“The 2019 successor to the Launcher HB Irons: same hollow HiBore body and same loft structure (Cleveland deliberately did not jack the lofts), but a thinner, hotter turbocharged face for roughly half a club more distance. Bottom-of-the-ladder super-game-improvement for slower to moderate swings; ran through 2021 until the Launcher XL Halo took over. Kept as the canonical HB Turbo iron record; the near-duplicate id 75ba1e2b is skipped.”
The 2019 refresh of Cleveland's hollow HiBore iron line, kept the same wide, hollow HB body but swapped in a thinner, hotter HT1770M face - 5% thinner than the original HB, paired with a 4% lower and 3% deeper CG and 5% higher MOI. Cleveland's claim: about half a club more distance at an unchanged loft structure. Launched at £499 SRP for a steel 6-PW set, £599 in graphite, alongside the players-distance UHX as Cleveland's two-tier 2019 iron strategy. Progressive shaping kept the long irons forgiving and the short irons more compact for control. Replaced by the Launcher XL Halo two years later.
No cult following: a competent refresh of an existing hollow-iron platform, aimed squarely at recreational golfers, and superseded within two years by the Launcher XL Halo. Reviews (Plugged In Golf, MyGolfSpy, Today's Golfer) were solidly positive but no forum reverence or lasting demand was found for this specific model versus its many Cleveland Launcher stablemates.
High handicappers, seniors, and slower swingers who want maximum ease getting the ball airborne and stopping it on the green. Not for a better player wanting workability or a compact look at address - the hollow body and wide sole are unmistakably game-improvement.
Competed against Callaway's Rogue/Mavrik, TaylorMade's M6, and Ping's G410 in the 2019 super-game-improvement iron market. A direct descendant of Cleveland's original Launcher HB (2018) and immediate predecessor to the 2021 Launcher XL Halo.
Fully hollow HiBore body plus a thinner turbocharged face pushes CG low and deep; reviewers found it launches high and straight even on mediocre strikes, near the top of the forgiveness scale for an iron. The long irons carry most of that forgiveness; the short irons are deliberately more compact for green-side control, so the top-of-scale rating applies most cleanly to the 4-7 range.
Calibrated across the whole catalog — a tour blade scores low here on purpose; it means control, not ease.
MSRP was $799 for the steel set. Private-party 2026 pricing for a clean set realistically runs about $180-$320 depending on shaft and condition; single irons from the closely related Launcher XL Halo currently list around $88 each at 2nd Swing, which cross-checks the low-to-mid end of that full-set estimate rather than higher reconditioned-retail pricing.
Reading is one thing — hitting is another. Book a bay and see the numbers for yourself before you buy anywhere.
