PXG Wildcat Golf Clubs

Gear: PXG Wildcat Golf Clubs

Price: $1,499 for nine clubs, a golf bag, a dozen balls and a hat

Specs: Carbon fiber-crowned woods, hollow-body irons, wedge and putter

Who they're for: Deep-pocketed new golfers who want to invest in their first set, which is simple to understand and made with modern technologies.

What you should know: The PXG Wildcat package is a nine-club set designed for people who are new to golf. It blends technologies found in PXG’s premium clubs into a high-lofted driver, fairway wood, hybrid, irons and a wedge. A putter, golf bag and some accessories also come with the set.

The deep dive: In 2021, PXG released a new family of woods and irons — the 0211 Z — that was unlike anything the Scottsdale, Arizona-based brand had made before because the clubs were explicitly designed for people who were new to the game. Sold as a 10-club set, everything about the Z Series was designed to make the game easier, help golfers get the ball into the air and allow new players to enjoy the sport more.

For 2025, PXG has revisited the beginner concept with the release of the Wildcat Golf Clubs. This is not a boxed set but instead a family of clubs designed to make the game easier to play for people who are new to golf and looking to have fun.

The Rules of Golf allow players to carry up to 14 clubs, but the Wildcat set reduces indecision by cutting that number to nine. Each club is designed for use in specific areas of a golf hole.

Driver: Designed to be used off the tee, the Wildcat driver has 16 degrees of loft to make getting the ball into the air much easier. It also comes standard on a 44-inch shaft, which is about 1.5 inches shorter than most modern drivers, so it should feel more controllable to inexperienced players. However, this club still has a carbon fiber crown, titanium chassis and face insert. The driver has some offset to help golfers square the face more easily and hit straighter shots.

Fairway wood: At 42 inches in length and with 19 degrees of loft, experienced players might call this a 5-wood, but that doesn’t matter to beginners. This club is designed to hit the ball a long way from the fairway or rough. It has a higher moment of inertia than the standard PXG Black Ops fairway wood to make it more stable on mis-hits and, like the driver, it has some offset.

Hybrid: This club has 26 degrees of loft, making it a 6-iron replacement that is meant to be used from the fairway and rough. Its large head allowed PXG designers to lower the center of gravity to encourage a higher launch angle, and the wide sole is forgiving for players who make inconsistent contact.

Irons: The Wildcat set includes a 7-iron through sand wedge, and all the clubs have a dual-cavity design with a back badge that covers the cavity and creates a solid-looking club. Inside the heads, PXG designers added XCOR2, the same vibration-dampening polymer found in the Black Ops irons. The soles are significantly wider than those of other PXG irons, so they can work through the turf more easily and lower the center of gravity to encourage higher-flying shots. The lofts of the irons are also weaker than you might expect, with the 7-iron at 32 degrees and each subsequent club having 5 or 6 degrees more loft. For many new golfers, higher-lofted irons make it easier to hit the ball into the air and can boost both carry distance and overall distance.

Putter: The set includes a new Black Hawk putter, a midsize mallet that features a Pick Up Pocket on the bottom of the club to grab golf balls off the ground. Behind the pyramid-covered face insert, which is designed to help get the ball rolling sooner, PXG added XCOR2 polymer to soften the feel of impact. The prominent aluminum alignment feature on top makes aiming easy, and its single-bend shaft makes it face-balanced.

At $1,500 for the nine-club set, which comes with a golf bag, PXG hat and a dozen PXG golf balls, this set is no bargain. However, for people who can afford it and are ready to make golf “their thing” in 2025, the Wildcat Golf Clubs could be an easy-to-understand, viable solution.

This article originally appeared on Golfweek: PXG Wildcat Golf Clubs are designed to make golf easier and fun.