited time to practice and believe that once you have learned the set up SL irons allow you to practice and play more consistantly. There are a lot of posts on this topic, but I would like to try to answer a few of the issues mentioned. I could not see playing my set with the swing weight that the head produces. So I had to weight the but of the shaft with 22gm plugs. I doubt that a fat grip would do it alone. I alsothink that for SO to take off Cobra would need Bryson to win a few events and develop an educational program to help the public transition into SL irons. The gaps on my PinHawks were very frustrating at first until I learned how to make ball placement and limited backswing adjustments. Now that I have those figured out I have 3 yard gaps from 185 yards down to 40 yards. One reason I lake the SO irons is that with only 1variable (loft) I can calculate other variables without hours on the range. ( temperature and ball carry, and because some clubs overlap with limited backswing or ball placement I can pick my distance and trajectory.)
Tommy Lejund
Aug 3, 2016 at 12:33 pm
Now maybe he’ll stop tinkering and start competing.
Howard Garson
Aug 3, 2016 at 12:30 pm
Golfers are really funny in how they think. The vast majority think that if they play the same equipment as someone who is many orders of magnitude better than they are, it will be the right clubs for them. Every golfer is different, and there is nothing in golf that works for everyone. The key is to go to someone who has been trained to get you into the right clubs. For the irons, it could be single length, or it could be variable length. A forged blade or max game improvement. Graphite shaft or steel. 45 gram shaft, 130 gram shaft or something in between. Length, flex profile, grip size and many more things to see what is right for you. If Bryson never makes another cut or becomes the #1 player in the world will not change what is the right iron for a single golfer. The right iron, driver, etc. is the one the player hits the best.
Mike Honcho
Aug 3, 2016 at 12:03 pm
Proof will be in the performance pudding. I say he’s on the Web for 3 years, takes him another 3 after that to win on the Tour and that’ll be in Puerto Rico or Lake Tahoe.
leo vincent
Aug 4, 2016 at 1:41 am
Totally disagree if he is forced to the Web.com tour he will be a stand out player easily getting his tour card for next year where he will make a ton of money for many years even if he doesn’t win a lot of tourneys.His swing method is very easy on the body and he will be able to play with out the injuries that other players deal with.I see him being a Matt Kuchar type player consistent but not dominant.Time will tell who is correct but based on his wins in the NCAA and U S Am. his Masters showing and a top 5 on tour this yr the odds seem to be in his favor.
Al Pena
Sep 28, 2016 at 6:45 am
Well, he got his card alright. I guess you were mistaken.
Rachel
Aug 3, 2016 at 11:54 am
Awesome! No doubt they are coming to market and I love the “ForgedOne”name. Interesting too that in his long irons he has 5 degree gapping, and in the short irons 4 degree gapping which makes more sense in a single length set. The Pinhawk SL’s have this correct gapping and for some reason the Sterling Irons don’t. Love my Pinhawks and can’t wait to see the price on these Cobra Forged Ones!
joejoeJ
Aug 26, 2016 at 7:20 am
The sterling irons are forged in the 8-sw. The 5-7 are not forged and have higher cor (springy faces) so the lofts gaps didn’t need to be increased.
cody
Aug 3, 2016 at 10:36 am
while i think this interesting, i am still not convinced that this works for the general masses, or that Bryson is the mad genius that everyone thinks he is.
300 Yard Pro
Aug 7, 2016 at 1:50 am
Try it before you knock it. The Pinhawk irons are garbage. The Wishon SLs are outstanding. They are not for everyone though.
Tom
Aug 3, 2016 at 10:25 am
Bazinga!
AB
Aug 2, 2016 at 9:18 pm
Tommy Armour did this YEARS ago – in the 80s(?) . No one bought them – they were called EQL
Bobtrumpet
Aug 3, 2016 at 11:20 am
Wrong, wrong, wrong. Not even close. SMH …
Locode
Aug 3, 2016 at 12:07 pm
No, actually that is correct.
Brian
Aug 3, 2016 at 12:16 pm
No, actually that is wrong. All the EQL’s did was place their current iron heads on the same length shafts. Modern day SL clubs make all the iron heads weigh the same. HUGE difference. Plus, if I recall correctly, golf clubs have made a minor jump in technology since the 80’s?????
Shallowface
Aug 4, 2016 at 5:14 pm
No, actually that is wrong. All of the EQLs were the same length AND weight as a six iron of that day. And while they never sold in huge numbers, they were available from 1989 through 1994. Six years is a pretty good run. And, regarding technology, while hybrids have been a major advancement in equipment and the driver has gone from the most difficult club in the bag to hit to the easiest, there really has been very little advancement in irons. It just isn’t possible while trying to retain something close to a conventional appearance, and putting a “9” on a 7 iron isn’t technological advancement. I know facts aren’t all that popular around here, but those are the facts.
Shallowface
Aug 4, 2016 at 5:49 pm
The EQLs all weighed the same, based on the length and weight of a six iron of that day. And, while they never sold in huge numbers, they were available for six years.
Shallowface
Aug 5, 2016 at 5:07 am
I wouldn’t have posted twice if posts showed up the second you click the post comment button. It’s a problem this site has, at least occasionally.
Christopher
Aug 4, 2016 at 10:20 am
The single length set idea has been knocking around for years, but it’s been reinvigorated by Bryson and a few others. The problem with the older sets were that you just couldn’t get the same performance out of a three-iron with an eight-iron shaft, you’d just hit low bullets (try hitting a junior club from a few years back). As technology has progressed we’ve gotten to a point where we can build long irons which produce higher launch angles and have the shorter shafts. The idea has always been around, but the performance has been lacking.
300 Yard Pro
Aug 7, 2016 at 1:53 am
I laugh everytime someone tries to compare the EQL to the Wishons. That’s like comparing a homebuilt SL set to the Wishons.
Tom
Aug 2, 2016 at 7:59 pm
TAAA DAAAA! Two set of single length irons on the market now.
db
Aug 3, 2016 at 2:29 am
Who said Cobra are going to sell them? Duh dumb
Uncle Buck
Aug 2, 2016 at 7:27 pm
@D.Querehote’, Uh yeah you got it pall. EARN THE HYPE, then you can hang out in the van down by the river! I’m up to here with the next world dominator. And some alleged genius, check my spelling Q, with taped and stitched together one length clubs ain’t earned IT yet! And just because 14 22″ clubs work ‘allegedly’ great for him, doesn’t mean I have to buy into the nonsense. As I’ve said 23 times before, win a significant professional tournament, THEN bring your hype truck down my street. Why not promote someone that really deserves the hype, someone that has several wins and a host of majors to their credit……………like Sergio “Oh No” Garcia!! Oops! Forgot, he’s still not good enough to win a major. Well, at least that’s what he thinks! Serve him up a set of one lengths, maybe they’ll work for the Spaniard. Idn’t his driver 39″ or somethin’? Hahaha!! Love this wacky site!
Donald Quiote
Aug 3, 2016 at 12:05 am
@UncleBuck I will reply here since I believe your response here was directed at my message below but for some reason you did not actually reply to that. First of all I will admit I find Bryson interesting and quirky. If he manages to get it going he will be an interesting individual on the PGA tour. I think that is a good thing. Secondly…I think you are forgetting he is a popular person coming out on tour because of the success he had as an Am. He is only the 5th person every to hold the US Am and the NCAA DI title in the same year. 4 of those people are huge names… you may recognize them Jack, Phil, Tiger..the last is Ryan Moore (not as big a name but still you get the point…the others just needed the first name to recognize). He got to compete in 2 majors this year: Masters 21st (and was competitive a good chunk of the weekend) and US open T15th. That is a pretty solid start to a career. This site has posted many articles about his clubs because that is what this site does. It is about posting new equipment and things people are trying. If you don’t want to read about him or his clubs then quit going into links that say things like Bryson DeChambeau unveils Cobra One-Length prototype irons”
birdy
Aug 3, 2016 at 9:00 am
are you on crack. sometimes i think people forget how good these guys on pga really are. they are top 125 in their profession….in a profession played by millions worldwide.
Donald Quiote
Aug 3, 2016 at 10:13 am
Nailed it! The world of professional golf is a tough one. So many great players trying to get those few spots available on the PGA tour each year.
Charlie
Aug 4, 2016 at 1:48 am
He’said using the same length woods, wedges and putter?
EagleM.
Aug 2, 2016 at 5:32 pm
OH I need to buy that set. Here is my money..
Donald Quiote
Aug 2, 2016 at 4:53 pm
Wait did Bryson take that epoxy he was using to make these irons super ugly in the post from 2 weeks ago on here? Ohhhhhh wait you mean it was just tape to conceal the irons from the public at the time? I thought the crazies on here were right and it was all his mad scientist approach and uglying up irons and changing swing weights and all that jazz?!?!?! Geez it was just tape… who would have thought that…
JR
Aug 2, 2016 at 8:42 pm
What do you expect? Commenters here are a red hair above commenters on a political website.
Philip
Aug 2, 2016 at 4:36 pm
I would think any swing is based on physics and every pro needs clubs performing exactly to their needs to play on tour.
Donald Quiote
Aug 2, 2016 at 4:54 pm
You would think by peoples reactions to him on this site that every tour player was playing irons at standard L/L/L and it was all off the rack equipment…
BD57
Aug 2, 2016 at 7:53 pm
suspect that swingweight is a function of the weight of the Jumbomax grips, that the heads are “standard weight.”
Uncle Buck
Aug 2, 2016 at 3:59 pm
DeSham who? One length? Did he win, place, or show at da PGA? Oh, ok.
Donald Quiote
Aug 2, 2016 at 4:51 pm
Try not to let the few brain cells you have fall out there Uncle Buck. Bryson was not in the PGA field. I am not sure what peoples expectations are for Bryson at this point. He is a rookie on the PGA tour… Should he have won every tournament since turning pro? He is playing off a few exemptions and sponsors exemptions and he has had some solid performances this year on the big stages. Uncle Buck just does not want Bryson on his yard… “GET OFF MY YARD BOY!”
Tom
Aug 2, 2016 at 8:01 pm
roflmao …. good one D Q.
Charlie
Aug 4, 2016 at 1:50 am
Did Palmer or Nicklaus?
Adrien Jenot
Aug 2, 2016 at 3:44 pm
It goes to show how yardage gaps can be achieved with purely loft. It’s pretty much 4 degree across the short sticks and 5 on the 5 & 3 iron, I wonder what the yardage on these is for him? I would love to have a set made like this for myself at 7 iron length, you would have to get custom fitted and blow half a saturday hitting into a screen but it would be interesting.
AE
Aug 2, 2016 at 3:44 pm
is it possible for Cobra to start selling single irons from such setup, like offer a 6 or 7 iron for sale, for tinkers to try out the concept.
db
Aug 3, 2016 at 2:33 am
Why? What lie angle do you need? Probably the standard one. Which is still flatter than Bryson’s. Cobra isn’t going to custom build different lie angle irons for every golfer that wants a single-length club. Takes too much money to have every lie angle of single length heads ready to go. What part of that don’t you understand from this?
So just grab a regular 7 iron and swing that, and imagine that every iron will feel about the same with the same length, or whatever length you decide to work.
John Muir
Aug 3, 2016 at 12:09 pm
AE:
I think you’d do better trying a 5 iron or PW at the single length standard length (37.5″ in this example). The 7 iron would play like a standard 7 iron. I was kicking around doing this in a component set for folks to try.
John
300 Yard Pro
Aug 7, 2016 at 1:59 am
What do you expect to learn by hitting a single 7 iron? It would be the same as the 7 iron already in your bag.
G.W
Aug 2, 2016 at 3:03 pm
Very cool,wonder if they will make a retail version.
db
Aug 3, 2016 at 2:35 am
NO.
What lie angle do you need, for you to change your swing to the one-plane, giant grip method that you might employ to copy this method? They are not going to be making heads with lie-angles that cover the angles from 60 thru 73 so that people can just to “try” a new single-length extremely upright swing style.
snowexcuse
Aug 3, 2016 at 10:19 am
If they do market them then they will make them the standard lie angle of a 6 or 7 iron. You don’t NEED an upright swing to play single length clubs, and they wont come standard with Jumbo grips.
This set was produced in a factory and then hand customized for Bryson’s weird swing. Have some sense.
Tom
Aug 3, 2016 at 10:25 am
Bazinga! x 2.
Bollix
Aug 3, 2016 at 12:08 pm
snowman,
you so dumb
Donald Quiote
Aug 3, 2016 at 11:02 am
I am not interested in playing single length myself but I think the irons look good. Would think they would do ok on the market.
Tom
Aug 3, 2016 at 10:42 am
This from a prior article. “A proper fitting is important for any club or set of clubs, but with single-length irons it’s especially important since the weight, lie angle, length and shaft will be identical for all of your irons. If something is slightly off, then it will be slightly off for every single iron in your bag. So make sure to get it right”
Lou
Aug 3, 2016 at 2:50 pm
This isn’t particularly ground breaking. My grandpa had a custom set of single-length irons made for him 40 years ago by Browning because of his upright swing style. It didn’t help his game out much but he considered it a fun experiment. I doubt they’ll be made available to the public given the very small demand there will be for them.
Tom
Aug 4, 2016 at 11:05 am
Time will tell.