TaylorMade RAC CGB Irons | GolfGearReview.com

TaylorMade RAC CGB Irons
Andrew Penner

A universal – and rather elementary - golf theme can be summed up in three words: launch the ball. Ever since Old Tom and his pioneering buddies started flailing at the featheries along the eastern shores of Scotland, there has been this force, this all-encompassing desire, to hit the ball higher and further than the next guy. It’s how you score. It’s how you play the game well. You’ve got to be able to “launch it.”

And if you play the TaylorMade RAC CGB Irons – the newest model in the RAC series - then you’ve no doubt seen plenty of shots shooting skyward. This is, by far, the one thing that stands out with these irons. They are, pure and simple, designed to get the ball rocketing up in the air quickly from any lie.

TaylorMade CGB (Center of Gravity Back) Irons have some unique, ball-launching characteristics. Most importantly, by hollowing out the topline and building an extremely thin face, engineers where able to move 26 grams of weight to the back and bottom of the club – via a “performance cartridge” of tungsten-loaded urethane and five metal rods. And this, according to TaylorMade and the thousands of golfers who head to the course locked and loaded with these sick pups, is what gives these irons their high-flying performance.

Personally, I thoroughly enjoyed hitting high, soft-landing shots with these oversized, on-the-juice sticks. The sound off the club was loud and the feeling at impact was good, but not buttery-soft like some irons. Off less-than-perfect lies these clubs really shone. For me, the one negative was the workability factor with these irons. It seems to me that these clubs know just one simple language – high, straight, and far (a tongue that Old Tom definitely would have appreciated). Irons retail for $1,200 (steel) and $1,500 (graphite).

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