“Caley 01CB - a forged compact cavity for the better player. Rung-2.”
The 01CB is the compact-cavity, better-player option in Caley Golf's three-iron 01 lineup, sitting alongside the game-improvement 01 and the hollow-body player-distance 01T. Caley is a direct-to-consumer brand founded in Scotland in 2019 by PGA professional Ryan Atha, built around selling forged irons at roughly half the price of major-brand equivalents by cutting out retail markup. Independent write-ups describe the 01CB as the most traditionally shaped of the three models, with a thinner topline, reduced offset, and a machine-milled face and back designed for feedback rather than forgiveness, aimed at golfers who already strike the ball reliably and want a cleaner, more compact head shape. Caley's 01 irons were recognized in MyGolfSpy's 2023 Most Wanted testing, and MyGolfSpy separately tested the related 01X driving iron head-to-head against major-brand driving irons, placing it third overall and first for forgiveness, which lends some third-party credibility to the brand's engineering claims beyond its own marketing.
It has real, if thin, independent coverage and a MyGolfSpy Most Wanted mention for the broader 01 lineup, giving it more legitimacy than typical small DTC irons, but it hasn't been around long enough or built a large enough following to be called a cult classic.
Golfers with a repeatable strike who want a traditional, compact cavity-back look and better feedback than a game-improvement iron, without paying full price for a major-brand equivalent like a Titleist T-series.
Launched as Caley expanded its original 2019 budget iron into a three-tier 01/01T/01CB range around 2022, part of a broader wave of direct-to-consumer golf brands (alongside Takomo, Haywood, and Ram) that GolfWRX forum members have openly debated as sharing overseas manufacturing, prompting scrutiny of how differentiated these DTC iron lines really are from one another.
Perimeter weighting gives it more cushion than a true blade, but the thin topline and reduced offset that define the 01CB's compact look trade away forgiveness compared to Caley's own 01 and 01T models, so it sits in the middle of the pack even within one small brand's lineup.
Calibrated across the whole catalog — a tour blade scores low here on purpose; it means control, not ease.
Because Caley sells direct and the brand is young, there is little established secondhand market; occasional sets appear on eBay in near-new condition rather than well-worn, typically in the low-to-mid hundreds of dollars given the roughly $680 new price and thin resale liquidity compared to major-brand irons.
Reading is one thing — hitting is another. Book a bay and see the numbers for yourself before you buy anywhere.
“Caley 01CB - a forged compact cavity for the better player. Rung-2.”
The 01CB is the compact-cavity, better-player option in Caley Golf's three-iron 01 lineup, sitting alongside the game-improvement 01 and the hollow-body player-distance 01T. Caley is a direct-to-consumer brand founded in Scotland in 2019 by PGA professional Ryan Atha, built around selling forged irons at roughly half the price of major-brand equivalents by cutting out retail markup. Independent write-ups describe the 01CB as the most traditionally shaped of the three models, with a thinner topline, reduced offset, and a machine-milled face and back designed for feedback rather than forgiveness, aimed at golfers who already strike the ball reliably and want a cleaner, more compact head shape. Caley's 01 irons were recognized in MyGolfSpy's 2023 Most Wanted testing, and MyGolfSpy separately tested the related 01X driving iron head-to-head against major-brand driving irons, placing it third overall and first for forgiveness, which lends some third-party credibility to the brand's engineering claims beyond its own marketing.
It has real, if thin, independent coverage and a MyGolfSpy Most Wanted mention for the broader 01 lineup, giving it more legitimacy than typical small DTC irons, but it hasn't been around long enough or built a large enough following to be called a cult classic.
Golfers with a repeatable strike who want a traditional, compact cavity-back look and better feedback than a game-improvement iron, without paying full price for a major-brand equivalent like a Titleist T-series.
Launched as Caley expanded its original 2019 budget iron into a three-tier 01/01T/01CB range around 2022, part of a broader wave of direct-to-consumer golf brands (alongside Takomo, Haywood, and Ram) that GolfWRX forum members have openly debated as sharing overseas manufacturing, prompting scrutiny of how differentiated these DTC iron lines really are from one another.
Perimeter weighting gives it more cushion than a true blade, but the thin topline and reduced offset that define the 01CB's compact look trade away forgiveness compared to Caley's own 01 and 01T models, so it sits in the middle of the pack even within one small brand's lineup.
Calibrated across the whole catalog — a tour blade scores low here on purpose; it means control, not ease.
Because Caley sells direct and the brand is young, there is little established secondhand market; occasional sets appear on eBay in near-new condition rather than well-worn, typically in the low-to-mid hundreds of dollars given the roughly $680 new price and thin resale liquidity compared to major-brand irons.
Reading is one thing — hitting is another. Book a bay and see the numbers for yourself before you buy anywhere.
