The Ping G440 fairway woods and hybrids both utilise a new internal hosel structure that frees room for the face to deflect while saving mass that can be used to lower the centre of gravity for easier, more spin-efficient launch.
The Callaway Elyte drivers look to maximise distance by combining the most productive aspects of a forgiving, lower spin head design with an aerodynamically sleek shape – two design paradigms that typically work at cross purposes.
Some people can absolutely smoke a 3-wood, so we are in no way saying no one should be using them. But if you fall into that camp, you are a statistical anomaly.
A healthy percentage of average golfers are playing too little loft on their lowest-lofted fairway wood, and our Hot List testing reveals that more loft is going to be a better choice more often for as many as a third of all golfers.
The Tour Edge Hot Launch 524 series of woods once again brings together the company’s highest levels of technology, borrowed from the top innovations in its Exotics line-up, to a more budget-conscious consumer with drivers, fairway woods and hybrids that in some cases are half the going rate of many popular models.
The Mizuno ST-Max 230 line-up of driver, fairway woods and hybrids makes the commitment to the largest footprints in company history in their respective categories.
The Cobra Darkspeed fairway woods and hybrids use an L-shaped face that wraps around the front of the sole combined with an internal weight bar that’s suspended like a bridge low and forward in the head to create the ideal blend of high launch and low spin with more speed all across the face.
The XXIO Prime drivers, fairway woods and hybrids continue XXIO Prime’s heritage for lightweight, speed-enhancing designs for moderate swing speed players, but this year the collection adds an element that’s often been a casualty of ultra-light clubheads: forgiveness.
Ping’s G430 family of fairway woods and hybrids share the weight-saving technology of carbon composite on the crown with the speed benefits of a face structure that wraps around the sole and crown for better overall flexing.
The line includes high-forgiveness, draw-enhancing fairway woods and hybrids (the HD models), the easier launching, faster-faced standard models and better player options with the more iron-like flight of the Stealth Plus hybrid and multiple adjustability and driver-like face of the titanium Stealth Plus fairway wood.
The Cobra Aerojet fairway woods and hybrids use a revolutionary, bridge-like internal weight bar that pushes weight low and forward for lower spin and higher launch.
Callaway’s new collection of Paradym fairway woods and hybrids makes use of an internal structure that joins the crown and sole at the heel and toe areas.
Australian Golf Digest
