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Wishon Golf never sold clubs the way TaylorMade or Callaway did. Tom Wishon designed component heads for independent custom fitters, and the 555C Forged is one of the best examples of what that model produced. Released in 2015, it's a forged players cavity with a compact blade length, a thin topline, and just enough cavity relief to keep it from punishing every slight miss.
The pitch here is honest. This is not a distance iron and it doesn't dress up its lofts to win launch monitor bragging rights. Wishon built the 555C around traditional lofts and a soft carbon steel forging, betting that better players care more about flight control and feel than about hitting an 8-iron 165 yards. If you were fit for a set of these, it was almost certainly by a clubfitter who measured your swing first and picked shafts second, which is exactly how Wishon intended the whole thing to work.
A decade on, the 555C holds up. Used sets are scarce because the heads were only ever sold through fitters, but golfers who own them tend to keep them. That tells you something.
In short
The Wishon Golf 555C Forged (2015) is a players cavity that adds forgiveness without much extra size.
Refresh due soon
Brands in this category update about every 2 years, and the 555C Forged is 11 years old with no successor yet, so a new model could land any time. Grab it at clearance pricing now, or wait a few weeks to see what replaces it.
Based on release timing and this line's typical refresh cycle, not a live price quote.
Stock steel shaft. Lofts are approximate and subject to manufacturing tolerances.
The head is forged from soft carbon steel, which gives it the dense, quiet impact feel that players cavities of this era were chasing. Blade length is short by modern standards, closer to a true players iron than the stretched-out cavity backs the big brands were selling in 2015. The cavity itself is shallow. It moves some mass to the perimeter without hollowing out the head, so you get a modest bump in stability on heel and toe strikes while keeping the center of gravity where a shotmaker wants it. One detail worth knowing: Wishon designed the 555C to pair with the 555M, its muscle back sibling, sharing the same profile and specs so fitters could build combo sets. Cavities in the long irons, muscle backs in the scoring clubs, no visual or performance break between them. That kind of set integration was rare in components at the time.
Forged, from soft carbon steel. The forging is a big part of the appeal, giving it the muted, solid feel at impact that players expect from this category.
Roughly 0 to 15. It has enough perimeter weighting to tolerate small misses, but the compact blade length and thin topline assume you strike the center of the face most of the time. High handicappers would be better served by a wider-soled game improvement iron.
Not new through normal retail. Wishon heads were sold as components through independent custom fitters, and the 555C has been discontinued. Your options are the used market or a fitter who still has old stock, and both are hit or miss.
The 555C is the cavity back, the 555M is the muscle back. They share the same profile and specs so they can be mixed in a combo set. The C is more forgiving, the M gives the purest feel and slightly more workability in the short irons.
They're traditional, which means weaker than most current cavity backs. Expect the ball to fly a club shorter than a 2020s game improvement set, but with more consistent gapping and higher, softer-landing approach shots. That trade was intentional on Wishon's part.
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