Released to the golf world in late 2009, the Taylormade R9 Irons are designed with a more traditional, clean look, and are intended primarily to be game improvement clubs.
The clubs feature fairly large oversized heads, which are manufactured with TaylorMades Inverted Cone Technology, intended to give golfers a greater amount of feel and control, in combination with impressive distance.
The clubs do look great, and one of the first things noticed was that the oversized heads actually sit behind the golf ball very well at address, with the top line not appearing too thick or chunky despite the larger heads.
When it got down to hitting the TaylorMade R9s, it was very difficult to not be impressed with the performance. These irons don't just look the part, they back it up with results.
The forgiveness in particular that the oversized heads on the TaylorMade R9 Irons give you is excellent, through out the set, many shots seem to be hardly affected by mis-hitting the ball at all.
You do still get some feedback from the club that you haven't quite caught the ball right on a mis-hit. But the clubs are really so forgiving that 9 times out of 10 you would rarely notice this in the shot itself.
The ball flight that the clubs produce despite often being on the high side, is constantly very penetrating and very nice to watch on almost every shot.
When you do hit the ball well though, the feeling that you get is almost as good as you will find in a game improvement iron of this type. The TaylorMade R9 irons are very soft and smooth at impact, it can almost feel like you're hardly hitting a golf ball at all sometimes on the good swings.
The longer R9 Irons in particular are very easy to hit in comparison to many other models. This is mainly down to the design, in which TaylorMade have fitted what's called a Velocity Control Chamber behind the clubface in the longer and mid irons, in order to aid performance.
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