The strongest-lofted iron of 2020 is Callaway Mavrik, at a 27° 7-iron — ahead of Honma XP-1 Iron at a 28.5° 7-iron and TaylorMade SIM Max Irons at a 28.5° 7-iron.

irons

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30.5°

median 7-iron loft

All 15 irons with a 7-iron loft are ranked below, along with 7 more lists: weakest-lofted 7-iron, widest loft range, narrowest loft range, most upright lie, flattest lie, longest, shortest.

Every iron the record publishes a 2020 release year for. A model year is the year a club was launched, not the year it was designed or the year it left the shops — a iron still on sale is still filed under the year it launched.

Each figure is ranked from both ends — strongest and weakest, most and least — over the same clubs, and each list counts only the clubs that publish that figure, so the totals differ between them. Loft, lie, offset and bounce are fitting specifications — a stronger loft is a longer-carrying club of the same name, not a better one, and neither end of any list here is the good end. How this is worked out.

Who they are built for

The 20 irons by handicap band — DERIVED from published loft, offset and length by the same classifier the fitting uses, never taken from a maker's marketing copy. A club whose category publishes nothing to read keeps its own row rather than being sorted into a band nobody computed.

Handicap band	Share
Low handicap	8	40.0%
Mid handicap	3	15.0%
High handicap	4	20.0%
Not classified	5	25.0%

Strongest-lofted 7-iron

— all 15 clubs with a 7-iron loft

#	Club	Brand	7-iron loft
1	Callaway Mavrik	Callaway	27°
2	Honma XP-1 Iron	Honma	28.5°
2	TaylorMade SIM Max Irons	TaylorMade	28.5°
4	Callaway Big Bertha B21 Iron Set	Callaway	29°
5	Cobra KING Forged Tec Iron Set	Cobra	29.5°
5	Cobra KING Forged Tec One Iron Set	Cobra	29.5°
7	Honma T//World TR20P Iron	Honma	30°
8	Wilson Staff D7 Forged Iron Set	Wilson	30.5°
9	Honma T//World TR20V Iron	Honma	32°
10	Cobra KING MIM Tour Iron Set	Cobra	33°
10	Miura TC-201	Miura	33°
10	New Level PF-1	New Level	33°
10	New Level PF-2	New Level	33°
10	TaylorMade P∙770 Irons (2020)	TaylorMade	33°
15	Ben Hogan Icon Irons	Ben Hogan	34°

The published loft of the 7-iron, the row every iron spec table centres on. Lower is stronger, and a stronger loft is a longer-carrying club of the same name — not a better one, and not a longer set: the 28° 7-iron and the 34° 7-iron are different numbered clubs sold under the same number. Models publishing no 7-iron row are left off.

Weakest-lofted 7-iron

— all 15 clubs with a 7-iron loft

#	Club	Brand	7-iron loft
1	Ben Hogan Icon Irons	Ben Hogan	34°
2	Cobra KING MIM Tour Iron Set	Cobra	33°
2	Miura TC-201	Miura	33°
2	New Level PF-1	New Level	33°
2	New Level PF-2	New Level	33°
2	TaylorMade P∙770 Irons (2020)	TaylorMade	33°
7	Honma T//World TR20V Iron	Honma	32°
8	Wilson Staff D7 Forged Iron Set	Wilson	30.5°
9	Honma T//World TR20P Iron	Honma	30°
10	Cobra KING Forged Tec Iron Set	Cobra	29.5°
10	Cobra KING Forged Tec One Iron Set	Cobra	29.5°
12	Callaway Big Bertha B21 Iron Set	Callaway	29°
13	Honma XP-1 Iron	Honma	28.5°
13	TaylorMade SIM Max Irons	TaylorMade	28.5°
15	Callaway Mavrik	Callaway	27°

Widest loft range

— all 16 clubs with two or more lofts

#	Club	Brand	loft range
1	Callaway Big Bertha B21 Iron Set	Callaway	41°
2	TaylorMade SIM Max Irons	TaylorMade	39°
3	Callaway Mavrik	Callaway	38°
4	Honma XP-1 Iron	Honma	37°
5	TaylorMade P∙770 Irons (2020)	TaylorMade	31.5°
6	Cobra KING Forged Tec Iron Set	Cobra	30°
6	Cobra KING MIM Tour Iron Set	Cobra	30°
8	Honma T//World TR20P Iron	Honma	27°
9	Cobra KING Forged Tec One Iron Set	Cobra	26°
10	Miura TC-201	Miura	25°
11	Ben Hogan Icon Irons	Ben Hogan	24°
12	Wilson Staff D7 Forged Iron Set	Wilson	22.5°
13	New Level PF-1	New Level	22°
13	New Level PF-2	New Level	22°
15	Honma T//World TR20V Iron	Honma	12°
16	Cleveland Launcher UHX Utility Iron	Cleveland	5°

Degrees between the highest and lowest loft the model is published in — how far the line stretches to fit different players. Measured over the lofts on record for the model; a model we hold in a single loft has an unmeasured span and is left off rather than recorded as zero. Putters are excluded, being sold at one loft.

Narrowest loft range

— all 16 clubs with two or more lofts

#	Club	Brand	loft range
1	Cleveland Launcher UHX Utility Iron	Cleveland	5°
2	Honma T//World TR20V Iron	Honma	12°
3	New Level PF-1	New Level	22°
3	New Level PF-2	New Level	22°
5	Wilson Staff D7 Forged Iron Set	Wilson	22.5°
6	Ben Hogan Icon Irons	Ben Hogan	24°
7	Miura TC-201	Miura	25°
8	Cobra KING Forged Tec One Iron Set	Cobra	26°
9	Honma T//World TR20P Iron	Honma	27°
10	Cobra KING Forged Tec Iron Set	Cobra	30°
10	Cobra KING MIM Tour Iron Set	Cobra	30°
12	TaylorMade P∙770 Irons (2020)	TaylorMade	31.5°
13	Honma XP-1 Iron	Honma	37°
14	Callaway Mavrik	Callaway	38°
15	TaylorMade SIM Max Irons	TaylorMade	39°
16	Callaway Big Bertha B21 Iron Set	Callaway	41°

Most upright lie

— all 12 clubs with a lie angle

#	Club	Brand	lie angle
1	Cobra KING Forged Tec Iron Set	Cobra	63°
1	Cobra KING Forged Tec One Iron Set	Cobra	63°
1	TaylorMade SIM Max Irons	TaylorMade	63°
4	Ben Hogan Icon Irons	Ben Hogan	62.5°
4	Callaway Big Bertha B21 Iron Set	Callaway	62.5°
4	Callaway Mavrik	Callaway	62.5°
4	Cobra KING MIM Tour Iron Set	Cobra	62.5°
4	Miura TC-201	Miura	62.5°
4	New Level PF-1	New Level	62.5°
4	New Level PF-2	New Level	62.5°
4	TaylorMade P∙770 Irons (2020)	TaylorMade	62.5°
12	Wilson Staff D7 Forged Iron Set	Wilson	62°

The published lie angle, measured from the ground. Irons are read at the 7-iron; every other category at the most upright figure the model publishes. PING quotes putter lie from vertical rather than horizontal, so those figures are converted onto the common scale before comparison and the club’s own page still shows the number PING published.

Flattest lie

— all 12 clubs with a lie angle

#	Club	Brand	lie angle
1	Wilson Staff D7 Forged Iron Set	Wilson	62°
2	Ben Hogan Icon Irons	Ben Hogan	62.5°
2	Callaway Big Bertha B21 Iron Set	Callaway	62.5°
2	Callaway Mavrik	Callaway	62.5°
2	Cobra KING MIM Tour Iron Set	Cobra	62.5°
2	Miura TC-201	Miura	62.5°
2	New Level PF-1	New Level	62.5°
2	New Level PF-2	New Level	62.5°
2	TaylorMade P∙770 Irons (2020)	TaylorMade	62.5°
10	Cobra KING Forged Tec Iron Set	Cobra	63°
10	Cobra KING Forged Tec One Iron Set	Cobra	63°
10	TaylorMade SIM Max Irons	TaylorMade	63°

Longest

— all 12 clubs with a length

#	Club	Brand	length
1	Cobra KING Forged Tec One Iron Set	Cobra	37.5"
1	Cobra KING MIM Tour Iron Set	Cobra	37.5"
3	Cobra KING Forged Tec Iron Set	Cobra	37.3"
3	TaylorMade SIM Max Irons	TaylorMade	37.3"
3	Wilson Staff D7 Forged Iron Set	Wilson	37.3"
6	Ben Hogan Icon Irons	Ben Hogan	37"
6	Callaway Big Bertha B21 Iron Set	Callaway	37"
6	Callaway Mavrik	Callaway	37"
6	Miura TC-201	Miura	37"
6	New Level PF-1	New Level	37"
6	New Level PF-2	New Level	37"
6	TaylorMade P∙770 Irons (2020)	TaylorMade	37"

Published playing length in inches. Irons are read at the 7-iron, so a set starting at a 3-iron is not credited with length a set starting at a 5-iron never had; every other category is read at the longest club the model is published in.

Shortest

— all 12 clubs with a length

#	Club	Brand	length
1	Ben Hogan Icon Irons	Ben Hogan	37"
1	Callaway Big Bertha B21 Iron Set	Callaway	37"
1	Callaway Mavrik	Callaway	37"
1	Miura TC-201	Miura	37"
1	New Level PF-1	New Level	37"
1	New Level PF-2	New Level	37"
1	TaylorMade P∙770 Irons (2020)	TaylorMade	37"
8	Cobra KING Forged Tec Iron Set	Cobra	37.3"
8	TaylorMade SIM Max Irons	TaylorMade	37.3"
8	Wilson Staff D7 Forged Iron Set	Wilson	37.3"
11	Cobra KING Forged Tec One Iron Set	Cobra	37.5"
11	Cobra KING MIM Tour Iron Set	Cobra	37.5"

Who makes them

The 10 brands with the most, of 10 with at least one iron on record. Each brand with its own boards links to them, where its line is ranked against itself and never against another maker's.

Brand	Share
Honma	5	25.0%
Cobra	3	15.0%
Callaway	2	10.0%
New Level	2	10.0%
TaylorMade	2	10.0%
Tour Edge	2	10.0%
Ben Hogan	1	5.0%
Cleveland	1	5.0%
Miura	1	5.0%
Wilson	1	5.0%