When it comes to a high-tech story to impress your Saturday fourball there's really only one candidate this season. The Firesole irons splits the set into three categories, each with a different material and weighting concept to match the various demands.

The 3- and 4-irons, for which a low centre-of-gravity (to get the ball up) is the priority, appropriately feature a light titanium head married to a heavy tungsten strip across the length of the sole.

For the 5- and 6-iron, where accuracy becomes more important, a less 'hot-of-the-face' cast steel head is adopted, with the tungsten now shifted to the edges for greater forgiveness.

Meanwhile, for the 7-iron through to the sand iron, feel and workability is met by a soft steel and nickel combination face.

"It's about putting weight exactly where you need it," says Dick Rugge, the company's Director of Research. "We used computer models to maximise the mass properties - and therefore the performance - of each club in the bag," he continues on this the most intricately designed set of irons we've seen in long time.

Price: £899 (nine irons), graphite Bubble shaft; £699 steel.
Contact: 01256 479797

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