Welcome to Full Fit 2026GOLF’s new platform to give you real-golfer insight into which 2026 gears might best suit your game. To the end, we gathered six GOLF content creators of various abilities and put them through the gauntlet of fitting six full bags (driver to putter!) to six major club manufacturers in Phoenix and Carlsbad, Calif. We hope that you may see the shadows of your game in one of our editors and learn something and inspiration from their relevant experience. In this installment (below), Wadeh Maroun details on his iron-fitting journey around Fully Fit 2026. You can browse our full dream bags for the 2026 panelists here:
Jake Morrow (+0.3 handicap)|Jack Hirsh (1.1) |Wadeh Maroun (1.1)| Johnny Wunder (2.8)| Maddi MacClurg (5.7) | Sean Zak (7.6)
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Custom fit irons have never been the subject of this tour. It was just one check box in a long list of machines that needed dialing.
I’ve found who I am as an iron player: the guy in the back goes all out, with maybe a forgiving 4 iron thrown in the top of the bag for good measure.
It’s easy. It has been resolved. Done.
Boy, was I wrong.
Time Everything Changed
It all came to a head on Day 1 at the Ping Proving Grounds, working with Ryan Carr – an even better man-to-man legend. We started where I expected to start: cavity-backs, with a long forgiving iron at the top. On this day, that meant Ping Blueprint S irons paired with the i240 in the 4-iron.
We went on our way. The numbers came in as they always had. The positive shift was really good – solid dispersion, solid numbers. But the misses tell a different story. Every miss was 20 yards short of the target, no exception.
Ryan read the data, looked at me, and did something I didn’t expect: He reached into his bag and pulled out a demo of the then-unreleased Ping i540, a bare-bones range of gamers.
“I don’t think this is your instrument, but let’s try it anyway,” he said.
First swing: for each number that is hit, draw the child directly on the line. Second swing, same thing. Third, fourth, fifth – it kept happening. The consistency was enough to draw Johnny, Jake and Jack from other places on the list, all wearing the same confusing expression, all asking some kind of the same question: “What are you hitting?”
Abandoning the ego
From then on, every trip took a different turn. I stopped reaching for cavity-backs out of habit and started hitting nothing but long-range irons. The TaylorMade P770 felt built for my swing tempo. The Callaway Apex Ai150 impressed. Cobra 3DP Tour and MB both had moments where they felt like feedback.
It was a real revelation: all I had to do was put my ego aside and play what suited what I was trying to achieve – instead of boxing myself into a category because I always identified myself as a player.
2026 instruments that stand out to me
At the end of the trip, three irons rose above all others: the Ping i540, the Cobra 3DP and the TaylorMade P770. In the end I went with the P770, which produced the most consistent dispersion of the group from north to south – the kind of repeatable pattern that builds confidence in the course, not just the distance.
Since making the switch, I’ve shaved a full stroke off my handicap, and am now down to a 1.1 index on my coveted 0.0 goal. Fight for it.
Ping is 540
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I’ll just say it: these things jumped out at me in a way I honestly wasn’t prepared for. And the numbers backed up what I was hearing, which doesn’t happen often.
Cobra 3DP Tour
Cobra 3DP Tour Custom Irons
KING 3D Printed TOUR instruments use 3D printing technology to open a new field of operation. Their graceful design features the most forgiving blade shape on the market, delivering the forgiveness that aspiring players need, as well as the soft look and feel that better players desire. 3D PRINTED STEEL CONSTRUCTION Each bar is fully 3D printed from 316 stainless steel. 3D printing offers significant advantages over traditional casting and forging methods, opening up more design freedom and significant performance improvements. FORGIVING PLAYERS BLADE SHAPE 3D printing has opened up new design possibilities, allowing COBRA engineers to create a versatile blade shape (high MOI, low CG) for a game-enhancing iron without sacrificing the smooth look and feel sought after by better players. INTERNAL LATTICE STRUCTURE COBRA took the blade-back blade shape (equal in size and shape to the KING TOUR iron), and changed the interior of the blade into a complex internal lattice structure to reduce the weight of the club by 33%. That optional weight has been repositioned to improve feel, CG position, and MOI.
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This was the wildcard of the entire trip and easily the most mind-blowing piece of technology I got my hands on. When I first cleaned one of these, my jaw dropped. It looked like a blade. It felt like a blade. And it justified as something two or three major categories. Now I understand why Max Homa and Rickie Fowler have them in the bag.
TaylorMade P770 (Players)
TaylorMade P770 Custom Irons
STRONGER FEEL Enhanced for a more solid feel than ever before. The 2024 P•770 has been expertly tuned using player simulation and model analysis to create significant improvements and the best P•770 feel to date. TODAY’S PLAYERS IRON TaylorMade’s FLTD CG™ combined with precision milled faces and grooves, delivers the launch and demand of today’s players. Designed with forgiving, high launch long irons and low launch, high scoring irons for accuracy and control. COMPATIBILITY Consistent ball striking and accurate shot-making from forged steel construction designed for careful weight optimization and revised tungsten weight design for long forgiving irons. REFINED LOOK Refined shape for a clean look and improved turf interaction. The 2024 P•770 has a visually slim top line that equates to a confidence-inspiring, compact head position. A newly refined edge-to-edge design helps deliver consistent image composition and turf crisp interactions.
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What I kept seeing on the monitor, shot after shot, was this strong north-south dispersion that no other instrument could match. The grade wasn’t just good – it was fair.
Bottom line
If there’s one lesson from this whole process, it’s this: try everything when preparing a new set of instruments. Don’t let the label put you off checking out the club. The iron you swore you wouldn’t play – just because of how it’s split – could be the very iron that brings your score down.
Editor’s Note: Wadeh Maroun is the president of Fairway Jockey.
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