“Easy-launching, draw-biased rescue in the Gain Speed line - high, forgiving flight for the mid-to-high handicap who wants a long iron replacement that just gets airborne. Great value from a premium brand.”
The rescue-club half of Honma's 2021 'Gain Speed' push, built around a new 'Flip Slot' cut directly behind the face to increase face flexure across the whole hitting area, not just the center. Honma paired it with heel-biased internal weighting for a deliberate draw bias, aimed at moderate-swing-speed players who struggle to launch long irons. GOLF.com's 2021 ClubTest and independent reviewers found it performed essentially like its companion GS fairway wood — an easy, high-launching alternative to a 3- or 4-iron rather than a shot-shaper's tool. Offered across four lofts (18/21/24/27 degrees), it slots beneath the GS irons as the long-iron replacement in Honma's value-tier line.
A well-reviewed but unremarkable rescue club: no tour usage, no forum following, and no distinguishing story beyond doing its assigned job. It exists to solve a specific problem (getting the ball airborne for slower swingers) and was retired from the catalog on Honma's usual multi-year refresh cycle without becoming a sought-after used piece.
Built for senior players and moderate-swing-speed golfers who find fairway metals and long irons hard to launch off the turf — reviewers explicitly called it a strong option for that profile. A better player wanting a workable long-iron replacement should look at the TW757 hybrid in the same catalog instead.
Launched alongside the GS irons, fairway and driver as Honma's 2021 mainstream-market push, competing with the era's GI hybrids like Callaway Rogue ST Max and TaylorMade Stealth rescue. It sits opposite the more compact, tour-shaped TW757 hybrid released a year later within Honma's own range.
The Flip Slot is specifically engineered to flex the face dynamically across mis-hit locations, not just center strikes, and the draw-biased heel weighting helps golfers who slice long irons get the ball started left of target. This is a forgiveness-first design with essentially no concession to shot-shaping control.
Calibrated across the whole catalog — a tour blade scores low here on purpose; it means control, not ease.
Single hybrids typically sell used for roughly $60-$110 against a $219 original retail — Honma hybrids move slowly on the US secondary market since the brand's resale demand concentrates on the tour-facing TR/TW lines, not the GS value tier.
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