Pulling a 9 iron…excuse me, a 45°…is quick enough, but get to a 7 or a 6 iron (something in the middle of the set) and that math gets complicated. 4 degrees of off my pitching wedge is 41°…yup, I’ve got one of those, let’s see how it goes. I found I had to establish a baseline and do conversions and other adjustments. I know my (old) pitching wedge is 45 degrees. For the first few rounds, each shot required me to establish a baseline, covert to Hogan-speak, and do whatever other math was necessary to find the right club for the shot.ġ45 is a 9 iron. Initially it’s fair to say that loft stamping contributed to a bit of a pace of play problem. Neither number is actually any more or less meaningful than the other. It doesn’t matter if the iron is stamped 8 or 34, for me, it just needs to go +/-155 yards. I get it – it’s a point of differentiation and plays to the larger message of precision – but initially I found it a bit unwieldy.Įventually pulling by loft instead of number should become second nature, but if modern loft-jacking, as Koehler contends, has made the number on the club meaningless, so too does stamping the loft. The new Hogan way of stamping lofts rather than iron numbers on the sole has been the topic of much discussion. That said, when you couple those discrete lofts with Hogan’s ½° tolerances (both loft and lie), the end result is a level of precision uncommon to the mass market. It’s something to talk about, but is it necessary?įrankly, I’m not sure how much the average golfer concerns himself with such things, and I suspect many will find the breadth of options Hogan offers overwhelming. Gimmick, sales hook, point of differentiation, whatever you want to call it, the reality is that Mr. It’s not a 36° bent a degree weak, or a 39° bent two degrees strong. If it hasn’t been made clear to you by now, what that means is that a 37° FT.
While precision is exactly the type of nebulous term the golf industry loves to throw around, the most recognizable real world manifestation of the concept is that Hogans are manufactured in discrete lofts from 20° to 47°. The main selling point of the new Hogan FT. Let’s not get too excited over a good story and a matching logo. WORTH 15 iron was launched along with the TK Wedge and the declaration that precision is back. Koehler assembled his team, including some former Hogan original employees, set to work on a design he felt would be true to Ben Hogan’s standard. Terry Koehler who’s responsible for the Scor Golf short game brand (and the Eidolon brand before that) licensed the Hogan name from Perry Ellis who acquired the brand from in Callaway 2012. Longtime Hogan enthusiasts celebrated its hopefully triumphant return, while modern independent-minded golfers welcomed a potentially viable alternative to the mainstream.īy now you should know the story. The return of the once-iconic equipment brand is perhaps the golf equipment story of the year (Feel Good Division). The Ben Hogan Apex Forged 2006 Irons really encapsulate all of the features expected from a Ben Hogan club.More to the point, Ben Hogan, or at least the equipment company bearing his name, is back. They’re ideal for demanding golfers with good control over their swing and represent the excellent level of quality commonly seen in Ben Hogan clubs.
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For this reason, these irons are intended for average to good golfers.Īll in all, the Ben Hogan Apex Edge Pro Forged Irons are solid clubs that can keep up with all but the strongest swings. While they do have a measure of forgiveness for slightly off center shots, they do tend to emphasize larger mistakes by veering far off course and losing quite a bit of distance. The biggest drawback to the Apex Edge Pro irons is that they’re less forgiving than other irons.
Simply put, for anyone looking for height and distance, these irons are perfect. The Hogan Apex steel shafts react in a similar way to the True Temper Dynamic Gold shafts, but with a somewhat softer feel good for those soft shots. Made in the United States, the Apex Edge Pro irons are one-piece irons forged from 1025 carbon steel with a cavity back.ĭespite feeling a little on the light side, these irons are quite capable of keeping up with fast swings. They were designed to appeal to more demanding players, and as a result, the club heads within in the set vary between clubs. The whole set weighs in at perfect D-2 swing weight, which is hard to find in rack irons, so it’s easy to see the care that went into them. The Ben Hogan Apex Edge Pro Forged Irons falls somewhere between the Apex Blades and the earlier Apex Edges.
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