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You might like it J, it's forged by Endo for great feel and quality is just top notch as is all PRGR gear. Very high end in Japan. This model is square faced and low launching. Made for the very good player. Chris has hit it and posted here, I'll actually merge your topic with his to keep feedback going there.

Shafts just look like that for the pics. According to TM, thinner topline, less offset, more workability (less forgiving) and CG a bit higher for lower trajectory, compard to the R7 Forged. Based on Japanese tour pros who gave input based on the R7 Forged asking for ball manipulation and playability as the number one priority for the new TP.

Played with these again yesterday... very happy with the performance overall, smooth and easy, just the way I like it. I can really say I'm enjoying this set of irons. (^_^)

They've decided to release an entirely new designed ViQ lineup, driver, fairway woods, irons and utilitles so the forged is redesigned as well but releasing 4 months after the others.

Most likely yes, and also a lot will depend on the angle you're looking at. The first pic of the top looks better, the second one from more of a back angle looks radioactive. (^_^)

Very nice feel and design, mid-sized, very easy to hit and very forgiving... undercut and tungsten really help get the ball up and go even on mis-hits. Even though they are mid-sized they are not humongous by any means.

Here's the new ViQ Driver showing it's dual fin face....

Here you guys go... a lot more red on top than I expected...

Ask Chris about getting an Epon in the 204-205g range.... I think it's doable.

Most Japanese driver heads are between 190-200g (most on the lighter end) I was lucky enough to get a few heads over 200g, including an Epon at 201g and two G-Field drivers at around 204g. This really helped as I play a driver between 44 and 44.5" depending on the head.

Lung-chia, I'd have to agree with you that TM is probably being a little conservative in their descriptions, I would call the R7 forged as having minimal or less offset, definitely not medium. No live R7 TP Forged pics yet but the R7 pics we have definitely don't look like medium offset:

Duffer19 has one he got from Chris... he absolutely loves it.

Considering the MD is actually a 3 year old model (original Td utility in japan), I would hope so.... The Td+ is still amazing... I bet you would do well with that B along with your X-UT.

Taylormade Japan, based on it's very popular R7 Forged iron of 2007 us releasing it's R7 TP Forged iron at the end of November. This Tour Preferred iron is forged from soft S25C and is a compact, minimal offset head made for lower handicap players. The R7 TP Forged features a low to mid launch trajectory for maximum workability and a thin topline with very little offset for superb setup at address. The head shape was designed based on feedback from Japan tour professionals, looking for a thin sole and muscle back like control. The R7 TP Forged is available as 5-PW standard and with either NSP Pro 950 GH R or S steel or Dynamic Gold S200 or X100 steel. 3 and 4 irons are also available.

Here are some pics (not by me) that give you an idea of how they look, type S and D...

Ajay has the MP Craft 425, X-Drive and Epon all in his stable right now and has made a few posts on them a while back I think.

I also heard that, it will be interesting to see considering Sonartec has been so heavily dependent on RC design these last what 5-6 years???

Also placing a tungsten weight towards the toe helps eliminate hooks and pulls. It's meant to keep it toe weighted and face open for more workability and fade bias...

Some live pics of the new TS stuff which is starting to get coverage in Japan... looks pretty awesome! Though the driver is not quite black... it's more like gunmetal....

The JPX looks very interesting... I'm wanting to try one very soon.... Reminds me of the hibore scoop out crown... (though I've never tried that either)... and the V sole is like the RC's and ONOFF's These live pics are from the web

The problem was that the xxio head was very light, coupled with a heavier grip and heavier shaft the swing weight went down to like B something! the xxio stock shaft is 53g versus 58g for the GD and the stock grip was like 40g versus the 48g No1 grip.

Yes I have a 10.5 as part of my collection. Pretty easy to hit with a similar design to the FW and UT as you know. It does setup very nice at address. It's not the longest of drivers but as Chris put it, it's a fairway finder. Mine has a more muted feel and sound as some of them were foamed.

Played 9 holes today, and I am very happy with the AF-701's. Paired with the Graphite Design Tour AD, they are winners. Smooth and far more forgiving than I expected. I hadn't been out to the course in a couple of weeks so my swing was a bit off and I only birdied 1 of 9 holes but the irons were a pleasure to play and were very forgiving for me. I actually like the feel of the irons, yes there is a click but it's softer than what I expected from the AsRoll face. I really like them, the stronger lofts surprised me as I over hit a few, further than I expected by 10 yards or so, however they were very straight. So far so good.

Besides the steel option only on the TC-550 the are geared towards the mid handicapper. But i would agree that there area a load of other irons that would be far easier to hit including the AF-701, XXIO, NV-NX, R7 XR, New ViQ, ONOFF Gravity Control, JPX E500 etc... but those TC-550 Forged just look sooooo good. ^^

Yes this is indeed a shot of the smallest plant from Endo... Stork and Eagle plants as they call it, are where the big action and majority of the manufacturing takes place.