Cleveland iron
The Cleveland 588 CB Iron Set is an iron in 9 options from 18°–47°.
Built against the iron fieldpublished figures only
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Where this club lands
The field is every iron in the database that publishes both of the chart's figures — every brand, not just Cleveland.
This set's 7-iron is 35° — 95th percentile, weaker-lofted than 95% of the 889 sets that publish one. The median is 32°.
Loft ladder against the field
Loft at each club in the set over the middle half (p25–p75) of every comparable iron set on record — the busiest rung here is built from 900.
Cleveland 588 CB Iron Setmiddle half of the field
A break in the line is a club the set does not publish a loft for — it is never bridged, because joining across a gap would draw a loft the manufacturer never stated. Every brand's name for the gap wedge is pooled into one rung, since only 25 of 917 sets publish two of them.
The head half
Read the set through
Cleveland 588 CB Iron Set · 7
- LOFT · X AXIS35°
- 95th percentile — weaker-lofted than 95% of the 889 sets that publish a 7-iron
- LIE · Y AXIS62°
- 44th percentile — flatter than 56% of the 889 sets that publish a 7-iron
7-iron field: Loft × Lie
The 7-iron of every comparable iron set on record publishing both loft and lie — 889 of them, binned by density.
Offset
Cleveland 588 CB Iron Set · 7 — the leading edge sits behind the line of the shaft by the published figure, drawn to the scale marked and seen from the toe, which is the one view that shows offset truly: it runs perpendicular to the face, so a picture square to the face would have it pointing at you. The outline is a nominal iron — this database holds no head geometry — so the gap the arrow spans is the only measured thing in the frame. The dashed edge is the median of the 7-iron of 580 iron sets on record that publish one.
Offset through the set, against the field
Cleveland's published offset at each club, over the middle half (p25–p75) of every comparable set on record that publishes one.
Cleveland 588 CB Iron Setmiddle half of the field
A break in the line is a club the set does not publish an offset for — it is never bridged, because joining across a gap would draw an offset the manufacturer never stated. Every brand's name for the gap wedge is pooled into one rung, since only 25 of 917 sets publish two of them.
Specifications by option
What this record publishes. Across 9 options: loft, lie and length on every one.
9 rows, unsorted, collapsed — use the button below the table to show every option.
| 18 | 2 | 59 | 0.15 | 39.25 |
| 21 | 3 | 59.5 | 0.155 | 38.75 |
| 24 | 4 | 60 | 0.14 | 38.25 |
| 27 | 5 | 60.5 | 0.125 | 37.75 |
| 31 | 6 | 61 | 0.115 | 37.25 |
| 35 | 7 | 62 | 0.105 | 36.75 |
| 39 | 8 | 63 | 0.095 | 36.25 |
| 43 | 9 | 64 | 0.09 | 35.75 |
| 47 | PW | 64 | 0.085 | 35.75 |
Head geometry doesn't change with the shaft, so it's stated once. A blank cell means Cleveland did not publish that figure — we don't estimate.
Measured against comparable clubs
Where this club's published fitting specs sit among comparable clubs — never how good it is.
| Figure | Published | All irons | 2012 | Among its peers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strongest-lofted 7-iron | 35° | =838th of 953 | too few comparable clubs to place | =15th of 16 Cleveland irons · =396th of 508 low-handicap irons |
| Most offset at the 7-iron | 0.105" | 378th of 583 | too few comparable clubs to place | 8th of 13 Cleveland irons · 78th of 283 low-handicap irons |
| Widest loft range | 29° | =629th of 1,104 | too few comparable clubs to place | =13th of 18 Cleveland irons · =241st of 508 low-handicap irons |
| Most upright lie | 62° | =539th of 941 | too few comparable clubs to place | =13th of 16 Cleveland irons · =264th of 505 low-handicap irons |
| Longest | 36.8" | =700th of 894 | too few comparable clubs to place | =13th of 16 Cleveland irons · =345th of 466 low-handicap irons |
player level — derived
This iron reads as built for a low-handicap player — our deterministic reading of 7-iron offset 0.105", 7-iron loft 35°. A design classification, not a rule about who may play it. How the bands are read →
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What's on this page
In progress2 of 3 built
2 of 3 parts of this club page are built, and we're filling in the rest.
- Cleveland's own specs, not built yet.We haven't found Cleveland's own page for this club yet — everything here comes from the sources listed at the foot of the page.
- Published options, built.9 configurations with 4 of the 7 specs an iron can publish.
- Stock shaft, built.Cleveland names no stock shaft for this club on the sources we hold, so there's nothing to link.
The site is in beta and the database is still being built, so expect gaps. Know something we don't? Help us fill it in — a link to where it's published is worth more than anything else you could send.