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    PXG Wildcat set: What you need to know

    January 28, 2025
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    What you need to know: A nine-piece set aimed at the beginning or launch-challenged golfer, PXG's Wildcat set is comprised of a driver, 5-wood, 6-hybrid, 7-iron through pitching wedge, sand wedge and putter. Higher lofts, deeper centers of gravity and lighter shafts and swing weights all are employed to increase ease of use.

    Price/Availability: Clubs may be purchased individually or as a nine-club set (with bag, hat and a dozen golf balls). Driver: $299; fairway wood: $199; hybrid: $189; irons: $149 each; putter: $300; full set: $1,499. Available immediately.

    3 Cool Things

    1. Take it easy. Designing a set that makes the beginning golfer seem competent might be a taller task than helping the average weekend warrior play a little bit better. That’s because every swing is pretty much a random event, so where to begin? For PXG’s designers, the starting line was simply working on making it easier to get the ball in the air.

    “One of the things I think we all can relate to in our journey in golf is that golf is a hard sport,” said Brad Schweigert, chief product officer for PXG. “It's difficult for players of all abilities and one of the things that makes it much more difficult on beginners is most of the time they're starting out with equipment that's usually not very well fit for them and definitely not designed and optimized for meeting them where they're at in their journey of golf.”

    That meant larger faces and increased offset to boost confidence. It meant creating clubs with an extremely low, rearward CG. That adds extra spin that aids lift. It also meant higher lofts to assist with launch. In short, anything to help get shots in the air.

    2. Going with 9 instead of 14. One thing beginning golfers often face is a bit of confusion as to what club to use. That confusion increases with more choices, leading PXG to a nine-piece set instead of 14.

    PXG Wildcat
    $150 per iron | Golf Galaxy
    4.0
    GD SCORE GD HOT LIST SCORE
    Hot List Silver
    $150 per iron
    The set uses a 6-hybrid then 7-iron through sand wedge. All are designed with a large amount of offset and a bigger overall profile—perfect for the beginner or occasional player looking for a club that’s easy to hit. The irons have a hollow body filled with a polymer for feel and rebound. The outer cavity badge has a weight-saving insert. The mass saved is relocated to the perimeter for improved forgiveness. As with all PXG irons, the face insert is made from HT1770 maraging steel and is razor thin at just .05 of an inch. That and the channels around the perimeter provide a chest-puffing trampoline effect. The soles are NBA-sneaker-like wide with a moderate amount of bounce, allowing for forgiveness on steeper swings. The lightweight of the irons coupled with the weakest lofts of any super-game-improvement iron on this year’s Hot List leads to higher-flying shots. Top 5 in Sound/Feel, high-handicaps. 7-iron: 32; PW: 48 degrees

    “I think every piece that we provide the customer is going to be a useful tool for them,” Schweigert said. “We have a driver that's shorter in length and higher in loft [44 inches and 16 degrees of loft] that's going to be easier to use to get off the tee and have more consistent results and get it in a fairway. We have one fairway wood that’s going to be easy to hit off the turf. Then a hybrid and an iron set that starts at the 7-iron. It's very intuitive.”

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    3. Still technologically advanced. It would be easy to think of such a set as scrimping on technology, but PXG doesn’t operate that way. There is plenty of horsepower, especially in the irons.

    The irons are a hollow body filled with a polymer for feel and rebound. The outer cavity badge has a weight-saving insert with the mass that's saved then redistributed to the perimeter for improved forgiveness. As with all PXG irons, the face insert is made from HT1770 maraging steel and is razor thin at just .050 of an inch. Add in channels around the perimeter of the face and you receive a significant trampoline effect

    All of the irons are designed with a large amount of offset and a bigger overall profile—perfect for the beginner or occasional player looking for a club that's easy to hit. The soles are super wide with a moderate amount of bounce allowing for forgiveness on steeper angles of attack and the swingweight is a featherlight C6. Coupled with the weakest lofts, the combination leads to higher-flying shots with increased carry.

    The putter is the new Black Hawk model—a traditional-looking mallet that can be fit with any of four different hosels. The milled “pyramid face” provides consistency across the face, while precision weighting in the sole allows for fine-tuning of headweight. The “pick up pocket,” similar to that found on the company’s Allan model, is designed to easily pick up a golf ball off the ground. The pocket also removes unwanted mass from the center of the putter further fostering forgiveness.