subject: More Consistent Distance TaylorMade Burner Iron Set [print this page] More Consistent Distance TaylorMade Burner Iron Set
It's no secret that when it comes to golf clubs, how they look is often nearly as important as how they perform.
Golfers, especially skilled players, want a club that looks good at address and one they believe they can work to create various shots. Conventional wisdom has taught us that the more forgiving a club is, the more it typically lacks in the first two departments.
The 2009 Burner irons offer longer and more consistent distance in every iron with more distinct distance-gaps between long- and middle-irons. The long-, middle- and short-irons were separately engineered so you get long and forgiving long-irons, long and accurate middle-irons and accurate and responsive short-irons.
How the TaylorMade Burner 09 irons work
TaylorMade's design team started with the 4-iron (most sets typically revolve around the 6-iron).
"We felt that if we could make a long iron that was far easier to hit than any other, we'd learn a lot about how to make the middle- and short-irons easier to hit, too," said Benoit Vincent, TaylorMade's chief technical officer. "We spent a great deal of time in the beginning deconstructing conventional long-irons and re-thinking how we might reconstruct them in a new and different way.
"We'd given the previous Burner irons longer, lighter shafts and Inverted Cone Technology, but we knew we could do more. We realized that tweaks weren't enough, that we had to redesign the club completely. We realized that each grouping of irons the short-irons, middle-irons and long-irons had to be treated separately and differently, because each one is a different animal."
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For new irons, TaylorMade engineers thinned the clubface to give it a higher Coefficient of Restitution. The clubhead was increased in size for more perimeter weighting. The long irons have a bigger sole and more offset, and they are outfitted with a lighter shaft and grip.
In short, the long irons are more like hybrids, which are very easy to hit, yet they still look like irons. As you get through the set, the mid-irons, which are designed around the 7-iron, retain the design characteristics that make the long irons forgiving but on a smaller scale.
By the time you get to the short irons, the clubs are much more compact, yet are also very forgiving.
The verdict on TaylorMade's Burner 09 irons
Over the years, I've found that most game-improvement clubs did not improve my game at all. They just tended to make me sloppy, thinking that all I had to do was wave the club in the vicinity of the ball and solid contact and straight shots were guaranteed. In time, I would lose feel and get frustrated.
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But there's something different about these TaylorMade Burner irons. The key here, I think, is the fact that each club was designed individually, much like some of the combo and hybrid sets that have gained popularity in recent years. These, however, appear seamless, unlike some combo sets, giving each club the same feel.
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