Tungsten weights are placed in the toe area to fine-tune CG, launch angles and spin. Both sets’ long irons feature hollow-bodied, three-piece co-forgings, with forged 1025 carbon steel frames and forged MS300 faces. In fact, other than aesthetics the long irons in both the old and the new PTx irons appear to be virtually identical. In that sense, Hogan isn’t breaking any new ground with the new PTx PRO’s. That line, however, continues to be blurred by OEMs offering multi-piece heads with forged components. If you define forged irons as an iron forged from a single piece of steel then no, the PTx PRO doesn’t qualify. The obvious updates are aesthetic, but there are a couple of things under the hood that should matter to you. Since rebooting in August of that year, the PTx has been Hogan’s best-selling iron, but three years later, it’s due for an update. The original PTx irons were released in 2016, the last club released by Hogan before it declared bankruptcy in early 2017. “Going forward you’re going to see more and more products that look like and have the aesthetics of the PTx PRO.” “If I have any criticism of our product line is there’s not a lot of consistency in how our irons look,” says White. The new PTx PRO still doesn’t fit with the other two irons sets, but it does look enough like the Apex Plus and its Spalding/Callaway progeny Apex Edge and Apex FTX to be listed as a direct descendant on. They’re all members of the same family but look like they all came from different fathers. Worth blades, the old PTx cavity backs, and last year’s Edge game improvement irons, while all fine sticks in their own right, had no branding consistency. The new new Ben Hogan Company has had a bit of a branding problem. “We wanted to get back to the Hogan history and heritage, and we wanted something people would instantly recognize as being a Ben Hogan design.” “We spent a lot of time on the graphic presentation as much as we did the technology,” says Hogan CEO Scott White. They take you back a bit, don’t they? Hello Old Friend I don’t know who’s holding them now, but I want them to know I still love them and miss them terribly.įor any old-school Hoganistas out there who loved the Spalding-era ’99 Apex blade or ’00 Apex Plus, you might be in for a little flashback with this week’s release of the new Hogan PTx PRO forged irons. Loved the look, too, with the Hogan signature and the Sunburst logo – just the sight of them made my heart do the Rhumba. They had plenty of bag chatter, some nice wear marks right on the sweet spot and felt like a foot massage from a young Kathleen Turner. They didn’t have much sentimental value – I bought them on eBay for about $75. Have you ever had a club you wish to hell you’d never got rid of? For me, it was a set of Y2K Hogan Apex Plus irons.
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