“The TW737-generation fairway that helped launch Honma's global Tour World push - a tidy player's shape with Vizard shafting. A quality used pickup for a feel-first fairway.”
The TW737 fairway range was the wood half of Honma's mid-2010s Tour World push into international markets, sold in two head sizes sharing one profile: the standard FW, a larger head built for stable, high-carry distance, and the compact FWc, some 6.2mm shorter from face to back and aimed squarely at better players chasing workability. Both used a high-strength steel cup face for ball speed and a stabilizing chrome sole insert, paired stock with Honma's own Vizard shaft tuned for a stable, high-kickpoint feel. Independent reviewers who tested the FWc found it launched high and straight as a stock tee shot while still tolerating deliberate shot-shaping for the better player, with clean turf interaction off tight or slightly sitting-down lies.
It did its job well by contemporary reviewer accounts, but there is no scarcity, tour-win legend, or forum reverence attached to it -- it was one generation in Honma's routine multi-year fairway-wood refresh cycle (succeeded by the TW747 range in 2018) and today reads as a solid, forgettable used fairway wood rather than a club anyone specifically hunts down.
Mid-to-low handicap players who want a workable, tour-shaped fairway wood with real feel from the Vizard shaft; the larger FW suits players who want that same shape with more stability and carry, while a high-handicapper chasing maximum forgiveness would be better served by a modern oversized, low-CG fairway wood.
Part of Honma's TW737-generation launch that also included the TW737M/Vn/V/P irons, competing against TaylorMade's M2 and Callaway's Big Bertha fairway woods of 2016-2017 before Honma replaced the whole 737 range with the TW747 generation in 2018.
Reviewer testing found the compact FWc got the ball airborne cleanly even from mildly sitting-down lies and held a neutral stock shot shape, which is respectable for a player-oriented compact head, but it is not built as a game-improvement wood -- the smaller FWc head in particular trades some forgiveness for the workability better players wanted.
Calibrated across the whole catalog — a tour blade scores low here on purpose; it means control, not ease.
MSRP was roughly $360-400 depending on loft and configuration (2nd Swing lists $359.99 as the reference retail price). Used pricing has fallen hard: 2nd Swing's own current listings show the FWc at $69.99 and the standard FW at $89.99, both marked down from that $359.99 reference -- roughly 20-25 cents on the retail dollar, typical depreciation for a superseded Japanese import fairway wood.
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