Wyndham Clark is the latest Titleist staff member to receive the custom treatment, presenting a unique set of irons at this week’s Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas. The irons were designed after nearly 18 months of collaboration with Titleist. They were designed to give Clark the lower trajectory he prefers with his short irons, while allowing him to throw his long irons high into the sky.
Clark had used forged cavity-back irons during his successful 2023 and 2024 seasons that saw him win his first three PGA TOUR titles, including last year’s U.S. Open, but this set is a mix of cavity-back and blades.
‘What I wanted was a lower flight in my 9 and 8 irons. I loved my 7 and 6 irons, and then I wanted a really high launch in the 5 and 4 irons,’ Clark said Wednesday at the Hero World Challenge. ‘And so obviously if you only have the same (pattern of) iron, it’s hard to get it. So I basically created a set that does that.’ Clark used Titleist 620 CB irons in his victories at the Truist Championship 2023 and the U.S. Open, as well as in his win at this year’s AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am 2024. This summer he switched to Titleist T-100 irons.
This new set, which has been in development since the summer of 2023, combines the features of several models. The 4-iron Clark is using this week is from the Titleist T200 line, the most forgiving of the T-series that came out last year (the stick has been modified to have a lower centre of gravity than a standard T200 4-iron).
‘It’s a T200, but it’s a custom T200,’ Clark said on Wednesday. ‘We eliminated the offset and lowered the CG even further. I wanted a 4-iron that, without me trying, would launch straight into the air, so if I needed height, I wouldn’t have to try to get it, which helps my swing. Sometimes when I try to get height, I lean too far back and miss a lot. I’ve always had the ability to hit low. So recently we just made that stick, which was great’.
Clark is using his new custom irons, called 632.DUB (more on that later), in his 5-9 irons. Clark described the new irons as ‘essentially a combination of an MB, a CB and then some larger cavities as we move to longer irons’. The 620 MBs are muscle-back forged blades, while the 620 CBs are cavity-back forged irons. A common element in Clark’s new set is a lower offset than the standard models of those irons.
‘I feel that playing with a blade all the way through (a set of irons) is really difficult,’ Clark said. ‘And just playing with cavity-back, game-improving irons is really tough because those throw high and … you want them lower in the piercing for a short iron. And so I told Titleist that I’d like a stick with less offset and that I’d be able to hit very low with my short irons, mid-height with my mid-irons and then very high with my long irons…. That’s how the creation process started, which was really fun’.
His new 5-iron is a cavity-back iron with tungsten in the sole (instead of at the bottom of the face, like the T100s) to lower the centre of gravity and help increase Clark’s trajectory, according to Titleist’s JJ Van Wezenbeeck, while the 6-iron is a cavity-back without tungsten in the sole. The 7-iron and shorter are blades, Van Wezenbeeck said.
The Clark irons are the latest in what Titleist has dubbed ‘Project Feel’, where the company has been working with TOUR players on custom irons to learn their preferences and unlock innovations that could be used in future lines. Justin Thomas, Cameron Young, Webb Simpson and Adam Scott are players who have already received the ‘Project Feel’ treatment and created a custom set of irons.
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