Taylormade R11 Irons

[SpacklersEdge]

Saw these were announced today, did a quick search and didn't find any relevant threads.  Anyone have any experience with these already?

[iacas]

I got these images in the fourteen emails TaylorMade sent me last night and this morning.

[Gioguy21]

Erik,
do you think this is more of a game improvement iron? ie along the lines of a diablo edge? and think there's a possibility of a R11 TP iron, or would they just stick with their 'tour preferred' mc, mb and cb lines?

[tomvk77]

Think they look great, hope there is a tp version comming out, with a thinner topline and a sharper sole and less offset.

I'm in the market for new irons. Otherwise i have to reshaft my older Tour Preferred irons. Because i picked up some swingspeed in the last

few years

[Gioguy21]

  tomvk77 said:

Originally Posted by tomvk77

Think they look great, hope there is a tp version comming out, with a thinner topline and a sharper sole and less offset.

I'm in the market for new irons. Otherwise i have to reshaft my older Tour Preferred irons. Because i picked up some swingspeed in the last

few years

I have a set of project x's if yo'ud be interested?

[SpacklersEdge]

  Gioguy21 said:

Originally Posted by Gioguy21

Erik,

do you think this is more of a game improvement iron? ie along the lines of a diablo edge? and think there's a possibility of a R11 TP iron, or would they just stick with their 'tour preferred' mc, mb and cb lines?

From what I have read, they are considered a GI iron, but with the looks of a players iron.  They are said to be as long as the burners, but not nearly as thick and chunky, and more workable.  Also, the TM engineers are saying they found a new way to create the grooves (since they are cast and not milled) and this produced some significant increases in spin over the previous models cast grooves (like the R9's). Also the soles are said to be very good since they got input from a lot of tour pro's and mainly Faldo.

[iacas]

  Gioguy21 said:

Originally Posted by Gioguy21

Erik,

do you think this is more of a game improvement iron? ie along the lines of a diablo edge? and think there's a possibility of a R11 TP iron, or would they just stick with their 'tour preferred' mc, mb and cb lines?

Yes, yes, and technically yes since you asked an or question and one of the answers is true (the second half). :-)

[McShank]

they look more along the lines of a razr x and or cg16

[sean_miller]

pfft . . . they're not even white!?!

[dhanson]

  McShank said:

Originally Posted by McShank

they look more along the lines of a razr x and or cg16

i dunno... to me they look almost exactly like what would happen if the TP CB's and the Burner 2.0's had a baby.

[delav]

  SpacklersEdge said:

Originally Posted by SpacklersEdge

From what I have read, they are considered a GI iron, but with the looks of a players iron.

'Looks of a players iron?'  You've got to be kidding me.

[McShank]

No offense to any TM fans out there, but I think there stuff as of late is crap. I think a lot of this is a gimmick. Not to say that they are the only company selling gimmicks, I just think they push it a little too much. The entire r11 line is a perfect example.

[ohiolefty]

I'm leery of this. It looks, in the pictures, like some of TMs newer players irons, but all the performance seems to be along the line of their GI stuff. I'd think that, in person, these aren't going to look as 'playersish' as they do in pictures. Besides that, the only visual that seems less GI is from the topline...the rest of the club is still clunky and fugly.

[sean_miller]

  ohiolefty said:

Originally Posted by ohiolefty

I'm leery of this. It looks, in the pictures, like some of TMs newer players irons, but all the performance seems to be along the line of their GI stuff. I'd think that, in person, these aren't going to look as 'playersish' as they do in pictures. Besides that, the only visual that seems less GI is from the topline...the rest of the club is still clunky and fugly.

Not G20 Razrhawk fugly, but yeah, a swing and a miss for sure.

[SpacklersEdge]

  sean_miller said:

Originally Posted by sean_miller

Not G20 Razrhawk fugly, but yeah, a swing and a miss for sure.

Call me crazy but I like the looks of them from what I can see so far.  The picture Erik posted isn't much, but there are more "hands on" pictures on a competing forum I won't paste a link to here.  People with their "these don't look classic" attitudes, I don't get sometimes.  But to each his own, that's why we have so many choices.  Results are what matters to me.

[sean_miller]

  SpacklersEdge said:

Originally Posted by SpacklersEdge

People with their "these don't look classic" attitudes, I don't get sometimes.

Why the quotation marks? Did I say that? They do look like classic TaylorMades. I've thought that TaylorMade has made vast improvements this year in the aesthetics of their irons. I know you're all about the results, but I see my irons on their own and together in my bag, many many many times over the course of a golf season and I want something that I can look at without cringing. If i'm gonna shoot the same score either way, I don't want a bunch of contrasting colours and chintzy looking decorative badges weights  glued / welded on the back, straight lines where there should be curved lines and vise versa, and something that looks like I need to purchase a special tool in order to clean it properly (Nike irons would not make wish list for this reason alone). My specific comments were an homage to the poster who trashed the strange looks of them and said TM was trying to hard and has even uglier farther reaching irons in his bag. Eye of the beholder I guess.

[imtomtomim]

  sean_miller said:

Originally Posted by sean_miller

pfft . . . they're not even white!?!

HA! That was my first thought!  They could have at least painted the bottom grooves.

[Benjiamin]

I'm not so much looking forward it. Ping Anser is good for me.