Rick’s putting the Avoda Curved Face irons to the test on H.I.T Golf. The irons designed to keep your mishits straighter with a subtle “bulge” across the face.
In this review we’ll break down what the curved-face tech is actually doing, how they look and feel, and most importantly whether it makes a real difference on strikes out of the toe and heel. Are these genuinely a game-changer for dispersion… or just clever marketing?
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21 Comments
I think you are forgetting the JUMBO grips you have on these clubs. This changes your testing A LOT. I have been using these grips for 9 years now and will NEVER come back to skinny grips. Maybe you were hitting well not because of the curved club face but because of the Jumbo grips.
They make the cobra 3dp irons seem like a bargain. Think I’d go for the cobras
Heal Strike? 1:29
they are blades, no good to me…
They look like an old set of Mizuno T-zoids
Get Guy to test them
I remember Irons with curved bulge and roll being advertised in the back of like golf digest magazines and such 25+ years ago.
these look like players CB/MBs, the type of players who use CB/MBs are not the same type of players who need gear effect.
Get these curved faces on players distance iron or game improvement irons
Cleveland been putting buldge and roll (curve) on there irons for ages
So if these irons work the same way as a driver do you use an iron swing or a driver swing?
tired eyes there, looking slim tho good review
I like the technology idea with these irons, you can hear by the strike that they sound firm and maybe clicky though which obviously is dependant on what people’s preferences are, I do think Avoda are potentially onto something here though… Will keep an eye on them👀
That 4 iron is more like a 2 iron really my 4 iron is 24 degrees
In the wrong price category, you can get the best set of Miura’s for that price or a full set of top of the line clubs. Total miss in my opinion
I don't remember the brand, but in china in a big factory where they made a lot of Callaway, Cobra, Nike irons in the late 90's they also had a super advance development facility with at that time computers, swing analyzers, swing robots they actually had irons with a lot of weight screws and different soule measurements.. and actually also very advanced club faces with multiple thickness and also curved faces. I remember so well that older man from TaylorMade/Nike that took me around, and he said this you will se selling in about 20 years. And because of commercial value they could not release anything so they could present one new thing every second year. Put I remember on brand, a Chinese brand called something like Pacific that was sold only in china that had those curved face and a lot of changing weight screws. The also had a weight sleeve that you could change weight position and stiffness position on the shaft. That was a big talk
Love my Avoda irons. I don’t have the curved face though
Aside from the curved face, these look exactly like the MacGregor MT Milled Irons for < $500 dollars
Anyone remember The Controller driving iron from like 1996 that did this???
Have the regular ones in combo set. Think it’s like 3d printed irons will just take time
This isn’t new.. I owned a driving iron in the early 2000’s with the rolled face
You should use that 4-iron as a go to driving iron if your driver isn't going well