To get where they needed to get to, Callaway’s team used the Paradym driver’s adjustable hosel to give Rahm a degree more loft, taking his 10.5-degree head effectively to 11.5 degrees.
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.
TaylorMade Stealth 2 drivers take another bold step in moving to fully carbon composite constructions, this time with special attention to making mis-hits more like centre hits.
The three Cobra LTDx drivers – LTDx, LTDx LS, LTDx Max – continue the company’s push to mix varying degrees of front-loaded weight to lower the centre of gravity with varying degrees and locations of perimeter weighting to add forgiveness as needed for three distinct classes of players.
The new TaylorMade 300 Mini Driver offers not merely an homage to that earlier ground-breaking club, it provides a stark lesson in how far the metalwood design game has come.
We considered 248 products for the 2020 Hot List. The 131 you will see over the coming issues comprise the most diverse collection of new clubs we’ve ever seen.
The flagship products of TaylorMade’s new lineup of metalwoods are about many things, but mostly they’re about being so fast they’re just this side of illegal.