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Sep 01, 2023

Titleist T100, T150, T200 & T350 Irons (2023) Review

Last Updated: 03 August 2023 The family of four Titleist T-Series 2023 Irons Go for a fitting on Titleist’s new 2023 T-Series irons and you’ll experience a very different way to how the brand dials

Last Updated: 03 August 2023

The family of four Titleist T-Series 2023 Irons

Go for a fitting on Titleist’s new 2023 T-Series irons and you’ll experience a very different way to how the brand dials you into your perfect new setup. Having come through a decade where iron lofts have got stronger, and launch monitors have led golfers to focusing on ball speed and distance, Titleist have come up with a new “3D fitting philosophy”. They say the idea helps golfers more easily identify the best golf irons for their game and will lead to more consistent scoring.

Titleist’s 3D thinking comes down to three Ds: Distance Control, Dispersion Control, and Descent Angle. The combination is designed to help golfers hit shots into a smaller, more predictable area, more consistently – which is the target for virtually every player on the planet.

Don’t be too upset if the new fitting philosophy means giving up some ball speed or carry distance (we did) to find your optimally fitted iron; with shots flighted correctly you will score better. Here’s how they do it.

Golf commentators on TV regularly highlight how important it is for pros to control distance consistency; it’s just not possible to score well if they don’t. Titleist’s new T-Series fitting philosophy maximizes carry distance while maintaining even and consistent 5mph ball speed gaps between clubs. That may well mean using a blended set of irons, an approach adopted by 80% of players on the PGA Tour. Or it could lead to integrating a utility iron/hybrid into your set to achieve ideal gapping.

But, rather than just chasing the longest or fastest shots to sell you a set of irons, Titleist’s approach is tightening the gap between on and off-centre hits. So, good and poor strikes will hit the green, which long term will give golfers more opportunities to shave shots from their game.

Across the four new sets of 2023 T-Series irons, there’s an average of 100g of tungsten weight inside (which is a lot compared to some models on the market), which ups MOI and forgiveness. By controlling how much the head deflects at impact, thanks to cramming each head full of tungsten, shots that don’t hit the center face don’t fly as far offline and don’t lose as much ball speed, which legitimately ups scoring consistency.

Titleist promise their fitters will only dial golfers into models which don’t sacrifice left-to-right dispersion for improved ball speed and distance. Interestingly, the brand also say the T-Series irons are the most forgiving golf irons on the market, relative to blade length. Where with other more forgiving models you will need to accept a larger size; to illustrate their point the Ping G430 iron which is more forgiving than the new T350 also has a longer blade length.

We’ve been saying it for years: if you’re looking at strong lofted irons, you have to generate enough speed, backspin, shot height, and a steep enough descent angle to get shots to stop on a green. If you don’t, any distance gains are absolutely worthless. It’s refreshing then to hear a brand say speed and distance is no longer their primary concern for fitting golfers.

Obviously exact speed, spin and descent angle numbers are player dependent. But, from our experience, a 7-iron generating sub 5000 RPM levels of backspin, or a shallower descent angle than 45°, should at the very least set alarms bell ringing. Without sufficient levels of spin and descent angle shots just won’t stop on hitting the dancefloor.

The T100 is THE modern tour iron. Forged with a small cavity back, the model is rammed full of tungsten toe and heel weighting inside the back bar, which makes this super compact model pretty forgiving for its size. Expect the enhanced back bar profile to improve feel, stability, and sound.

A subtle shift in CG position is combined with a new CNC Milled face to give greater ball flight consistency, especially useful when moving from fairway to first cut.

For the first time, Titleist’s iron engineers have worked with the sole shaping and turf interaction experts who produce Vokey wedges. They’ve created a smoother sole shape that has a less pronounced trailing edge, which is faster through the turf. All in this is a very hi-tech club and one of the best players’ irons available. If its predecessor is anything to go by, this model will be both Titleist’s most-played iron, and the most-played iron on tour.

For an iron of this stature, the cavity detailing is CNC machined, which avoids using a cavity badge, an idea that’s been known to cheapen the cosmetic appeal of tons of great irons before.

Specs: Titleist T100 2023 iron

RRP: £178.50 (s) £192.50 (g) per club or £1249.50 (s) £1347.50 (g) for 7 irons.

Stock shaft: True Temper AMT Tour White (Low Launch, Low Spin – steel)or Mitsubishi Tensei White AM2 (Low Launch, Low Spin graphite)

Category: Players’ Iron

Forgiveness rating: 2/5

7-iron loft: 34°

Titleist’s faster tour iron. Where the T150’s predecessor, the T100 S, was just a 2° stronger version of the 2021 T100 iron, this new model is a very different beast compared to the 2023 T100. Golfers can expect more ball speed, more distance, and thanks to a slightly wider sole and locating more weight lower, more forgiveness too. Expect an improved iron for the model’s intended target audience, despite hosel offset and blade length being very much like the new T100.

Like the T100, the model is fully forged with dual cavity toe and heel weighting. There’s also a CNC Milled face for precision and a Muscle Channel along the back bar that aids face flex to maximize ball speed.

Expect this model to appeal to golfers wanting the precision of the T100 but with added ball speed, carry distance, and some additional forgiveness. If you’ve loved Titleist’s AP2 irons before but found the previous T100 a little bit small, this model should be right up your street.

If you’re torn between this model and the T200, the choice will likely come down to whether you want the feel, and feedback of a full-on forged iron (the T150), or your game being better served by the benefits of a slightly bigger, more forgiving hollow body head like the T200.

Specs: Titleist T150 2023 iron

RRP: £178.50 (s) £192.50 (g) per club or £1249.50 (s) £1347.50 (g) for 7 irons

Stock shaft: True Temper Project X LZ (Low Launch, Low Spin steel) or Mitsubishi Tensei White AM2 (Low Launch, Low Spin graphite)

Category: Players Distance Iron

Forgiveness rating: 2.5/5

7-iron loft: 32°

Titleist’s modern-day hollow body players’ distance iron, the T200 combines a tidy head shape and profile and it’s aimed at golfers who want distance help in their game yet don’t want to sacrifice looks, feel, trajectory, or stopping power. Inside, the model’s been completely reengineered to deliver a stiffer more stable chassis, which feels dramatically better than its predecessor, which makes the T200 one of the best players’ distance irons available.

Part of the improved feel that Titleist talk about comes from a more centered Max Impact support bar behind the face (with polymer sat between the pair), and a newly stiffened back badge. The badge has also been specifically designed to eliminate the issues some golfers experienced with badges popping out of the previous T200 model.

If hosel offset is important to you, the T200 has very similar levels to the T100. So don’t expect a hugely confidence-inspiring look at address. The T200 is often played as long irons on tour. Its top edge thickness mimics the super popular TaylorMade P790, but the two have a slightly different appearance at address thanks to additional bevelling and misting.

Unlike the T100 and T150, the T200 isn’t fully forged. The face is forged but the back and hosel are cast, as in most hollow body irons.

The T200 has an L-shape profile, plus there’s a variable thickness pattern on the back to help neutralize the effects of off-center hits.

Specs: Titleist T200 2023 iron

RRP: £178.50 (s) £192.50 (g) per club or £1249.50 (s) £1347.50 (g) for 7 irons

Stock shaft: True Temper AMT Black (Mid Launch, Mid Spin steel) or Mitsubishi Tensei Blue AM2 (Mid Launch, Mid Spin graphite)

Category: Players Distance Iron

Forgiveness rating: 2.5/5

7-iron loft: 30.5°

Titleist are nowhere near as well known for making game-improvement irons as they are for producing brilliant muscleback blades and players’ irons. But, thanks to a true hollow body players’ distance iron construction, the brand reckon a third of their iron sales will come from this new T350 model. Despite having stronger lofts, which are in line with the mid-handicap iron category, golfers can expect the T350 to produce a high, long, and forgiving ball flight.

Like the T200, the T350 has a forged L-shaped face profile, and a newly repositioned (it’s higher to cope with the slightly bigger head size) Max Impact bar behind the face. For the first time in a Titleist game improvement iron, there’s also heel-side tungsten weighting, rather than just having mass stacked in the toe to up MOI.

Titleist see the T350 as the best game improvement iron available. In our book, if you see the model as a hollow body alternative to Ping’s G430 or the TaylorMade Stealth, you’ll be thinking exactly along the right lines.

Specs: Titleist T350 2023 iron

RRP: £178.50 (s) £192.50 (g) per club or £1249.50 (s) £1347.50 (g) for 7 irons

Stock shaft: True Temper AMT Red (High Launch, High Spin steel) or Mitsubishi Tensei Red AM2 (High Launch, High Spin graphite)

Category: Mid – High Handicapper Game Improver Iron

Forgiveness rating: 3.5/5

7-iron loft: 29°

“The new T-Series irons embody a unique approach to iron design and creation,” said Josh Talge, VP, Titleist Golf Club Marketing. “Down to the finest details, this new line delivers best-in-class performance with stunning aesthetics and feel. Each model has been designed to feel as good as it looks, look as good as it performs, and perform better than any iron we’ve created before it.”

“New T-Series irons raise the bar in terms of total performance. Players are always looking for iron performance to be more consistent,” said Marni Ines, Director, Titleist Irons Development, Golf Club R&D. “We want players to hit their distance as often as possible, we want players to hit their preferred flight as often as possible, and we want as tight a dispersion pattern as possible. Each new T-Series iron – from T100 all the way to T350 – feels outstanding, and all of them perform better across the board.”

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RRP: £178.50 (s) £192.50 (g) per club or £1249.50 (s) £1347.50 (g) for 7 irons.

Stock shaft: True Temper AMT Tour White (Low Launch, Low Spin - steel) or Mitsubishi Tensei White AM2 (Low Launch, Low Spin graphite)

Category: Players’ Iron

Forgiveness rating: 2/5

7-iron loft: 34°

RRP: £178.50 (s) £192.50 (g) per club or £1249.50 (s) £1347.50 (g) for 7 irons

Stock shaft: True Temper Project X LZ (Low Launch, Low Spin steel) or Mitsubishi Tensei White AM2 (Low Launch, Low Spin graphite)

Category: Players Distance Iron

Forgiveness rating: 2.5/5

7-iron loft: 32°

RRP: £178.50 (s) £192.50 (g) per club or £1249.50 (s) £1347.50 (g) for 7 irons

Stock shaft: True Temper AMT Black (Mid Launch, Mid Spin steel) or Mitsubishi Tensei Blue AM2 (Mid Launch, Mid Spin graphite)

Category: Players Distance Iron

Forgiveness rating: 2.5/5

7-iron loft: 30.5°

RRP: £178.50 (s) £192.50 (g) per club or £1249.50 (s) £1347.50 (g) for 7 irons

Stock shaft: True Temper AMT Red (High Launch, High Spin steel) or Mitsubishi Tensei Red AM2 (High Launch, High Spin graphite)

Category: Mid – High Handicapper Game Improver Iron

Forgiveness rating: 3.5/5

7-iron loft: 29°

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