Callaway Apex Ti Fusion Irons

Titanium is rare in an iron face, and the Apex Ti Fusion is Callaway's case for it: a titanium face brazed to a hollow steel body, a combination that lets the face be thinner and the body carry more mass than a single-metal head allows. The result plays like a players distance iron with a 30.5 degree 7-iron, compact from address, with a dark unplated finish that wears in over time the way a PVD coating does.

Sets run 4-PW, seven clubs, both hands. Stock shafts are True Temper's Dynamic Gold MID 100 in Gunmetal steel and Mitsubishi's MMT in 80 and 70 gram graphite, light through stiff, under a Golf Pride Z-Grip. The Apex Ai200 is the steel-faced sibling at a similar 30 degree 7-iron, so the choice is largely about whether titanium's feel and speed are worth reaching for. The buyer is a good player who wants distance from a head that still looks like an iron.