Like the old irons, the new PTx PRO feature the forged frame and face, with lighter titanium cores to help lower the CG, but there are slight differences. The scoring irons (8-PW) are also fairly similar in construction to the original PTx irons. Tungsten weights are placed in the toe area to fine-tune CG, launch angles and spin. Both sets’ long irons feature hollow-bodied, three-piece co-forgings, with forged 1025 carbon steel frames and forged MS300 faces. In fact, other than aesthetics the long irons in both the old and the new PTx irons appear to be virtually identical. In that sense, Hogan isn’t breaking any new ground with the new PTx PRO’s. That line, however, continues to be blurred by OEMs offering multi-piece heads with forged components. If you define forged irons as an iron forged from a single piece of steel then no, the PTx PRO doesn’t qualify. “Going forward you’re going to see more and more products that look like and have the aesthetics of the PTx PRO.” “If I have any criticism of our product line is there’s not a lot of consistency in how our irons look,” says White.
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The new PTx PRO still doesn’t fit with the other two irons sets, but it does look enough like the Apex Plus and its Spalding/Callaway progeny Apex Edge and Apex FTX to be listed as a direct descendant on. They’re all members of the same family but look like they all came from different fathers. Worth blades, the old PTx cavity backs, and last year’s Edge game improvement irons, while all fine sticks in their own right, had no branding consistency. The new new Ben Hogan Company has had a bit of a branding problem. “We wanted to get back to the Hogan history and heritage, and we wanted something people would instantly recognize as being a Ben Hogan design.”
“We spent a lot of time on the graphic presentation as much as we did the technology,” says Hogan CEO Scott White.
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