The brand new TaylorMade Stealth Black irons are hitting the market proper on time.
We’ve talked about it earlier than but it surely’s now normal working process for OEMs on a two-year product cycle to present their present providing slightly kick within the pants by giving it a paint job.
Yep, the TaylorMade Stealth Black irons are similar to the common TaylorMade Stealth irons that had been launched a few 12 months in the past. Besides they’re black.
If that doesn’t get you all limp and tingly, I don’t know what is going to.
TaylorMade Stealth Black Irons
We’re unsure who began the pattern however popping out with a black model of second-year iron releases dates again to at the very least 2018 for TaylorMade. That’s when the corporate got here out with a black PVD end on its P790 irons. Now it’s a part of the OEM playbook to present present irons a gross sales enhance coming into their last 12 months.
The TaylorMade Stealth Black irons, just like the TaylorMade P790 Phantom Black irons launched almost a month and a half in the past, function a black PVD end. A number of of us flip their noses up at black PVD, just because it’s not Diamond Black Metallic (DBM) or Quench-Polish-Quench (QPQ). For the file, a black PVD end is neither as “premium” nor as sturdy as these two finishes.
Nevertheless it’s not junk. It gained’t put on off after three vary periods and it gained’t essentially seem like crapola after a 12 months. You’ll discover battle scars after some time, and there can be face and sole put on, but it surely does take some time. There are higher finishes, however in case you assume a black PVD end will put on off proper after you are taking off the plastic, you’re most likely pondering of black oxide or different low-rent finishes used prior to now.
Both manner, TaylorMade is including a $200 premium to Stealth irons in black. A seven-piece set (4-PW) will run you $1,200, in comparison with the usual chrome set at $999.
A Stealth Assertion
When TaylorMade launched the unique Stealth irons final 12 months, it was coming off a string of lackluster performances in MyGolfSpy’s Most Wished testing. The TaylorMade M4 was the corporate’s final game-improvement iron that reached the Most Wished medal stand and that was in 2018. Since then, TaylorMade’s game-improvement sticks had been mediocre, at greatest.
Stealth, nevertheless, copped first place in final 12 months’s Most Wished testing. It completed in the course of the pack for forgiveness however fourth general for distance and first by a mile in accuracy. Its last rating of 97.5 was greater than six factors forward of the second-place finisher.
The Stealth irons included legacy expertise from previous TaylorMade irons. Cap Again expertise got here from SIM2 which makes use of a low-density (i.e., gentle) polymer cap to shut off the again of its hollow-body development as a substitute of metal. The saved mass was then repositioned south to decrease the CG. Stealth constructed on that with Toe Wrap development which removes vital mass from the excessive toe space and repositions it–you guessed it–decrease.
And that makes the CG–you guessed it once more–decrease nonetheless.
And the place the CG goes, the candy spot will observe.
TaylorMade Stealth Black Irons – Specs, Value and Availability
As talked about, the Stealth Black irons are similar to the usual Stealth irons, solely black. The lofts are typical of the game-improvement class, based mostly on a 28-degree 7-iron.
The inventory shaft is a metal blacked-out KBS Max MT shaft, obtainable in common and stiff flexes. The inventory grip is a black Lamkin Crossline 360.
TaylorMade Stealth Black irons can be obtainable for each lefties and righties and can promote for $1,200 for a seven-piece set.
They’re obtainable beginning immediately at retail and at www.taylormadegolf.com.
