“It also provides more consistent launch and spin conditions across the face. “What this does is reduce the backspin and help to flatten the trajectory,” Gibbs said.

While the X Hot fairway woods had 49.5 grams of weight in their internal wave, the X2 Hot has 63 grams. In essence, it’s a series of wave-like pieces of metal that Callaway positions directly behind the hitting area that pushes more weight forward. While the face design of the X2 Hot fairway woods may be new, Callaway kept an internal weighting system used in the club’s predecessor called Internal Standing Wave. Callaway said the improved face cup creates an additional 1.4 mph of ball speed, which translates to about 4 yards more of distance.

Read about Callaway’s entire X2 Hot & X2 Hot Pro lineup of clubs here.Īccording to Gibbs, the new face cup is not only extremely thin and lightweight, it is especially good at maintaining ball speed on low hits.

The result: the new 455 Carpenter steel Hyper Speed Face Cup. “So we went back to the drawing board and tried to improve upon some of the core technologies that made those fairway woods so exceptional.”Ĭallaway said that internal studies revealed golfers with a handicap of 10 or higher only hit the ball in the sweet spot 65 percent of the time, so the company’s engineers set out to create a face designed to increase ball speed on off-center hits. “We knew given the success of the X Hot fairway woods, designing this club is going to be a challenge,” said Evan Gibbs, Callaway Golf’s manager of performance analysis. With the X2 Hot family of woods, Callaway attempts to do just that.

Between Callaway’s X Hot, the X Hot Pro and the X Hot 3Deep (to say nothing of Phil Mickelson’s Phrankenwood), 2013 was a banner year for Callaway fairway woods.

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