Toulon First Run Madison

The 2024 First Run Madison is a heel toe blade built in 303 stainless steel, finished in what the maker's page lists as Chocolate PVD with Heritage Green and Cream accents. It carries a crank neck hosel and softer bumpers on the head shape, details that put this run's cosmetics and profile a step apart from the earlier Madison releases on record here, which ran black finishes with full shaft offset mid slant or slant hosels rather than a crank neck.

On the face, the maker's page lists a mid-depth Double Fly Cut milling pattern, described as offering "a soft, responsive feel and a satisfying sound at impact." That's a narrower claim than the deep cross-hatch and Deep Diamond Groove patterns documented on the 2017 and 2022 Madisons, which paired full-face grooving with a fly cut rather than relying on the fly cut alone. Sole weighting on this run is described as front-loaded milled round weights, with opposing weights said to keep ball speed consistent across the face, a similar aim to the split-weight systems the maker's page attributes to the 2022 version, though the hardware described here is not the same two-piece split weight setup.

Stock build on this First Run Madison pairs a Stepless Steel Chrome shaft with the Toulon First Run Pistol grip in midsize at 75g, a simpler steel-shaft build than the multi-material Stroke Lab shaft the maker's page describes fitted to the 2022 Madison. A headcover is included. Everything above comes from the maker's page as carried by carlsgolfland.com; nothing here has been run through our own testing yet.