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THE GOG BLOG-by Director of Content and Creation Rory Spears. Follow Rory on Twitter @GogBlogGuy, or on Linkedin and Facebook. It’s opening weekend at Topgolf in Schaumburg.

Cleveland Golf has created a new line of clubs, that are now available heading into the holiday season.

HB Turbo Irons, Launcher UHX Irons, and the Launcher Halo. The new additions include Launcher HB Turbo Woods and introduces Frontline, the new way to design a putter.

The Launcher HB Turbo Irons, have been designed to deliver forgiveness and an easy-to-hit profile. So this profile is launched at players looking for more distance and accuracy.

Clevelands Launcher HB Turbo Irons

“These irons allow game improvement players the ability to get the ball into the air better than any iron on the market,” said Dustin Brekke, Director of Engineering, Research and Development. “Now with a thinner, hotter face, the Launcher HB Turbo Irons give you a half club more distance over the previous generation.”

The redesigned HiBore Crown takes the crown and puts the center of gravity low, and deep with in the base of the Launcher HB Turbo Irons. Some innovations that mke up the HB Turbo Irons include, Hollow Construction, Turbocharged Faces that are thinner, but made from a high strength steel, so the ball speed and distance increase.

Clevelands Launcher HB Turbo Irons are available in men’s and women’s sets, and come in both left handed and right handed options. The set is priced at $799.99 per seven piece set, make it $899.99 for graphite shafts.

LAUNCHER UHX IRONS the new Launcher UHX Irons the are the most progressive set of hollow and cavity back irons on the market. Brekke says,” this combination of cavity backed and utility irons into one set offers the perfect blend of distance and accuracy. A new variable face pattern delivers more distance.”

Clevelands UHX Launcher Irons

The lower and deeper weighting offers more distance than traditional cavity backed irons.

But the 8-iron through pitching wedge feature a cavity back construction, that feature precision and control. What you get is a transition to create a unified iron set.

Besides the construction, comes a steel face insert that is goes into the long iron, for higher ball speeds. The Tour Zip Grooves and enhanced Laser Millings, that deliver consistent spin when firing for the pin.

Options and prices run similar to the HB Turbo Irons.

The Cleveland Launcher Halo.

The Launcher Halo is optimized for a better interaction from tough lies, so when you hit the rough and you recover on the hole.

A new steel allows Launcher Halo to improve ball speed, even when the swing is off-center.

Launcher Halo is priced at $199.99 comes in 16-19 and 22 degrees.

Cleveland Turbo Woods

“Reintroducing Cleveland Woods andIrons two years ago has been very successful,” says Brian Schielke, Marketing Director at Cleveland Golf. “However, the new Launcher HB Turbo Woods represent a huge step up from the previous generation. Because they are sleeker, faster and more forgiving. What golfers are looking for off the tee.”

Jeff Brunski, VP of Research and Development at Cleveland Golf says the HB Trubo Woods,” are engineered to hit long straight drives. We have squeezed weight out of every corner of the club head in order to produce one of themost forgiving drivers we’ve ever made.” The turbocharged cup face offeres a thickness pattern that delivers more speed across the clubface.

HB Turbo Drivers come in 9-10.5 and 12 degrees for a MAP of $349.99. HB Turbo Fairway Woods are a 15 degree 3-wood, and 18 degree 5-wood. Fairway woods are listed at $229.99 each. More information at Clevelandgolf.com.

Cleveland has introduced a way to create putters. It’s called Frontline.

FRONTLINE a new way to design a putter, is Cleveland’s new putter creation.

“By pairing an extreme center of gravity with an improved speed and optimized face, we’ve designed a putter that uniquely maximizes directional and speed consistency. Combined with slick black cosmetics, great shapes and hosel options for different stroke types, Frontline is the enite package,” said Jacob Lambeth, Research and Dvelopment Engineer at Cleveland Golf. The foundation of Frontline is Tungsten Forward Weighting, that puts two Metal Injected Molded tungsten weights in the face of the putter. Hosel options include a single-bend for straight strokes, and a slant-neck option for golfer that add an arc to their stroke.

Frontline comes with Lamkin SINKFit Pistol Frontline grips, available in 33″, 34″ and 35″ length options. The Frontline 4.0 loft blade is $179.99, with the three mallet models, Elevado, Cero and Iso listed at $199.99. Now Available, and more information at Clevelandgolf.com.