RomaRo Alpha Irons – I’ve been testing this one over 1 month casually meaning sometimes I put it in the bag for a round or two and take it to the range. 5-6 rounds and I’m confident I got a grip of what these are all about.
When first opening the box and holding them in hand a question popped into mind: If I had to choose a thinner top line vs less offset and could only choose one which would it be? Follow the Jump to hear my answer!
So let’s cover what these are and who they are made for, If you look at the RomaRo line up they do a pretty good job of making something for everyone the RomaRo Alpha irons I consider to be their most forgiving yet.
Made with a 15-3-3-3 titanium face and 17-4 stainless steel body in satin finish, available 5-PW with optional #5 and PW, standard shaft options are RomaRo Rj-Ti2 Carbon or NS950 Steel, TSG offers these as heads only or custom shafted with everything we have to offer.
It’s got a low CG thanks to it’s deep undercut and thicker sole, forgiveness and a high trajectory are just two of it’s attributes and the lofts are prety strong, the PW is 43 and the AW is 58 so about 4* stronger than most today.
RomaRo is proud of it’s new face design which is only 2.1mm thick on the #5 iron This is a Titanium face iron made of 15-3-3-3 it’s strong but has a powerful pop off the face combined with strong lofts they produce insane distance that you would only expect in larger sized game improvement irons. ※ thickness design: # 4-6 (central 2.1 mm, around 2.4 mm) / # 7 ~ AW (center 2.3 millimeter around 2.4 mm).
Your probably wondering how does it feel? Its not as loud as I expected sound is a hollow chink/tink feel with, you can tell its made of Ti, why does that even matter? Titanium has optimal weight and ball velocity for drivers and recently more JDM irons are implementing them, It also gives you the sense of unity with the woods due to it’s sound and feel.
Look below I know, I know, first thing I noticed was the offset it’s a little much for me, but at the same time it’s topline is thin for this type of club, compared against the VG3, TM Rsi TP, Gloire Forged which I have also been messing around with it can fit in dispite the offset, so for what it is and how it performs it’s pretty small. Back to my original question “If I had to choose a thinner top line vs less offset and could only choose one which would it be? I would reduce offset because the top line is the thinnest I’ve seen in a Ti faced GI iron.
That said, after maybe 20 balls on the range I adjusted hand position and tempo a bit and I was hitting it much better than any of my razor blade compact CB’s longer, more forgiving, good unique, but distance and forgiveness are equal to the PRGR Titan RS but this one is smaller and shapped better although it has more offset.
Sole is thick but not like the others in this iron category, I’m 2.5 clubs longer distance than my MB’s. It’s pretty shocking of an adjustment coming from single 1 piece forged CB’s and Blades it feels as if I am cheating. These are confoming by the way.
The new RomaRo Alpha Ray Irons are available in the “TSG Proshop by clicking here”
