Nickent Golf has launched its new 3DX Iron, which company officials are promoting as the first Nickent product developed by John B. Hoeflich, the legendary golf club designer and new "product quarterback" at Nickent Golf.
Over the last 20 years, Hoeflich has designed many of the game's best-selling irons. This time around, Nickent officials said, Hoeflich challenged himself to create a high-level game-improvement iron that includes the classic look that has come to represent Hoeflich irons over the years.
Cast from 431 stainless steel, the 3DX Iron has a remarkably thin and strong face, creating a very high coefficient of restitution (COR) to promote faster ball speed. Nickent engineers saved 20 grams of weight from the face and redistributed them in two balanced tungsten-polymer fused inserts (XW Inserts) on the back of the clubhead.
Moving this weight to the back of the blade and widening the sole makes the 3DX easy to launch and easy to play from a wide variety of lies, officials said. Balls will stay in the air longer and land softly as a result of unique Nickent U-Grooves that have been matched to the irons' center of gravity to provide the ideal spin rate under all conditions.
The XW Inserts also give the 3DX Iron improved forgiveness and feel. The tungsten-polymer inserts absorb vibration from impact, reducing a majority of the shock and harsh feel associated with irons that use hard tungsten plugs or screws used to lower the center of gravity or achieve perimeter weighting.
"These XW inserts do so much for the 3DX iron," said Hoeflich. "It has a large cavity back with a very responsive face, so the distance, feel and forgiveness are deeply rooted in the basic design elements of the club.
"What makes the 3DX iron so different and so long compared to other irons is the way the XW inserts work," he added. "They spread the weight to the heel and toe, absorb shock and provide that extra 'oomph' so many golfers are searching for."
The new 3DX irons carry a suggested retail price of $599 per set with the graphite UST SR2 shaft, which has a special Gram-Weight Fitting Shaft System to better custom-fit the golfer, or $499 per set with a steel True Temper ST-90 shaft.
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