Titleist 2018 Concept Irons (pics Pg 1 & 5)

[NoCalHack]

$500 a pop? For better perimeter weighting? I guess its a "concept" and not intended to make money.

 

The whole problem with this idea is that better players actually want less perimeter weighting. Most pros use blades or players cavity irons with minimal perimeter weighting and slower ballspeeds. The players who would benefit most from these are higher handicappers who want a small club. But not many of them are going to pay $500/club for irons. Especially if pros aren't using them.

 

 

[Pinging77]

I like my Titelist CP 02s as the title says. Maybe now people can stop giving expert reviews on the design and performance by pictures of the backs. Go try them and then criticize them on data versus price. For me they were worth every penny. Nothing has come out since I got my set last August that is remotely near them regardless of price..

[Noke]

Why did they not put variable face thickness into these designs? Seems like a miss, especially with super-thin faces.

 

Can you say Hot Spots?

[tsecor]

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[DatSliceDoe]

$500 PER CLUB? Insane.

[JStang]

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I got a warning from the mods for this so no comment....

 

[tsecor]

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[HoganHO]

I will try to post a comprehensive review of my CNCPT fitting at Titleist TPI in Oceanside along with the perfomrance review of the irons (CNCPT-01) which I have been playing for 2 months now.

In a word, they're awesome. To me, they're what I wanted the T-MB to be in terms of performance AND feel--they have truly delivered, and I've played almost everything.

Stay tuned and I'll get to more specifics.

[TinkerGolfMan]

Hard pass.

[jleeclt]

I actually loved everything about the look of the 02 irons when i hit the 7i at my local Titleist fitting...except I found the offset to be kind of high for the perfect size/topline of the blade itself...maybe the Miura's i'm currently hitting have me spoiled offset wise but these irons are definitely on my potential list. Anyone else good/not good with the offset?

[ForTourUseOnly]

> @jleeclt said:

> I actually loved everything about the look of the 02 irons when i hit the 7i at my local Titleist fitting...except I found the offset to be kind of high for the perfect size/topline of the blade itself...maybe the Miura's i'm currently hitting have me spoiled offset wise but these irons are definitely on my potential list. Anyone else good/not good with the offset?

 

Looking at the specs the 02 model actually has less offset then the 718MB, must be your eye is used to the minimal offset of your Miura's but when I saw the CNCPT irons in person the offset didn't jump out at me at all.

I was actually shocked on how compact the 02 head was, figured it would be more like an AP2 originally.

[BottleCap]

I'm trying to figure out how to get the 2s

[MKPAPA]

Foreal? yall down to pay 500 per club? Go to Japan

[Dpavs]

Someone early in the thread asked if the head was hollow or solid. I know which one mine would be if I paid $500 a stick for these.

[misterkye]

Damn, I just picked up a used set of c16’s to get me back into the Titleist family. As always, I should have waited...

[OutBackHack]

Didn't know anything about these clubs until yesterday when I was club looping for a gentleman that had them.... Looked amazing, took a pic to see what they were later.. And boom, $500 a piece.. Nice.

This guy is well know to most on this forum and probably didn't pay a dime for them.... Super sweet looking clubs...

[thomas55]

They look great can't wait for tests to come and see what they do before I think they are the greatest clubs of all time.

They will be something I can only look at and wonder about as I could never afford them.....ever. I hope they are not like PXG long on hype and don't deliver anything more than any other good clubs can do. I would hate to see Titleist make clubs that are just eye candy for rich guys bags that would seem to be beneath them. It sounds like they are distance irons made into a pretty package. Will they have distance that you can control and good spin numbers?

[miles2go]

Really cool, but did I read that right?

$500 per club ?

[JAMH03]

I guess...

 


 

[Pinging77]

Confused on offset comment versus Muira. I have sets of MC-501, MB-001. The CP-02 has less offset than the MC-501, but more than the MB-001. But why not compare similar designed irons. Much better to compare to IC-601 which is their hollow iron. The CP-02 has less offset than the 718MB so no clue where disturbing amount of offset is..

 

Bottom line is too much offset, too costly, don’t like the feel, don’t like the back design...don’t buy them. When I checked on a set of CP 01s was told both are a month and a half back ordered, not bad for official announcement a few days ago..

[FlyingLaw1]

$500 a club is insane. NO Iron is worth that kind of money.

[bogeypro]

I feel like these have been floating around for years.

[elwhippy]

Apart from bragging rights will these clubs have any effect on the owner's game?

[ForTourUseOnly]

> @OutBackHack said:

> Didn't know anything about these clubs until yesterday when I was club looping for a gentleman that had them.... Looked amazing, took a pic to see what they were later.. And boom, $500 a piece.. Nice.

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Titleist is actually making everyone pay for these, Butch harmon, Michael Jordan, Bob Vokey all had to pay for them and any tour guys that want to play them will have to pay as well. Guess that’s how they can recoup the design costs on them.

 

[Stanks]

I like the look of them. I don't see myself or very few really on this forum ever owning them but, cool nonetheless. They look real aggressive.

[NJGolfer0624]

Cool clubs but for $3k a set..... I hit my AP2s well enough.

I think I’d be afraid to mark up these irons!

[Pinging77]

$3K a set try $4K a set or $4.5K including 3 iron. The face is extremely hard (not translated to a hard feel however actually soft) and shows virtually no wear. I’ve had my set since last August and hit 1,000s of range balls on gritty mats, plus 2-3 rounds a week since then.. Caught a couple of rocks in rough that made very slight mark on one club. Biggest complaint is paint is gone from a couple of the irons numbers. Even out of traps no wear on the chrome finish on the W wedge..

[misterkye]

Are you playing a set of c16’s?

 

> @Pinging77 said:

> $3K a set try $4K a set or $4.5K including 3 iron. The face is extremely hard (not translated to a hard feel however actually soft) and shows virtually no wear. I’ve had my set since last August and hit 1,000s of range balls on gritty mats, plus 2-3 rounds a week since then.. Caught a couple of rocks in rough that made very slight mark on one club. Biggest complaint is paint is gone from a couple of the irons numbers. Even out of traps no wear on the chrome finish on the W wedge..

 

 

[lc1342]

Can we expect to see this technology in the new 720 lineup, somewhat like the C16 and AP3?

[Pinging77]

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> > $3K a set try $4K a set or $4.5K including 3 iron. The face is extremely hard (not translated to a hard feel however actually soft) and shows virtually no wear. I’ve had my set since last August and hit 1,000s of range balls on gritty mats, plus 2-3 rounds a week since then.. Caught a couple of rocks in rough that made very slight mark on one club. Biggest complaint is paint is gone from a couple of the irons numbers. Even out of traps no wear on the chrome finish on the W wedge..

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I had a set of C16s years ago. They were quite impressive for their time and to this day are better feeling and performing than the AP3s. I presently am playing the CNCPT 02 blade style since early last August. Have tried everything that has come out since ..distance improvement irons, standard traditional blades. Nothing comes close. These come with T-MB lofts so not as strong as the original C16s. I had my set delivered 1 degree weak because they are so long. When you compare them to an “equivalent” iron with same shaft, same length, same flex, same loft they are 1.5-2 clubs longer and unlike irons like i500, P790, etc. they do not suffer the loss of spin.. From the first week I had them, until today they have been worth every cent as I haven’t bought new irons because nothing is close. Just wish the CNCPT group could produce a driver this fall, but that is an area that has probably been researched to death. As impressive as the C16 irons were for their time the C16 driver was a total dud. The 917 driver was better. Sadly I doubt much from the CNCPT irons will be useable in the 720 series just purely because of costly materials that allows them the technology improvements.

 

 

Since every dealer now seems to have demo 7 irons in both the 01 and 02 models the consumer can now at least try them out rather than ordering them sight unseen and demo less like I did last summer.. At least now data can be produced with variety of shafts versus peoples gamers..