I Play with Takomo 101T Irons… and they were NOT what I Expected.

In today’s video, we take the Takomo 101T irons out on the course to see if the hype matches the performance. These forged player’s-distance irons promise a blend of premium feel, forgiveness, and sleek design — but how do they really stack up once you’re standing over the ball?

If you’ve been curious about whether Takomo’s direct-to-consumer model really delivers, this review gives you a no-nonsense look at performance where it matters most — on the golf course.

🎥 Watch next: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWWw0SMpQKo

Today I’m going to be playing nine holes with the Tacoma 101T irons and the brand new Tacomao Ignis. Ignis Ignis a nice driver. Ignis nice. And the brand new Ignis D1 driver. This is the next episode of good play or giveaway, the rules are simple. I set a target score and if I go above that score, I have to give away this brand new set of Tacoma 101T irons. And if I go below that score, I get to keep the clubs. All you have to do to enter the giveaway is get this video to 200 likes. Make sure you like, comment, and subscribe. And if I don’t break that score, I’m going to be giving these away to one of you. Today’s target score is six over. All right, here we go. Hole one. Ignis D1 first swing. Gosh. Leaking right. Tough. Tough. Tough. Okay. First drive with the Ignis D1 felt actually really good. It sounded a little bit weird. a little bit like tingy, metallicy. I pushed it to the right. I think I might be in clay. I might have to punch out, but it felt okay. Felt okay. But use your air. We’ll take a few holes before we really uh have a strong idea on how it feels. Good news is we are not out of bounds. Bad news is we we may as well be. We’re right behind a tree. Still 308 yds away. Just going to punch out with a seven iron. Try to get something back in play. All right. It’s all we could do there. We’re going to have a long way in. Long long long way in. Tough start. Okay, we are 220 out. I’ve got the 101T4 iron here. I I love I love the way this club looks down at the ball. Nice amount of offset, but not too much. Not too chunky, but confidence inspiring. Let’s hit a good one. Oh. I recently did this exact same concept with this Komao 101’s. Spoiler alert, I five putted on the last hole and ended up giving the entire set away. Congratulations to Jimmy Nuke Frog for winning those clubs. One thing about my channel is it’s still a small channel, so I buy all these clubs with my own money. So, this is literally like a $600 set of irons on the line for today’s video. I actually ended up hitting that four iron pretty clean. I’ve got a pitching wedge now. I’m only 56 yards out. I’m ba basically pin high, but like missed right by like 40 yards, which is not ideal. Just got to try to put something on the green. Get out of here with like a bogey. Pitching wedge is a It’s a pretty big chunky looking wedge. All right, simmer. Not a good start, guys. Not a good start at all. We’re just off the green now. Today’s putter is the Lab Oz one eye. Little side quest, little bonus action here. No matter what happens to my score today, if somehow we get this video to 500 likes, which is a stretch, I’m giving this putter away. Comment below if you want the putter. All right, we’re just off the green here. Putting for a par. Two putt. Get out of here with the bogey. We’ll take that all day. Wait, is that right? One, two, three, four. Yep. That is absolutely not a gimme. Absolutely not a gimme. All right, we got to make that. Can’t double bogey with the score of six over. Cannot do that. Big bogey putt here. Big bogey putt. Okay, that’s huge. We can live with that. Not ideal on a par five, but we can live with that. Okay, hole two. We’ve got a 133 yd par three. I’m hitting the pitching wedge. It’s a little downhill, but it is into the wind. So, I’m going to play it at that number. These clubs are significantly better looking than the 101’s. Significantly better looking. Need a par here. Oh, I just flipped it up. Got under it a little bit. I think we’ll be either on the green or just short of it. Decent contact. I think I just added a little bit too much loft to that. That’s on me. And the wind just wind just took it. As I’m driving down here, my hat literally almost flew off. There’s so much more wind than I thought. So, I’m not actually sure that was too bad of a of a strike. I think it was just way more wind than I expected. We are short of the green though, so we got a we got a pretty impossible up and down here. Not ideal. Now, in retrospect, I definitely should have hit a 9 iron with all that wind. We’ve got a pitching wedge. We’re just going to try to bump and run. This is a really tough green. Having a a solid putt for par here would be a huge win. Go. Go a little. Go a little. That’s not too bad with the pitching wedge. By the way, if you want to watch a review on the Tacoma wedges, I have one on my channel. They’re they’re really sweet. I uh I don’t have them anymore because I gave them away. Anyway, watch that review. All right, let’s put this Lab Oz one eye to the test. Reminder, 500 likes and somebody gets this putter. No ifs and or butts. I think it’s going to be pretty fast downhill putt here. This is a really big putt, man. These nine holes I’m playing, there are some testers coming up. And uh the first two holes are the easiest. So to go two over would be pretty pretty brutal. Oh no. You know, that’s one thing I hate about this putter. I feel like the speed control is like impossible. You know, when I woke up today, I didn’t think I’d be having two uh two six to 8 foot testers for a bogey on hole one and two, but this is an absolute must make putt. Okay. All right. Two over. That means we have we only have four strokes to play with through the next seven holes. So, I need a par on this next hole. I need a par. One thing I really enjoy about Tacoma is they use really nice like materials in their clubs or components, I should say. They come with a Lampin grip, which I’m a huge fan of, and a KBS Tour. I got the 130X shaft. Now, the 101Ts are relatively strong lofted. So, this five iron is actually 25° of loft. So, definitely a little bit of loft jacking going on. They’ve got a decent amount of offset, too. I’m not personally a big fan of offset. It kind of messes with my eye, but if you’re somebody who really struggles with that right miss, you might really love this. All right, here we go. Oh, that felt so pure. Nice little draw. Should kick right. Yeah, that’s great. That felt phenomenal. Wow. Wow. Now, the 101TS are a hollow body iron, so there’s a lot of technology and a lot of different components moving around behind the scenes in that club head. One of the things I really, really like about how they look, though, is you never necessarily know. Tacoma actually like prides itself on the whole Scandinavian design. So, it’s going to look clean and sharp and simple, but it is a hollow body head and there is actually a lot of technology in that club head, which a lot of times clubs like that I don’t think feel very good. Some of the shots I’ve hit today, I can’t even judge the feel cuz they’ve just been bad strikes. That was the first iron I’ve pured. That felt better than I expected. The 101’s did not feel good. I actually like really disliked the 101’s. They felt cheap and hollow. 101T’s man off to a much much better start. All right, that five iron went 198 yards, which I’m very, very pleased with. My I’ve been playing blades lately, which I shouldn’t be, but I am because it’s fun and they’re pretty and they’re Rory’s blades. My five iron does not go 200 yards with those. So, this is nice. I’ve got a pitching wedge now. We’re 115 out. It’s going to be like a 3/4 swing. Pitching wedge is 46° of loft. So, again, definitely on the stronger lofted side. And this only has 1.6° of offset. So, as the clubs get shorter, the offset gets a little bit less dramatic. All right, nice and easy swing. Pretty solid. Should kick right. Okay. Little long, which is not a surprise. I don’t really practice a half pitching wedge swing very often, but we’re on the green. We’re dancing. We got a birdie. Look. Now, don’t get me wrong, I’d love a birdie, but the way I’m playing right now and the start I’ve gotten off to and the holes that are coming up, I just want to putt this for a par. All I care about. All right. Come on. Speed control. simmer. I hate this putter. I hope one of y’all win this. I hope this gets to 500 likes. This putter absolutely absolutely hate this putter. Okay, must make this for a par. Here we go. That’s another bogey. Pathetic. Pathetic. pathetic bogey. Okay, we’re three over through three, which is nightmare fuel. I only have three strokes to play with for the next six holes, and there are some really challenging holes coming up. That said, I’m really excited to hit this Ignis D1. Again, real quick, I got this in a 9° in a Ventus 6X Fujicura shaft. Once again, lambkin grip. I love how this driver looks. It’s like a matte sleek black finish down at the ball. I’m a fan of simple and clean, and this is this is simple and clean. It looks so similar to the Kirkland driver. I’m actually going to be comparing those headto head, but let’s see how we do here. Hit that a little bit low. Little bit low. A little bit. We’re going to get away with it. They say this is forgiving. That looked forgiving. By the way, this driver was $319 brand new, which is a lot of money, but for a driver, that is not a lot of money. I recently got fitted into a Qi35 with this like TX shaft. Whole thing cost me $1,000. Thousand dollars. $319 for that. Really, really impressive. The Kirkland driver though, which I played with recently, and I’ll be once again reviewing them headtohead. $219. So, the levels to this for a drive that I struck that poorly to go $275 yards and just be left of the fairway a little bit. We’ll take that. I hate how it sounds though. I don’t like that driver’s sound. Okay, we’ve got a 9 iron. for 145 out. The offset on these clubs is something I’m so not used to. It’s really hard for me to commit to these shots visually cuz I feel like they’re going to just go left so hard. It’s almost like I overcompensate for that in my swing and push them right. But we’re going to try try to not miss right for once. Oh, that looks really really good. Maybe that’s the key. Finish the swing. Don’t worry about it going left. That was a dirt. All right. Always fix your divots. Take care of the course. Course will take care of you. Take care of the course. Course will take care of you. We’ve got a good look at birdie here. Getting a stroke back would be just gamechanging. Gamechanging. Come on, you stupid putter. Hate you. Hate you so much. Yeah, that’s a really bad putt. I hate this putter. If you’re asking why I’m using it, it’s cuz I’m doing a review on it. would not game this in a million years. Anyway, that’s a par and that’s huge to get back on track. Now, you you’ve probably seen Tacomao all over YouTube, all over the internet. They’ve got some of the biggest names in YouTube golf on their payroll. One of the things that’s been frustrating for me is I’ve I’ve like tried to get honest, unbiased reviews at Tacomao. They’re impossible to find, man. Like, everyone that’s talking about these clubs besides like Rick Shields has some kind of relationship, some kind of financial incentive to be like really really positive about Tacomao. So, my goal is to give you like an honest review and talk about the good, the bad, and the ugly. The good is good, but there is bad and ugly. No one’s talking about the bad, and the ugly. We’re going to talk about it. One thing that’s undeniably good is the way this driver looks. I’m a huge fan. We’ve got a 430 yard par4. Just need to hit a nice, easy, good drive. Oh. Dead center fairway. We love that. That was great. That was great. Now, one of the biggest downsides to Tacomao and I I’m experiencing it in real time. You can’t get fit for these clubs and you can’t go and try them out. Like that shaft, it’s nice. That is way too light of a shaft for me. Every time I take that back on the driver swing, I feel like I have zero idea where the club head is. I like a heavy, really stiff shaft. That’s what she said. You don’t have the option to go figure that out and go test it out before you buy it. and you can’t really return the clubs. It’s kind of a flawed system. I love the whole direct to consumer mo model because you can cut out so much cost and make it more affordable, but there is a lot of value in being able to test something out, see how you like it. Does it look good down at the ball? Do you like how it feels? It’s a little bit scary to like online shop for clubs that you’ve never tested. It’s not like you can just Amazon return like you can with clothes. Bit of a flaw on the system. The drive went 285 yards, which is uh a little disappointing. I thought I pured it. I promise you when I pure my normal driver, it goes over 300. That like one out of 20 times when I pure it. Leaves a little bit to be desired distance-wise. Nonetheless, we’ve got a great look at the green here. We’ve got 150 to the back, 135 middle. I’ve got that same 9 iron. Going to literally try to replicate that exact same swing from the last hole. Don’t be scared of it going left. Come back a little. A little bit short. All right, we’re dancing. I think I flicked that out to the right again. A little bit flippy with the hands. We’re on the green. Definitely definitely a very forgiving club. I think I caught that. Yeah. Wow. I caught that way out of the toe. You can see the Sharpie mark. Uh but we got away with one. So, it’s one of the things about 101Ts or game improvement irons like this is you can get away with a hit like that and we’re still on the green instead of being 20 yards short. So, it’s impressive. Okay, this is technically a green in regulation, but it may as well not be because I’m about by the way, take care of the course. Course will take care of you. Take care of the course. Course will take care of you. I’m like 500 feet away. Not actually, but this is probably a good 100 foot putt. Up and over a hill with a putter I hate. Two putt here would be a miracle. Woefully short. Woefully short. Okay. Honestly, at this point, I just want a two putt now to get a bogey. This is so bad. This is the worst. Okay, granted a lot of that’s my fault, but like this putter just does not agree with me. Maybe it’ll agree with you. Make sure you hit that like button. I can’t emphasize enough how important this putt is. The holes that are coming up are some of the toughest on the course. If I double bogey a hole that I was technically on the green in regulation, you are a $500 putter. Make it go in the hole. In the hole. Okay. Okay. You see what I did with my hand there? I was like, “Okay, that was weird.” Tough bogey. Not exactly what you want when you hit two pretty decent shots, but it’s going to come down to the wire today. It’s going to come down to the absolute wire. All right, little tidbit on what Tacomao says about these clubs. The Tacoma 101 shares the clean looks of game improvement with the 101, but with a few new tricks. Smaller 431 stainless steel body hides a waiting system that complements the hollow hollow body design, finding the perfect balance of feel, forgiveness, and a spring-like energy transfer. And that is something I want to talk about. Now, the whole idea of game improvement or player improvement irons, it makes a ton of sense to me, right? It’s a hard sport. It’s hard enough to play. Let’s get you a club in your hands that helps you get the ball going in the right direction with a little bit of speed behind it. The problem that I’ve found with clubs like this or the 790 or the 101 or even the Kirkland irons that I’ve reviewed or pretty much any game improvement iron is that spring-like feel they describe. Now, here’s the problem. When you strike it off the heel or the toe, the forgiveness is phenomenal, right? You get away with your mish hits. But when you really pure these clubs, it feels like the ball has a spring-like effect, just like they say. The problem with that is sometimes with these clubs, you hit the shot you actually want to hit, and you end up 15 or 20 yards long, just out of nowhere. I think if you play clubs like this, you probably can relate to what I just described. So, it’s like this give or take. It’s like you want the forgiveness off the miss centered hits, but then you kind of get punished for the ones that you really pure. I’ve recently been playing the Roars Proto irons, which are like a tiny tiny blade. They are not forgiving at all, and if you mish hit it, you definitely come up short, but I have gotten absolutely zero of those jumpers or spring-like effects that just fly over the green. To me, there’s nothing more frustrating than hitting the shot you want and getting punished. I’m cool with getting punished for the bad hits, but when you hit it well and and you get a flyer or a spring-like trampolini effect, dude, I I hate that. you do have that spring-like effect and you are going to get some of those balls that just jump off the club face and end up not going where you want. That being said, we’ve got 129 yards to the front. We’ve got a nine iron here. Going to try Need to get a par here. Honestly, honestly need to. Oh, that looks good. Nice shot. All right, we are pin high just to the right. Really, really, really good feeling strike there. Four over. Got two strokes to play with. This is hole six and we’re on in reggg. All I want to do is get out of here with the par. This is not a very easy putt and my confidence with this putter has dwindled quickly. So, I’m just going to try to lag one down there and have hopefully a tap in. Let’s go. Oh, let’s go. You have no idea how important that was. This next hole literally has residency in my head. It’s the number one handicap hole. I’ve literally par it like once in my life. So to get a stroke back there on a bomb of a birdie putt. I don’t want to give these irons away, man. I’m spending so much money on this channel. Way too much money on this channel. That set of irons cost me $589. This driver $319 plus shipping and everything. It ended up being like around $1,000. To get that nice of a set of clubs for $1,000. It’s less than a set of irons from a big box brand. It’s It’s less than I paid for my stupid driver. The value is inarguable. That’s just a a really really really good price. What’s interesting though is there’s a lot of other competitors popping up in the space. Vice is making irons now. Ram is making irons now. Haywood’s making irons now. So really good value, but it’s not the only value option anymore. So hopefully I get to test some of those other clubs. Anyway, like I said, number one handicap. This is a 570 yard par five. It is a super Wow. Wow. All right, guys. cuz you got to water this ground sometime. Okay. My gosh. Okay. Uh, whoever gets this driver is going to have a dent in it. 570 yard par five. Little narrow landing area. It’s all about the T-OT on this hole. I’ve got three strokes to play with for the rest of the round. And I duck hooked it to the left. Okay, we’re in play. But that is a terrible swing. I came straight across it. I have no confidence on this hole. I told you it has a literal residency in my head. Now, that was just a bad swing overall. I have to say though, as much as I’m impressed with the driver, that driver shaft combo is not for me. If I was a normal customer, what a bummer to order it and spend, you know, 319 plus shipping and everything and then to realize like it’s not the right setup and you’re just kind of out of luck. That’s the biggest downside, man, is like those direct to consumer brands, you just you take on a lot of risk and then you’re kind of screwed. But anyway, we’re in play. Going to have to scramble here. We’re in a bit of a pickle here. I’ve got 300 y left. Got sticks behind my golf ball. We’re on the left side of the fairway. There’s a million trees in the way to go back onto the fairway. I could also just play this left side, but it’s OB. The stakes there. So, I think what I’m going to do is just try to punch a four iron straight ahead. Stay on the left side of the cart path, but not go OB. This has bad bad idea written all over it, but you know, not to beat a dead horse, but I love how the long irons look down at the ball. I really do. They they look I think it’s cuz like I like a little bit slimmer profile. So, these look more like what I’m used to playing. This looks like a seven iron even though it’s a 4 iron, but the the wedges and the shorter irons just look a little too chunky for me. All right, try to punch one down there. Stay in play. Hopefully have a shot at it on the third shot in. Oh, that was exactly what I wanted to do. There was one problemmo. It hit the one branch that could up everything. The one branch. I thought trees were 90% air and I find the 10% seemingly every god every time. All right, we’re in play though. You know, I haven’t even been near the fairway on this hole, but somehow someway we’ve got a shot at being on in regulation. I just got to go over these trees and land it on 157. I’ve got an eight iron. I think I think this should just be relatively stock shot. Oh, go over. I found the 10% again. I found the 10% again. I thought for sure that would go high enough. Dang it. 90% air my ass, dude. We got to get up and down. All right, we are still 46 yds short. I’m going to try to punch one on with the pitching wedge. Get up and down. The reality is though, if I get this on, we two putt, we’re still in the money. Still have some strokes to play with. Safe shot here. Oh no. Bite, bite, bite, bite, bite. I just thinned it way over the green. It’s like half club review. Like half sit around and watch this freaking idiot play golf. But hopefully it’s relatable, man. And I know I know most of us out there are not George Bryan and Grant Horvat and most of us suck. So hopefully this is relatable cuz I I still suck. Well, to say I put myself in a vulnerable position here is an understatement. I have a brutal downhill putt off the green. I’m using a putter cuz this is Texas. So this is my wedge. If I could two putt this and get out of here with a bogey, I will cry tears of joy. I don’t hate that. I don’t hate that at all. I don’t hate that at all. I don’t love that. I don’t hate that at all. We’ve got a chance. Oh, I need this bogey. Okay, about 8 ft for the bogey. Let’s go. Oh, I thought I pulled that, but that worked out. Let’s go. Two holes left. We’ve got a long par three, which has eaten my lunch many, many times. And then we got a pretty easy par4. I just need to go two over through these next two holes, and I get to keep these clubs. One good shot here, and I’ll like our chances. 190 yards. You don’t want to go long at all. You’re dead. We got a sixiron. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. No. those springers. Granted, I I pulled that. I hit it pure, but I pulled the out of that and that thing went 20 yards long, 60 yards left. Oh, I’m in big trouble. I hate that shot. I hate that trampoline effect. It’s like it’s already going to be a bad shot, but you end up with a literal disaster. Let’s take a minute to orient you on where we are in the golf course. We’re 80 yards left of the hole. That ball went 80 yards left. I’ve got a pitching wedge. I’m just going to try to get something remotely close. Try to get out of here with the bogey. Oh, that’s pretty good. Yep. 10% tree. Okay, we’re just short of the green. Pretty good. You know, I can’t get over how much that shot pisses me off, though. Like, I understand the appeal to game improvement and people need them and I should probably be playing them. I shouldn’t be playing the clubs I play, but like sometimes those misses are just so accentuated when you pull it, you hit it pure. There’s no circumstance in which I hit my Roars irons and end up 80 yards left. It’s just weirdly punitive and I feel like no one talks about that with those clubs. Everyone just talks about how forgiving they are, but it’s like what about those shots that you just tug a little bit or push a little bit and you end up like borderline out of play? That shot pisses me off. Anyway, got a chance for a par. Actually got quite lucky that that got through the tree for the most part. We’re just off the green here. Pretty decent shot from a 80 yards over a tree with a pitching wedge. Got to look at a par here. That’s a great putt. I’m so happy with that. Get out of here with a bogey after all that. We’ll take that. All I have to do is bogey this last hole. Seems easy enough, right? You’d think. Let me know if I’m just like on a weird soap box or if I’m just totally in the wrong here, but I feel like everyone talks about player improvement, forgiveness, forgiveness, forgiveness, more distance. Like, there are drawbacks. No one talks about the drawbacks. And like, people act like unless you’re a single-digit handicap, you just automatically need to be playing these big chunky forgiving clubs. I think I’m in disagreement. Maybe this is the hill I’ll die on. Everyone needs a hill. Maybe I found mine. What a non-impactful thing to be passionate about. Anyway, final hole. Relatively straightforward 370 yard par4. Pretty open fairway. Right is better than left. We got the Ignis driver again. Ignis thing. Nice. So dumb, dude. Nice smooth golf swing here. Oh no, that is a mile to the right. Oh, that’s so bad. That is so bad. Oh my gosh. Gosh, we just made this so much harder than it needed to be. Again, I’m going to sound so repetitive. Like, the driver’s fine, the driver’s nice, the shaft just just not for me. I feel like I’m just guessing at when the club head’s going to come through. It’s just too light. I’d love to test this with a shaft that I’d actually play. I still generally think, especially for the price, like that’s a a really really nice driver. Just that that combo is granted I miss all the time with any club, but like that’s it’s not for me. Now, if I were to write a script for how to make this a entertaining video, can’t do much better than this. I, in all my infinite wisdom, hit that ball into the hazard. So, I have to take a drop. Meaning, I’m hitting Yep. That happens at least once a video. Anyway, what I was saying, in my infinite wisdom, I hit a OB. Have to take a drop. Thankfully, it’s just one stroke because this is hazard. I’m 145 out. I’ve got a 9 iron and I have to get on the green and two putt to keep the clubs. Okay. I mean, I hope this thing is durable. Dude, this is this is terrible. Don’t fall. Don’t fall. I’ll be right back. Just throw a dart. Don’t fall. All right. Here we go. Wind’s going right. Working against me. If this is any indication of how this golf shot’s going to go. Oh gosh. This is the world’s longest golf clip. You know how hard it is to focus after all this. Okay, come on. Oh, I pulled it. Gosh dang it. I thought it was going to go right on me with that lie, so I overcorrected and I yanked it. We got to get up and down. It all comes down to this. We are to the left of the green. I have to get up and down. Downhill green with a pitching wedge. That’s a colossal choke job on this hole. I still have a chance, but that is a US Gotti Sheffller 18th hole, Rider Cup Saturday type choke job. Oh, that’s really good. Go in. Okay, we have a chance. That was a clutch clutch chip. We have a chance. One putt for all the marbles. This is it. If I make this putt, I keep these clubs. If I missed this, the clubs are yours. As soon as this video gets to 200 likes. No pressure, dude. Up and down to shoot exactly six over with a pitching wedge and a putter that I hate. Come on. Now, let me wrap up some thoughts real quick. Reminder, if this video gets to 500 likes, you still have a chance to win the lab odds one eye putter. So, please hit that like button.