Taylormade P.790 Irons
The Modern Cult Classic Is Now Handsomer And Promises to Play Even Better
In refreshing the phenomenally successful P.790 irons, Taylormade golf have done something surprising, and that is to not fix what isn’t broke. It’s a move not usual for the Carslbad giant that touts itself as an industry leader in product innovation, technology and performance, but a smart move nonetheless.
Like its P700 series siblings, the P·790 irons are a meticulously crafted set combining performance, feel and aesthetics. By way of its forged face and soft, hollow body construction with Speedfoam™ and the Thru-slot Speed Pocket that generated speed and forgiveness, the first-generation P·790 rose to the upper heights of the players distance category.
To improve on an iron as successful as the original P·790, engineers took everything learned from its design, refining and emphasizing many of the unique design elements without drastically changing its DNA. The result is a forged iron that continues to deliver remarkable distance and playability combined with exceptional feel in a medium-compact head design with a refined topline, more compact blade length and reduced offset preferred by discerning players.
The all-new 2019 P·790 now features a 7% thinner face designed to produce a faster COR and for the first time includes Progressive Inverted Cone Technology (PICT) designed to improved accuracy, minimizing the right flight tendency of the ball often found in long irons. The thinner face also maintains sound and feel yet enhances feedback regardless of where the ball is struck on the face.
Behind the face of the new P·790 sits Speedfoam, injected into the clubhead to provide face support and generate ball speed, as well as damping properties to manage sound and feel.
15% more tungsten than before resides within the head, with the larger, low profile tungsten design reshaped to deliver a deeper centre of gravity and increase the launch angle.
More than just cosmetics, the new refined shaping is where the 2019 P.790 irons should really come into its own, appealing more to the eye with a keener players profile. In the pursuit of the perfect players distance iron shape, the product creation team worked from the ground up, tweaking the sole radius for less propensity to dig. The long irons (4I-6I) have progressively less offset and the blade length was shaved down slightly in the scoring irons (7I-PW) for a more compact player’s iron. Finally, the topline shaping was refined by increasing the face height in the toe for a cleaner progression through the set. The result is a visual appeal preferred by better players without being visually intimidating for those who appreciate the forgiving nature of the P·790 design.
The new P·790 irons will be offered in 4I-PW equipped with True Temper’s Dynamic Gold 105 steel shafts, NS Pro Modus 105 steel shafts, or UST Mamiya’s Recoil 760/780 ES Smacwrap graphite shafts with Golf Pride Tour Velvet 360 grips. Numerous other custom shaft options are also available.