“A genre-defining hollow-body forged players' distance iron: thin, fast and soft-feeling all at once thanks to SpeedFoam filling a 1.75mm face. Stock steel is Dynamic Gold 105/95, not KBS Tour (that's a common custom upsell, not the stock shaft). A rung-3 destination set for a solid striker.”
TaylorMade's 2017 P790 didn't refine an existing iron category, it invented one. A hollow, forged 4140-steel face just 1.75mm thick was fused to an 8620 carbon-steel body and filled with a new polymer, SpeedFoam, to recover the sound and feel a hollow head normally loses. Tungsten weighting pulled the CG low without adding bulk, so the compact, blade-like shape at address hid genuine players-distance forgiveness and speed. Justin Rose carried its 4-iron to the 2017 WGC-HSBC Champions title within months of release, early proof it wasn't just a mid-handicap distance chaser. Every 'players-distance' iron since, from every manufacturer, is answering the question this club asked first.
Golf media routinely uses 'cult classic' for the P790 line specifically: GolfWRX titled its 2019-model coverage 'a modern cult classic' just two years after this launch, and Today's Golfer credits the line's 'cult-classic appeal' to its unusual cross-handicap versatility (TaylorMade's own buyer data spans 25-handicap to plus-2 players on one iron). The line went on to top iron tests through 2023-2025, sustained success across four further generations rather than a one-year fad.
Low-to-mid handicaps who want a compact, players'-club look but need more forgiveness and distance than a true cavity or blade delivers. Not the choice for someone chasing maximum game-improvement bail-out (a modern max-GI iron is more forgiving) or a traditionalist who wants blade feel and feedback over speed.
Launched into a market of pure players' cavities (Mizuno JPX, Titleist AP2) and separate game-improvement lines; the P790 straddled both and forced competitors (Ping i210/iBlade crossover, Titleist T200) to build their own players-distance hybrids within a couple of years. Superseded within its own family by the 2019, 2021, 2023 and 2025 P790 generations, each keeping the SpeedFoam-and-tungsten concept while thinning the face and adding weight.
Notably forgiving for a club shaped like a players' iron — the hollow SpeedFoam-filled body and tungsten weighting hold ball speed on off-center strikes far better than a cavity or blade of its era. But this is the least-refined generation in its own family: the 2019 revision added a 7% thinner face and 15% more tungsten, and 2021 nearly doubled the tungsten mass again, each measurably widening the sweet spot beyond this 2017 head.
Calibrated across the whole catalog — a tour blade scores low here on purpose; it means control, not ease.
Nine years old and long superseded, but demand hasn't collapsed given how many were sold at launch: 2026 private-party sets (3-PW or 4-PW, steel) commonly run roughly $350-550 depending on shaft and condition on eBay/2nd Swing marketplace listings. Reconditioned-retailer 'like new' grading pushes toward the higher end or beyond; worn faces and grooves push toward the low end.
The Legends Rack
The defining iron of the last decade, verified as the Modern Legends anchor. Hollow body, SpeedFoam-injected, a forged face that flies like a distance iron and looks like a players' club — the formula every manufacturer has spent eight years chasing. Who'll love it: everyone from 20-handicaps to scratch; the most universally raved-about iron of the modern era.
Who it suitsAll / Better players
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