TaylorMade M6 Women's Rescue

Four right-handed heads run from 22 degrees up to 31, a full ladder by the standards of this category and enough to retire every long iron in a set at once. Being all steel, the body keeps its weight low, and no part of it adjusts. Lengths shorten across the four: the 22 measures 39.25 inches and the 31 just 37.75, all of them at C8, so the highest loft is also the shortest club and the easiest to time.

Above it sits a soft-tipped Tuned Performance 45 in the ladies build, a shade under 60 grams, which is what gets the ball climbing off turf that gives a long iron nothing. The 31 is the interesting one. Sitting where a 7 iron sits, it is the head most likely to surprise the golfer who buys it, and it's the reason to take all four instead of stopping at two.