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Titleist Reveals New T-Series Irons: What’s New and Improved

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Titleist has officially revealed the new T100, T150, T250, and T350 irons as part of its new T-Series Lineup, featuring numerous enhancements designed to simplify the game through four options tailored to your individual needs.

Titleist improved on the T100, T150, and T350, while rolling out the brand-new T250, including a new Launch Spec model that fits an entirely new profile.

The focus of the new T-Series lineup was to offer higher-performing products across the board, Josh Talge, the company’s SVP of Golf Club Marketing, said. 

Titleist wanted players to have better optimization of the Three D’s — Distance Control, Dispersion, and Angle of Descent — with these irons. Each of these are key to improving your game and lowering your scores, so Titleist took the time to develop technology to maximize these three parameters specifically.

T100

The T100 is perhaps the most-utilized iron from a professional player perspective. It is the least forgiving, but offers the most workability.

The changes Titleist made vary from club to club, and the 3 and 4 irons the company engineered in this particular head style have a new muscle channel to raise launch and peak height. It also has a new Variable Face Thickness, lower CG, and a progressive groove design to tighten up front-to-back distance dispersion, the company said.

 

However, the biggest improvement comes in its performance from the rough:

“Titleist engineers designed more aggressive, steeper-walled grooves in the mid- to short-irons (7-iron through PW), which helps maintain spin rates out from the rough or wet conditions, allowing golfers to hit their number more consistently.”

Titleist has also made other changes with the T100, which are:

  • Forged player-preferred design: New T100’s forged, multi-material platform and Variable Bounce Sole offer exceptional feel off the face and through the turf. Its compact profile includes a thin topline and minimal offset. 
  • Superior flight and stability: Split high-density tungsten weighting and a progressive dual-cavity construction together deliver tremendous stability, trajectory control and consistent carry distance. 
  • Consistent speed and spin: A new Variable Face Thickness (VFT) design in the 3- through 7-iron maintains speed and launch on off-center strikes, while new, more aggressive grooves in T100’s mid- to short-irons improve performance from the rough and wet conditions by adding consistency in spin control and helping to mitigate fliers. 
  • Elevated long-iron launch: A new muscle channel design in T100’s 3- and 4-irons helps lower CG and increase launch and peak height. The muscle channel also helps to increase ball speed, which in turn helps facilitate proper gapping at the top end of the set. 

T150

The T150 is slightly different from the T100 in the sense that their constructions are similar, but the T150 has a slightly bigger body and stronger lofts. It also features an improved muscle channel in the mid-to-long irons for more speed and launch.

  • Confidence-inspiring profile, forged design: The classic, player-preferred shape of new T150 is slightly larger than T100 for a more confidence-inspiring look at address. T150 is forged to deliver a pure feel at impact.
  • More speed, more launch: T150 irons feature one-degree stronger lofts than T100 and an improved muscle channel from 7-iron up, which lowers long-iron CG. The result is faster ball speeds and higher launch. 
  • Superior flight and stability: CG location is optimized using split high-density tungsten weighting and a progressive dual-cavity construction, which delivers tremendous stability in a compact design.  
  • Consistent speed and spin: A new VFT design improves speed and launch across the face, and T150 benefits from the same progressive groove design as T100, with steeper-walled grooves in the mid- to short-irons improving spin consistency across a range of playing conditions.  

The T150 is a lot like the T100S from a few years ago. It is a lot like the T100 but features stronger lofts. It is slightly more forgiving than the T100. Still, you’ll need to be a good ball striker to justify having these in your bag.

T250

The T25o has undergone incredible changes since the T200, which is a club I still have in my bag from 4-6 in both the utility and normal builds.

The T250 has undergone a major aesthetic change, but it is still the iron in the Titleist lineup that offers a clean appearance with added performance bonuses and a confidence-inspiring design with a thick top line.

Titleist says the T250 has an all-steel construction and focused on consistency with looks as this is something that is a key point, especially in blended bags.

It also has several other changes, too:

  • Singular design: New T250 irons feature a high-strength steel construction, providing a clean look in the bag while concealing T250’s high-performance technology under the hood. 
  • Elevated speed: T250’s forged L-Face construction, lower CG and V-Taper design improve ball speed and raise launch on off-center and low-face strikes to promote consistent distance and peak heights. 
  • Enhanced consistency: Improved Max Impact technology delivers more distance across the face while T250’s progressive groove design boosts spin consistency. 
  • High flight and stability: T250 players benefit from split high-density tungsten weighting, which allows for a strategically placed CG location to raise launch and stability.

T250 Launch Spec

The T250 Launch Spec is the same as the T250, but features a lighter headweight and added loft. This encourages increased carry distance for low-flight players and effortless launch.

It is 6 grams lighter than the T250 in the 7 iron and has 4.5 degrees less loft than the standard T250 7 iron.

Marni Ines, Titleist’s Director of Iron Development, explains the mentality behind the Launch Spec T250:

“T250 Launch Spec is a brand-new offering for us, and we’re really excited about it because it brings optimised T-Series performance to more golfers. We saw there was opportunity in our lineup to fit the needs of the golfer who is maybe a moderate swing speed player that really needs launch and can’t achieve the 3 D’s without more help. T250 Launch Spec has all the player’s distance iron tech we leverage in T250, but the loft and headweight work to get the ball up faster and fly in a much higher window.”

T350

The T350 is the game improvement iron in the Titleist T-Series lineup, and it has also been developed with a new appearance, with an all-steel construction like the T250.

The T250 and T350 seem to have been designed with blended sets in mind. The 350 might be a better option for those players who truly have a lot of issues getting the ball up in the air, as it is usually also coupled with a high-launch shaft like the AMT Red. This has been Titleist’s default shaft option for the T350 in its past iterations, like the T300.

Ines talked about the T350:

“Compared to the rest of our T-Series models, the new T350 has the largest clubhead, it’s got the fastest face, and it has a deeper CG. This is really geared towards the player looking for all-out distance and stability. And then, like T250, we were able to create this high-performing hollow-body iron in an all-metal construction to make it look as good as anything in the lineup.”

  • Ultra-clean design: The technology behind T350’s performance is housed within a clean, high-strength steel clubhead design.  
  • Maximized distance: T350 features an L-Face construction with a unique multi-zone VFT design, which drives high-launch performance on low-face strikes and generates ultra-fast ball speeds across the face. 
  • Unmatched forgiveness and consistency: T350 benefits from improved Max Impact technology, which promotes more consistent carry distance and dispersion. Like all new T-Series models, T350 also adds spin consistency from a progressive groove design.  
  • Higher trajectory: Split high-density tungsten in T350 allows for strategically placed perimeter weighting to optimise CG and raise launch, stability and consistency throughout the set.

Availability

The T-Series irons are already available for fittings and pre-order, but they won’t be available in golf shops until August 21. They are priced at $1499 for a 7-piece set in steel, and $1599 for graphite.

Joey Klender is a reporter covering Equipment, Footwear, and Apparel. A huge golf fan, he calls a certain week in April his favorite of the year. Inspired by the likes of Woods, Palmer, McIlroy, and Koepka, Joey plays over 100 times a year in the South Central Pennsylvania area. When he isn't golfing, he is probably thinking about golfing, but he might be watching other sports, writing, or playing poker.

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