Just got into Takomo irons.. buying them for sort of a backup set for when i'm traveling or keeping them in different places I play more often at. Just got the 301CB's installed some Recoil Dart's on them, ordered the 201 in the kbs lite regular which I enjoyed hitting - but noticed they were quite a bit less forgiving on off center strikes than some of my other forged clubs like the Srixon ZX7 II, and just ordered the 101's - had a hard time deciding between those and the 101T's, but I recently owned the P790 in the 2023 edition and noticed the 101's are actually much more similar to those especially in offset - and those were just super easy to hit - I wanted this set to be the "game improvement" set for those corono days on the course.
Other set that I bag normally are the Ping i230 which are insanely accurate and insanely forgiving for such a small head and "players distance", along with the abovementioned ZX7 II (which I consider to be the best clubs i've ever hit, workable, forgiving to the point of feeling like a game improvement iron, absolute buttery feel/sound, and just simply amazing.
For reference - I played golf about two decades ago in high school on the team and was around a 5 HC then. Stopped playing for about 15 years, and recently went to correct my swing as my body's a bit different in mechanics and realized my Taylormade RAC's and R7 had maybe had some technology upgrades.
Went a bit crazy at Roger Dunn utilizing their exchange policy and long story short bought and played a few rounds each then exchanged the JPX923 HL, JPX923 Tour, JPX923 HMP, the Taylormade P770, Taylormade P790 2021 and 2023, Callaway Paradym X, Ping G430, Ping i525, and Ping i230, Titliest T200 2023, Srixon ZX5 MKII and ZX7 MK1 and MKII just on the iron's side.
Out of all of that I deemed the Srixon ZX7 MKII's as the overall best club i'd ever hit after 8 months of changing sets and playing around 2-3 times a week. I wanted to get the ZX5 MKII's but I really didn't like the look of the plastick stuck on back piece. The P790's just felt very hard to predict with a hot spot even in the 2023 model, the P770 was amazing but not that forgiving, the Ping G430 was just a bit too big when looking down at it, the i525 was supremely easy to hit far, with a very tall face to it, but the i230's ultimately stopped way better due to their lofts, and for some reason almost seemed more forgiving on off center shots sending them on a better upwards trajectory than the i525 in the same lofts. The Titleist T200's feel fast, but they also felt a bit dead to me, and every JPX felt amazing - but once I got into the Srixon's I kind of forgot about the Mizuno stuff. Lastly, the Callaway Paradym X was actually an amazing club, from feel to decent workability and forgiveness. I just ended up not loving the look of the back of it, and it felt just a bit clunky looking but otherwise after a decade and a half plus of not changing equipment it was really interesting to get a lay of the land.
Sorry, don't mean to hijack this post - but I will say that the Takomo's are just a great looking club at a decent price (not much cheaper than last year's new models on discount from major brands), but very much looking forward to the 101's
