PRGR Red 505 Driver, Fairway, Woods, Irons

New PRGR 505 Driver, Fairway Woods, and Irons are scheduled to hit the Japanese market this march with their official announcement at the 2010 Tokyo Golf Show late this month. PRGR also known as ProGear is owned by the Yokohama Rubber Co. yup that’s right the same company that produces tires globally.

The new Red 505 series is geared for senior players yet can also be used by women.  PRGR  analyzed the swing type of 3757 amateur golfers monitoring head movement, grip speed, swing speed and multiple other categories and what was found is that 67% of these golfers had a difficult time squaring the club head at impact  thus producing slices and strong fades.  As a result PRGR created dozens of prototypes with different weighting ratio’s and technologies to find what would help these players produce straighter shots.  In the end the Red 505 Driver was finalized and created and PRGR claims this is the ultimate driver for seniors and women who have a slice issue and desire an extremely forgiving, high launching straight flying driver.

The new Red 505 Fairway wood was created using the same technology and geared toward the same type of player. Many TSG members have been impressed to say the least about PRGR’s EGG and Spoon fairway woods and the new 505 FW appears to build on some of those technologies. Manufactured using a Titanium body and steel high rebound face  PRGR made the profile shallow making it easy to lift the ball off the ground while the V shaped sole ensures that the least amount of drag occurs during the shot.  Another very important aspect for PRGR was that the fairway wood flows seamlessly with the 505 driver in terms style but most importantly  it’s performance.

The last part of the line up is the new 505 Iron produced in 4-PW , AW, & SW. PRGR designed this set to have even stronger lofts than last years premium red  series for maximum distance as well as technology to aid in getting the ball up quickly by using large tungsten inserts in the sole. It’s face is made of maraging steel which raises the ball velocity at impact. Overall it’s specifications and design will help even the slowest swingers improve their game from jacked strong lofts to D0-D1 swing weights. The new PRGR 505 iron is definitely  considered a game improvement improvement iron and were guessing it will be a very good one at that.

We will have live images in about a week live from the Tokyo Golf Show for those interested!