“PTx - a forged tour cavity with perimeter tungsten. Rung-2.”
The PTx (2016) was the resurrected Hogan brand's tour-cavity players iron, the more forgiving stablemate to the Ft. Worth 15 blade-style set. It keeps the forged 1025 carbon-steel feel and Koehler's V-Sole turf interaction, but adds a compact cavity and tungsten weighting to move mass toward the perimeter and low in the head for a bit more stability without ballooning the size. Hogan pitched a linear (not graduated) CG through the set for more predictable, repeatable trajectories, and offered it in Diamond Black Metal or nickel-chrome. Reviewers found it a true players iron, soft, crisp forged feel with a dash of the explosive snap of thinner-faced designs, adequately forgiving for a good mid-handicapper but short of a game-improvement club's help or a hollow-body's ball speed.
Honestly a commodity in cult terms, a well-made, well-reviewed direct-to-consumer players cavity with no tour-win legend, scarcity or forum reverence. It is part of the revived brand's early lineup and remembered fondly by owners, but its value is functional (forged feel and V-Sole at a direct price), not collectible. The distinctive linear-CG and tungsten story is engineering interest, not cult status.
For low-to-mid-handicap players (DB guidance iron 78-92 mph) who want forged feel and a traditional players shape with a touch more forgiveness than a blade, and who value feedback over maximum help. Not for higher handicaps or distance-chasers, a modern game-improvement or players-distance iron will be far more forgiving and longer. Buyers should note the naming overlap with the later PTx Tour/PTx PRO models.
A 2016 release from the freshly relaunched Hogan brand, sold direct and slotting above the Ft. Worth 15 as the tour-cavity option, competing against Titleist AP2, Mizuno JPX/MP-cavity and Callaway Apex of that window. It arrived just before the company's January 2017 layoffs and Chapter 11, after which the White-led reboot continued the PTx name into later PTx PRO/PTx Tour irons. Its forged-cavity-with-tungsten brief points toward the 2023 Fort Worth CB.
A players cavity, so moderately forgiving for a better-player iron, tungsten weighting and a perimeter cavity make it noticeably steadier than the Ft. Worth 15 or a blade, and the V-Sole helps turf interaction. But reviewers judged it adequate for a mid-handicapper rather than genuinely game-improving, with ball speed short of modern hollow-body players-distance irons. A 6 sits it above the Ft. Worth 15 (5) and blades (2-3), below a true GI iron (8+).
Calibrated across the whole catalog — a tour blade scores low here on purpose; it means control, not ease.
A functional used market with no collector premium. Reconditioned-retail set listings read higher than private sales clear. Realistic 2026 private-party value for a complete steel set is roughly $300-500 depending on shaft, finish and condition, less for short or worn sets. It sells on forged feel and the Hogan name at a value price, not on appreciation.
Reading is one thing — hitting is another. Book a bay and see the numbers for yourself before you buy anywhere.
