What is Honma BeZeal?

[+TourSpecGolfer]

What is Honma Be Zeal? First off it's the best selling Honma line in Japan because it fills the companies only gap between the players segment and the game improvement side. The athlete player uses the Tour World TW727 series while the game improvement or senior segment plays the Beres S-05 and E-05 products but what about the golfers in between? This is where Be Zeal comes in and this is the sweet spot in size, forgiveness and performance that most average players fit into.

More forgiveness and distance than the TW727 series yet with less offset and size than the Beres line, today we cover the Be Zeal Irons.

As you can see from the above image there is an obvious leading edge grind and a sole not as narrow as the TW line or as thick as the Beres series, the satin finish is also very high high end as are all Honma Clubs from the Sakata Factory.

Unlike the TW series the Be Zeal irons have titanium constructed faces for big distance and forgiveness this is unique because usually only larger sized heads feature this material.

The lofts are also very strong on these irons you can get a good idea of how strong looking at the pitching wedge PW it is 41.5* but that doesn't mean they go low, the CG locations have been optimized so that short irons land soft and launch higher with more spin than other irons helping the average player produce spin and stopping power on the greens.

As you can see here moderate offset, not minimal like Tour World irons and not a lot like Beres, just right for most people. Honma has also created an inner cavity within the head with 10 grams of tungsten weight to further lower the center of gravity design to optimize launch angles differently in different clubs.

A three sided sole design has been adopted which helps turf interaction and heavy perimeter weighting near the sole has been added to increase MOI.

The base set is# 6-11 which when you consider the strong lofts covers a wide range of distances, optional #4/5/AW/SW clubs are available as well. this gaps out nicely in the short irons from #10 at 41.5* to #11/46.5 to AW/51.5 and SW/56.0.

A new specially designed Vizard Shaft has been produced specifically for this line up using a material called Zxion of KB Seiren Co., Ltd. which has been used in high end tennis rackets and speaker cones. this helps reduce loss of power thru energy transfer keeping the shot on a stable path and direction

Hope you enjoyed the introduction, I was able to hit these on the launch monitor and they are really really good clubs, very long and forgiving and not overly chunky at all, it's one of the smallest irons I've seen that utilities Ti face tech, it's no wonder these are Honma's #1 selling series in Japan.

[dickyfowler]

Classy looking irons. When you hit these....what was the FEEL ? Soft enough?

[+TourSpecGolfer]

not soft and not hard more a hot "chink" that felt powerful off the face.

very long and forgiving.

[TFL07670]

Guess clink is signature honma..

but they really need to come up with a better name.. be zeal?? really? haha

[kaizillaB]

With the new Be Zeal released do you think Honma will update the Tour World series this year?

[+TourSpecGolfer]

With the new Be Zeal released do you think Honma will update the Tour World series this year?

TW is already a pretty new series, Im not sure whats next.

[laudney]

The Vizard for Be Zeal shaft is only 55g in stiff??!!!

[+TourSpecGolfer]

The Vizard for Be Zeal shaft is only 55g in stiff??!!!

The next step up is TW727P and those Vizard shafts are heavier and very firm.