Bettinardi MB24, CB24 irons

Gear: Bettinardi MB24, CB24 ironsPrice: $1,600Specs: Cast 1025 carbon metal with infused tungsten and ceramic matrix composite materials.Accessible: April 5

Who It’s For: Low-handicap golfers who desire a compact, classic-looking blade or a greater participant’s cavity again iron that emphasizes really feel and management.

The Skinny: The primary irons from Bettinardi are crafted with the identical degree of precision and a focus to element that has made the model’s putters fascinating for deep-pocketed golfers for many years. For golfers who shoot within the 60s or 70s, they ship a excessive degree of really feel and management.

The Deep Dive: Bettinardi has been identified for many years as being one of many best putter makers in golf, specializing in milled blades and mallets that appear to be one thing that may be displayed below glass at Tiffany’s subsequent to engagement rings and diamond bracelets. Beginning a couple of seasons in the past, the Tinley Park, Illinois-based firm began providing milled wedges and multi-material putters, however now the model is providing its first pair of irons—the CB24 and MB24—and they’re exactly what you may anticipate from Bettinardi.

The CB24 and MB24 are each cast from 1025 carbon metal for a smooth really feel, however Bettinardi has co-forged the interior parts of every head with high-density tungsten and ceramic matrix composite materials.

The addition of the tungsten and ceramic matrix composite materials allowed Bettinardi designers to shift the middle of gravity (CG) location in every membership, decreasing it within the lengthy irons to make them simpler to hit excessive and elevating it within the scoring golf equipment to make it simpler to flight the ball down for higher distance management.

The perimeter weighting and further mass low within the head add a contact of forgiveness. (David Dusek/Golfweek)

Whereas each golf equipment have a compact blade size and only a contact of offset, the CB24 is a basic better-player’s cavity-back iron. Its perimeter weighting across the exterior of the top ought to make it extra steady and provides it extra forgiveness than the MB24, which is a real muscleback blade. As a substitute of perimeter weighting, the MB24 added mass immediately behind the impression space to boost ball velocity and create a extra strong really feel at impression. The MB24 additionally has a barely thinner topline, though you would need to take a look at the highest golf equipment fastidiously, side-by-side, to note.

In a nod to Bettinardi styling, each golf equipment function the model’s honeycomb behind the face.

Beneath are a number of close-up pictures of the brand new Bettinardi CB24 and MB24 irons