Next from Nickent

Nickent Golf has unveiled two new hybrid clubs, the 3DX DC Ironwood and the 3DX DC Utility, which company officials are calling the next generation of hybrid clubs.

To create a hotter and more forgiving hybrid, Nickent thinned the face of the 3DX DC Ironwood, creating a much higher coefficient of restitution (COR) than the original 3DX Ironwood.

A special plasma welding process helps redistribute weight to the extreme perimeters of the club head, and 40 grams of weight were moved down and back in the head using two tungsten-polymer fused inserts.

That, officials said, is almost 60 percent more adjustable weight in the club head than in other adjustable weight hybrids. This also allowed Nickent engineers to be able to make the DC Ironwood the same shape as the 3DX Ironwood.

The 3DX DC Utility has a wider body that offers a higher launch and more spin in comparison to its ironwood counterpart. It is set up more like a fairway wood, and is designed for players looking for a higher ball flight and lower and deeper center of gravity.

This club is marked with a fairway wood designation, and is meant for players seeking a fairway wood-like set-up but who want the control and ease of play that hybrids provide. In addition, the shaft of the 3DX DC Utility is slightly longer than that of an ironwood, allowing for a sweeping fairway wood-like swing, and it comes in 14 hybrid lofts, one club every 1.5 degrees from 14 to 26 degrees.

Suggested retail price for the new hybrids range from $169 to $199 depending on the shaft.

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