What you need to know

The wait is finally over for McLaren’s first golf clubs.

Supercar manufacturer and F1 racing team officially launched the new venture Wednesday evening at a launch party in conjunction with this week’s Cadillac Championship and the Miami Grand Prix, announcing the first two sets of golf clubs: the McLaren Golf Series 1 and Series 3.

“We’ve been working towards this moment for some time and there’s a real sense of anticipation to see it come to life,” McLaren Golf CEO Neil Howie said in a statement. “Behind the scenes, we challenged every part of the process – from materials to construction – to uphold the exacting standards and constant pursuit of excellence that define McLaren. To now introduce these irons to the world and see them in the hands of golfers is incredibly exciting.”

Justin Rose, McLaren’s first global ambassador and investorwill make his debut with the irons this week at the Cadillac Championship.

Continue reading below for more on the McLaren Series 1 and 3 Irons, including my take on the release.

What’s really new with the McLaren Golf Series 1 and 3 Irons — and why you should care

All at MIM

To offer its first approach to precision, the company’s inaugural iron models are built entirely around metal injection molding (MIM). MIMing has gained traction in golf equipment manufacturing over the past decade, allowing designers to create more complex internal geometries and achieve tighter tolerances than traditional forging or casting.

In the past, other companies have used the technology – which, as the name suggests, involves injecting powdered metal into a mold to create a structure – in interchangeable tips, wedges and weights.

It also enables the use of a proprietary steel developed from a mixed powder material.

“We were focused on creating a material that was soft and felt really good, while still meeting our performance targets – and I think we hit the mark,” Ryan Badgero, McLaren’s director of engineering, told GOLF.

This material debuts on McLaren’s first two models: the 1 Series and 3 Series grilles.

Both have a structural mesh in the back of each club head, adding support while trimming approximately 2-3 grams of mass. That may not sound like much, but in club design, every gram counts. The grille is also a call-back to McLaren’s roots in car design, as the design mimics similar structures on McLaren Automotive supercars like the GTS and 750S.

“We are able to MIM this mesh directly into the head, then redistribute the saved weight to tune the CG and increase the MOI,” Badgero said. “At the same time, it provides structural support, allowing us to fade in certain areas while maintaining integrity. It’s really a two-in-one feature.”

This discretionary mass is reallocated to the weighting of the tungsten to create a progressive vertical CG – helping long irons launch higher while short irons make them easier to fly.

A playable blade

The Series 1 takes on a traditional muscle profile aimed at top players and touring pros. With the weight savings from the net, the club incorporates a silicone dampening system to improve feel as well as the weight of the tungsten.

Tungsten placement moves the CG progressively from low to high through the set, and also from heel to toe. Combined with a progressive offset package, the long irons are designed to guard against fairway errors while the short irons remain neutral.

The specs show the offset jumping nearly a full millimeter between the 8 and 7 irons, and then jumping another 1.2mm from the 6 iron to the 5 iron. Elsewhere, progress is approximately 0.1 to 0.2 mm. This was done from direct feedback in working with Rose.

“One of the main pieces of feedback was that players hate to see the correct error in the long irons,” said JP Harrington, McLaren’s senior design manager for irons and wedges. “CG placement and offset work together to help flatten the face more easily and prevent that bleed.”

A flat sole promotes dexterity and shot shaping for the most skilled players.

Filling the distance of players

The larger, more forgiving 3 Series fits into the hollow-back performance category.

Here, the mesh and tungsten remain, but the mass is concentrated more centrally. This is achieved through a carbon fiber cover that houses a tungsten weight, along with a smaller finger weight.

The center piece doubles as a calibration weight, allowing McLaren to fine-tune the head weights to extremely tight tolerances, while also offering a lighter head option.

“Because it’s stacked at the center of gravity — we designed it to hit specific CG coordinates — adding weight there doesn’t move it,” Harrington said. “So from the lighter B head to the standard A head, the CG remains constant.”

The Series 3 sole features increased camber and pronounced heel relief to improve traction and terrain forgiveness.

With a more traditional offset progression – similar to the Series 1 in the long irons – the Series 3 can also serve as a long iron replacement within a mixed set. In fact, both the 3 and 4 irons have the same loft and offset as the Series 1, while the Series 3 5-iron has strong loft but similar offset. A skinny bent 5 iron to match the loft of the Series 1 would actually have less compensation.

Justin Rose plans to use a Series 3 4-iron in competition and potentially a Series 3 5-iron as well.

McLaren Golf iron formation

Series 1

What is it: A traditional back muscle shape with a flat sole for easy kick shaping. The iron has been improved through progressive CG that moves from low to high and center heel from long irons to short irons and a progressive offset package to help smooth out fairing errors with long irons.

Who is it for: High precision ball strikers who want more speed and stability than a traditional muscle forged.

Series 3

What is it: McLaren calls this iron a “performance backhoe” in the golfer distance category. The Series 3 features an internal toe weight and another enclosed in a carbon fiber center bone to center the CG inside the head and allow for an A and B weight head.

Who is it for: A wide range of player abilities, from intermediate ball strikers looking to gain more speed or top players looking for a long iron replacement.

My take: Golf clubs designed by a racing team

If you had asked me to picture the bars that a supercar or F1 team would produce, they would look a lot like these.

These are golf clubs you get specifically if you’re looking to get maximum performance, just like the McLaren F1 team demands from their cars on a race day.

It should come as no surprise that McLaren’s R&D and executive teams could translate their expertise and design golf clubs in a way they haven’t done before.

Thanks to the MIM construction process, both the Series 1 and Series 3 irons buck a trend we’re starting to see in the equipment space making irons that play like class above those. For example, the Series 1 irons are playable to the point where more than traditional blade players may be able to play them, and the Series 3 irons will have the forgiveness and speed of something in the golfer distance category while looking more like a traditional hollow back.

As you’d expect from a supercar company, neither of these irons is shy about speed.

Rose’s fingerprints are all over Series 1 with progressive CG and offset to help reduce his tendency to stray to the right.

The 3 Series is something that really intrigues me and I could see landing in my bag.

McLaren is making a big statement in the golf space that should bring new ideas and innovations. The obvious next step would be the 2 Series bars, but as Rose teased earlier this week, there will eventually be a whole bag of McLaren clubs to choose from.

Price, Specifications and Availability

The new McLaren Golf Series 1 and Series 3 irons will be available in North America, Europe and South Korea through select custom fit retailers. April 30.

Clubs will cost $375 per head.

The loft stock specifications of each set are below.

Series 1: (3i) 20, 22, 26, 30, (7i) 34, 38, 42, (PW) 46
Series 3: (3i) 20, 22, 24, 27, (7i) 31, 35, 39, (PW) 44, (GW) 49

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