As is its customized, this week on the Memorial, Titleist has supplied a totally licensed preview of its upcoming T-Sequence iron household. The brand new T-Sequence marks the third era of post-AP choices from the corporate.
Formally, in what Titleist calls the Tour Seeding and Validation Course of, the following era of Titleist T-Sequence will launch with 4 fashions.
What’s maybe attention-grabbing is that two of the Titleist T-Sequence iron fashions will retain the names of their predecessors whereas the opposite two get an incremental enhance of kinds.
Titleist T100 Irons
In lots of respects, the T100 is Titleist’s flagship participant’s cavity-back so it’s no shock that the naming stays in step with the earlier generations. Beauty refinements are a given however I wouldn’t count on something important past that.
Aside from the golf ball, the T100 is arguably probably the most “don’t screw it up” product within the Titleist lineup.
Titleist T150 Irons
The brand new Titleist T150 iron seems to be a direct substitute for the T100S. The title change is presumably about creating extra separation between the inventory T100 and what was the stronger-lofted T100s. It’s additionally completely attainable that there are some design variations from the earlier era.
Titleist T200 Irons
The Titleist T200 iron has historically (insomuch as two generations create a convention) been Titleist’s participant’s distance providing.
It’s only one man’s opinion however I feel Titleist has struggled to hit the mark with the T200.
The primary era, with its distinctive Max Impression weight, was technologically sound however maybe not what golfers anticipated (or wished) from a Titleist participant’s providing.
Whereas the present era is cleaner, it has all the time felt larger than it wanted to be. With the longer blade size, thicker topline and wider sole, it made for a clumsy mix for anybody trying to pair it with T100 or T100s.
With that, I feel T200 represents Titleist’s best alternative to do one thing completely different (higher) inside the new T-Sequence lineup. As evidenced by P790 and others, there’s a tremendously broad market alternative inside the participant’s distance class. With slightly refinement to the T200, Titleist could possibly be higher poised to take benefit.
Titleist T350 Irons
The T350 is the logical substitute for the T300. Whereas it’s laborious to inform an excessive amount of from the images, it does seem that Titleist has slimmed issues down a bit.
That is purely speculative but it surely’s attainable Titleist is taking an method much like what TaylorMade has executed lately with its participant’s distance choices. Between P770 and P790, TaylorMade has successfully lined each ends of the participant’s distance spectrum with loads of overlap within the center.
May Titleist do the identical with the brand new T-Sequence iron lineup?
A slimmed-down T200 might play to the golfer who needs a bit extra “participant’s” in his participant’s distance iron whereas the T350 might serve the golfer searching for a distance-charged iron that also presents one thing resembling a participant’s profile.
I’d like to see it and, frankly, I’ll be a bit disillusioned if I don’t.
What About …?
Lacking from Titleist’s official Tour Seeding (and Validation!) course of are new cavity-back (CB) and muscle-back (MB) irons in addition to a T400 substitute.
Sometimes, the MB and CB comply with the identical cycle as Titleist T-Sequence irons so I’d count on subtly refined variations of Titleist’s most player-centric designs to launch on the similar time.
FYI: Our expectation is that the T-Sequence will likely be a mid-summer (early July, maybe) launch. That’s a bit sooner than years previous, although I feel Titleist would like to launch product a bit sooner than it traditionally has.
As for a T400 substitute … Latest historical past suggests there will likely be a brand new T400 (or maybe a T450) but it surely received’t launch with the remainder of the Titleist lineup. If the sample holds, you shouldn’t count on to see a brand new Titleist T400 iron till early subsequent yr.
Titleist T-Sequence Irons – Extra To Come
The MyGolfSpy workers expects to get some hands-on time with the brand new Titleist T-Sequence lineup within the coming weeks. We’ll share extra particulars as quickly as we’re in a position.
Keep tuned.
