“The club that launched PXG in 2015 - a hollow forged players-distance iron stuffed with tungsten weights, sold at a shock price of ~$300/club. Rung-3; genuinely good, absurdly expensive new, a bargain used.”
The club that launched PXG. When billionaire GoDaddy founder Bob Parsons unveiled the 0311 iron in 2015, it broke the industry two ways: it was a two-piece hollow body forged from soft S25C carbon steel, filled with Thermoplastic Elastomer (TPE) behind what PXG called the world's thinnest face, and studded with 11 tungsten-and-steel perimeter weight screws to push MOI past most game-improvement irons while keeping a compact players shape. And it carried a shock price — about $300 per club (roughly $2,700 a set, over 2,000 pounds in the UK) — several times the going rate. Parsons' pitch, 'we will never launch a new product unless it is significantly better,' plus tour money and heavy marketing, forced the whole industry to reckon with a new ultra-premium tier. GEN1 came in the players 0311 and thinner 0311T.
Historically significant rather than a hunted cult set: it is repeatedly cited (Yahoo Sports' PXG-at-10-years retrospective, Forbes, Cigar Aficionado) as the founding product that established the ultra-premium iron tier and put PXG on the map. Its fame is about what it disrupted (pricing and the hollow-body-plus-tungsten template), not scarcity or resale reverence — used sets are now cheap, so 'notable' is the honest label rather than a cult classic.
For mid handicaps down to good players who want a compact, soft-feeling forged look with more stability and ball speed than a classic players' iron — the players-distance buyer. The lofts are fairly traditional for the category (PW 45, 7-iron 31), so it is not a jacked-loft distance chaser. High-handicaps wanting maximum forgiveness are better in a dedicated GI iron; the real story today is that this once-$300-per-club set is a used bargain for that player-fit buyer.
Launched 2015 into a market where premium irons topped out well under $200 per club; the 0311 GEN1 roughly doubled that and created the ultra-premium segment PXG has occupied since. Its hollow-body-plus-tungsten-weighting template ran through every later generation (GEN2-GEN6) and was widely imitated across the players-distance category. GEN1 offered the players 0311 and the more compact 0311T; a follow-on 0311 XF added a wider game-improvement option.
Players-distance forgiveness. The hollow body, TPE-backed thin face and 11 perimeter tungsten weights raise MOI enough that PXG claimed it out-stabilized most game-improvement irons, so it forgives mishits better than a traditional players' cavity or blade. But it keeps a compact head, thin-ish topline and modest offset in the players 0311 (the 0311T is even more compact), so a 7 — meaningfully forgiving for its shape, not a shovel-soled max-GI iron.
Calibrated across the whole catalog — a tour blade scores low here on purpose; it means control, not ease.
The signature bargain in used PXG: a set that cost roughly $2,700 new now commonly trades private-party for about $350-600 depending on shafts, condition and whether it is the 0311 or 0311T, one of the steepest new-to-used drops in premium irons. Value drivers are shaft (premium/aftermarket shafts lift it), groove/face wear, and completeness of the set. It does not appreciate — it is worth what it plays, and it plays like a still-good players-distance iron at a fraction of its old price.
The Legends Rack
Bob Parsons' money-no-object moonshot — hollow-body, TPE-injected, more screws than a hardware store. Whatever you think of the marketing, the original 0311 genuinely moved iron design. Who'll love it: the curious and the contrarian; everyone has an opinion, so let them hit it first.
Who it suitsBetter players
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