Can These Replace My Favorite Irons of 2025?

Last year, I deemed these the best iron of 2025. The Atlas MB from Powerbilt. They looked amazing. They felt amazing. I played some of my best golf of the year with these irons, but there was one major problem. If I was a little bit off, there was no forgiveness to speak of. You needed near perfect ball striking to truly use these, and I just, I'm not there anymore. Enter the Atlas CV. Powerbilt has released this this year, and if it has all the looks, all the feel, all the goodness that these offer, but with the much needed forgiveness, Powerbilt could be onto something really, really special with this CV. So that's what I wanna find out in this video. I wanna see just how good this Atlas CV is. So let's get in. Powerbilt unequivocally makes a very good looking iron. That Atlas MB last year is absolutely stunning, and I know this is just like a traditional CV, but it looks great. Definitely a bigger footprint than the MB, which you're gonna expect in a CV, a little wider sole. So there's gonna be obviously more perimeter weighting, more forgiveness, but I really wanna know, is it gonna feel as good as the MB? So I actually have the MB out here with me to see kinda shot for shot. Do I get that buttery forged feel and feedback? Definitely a bigger footprint. Little bit longer heel to toe from my memory, but it still looks solid, looks player. How does it feel? So that was thin, and that was awesome. Like that launch was so good. That felt like a thin cavity back, but that felt solid. Oh yeah, like a little off the toe, but that flight is so good. Cause those MBs last year, I used them for a few rounds when I first started testing them, and I played my best round of the year with them. But then as the year progressed and you get, I tried to use them in the fall and the lack of forgiveness and that small little blade wasn't for me anymore because when I did miss hit it, I lost a lot of pop. So that's what I'm expecting out of these CBs. You know, the miss hit, the not so great strike, we're gonna get much more forgiveness with hopefully outcompromising feel. So that was a little heavy, but man, that went through the turf really, really well. I'm gonna grab the MB and see. So I've got the same shaft in both of these. I mean, obviously, like I said, the footprint is smaller. This just looks gorgeous. The bronze, especially. Obviously we have a much wider sole here, which is gonna appeal to a lot more players. Let's see if I can strike both of these well and determine if there is a difference in feel. It's the same shaft. That was heavy. It felt about the same as the heavy one with the CB, but that flight was much higher, much softer. The heavy CB definitely had a better flight. Oh, that's so good. Like that feel is just awesome. It's not for everyone. Like I said, the lack of forgiveness in the MB, you need to be a good player to hit those irons, but the feel when you hit it well, like right there, that was amazing. Let's see if I can duplicate that with the CB. Oh yeah. The sound, little like poppier, but we have perimeter weight and we have a cavity back. I feel like that sound should be different than the MB. If I were to describe the feel, that felt a little lighter, thinner, if you will, not as meaty, punchy, but again, muscle back to cavity back, you're gonna have that feel difference. If I were to give them a scale of one to 10, like if that were a nine out of 10, that last one, this was an 8.5 out of 10 feel wise. But I think the miss hit was really indicative. The heavy one with this was much better with the heavy one with the MB was soft, weak, not so good. Oh yeah, that was awesome. See a little on the heavy side. Yeah, the feel is very, very similar. The feedback is very, very similar. It's not like we have cambering or no cambering, that leading edge is roughly the same. So the turf interaction should feel pretty comparable. Pretty dang good. They feel almost the same. Yes, there's going to be a feel difference between an MB and a CB, but a solid strike felt pretty dang similar. Miss hits definitely felt better with the CBs out on the range, which is what you would expect. And the miss hits, that flight was really, really good. Looks wise, they look good. They do not look as good as the MBs. They have a slightly longer heel toe. I mean, the top line's a wee bit, but it's a CB to an MB, so I get that. But the MBs, this compact head is just gorgeous. And the way that the hosel meets the head just seems a little bit more thoughtfully made. Whereas this, especially in the pitching wedge, doesn't look as appealing or premium to my eye. This looks a lot like all the other DTC CBs out there. I'm going to be honest, like this pitching wedge, nine iron, eight iron, doesn't look as good as the eight iron, nine iron pitching wedge in the MBs, but the feel is there. But these look a little bit more like your kind of blank DTC CBs that exist where each company has an opportunity to fully make it their own. These look perfect. These don't look perfect. They look really, really good, but comparing the two is a little apples and oranges. This is just a classic premium muscle back, row back blade. This CB, even though the lofts are the same, feel is pretty much the same. The flight is really good. The look just isn't as sexy. For a lot of people, that's okay. It looks good behind the ball. I'm not saying it doesn't, but it doesn't look as good as the MBs. But look, feel, okay, that's one thing. What does it do data-wise? What's the performance like? So I did this in here. Like I do all iron tests. I tagged it wrong. I tagged it MB. And these were just strikes because when I test DTC clubs, I want to see the consistency. I don't want to just pull good shots because I think a lot of people, when it comes to DTC, they think the quality, it lacks. So therefore, the consistency lacks shot to shot. So these are just 10 shots. The numbers are awesome. And I was like, it was just great. Just hit this solid, really, really impressive stuff with the pitching wedge. Pretty solid dispersion too. And if we scroll through it, it's consistent. We don't see huge jumps if I pulled it or crazy loss if I come up and out of it. Pretty tight spin window, pretty tight long, like good stuff. Very good stuff with the pitching wedge. Then we go into the seven iron. Just solid, consistent. Again, 10 shots, just hit it, Andrew. Pretty solid numbers. We go through it. The windows of spin are good. For me, spinning just a hair much. It's just solid. And the numbers for, it's good. Pretty tight dispersion. And it's the same as the MB, just solid tight. But the MB, if I did 10 shots like this, if I miss hit one, we would have seen a huge drop off in distance. We don't see that. And the pull going no more than 183 on a 179 average, that's solid for this tightness. And that's what we want when we're walking into the DTC space. We wanna see numbers that have small tolerances, tight tolerances, and these do. Last but not least, we look at the four iron and I just did eight shots here because four iron, how often is it? Great numbers. Again, the tolerances, the window is so tight. We basically see 400 RPM, 450 RPM up and down. That is so good. Do see a little bit more north-south on the miss hit up into the right or the pull, but you would expect that with a four iron, with the less loft. But if we look at that, of eight shots, five of them just bang on the money at 215, that's really good. The performance is awesome, like awesome. And I experienced that with the MBs. I know Powerbill is producing great clubs, great club heads, and they're for the club builder, which is really exciting. You order the heads, you build out the clubs to your specs. That is a really cool thing that they're doing. So yes, the looks, the feel, the forgiveness, the performance on the launch monitor, tick, tick, tick. What does it do on the golf club? I took these out and honestly, they're great. They're great. I didn't compromise anything. I was pulling it on that particular day. So you'll see some of these just fighting the pull, but my distance was what I expected. And this was the day that I tested the MaxFly Tour X and Tour XLS. So messing with different balls, but the clubs didn't do anything to compromise. They're just solid. Like it's a solid set of CBs that could absolutely go into my bag. Would I combo them? Probably not because the look, like I said, that hosel into the club head is a little too drastic MB to CB. So the flow, I said on the range, maybe you could combo it. I don't think the flow would be very good, but the spin, the performance, all of that, you're not going to be compromising if you do combo the, let's say pitching wedge, nine iron, eight iron, seven iron of the MBs, because I much prefer the look of the MBs to the CBs and the short irons. The performance out there, the performance in here just speaks to Powerbilt giving you, the golfer, really great equipment at a really great price. Like if you're over 35, you know the name Powerbilt as premium, as major winning, as tournament, as the top, top, top, and then it disappeared. What Powerbilt is doing nowadays in 2026, 110 years old as a brand, they're trying to reclaim that not by just throwing a classic name on generic clubs. These are solid clubs. I've heard great things about the PD, which is like the player's distance hollow body. They have a driver coming with a very, I hit it at the PGA show. But Powerbilt, if you're interested in this club builder niche, I can't recommend these irons enough. The performance, the look, the feel, and the forgiveness. They're not as special as the MBs, but they are really stinking good. Let me know, do you use Powerbilt clubs? Did you use Powerbilt clubs? Have you looked at the MBs, the CBs? Sound off in those comments, and we'll see you in the next one.