When I got my Edge irons used in fairly worn condition they felt like magic. At address the shaft of the Edge appears to come closer to the face of the club, which is a design characteristic of Hogan clubs going back to the 1950s and said to be preferred by Hogan himself. Both clubs have about the same loft, head size, and standard length.
The weight of the clubs, though, is about the same. The TA5 has more offset and Edge irons relatively little. Heads are midsize.Ī quick comparison of 7-irons: Compared to the Cleveland TA5s, the Hogan Edge feels heavier, has a thicker shaft (both TA5 and Edge compared in stiff shaft versions), the hosel comes up about 12mm higher and the sole is much thinner front to back. I find them easy to hit, and they don't hit the ball as high as my Cleveland TA5s that are true cavity backs.
I think of them as partially perimeter weighted with a bottom-weight bias. It is said that he hated the irons, presumably because they were not the traditional Hogan Company blades.Įdge irons are not precisely cavity back but more like a blade evolving into a cavity back, and there is not much perimeter weighting on the upper part of the clubhead. At some point too the pin in the hosel that was a distinctive feature of Hogan clubs was discontinued.Īs I recall, Ben Hogan himself was persuaded to hit the new Edge irons for a TV commercial. Later on in the 1990s Hogan clubs were no longer made in Ft. The GS irons are interesting because they had "Ft.
"Edge" was orginally not in the Apex line, but later on the names were came to merge or overlap. The original Edge irons came out more than 20 years ago and were followed by the "Edge GS" and later models. Just as a note, there were different models of "Hogan Edge" irons.
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