“Hand-shaped in Sakata with progressive sole geometry - full I-Sole in the lower lofts for turf interaction, crescent C-Sole up top for opening the face around greens. A premium forged tour wedge for the player who values feel and versatility.”
The TW-W4 was Honma's attempt to prove that a brand built its reputation on woods and forged irons could also build a tour-caliber wedge. Hand-shaped with a traditional blade profile and a cross-milled face, it split its sole geometry by loft rather than using one grind across the range: a full I-Sole with camber and trailing-edge relief on the 48-54 degree lofts for full-shot turf interaction, and a crescent-shaped C-Sole with heel and toe relief on the 56-60 degree lofts for opening the face around greens. It shipped stock on either True Temper Dynamic Gold or Nippon's Modus3 Tour 125 steel, both mainstream tour shafts, signaling Honma wanted this treated as a serious short-game tool rather than a set-matching afterthought.
Golf.com's ClubTest 2021 panel measured 10,101 rpm of full-swing spin off the TW-W4, a genuinely surprising number from a brand with no wedge pedigree, and independent 50-yard pitch testing held a tight 5,848-6,895 rpm band. That earned it real mainstream review coverage (Golf.com, Today's Golfer, Golf Monthly) rather than cult mythology or scarcity-driven demand.
Better ball-strikers and low-to-mid handicaps who want tour-level spin and shot variety around the green and are comfortable with a compact, traditional wedge head. A high-handicapper hunting maximum forgiveness on fat/thin contact would be better served by a wider, higher-bounce game-improvement wedge.
Launched into a 2020-2021 wedge market dominated by Titleist's Vokey SM8/SM9 and Callaway's Jaws MD5, where Honma had almost no prior wedge share; it competed on measured spin performance rather than brand history, going up against established tour wedges rather than replacing an in-house predecessor.
Middling for the wedge category: the progressive I-Sole/C-Sole split gives real forgiveness on full shots in the lower lofts, where the camber and trailing-edge relief resist digging, but it is still a hand-shaped blade profile with a small face, so heel and toe strikes on chips and pitches are not cushioned the way a wide-sole game-improvement wedge would cushion them.
Calibrated across the whole catalog — a tour blade scores low here on purpose; it means control, not ease.
MSRP was $170. Callaway Golf Preowned lists used TW-W4 wedges at roughly $70 each in 2026 -- about 40% of retail, a steeper markdown than a Vokey or Cleveland wedge would see, reflecting Honma's thin secondary market in the US rather than any flaw in the club.
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