This listing is for the PW. The other clubs shown in the photos are being sold separately.
Please scroll down for three postage options.
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Club Specs:
Brand: TaylorMade
Model: Tour Preferred
Year of Release: 2008
Club: PW
Loft: 47*
Length: Standard Length (Very likely according to TaylorMade- see photo of table and 4th last photo and extra notes)
Lie: 0.5* Flat Lie (see photo of table)
Club Is Aimed At: Tour pros and Low to Mid Handicappers
Iron Type: Muscle Back with Cavity (Cast)
Shaft: Dynamic Gold S300
Weight: 130 Grams (Tour/ Heavy Weight)
Flex: Stiff
Material: Steel
Grip: Yamato
Size: Midsize (Between standard and midsize RE Golf Pride grip sizes)
I Think This Club Would Be Suited To: 12 or so handicap golfers and lower who measure between 5 foot 7 and 6 foot or so in height and prefer the feel of heavier, tour weight shafts in their irons.
14 Day Trial and One Month Warranty Included (Please scroll Down For Details)
-This PW has the old square grooves which produce significantly more backspin than irons and wedges made after 2010. (Particularly from the rough.)
-This club would give you a significant advantage over any 47* iron or wedge made after 2010 if you want a 47 odd degree iron or wedge with a DG S300 shaft. Particularly because of how sharp the grooves are in this club. The club hasn’t been used much. Sharp grooves plus the old square grooves give a much bigger advantage for wedges and short irons when you want to stop the ball quickly or spin it back.
-It’s still legal for amateurs to use irons and wedges made before 2010 for club and inter club competitions but it’s illegal for tour pros or amateurs playing elite/ top level amateur golf (British Amateur, Walker Cup etc).
-Tour players were still able to spin the ball back on greens even when hitting the ball from the rough, so they changed the rules for all irons and wedges made after 2010, for all golfers. It was thought that there wasn’t enough punishment for missing fairways. An example is Tiger’s third shot into 18 on Sunday at the 2008 US Open at Torrey Pines. I don’t think any tour pro could do that now. Final round is on YT (at the 4:23:24 mark). I would recommend watching the rest of that hole as well. It’s worth a watch or re-watch.
All irons and wedges made after 2010 have the new V grooves.
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Condition:
Head and Face: 7.5/10 (grooves 8.5/10) (also rust in cavity)
Shaft: 8/10
Grip: 7/10
- The club has not been used since any of the photos were taken.
- Please take a good look at all of my photos on either the eBay app on your phone, tablet or laptop and then use the zoom in feature if possible. My photos will tell you more than my ratings and rating guide will.
- Please scroll down for my rating guide.
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Extra Notes
- I’m pretty sure that TaylorMade used to measure club lengths to the green line in 4th last photo on listing which would make this club standard length according to them.
- I bought this club as part of a set. I only measured the lengths of three of them but the clubs are all very likely standard or very close to standard if you take a look at the photos of the tables and photos 9-11.
- I would say that the Yamato midsize grips would be between standard and midsize compared to Golf Pride sizes and they have a slight rib to them. There feels like there’s a small ridge on the underside of the grips. They weigh 55 grams according to what I have read online. That would decrease the swing weight by a point or so.
Accuracy of measurements:
- Measurements of Lie angles are almost guaranteed to be accurate to within plus or minus half a degree.
- Measurements of Loft angles are almost guaranteed to be accurate to within plus or minus one degree.
- Measurements of Club Lengths are almost guaranteed to be accurate to within plus or minus one eighth of an inch.
- Swing weight Calculations are almost guaranteed to be accurate to within plus or minus one swing weight point.
- This club is available to buy if you can see this listing on the eBay website. (eBay is the only website that I sell clubs on and I don’t sell clubs in person).
- Regarding club lengths, please do a youTube search for ‘hireko golf club length part 1’. That’s exactly how I do it except I measure club lengths to the edge of the grip cap and then I deduct one eighths (0.125) of an inch from that measurement (pink line in photo 22). Please see photo 22 for an alternate method of measuring club lengths. If you look at the blue asterisk, brands vary as to how much of the grip cap they include as part of the club length. I think Mizuno measure to the red line (or they used to) and TaylorMade measure to the blue line (including dome at top). I understand that at least some of the brands measure club lengths using the ‘USGA’ method as well which gives slightly different club lengths to this method depending on the lie angle of the club. This is because the USGA method uses a measuring tool which has the lie angle at a fixed 60 degrees.
- I have cleaned the club with water and a sponge or cloth (including shaft and grip).
- I bought this club as part of a set. Five of the ferrules were secure in positon ie I could not twist or move them. Two of the ferrules twisted around but I could not pull them back from the clubheads. I don’t know which ones.
(Loose ferrules or shifted ferrules on irons and wedges are only a cosmetic problem and will not affect performance but I check them anyway).
- I regripped the clubs shown in the photos. There is one layer of double sided of grip tape under all of the grips except the 3 iron which has three layers. I wanted to see how much of a difference extra layers of tape made so I just did one of the clubs and the 3 iron grip feels very slightly firmer and slightly bigger than the rest but it’s very small.
- I have left a small dot and/or line on the underside of the shaft from marking balance point for doing swing weight calculations. This is not shown in the photos. I did this after taking the photos. I used a sharpie permanent marker. They will quickly come off with light scrubbing with a wet sponge scourer if desired.
- For buyers in the UK: You will not be required to pay any import charges or duties. (I live in Northern Ireland which is part of the UK).
- For buyers in the Republic of Ireland: You will not be required to pay any import charges or duties or taxes unless the value of the clubs is less than 150 euros. You will very likely have to pay a currency conversion fee of around 3-5%. Please message me if you have any further questions about that.
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Postage Info For UK Buyers
Please read the following and choose one on the checkout page. (The free option will be selected automatically unless you click on one of the others.) Please ignore estimated delivery dates given by eBay on the checkout page.
These delivery times are not guaranteed but are very likely.
- Option 1- Free Delivery- Evri- Club will be delivered to your house or apartment. (5-13 working days after payment.)
- Option 2- £0.01- Evri- Club will be delivered to your closest Parcelshop. (5-13 working days after payment) and you need to collect within 10 days.
- Option 3- £9- Royal Mail (ParcelForce)- Club will be delivered to your house or apartment. (2-4 working days after payment.)
Delayed deliveries are possible with all couriers but from past experience they are more likely to happen with Evri than ParcelForce.
You will be given a refund on postage costs if the club is not delivered within the above timeframes including £9 for option 1 or 2.
You will be fully refunded if a courier loses your parcel.
Please note that option 1 or 2 will mean that I will likely delay posting the club so that the delivery day is very likely between 5 and 13 working days after payment compared to option 3.
(I don’t sell clubs every day and the Post Office is much closer to where the club is located than my closest Evri shop or Post Office that accepts Evri parcels.)
Evri are £9 or so cheaper than Royal Mail when posting a single club which is why I offer Evri as a postage option for single clubs.
(13 working days is the longest that Evri have taken to deliver a parcel that I have posted from date of postage and they have around a 95% success rate of delivering parcels based on my past experience).
(I think that 7 working days was the longest that ParcelForce have ever taken to deliver a parcel from date of postage but ParcelForce are usually very reliable and have around a 99% success rate of delivering parcels based on my past experience.)
Before you choose option 2, please check the Evri website to see where your closest ParcelShop is and their opening times. There may not be one that’s close to your address. Most Evri Parcelshops open 7 days a week from early until late. You will need to bring ID when you collect your parcel. You could also provide your email address by sending me an eBay message if you would like to be kept updated on tracking information and when your parcel is available to collect. Your email address will not be used for anything else.
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14 Day Trial
- You can try the club out at the driving range and/ or golf course.
- Returns are accepted for any reason within 14 days of the delivery date.
- Returns postage will cost no more than £3 for buyers in the UK if you use Evri.
- This trial offer only applies to buyers in the UK or Ireland.
- I only accept returns from buyers in the UK and Ireland.
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One Month Warranty
- A full refund will be given if the club breaks within one month of purchase ie a clubhead separates from a shaft or a shaft snaps.
- The warranty does not apply if it’s your fault. For example, you swing a club into a tree trunk or tree root.
- I will need to see a photo of both the clubhead and shaft before sending a refund.
- The warranty only applies to buyers in the UK and Ireland.
- It’s very unlikely that an iron or wedge will break but it occasionally happens.
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Actual eBay feedback as of October 2025:
- There’s two negative feedbacks on my account that you can’t see.
- Other than these two instances, my feedback page shows all feedbacks that I have ever received.
One negative feedback was removed/ hidden by eBay. I didn’t ask eBay to remove it. (The courier lost clubs that were being delivered to a buyer in the USA. The courier was chosen by eBay- eBay global shipping programme sale.)
The other negative feedback was left by a buyer who wrote that the lie angles were up the left. This was years ago before I started measuring loft/ lie angles. I bought the clubs from a head pro or a fairly big golf club who told me by messages that he adjusted the lie angles to standard. I put that information on my listing for the buyer to read. The buyer ‘revised’ their feedback from negative to positive after I offered them a £20 partial refund in exchange. The buyer agreed and was happy to keep the clubs and did not want to return them for a refund.
I regret asking them to revise their feedback and I’m sorry for doing so. They were entitled to leave negative feedback even if it was unfair.
- You can see how many times a seller has had feedback revised by going onto their feedback page and looking at the top right hand corner (see 4th last photo).
- I do not want to point the finger at eBay given what I have written above but buyers on eBay have a right to know all of this information about eBay feedback being removed.
- I have more than one eBay account but I only sell golf clubs from this one. I buy many different things on eBay. Most of the time I do not leave negative or neutral feedback but when I do, most of the time it gets removed by eBay, even though none of their policies regarding feedback are broken. I think eBay feedback removal is more likely if you return something under the eBay moneyback guarantee for a full refund for receiving a wrong item or it not being as described. Many people know about eBay regularly and removing feedback which means that these buyers cannot trust a seller’s eBay feedback page. You have no idea as to how many feedbacks have been removed.
- I later tried leaving positive and neutral feedbacks which contained both positive and negative comments within the same feedback review. At least some of those got removed as well.
- One time I bought two counterfeit sets of new TaylorMade P790’s on eBay (from the same seller) that I thought were very likely fake before I bought them just by looking at the seller’s photos. This seller was selling a significant number of these sets and was advertising them as TaylorMade P790 irons (they weren’t writing on their listing that they were fakes or any other word to mean the same thing but selling counterfeit goods is illegal on eBay and anywhere else anyway.)
I wanted to warn people about this which is why I bought them so I could leave negative feedback. I also wanted to check how much the specs were up the left.
I measured the lofts and lies of both sets which were irregular (9 iron loft stronger than 8 iron loft etc). This was before I knew about the Okrasa swing weight calculator but I assume that the swing weights were irregular as well if the counterfeiters couldn’t even get the lofts right. The shaft labels were clearly fake (KBS Tour 90) compared to another set of irons that I had at the time which also had KBS Tour 90 shafts but were genuine.
I returned the two sets to the seller under the eBay moneyback guarantee and provided strong evidence to eBay that the clubs were fake with photos. (I did not buy the clubs from this account because I was scared of revenge from the seller). I left them negative feedback which got removed by eBay and the seller sold more counterfeit sets since then with supposedly 100% positive feedback. I couldn’t warn anyone with the negative feedback l left because eBay removed it.
-I have bought a total of four iron sets on eBay that I knew were counterfeit after seeing the clubs and measuring the specs. The specs shown in one of the last photos on this listing was the only set of the four that did not have loft angles very irregular (9 iron stronger than 8 iron loft etc) but you can see how irregular the lie angles were and the swing weights.
The supposedly Golf Pride grips were obviously fake to me on all three sets of counterfeit P790 irons that I bought just by the look and feel of them but you can also do a smell test with grips to identity counterfeit ones. These ones all had a very strong smell of chemicals. A really unusual and very strong smell for a golf grip.
The third set of counterfeit P790’s was advertised as ‘replicas’ on the listing. The seller was selling a number of counterfeit sets. Some of them were not advertised as replicas but as genuine. I returned the clubs to the seller for a full refund. I left them negative feedback. ebay did not remove it but maybe that was because the seller was admitting that they were fake. The seller advertised again as
‘Been tested and very accurate
Superclone replica
4-pw’
You can do prison time for selling counterfeit clubs and eBay haven’t even banned that seller’s account. Counterfeit clubs partly does my head in because when I first started selling second hand golf clubs on eBay, I wasted so much time trying to work out if clubs are genuine or not. It was only when I realised that the counterfeit golf clubs specs are up the left thanks to the very helpful video in yellow in the 7th last photo on this listing that I found a way to be 99.99% sure that clubs were fake even just by measuring the specs which anyone can do at home for cheap.
- I have read that feedback removal is not just a problem on eBay. This a problem on other review sites as well. Negative reviews get removed and the websites of sellers that have their own review system can probably remove or manipulate reviews to whatever they want them to be (if they want to).
- A solution to this for people who regularly buy things on eBay is to make a list of notes of negative or neutral feedbacks along with usernames of sellers that you have bought from that you don’t want to buy from again. You can then check that list before buying an item from a certain seller. Unfortunately you may have to waste your time doing that because of wrongful eBay feedback removal.
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Rating Guide
- The biggest performance issue on second hand irons and wedges (excluding grips) is that grooves gradually get less sharp over time after hitting lots of golf balls. Sharp grooves means the highest and most consistent backspin levels possible. This is more important on your wedges for when you want to stop the ball quickly. So clubface condition is the most important part of an iron or wedge. Shaft rusting or pitting just increases the risk of a clubhead separating from the shaft (which is very rare). It shouldn’t happen unless the rusting or pitting is really bad. The grooves will almost always get very worn on an iron or wedge long before the club breaks.
- Even some Tour Pros will use an iron set for several years without changing them, resulting in penny wear marks on the clubfaces of the most used irons.
- I’ve not tested this out so I don’t know but supposedly some brands are better than others at making irons and wedges with grooves that will hold up over time, even after hitting lots of balls over several years.
Head and Face conditions:
10: New- Never been used. Cellophane still on all of the clubheads.
9: Excellent- Showing extremely light usage marks. One round or range session at most.
8: Very Good- Showing light usage marks. Five rounds or range sessions at most.
7: Good- Clubs could have been used for a number of years but have been well looked after.
6: Fair- Showing increased wear marks.
5 and below: Poor- The clubs will still be usable but the clubfaces will be showing big wear marks and the grooves will likely be very worn.
Shaft conditions:
New: Never been used. Unmarked.
9: Excellent- May show signs of very minor marks. Shop display condition.
8: Very Good- Showing slight marks. Steel shafts will show no specs of rust.
7: Good- Shafts could show some marks and wear to shaft decals (labels/ stickers). Steel shafts may have a few specs of rust but no pitting.
6: Fair- Shafts will show more marks and/ or increased wear to shaft decals. Steel shafts could show increased numbers of rust specs and also light pitting but no big rust spots.
5 and below: Poor- Steel shafts will show rust and/ or heavy pitting. There may also be big rust spots but they will only be present if shown in the photos. Graphite shafts will show big marks (bag rub).
Grip conditions:
10: New- Never been used. Cellophane still on the grips.
9: Excellent- Grips feel almost new.
8: Very Good- Lightly used. Five rounds or range sessions at most.
7: Good- Grips could have been used for several rounds and range sessions but still in good enough condition to use for most golfers.
6: Fair- Grips will have lost tackiness and could show minor depression marks. Many golfers will be getting the clubs regripped.
5 and below: Poor- Grips will be very worn and could have major depression marks. New grips advised.
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