Hi Britt and team, is there any plan to offer a sole grind comparable to the PTM again on any future offerings? With the huge popularity of the Srixon ZX line and their V sole, it seems like there’s a market for some different sole grinds on forged irons. I love my PTM black set but one day it will bite the dust and I’d love to have a new option.
Don’t confuse popularity with playability. V soles, like the Srixon irons have, are really not that forgiving and limit the positive affects the sole can have on performance. The PTM sole was not a split sole. It had a nice radius on the trailing edge and an exaggerated or more relieved leading edge grind than a lot of irons do, but the sole width and angle were complete and not split. When a sole is split you effectively minimize the effective sole width and bounce. More likely to perform OK on firmer turf conditions, but not as a general, all turf type performer.
We might visit the PTM grind again someday o a design. It was a good one.
Britt Lindsey
The Vokey V grind is very similar to the Tiger grind but it’s only available as a custom option from Wedgeworks. The Callaway Z grind has an aggressive leading edge chamfer and they have a few other grinds with leading edge relief. No irons that I know of with that sort of leading edge relief.
Thanks for the reply, Britt. I wasn’t really implying that Maltby should put out a v-sole club, just that there’s a market for something other than the radiused sole that exists on most Maltby clubs right now. I love the PTM and there’s nothing else really comparable to it out there other than the Tiger Woods grind of the MG3-4 wedges from Taylormade.