The 2025 P790 sticks to a familiar recipe: forged feel, a slim profile, and a hollow head that adds distance. It plays best for a good ball striker who wants more than a blade gives.
What's new
The 2025 P790 arrived in February as a forged, hollow players-distance iron. Behind a multi-thickness face sits a SpeedFoam urethane core, and the through-slot speed pocket in the sole flexes more than any previous P-series design.
TaylorMade sells it as a seven-piece set, 4-iron through pitching wedge, with KBS Tour Lite steel or UST Mamiya Recoil ES 55 graphite as stock options. Steel sets cost flagship iron money, and the graphite build adds to that.
How it plays
Feel carries this iron. It scores 9.2, the best of its six marks, and testers kept coming back to how soft and solid a centered strike feels through the foam. Workability follows at 8.8, so shaping a shot both ways comes easily for a player who wants to.
Distance rates an 8.4 and accuracy an 8.2, which is a strong pair for an iron with a top line this thin. Progressive Inverted Cone Technology changes through the set, and ball speed drops less on toe and heel misses than the profile suggests.
Where it lacks
Forgiveness sits at 7.8. That is respectable for a players-distance head, but it trails the P7CB and falls well short of the max-forgiveness sets a step over.
Value scores 7.4, the lowest mark here. Seven clubs at flagship pricing is a lot to ask, and the yardage only shows up for someone who finds the middle of the face most of the time.
“It feels like a forged blade and flies farther than one. Just bring a decent strike.”- The Club Stand gear team
Reasons to buy
- Feel scores a 9.2: the forged head and SpeedFoam core make every strike soft and solid
- A thin top line looks like a blade at address, while the speed pocket softens thin contact
- Progressive I.C.T. holds ball speed steady on off-center hits from the 4-iron down to the wedge
Reasons to think twice
- Seven clubs at full flagship money, and graphite shafts push the price higher still
- Forgiveness rates a 7.8, behind the P7CB and the bigger max-forgiveness sets
- Golfers with an inconsistent strike will not see the distance the head is built to deliver
Specs
| Set | 4-PW (7 clubs) |
|---|---|
| Construction | Forged, multi-thickness face |
| Speed Pocket | Through-slot, most flexible P-series design |
| I.C.T. | Progressive Inverted Cone Technology |
| Core | SpeedFoam urethane injected in the head |
| Stock shaft | KBS Tour Lite (steel) or UST Mamiya Recoil ES 55 (graphite) |
| Best for | Better players who want forged feel with a little more distance than a blade |
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- Tour Edge Hot Launch Max D 2026 - 8.9/10. A hollow ironwood set that won its super game-improvement test on accuracy, at value-tier money.
- Callaway Quantum Max Irons 2026 - 8.8/10. A cast super game-improvement iron that holds its yardage on mishits and feels better than it should.
- Mizuno Pro M-15 2026 - 8.8/10. Mizuno's higher-launching hollow-body iron finished second in a 2026 player's distance test and won on sound.
- Srixon ZXiR 2026 - 8.7/10. Srixon's first game-improvement iron in a decade forgives like one and feels closer to a forged blade.
- Ping G740 2026 - 8.7/10. The longest super game-improvement iron of 2026, and the best-feeling one in its class too.
- Titleist T250 2025 - 8.7/10. Titleist's hollow players distance iron launches high, lands steep, and carried farther than the 2026 test winner.