Selection
Stick your irons closer than ever before. Find golf irons that feel like natural extensions of your arms.
Choose from a wide variety of iron set options for right and left-handed players. Select a flex that fits your swing; extra stiff, stiff, regular or senior. Pick the shaft material that feels best to you. Get steel or graphite.
Irons at Golf Galaxy come in all sorts of styles and brands including sets from top brands:
How to Buy Golf Irons: Irons Buying Guide
Today’s irons are packed with innovative design features—some visible, others not—to help golfers play better, and each model is engineered to benefit different player types and abilities. Irons typically fall into three categories:
Players Irons: the smallest, most traditional-looking clubheads that are more versatile and less forgiving
Game Improvement Irons: medium-sized clubheads with lots of forgiving features while featuring a fairly classic profile at address
Super Game Improvement Irons: the largest, least traditional-looking clubs, which also makes them the most forgiving
Players Distance Irons: a relatively new classification that combines power, traditional looks and a bit of forgiveness in one package
In terms of specific technologies, the current wave of iron heads is made of high-strength metal alloys, and irons in all four categories utilize both tungsten and polymers for additional performance layers. By placing tungsten, a higher-density material than the steel it replaces, in strategic places in the clubhead, manufacturers can make irons that are more forgiving and launch shots higher more easily. Add to that a thin clubface that’s designed to flex at impact, which generates speed and power, matched with lightweight polymers that absorb shock at impact for better feel and sound.
A word to the wise if you haven’t shopped for irons in a few years: The new “standard” set configuration is a seven-piece set (e.g.., 4-iron through pitching wedge) rather than eight clubs (3-PW). That’s because the 3-iron has virtually disappeared from golfers’ bags due to the increased popularity in hybrids, and because clubmakers continue to strengthen iron lofts, so today’s 4-iron plays more like your old 3-iron.
