Equipment
Parsons Xtreme Golf Mallet Putter
If you’ve seen photos of Parsons Xtreme Golf clubs, you know they’re indulgent with screws, which allow golfers to dial in their preferred weight and center of gravity.
This “High MOI” putter, which we spotted at the LPGA North Texas Shootout, is no different.
On Tuesday, we took photos Sedena Parks with a PXG Mallet putter that has 25 screws lining the top and sides of the head.
Related: Click here to see what GolfWRX members are saying about the Parsons putter in the forums.
To read more about PXG clubs, see the related stories below.
Author Note: Feel free to make your favorite “screw” joke in the comment section below, but just know, you’re being judged on originality.
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Spotted: Chris Kirk’s Callaway Opus wedges
Gear junkies have been waiting patiently for Callaway to release new wedges. We may have gotten a sneak peek at what’s coming after seeing something new in Chris Kirk’s bag at the 2024 Charles Schwab Challenge. Spotted were a few different wedges, but the Callaway Opus caught our eye.
The term opus can mean, “any artistic work, especially one on a large scale. With iconic wedge designer Roger Cleveland now working with Terra Forza golf, could this have been his last creation for Callaway?
We don’t have any official word from Callaway on these wedges, but the main focal point seems to be the extra mass in the center of the club. This added material could be used to adjust the center of gravity on the wedge in order for it to launch and spin a specific way. It can also be used to enhance the feel and sound of the club with more material behind the impact location.
The shaping of the head looks to be a little more on the rounded side compared to the current Jaws Raw wedges. The topline on the wedge looks to be fairly thin and the leading edge is pretty straight with just a little bit of a radius to it. The color looks to be an antique brown and it will be interesting to see if that is a plating on the club or some kind of oilcan finish that will wear away and rust.
- Check out the rest of our photos from the 2024 Charles Schwab Challenge
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Callaway launches Paradym Ai Smoke Triple Diamond Max driver
Give me a Callaway Paradym Ai Smoke Triple Diamond driver but make it Max. Callaway engineers have taken the tour staple triple diamond head and boosted its size from 450 to 460cc’s. “By doing that we’ve created a more forgiving head while still keeping the same great shape that’s beloved on tour,” said Callaway’s advanced R&D manager Nick Yontz. The driver offers more spin than Triple Diamond standard — and thus more workability and forgiveness.
In contrast to the standard Triple Diamond, which features 14 and two-gram weights. The Ai Smoke Triple Diamond Max is equipped with 10-gram and four-gram interchangeable weights, which contributes to greater overall stability. According to Callaway, the driver plays more neutral than the neutral-to-fade-bias Triple Diamond.
Discussing testing on tour, Nick Yontz, advanced R&D manager, said:
“We first brought this head out for Tour testing in November last year. Players would step up and we had it matched up to their gamer driver specs. They would swing, and we saw consistently good ball flights – very stable. It was the word ‘stable’ that continued to be used by players.”
“They would continue to split the fairway and what that caused them to do was to start swinging faster. They had this excitement that, ‘This thing doesn’t go offline. I can keep swinging harder and harder and it maintains that straight flight’”
“We were seeing players. that would have small gains in ball speed from just the driver head alone, but then the swing speed would increase the more and more swings they made. By the end of it, they really saw meaningful gains in ball speed and distance.”
As a refresher on the Callaway Paradym Ai Smoke driver family — which now includes Paradym Ai Smoke Max, Paradym Ai Smoke Max D, Paradym Smoke Max Fast, Paradym Ai Smoke Triple Diamond, and Paradym Ai Smoke Triple Diamond Max — check out our launch piece.
Callaway Paradym Ai Smoke Triple Diamond Max: Pricing, specs, availability
Price: $599.99
Loft options: 9, 10.5 degrees
Stock shaft: Project X Denali Blue
At retail: June 7
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Photos from the 2024 Charles Schwab Challenge
GolfWRX is live this week at Colonial Country Club for the Charles Schwab Challenge.
Custom Camerons and some “super” new grips from SuperStroke are filling our galleries early in the week as well as WITBs — including the always interesting “Cashmere Keith” Mitchell.
Check out links to our photos below, which we’ll continue to update throughout the week.
And while you’re making your way through our photos, be sure to check out last year’s incredible gallery of prototype and personal Ben Hogan golf clubs.
General Albums
- 2024 Charles Schwab Challenge – Monday #1
- 2024 Charles Schwab Challenge – Tuesday #1
- 2024 Charles Schwab Challenge – Tuesday #2
- 2024 Charles Schwab Challenge – Tuesday #3
WITB Albums
- Keith Mitchell – WITB – 2024 Charles Schwab Challenge
- Rafa Campos – WITB – 2024 Charles Schwab Challenge
- R Squared – WITB – 2024 Charles Schwab Challenge
- Martin Laird – WITB – 2024 Charles Schwab Challenge
- Paul Haley – WITB – 2024 Charles Schwab Challenge
- Tyler Duncan – WITB – 2024 Charles Schwab Challenge
- Min Woo Lee – WITB – 2024 Charles Schwab Challenge
- Austin Smotherman – WITB – 2024 Charles Schwab Challenge
- Lee Hodges – WITB – 2024 Charles Schwab Challenge
- Sami Valimaki – WITB – 2024 Charles Schwab Challenge
Pullout Albums
- Eric Cole’s newest custom Cameron putter – 2024 Charles Schwab Challenge
- New Super Stroke Marvel comic themed grips – 2024 Charles Schwab Challenge
- Ben Taylor’s custom Cameron putter – 2024 Charles Schwab Challenge
- Tyler Duncan’s Axis 1 putter – 2024 Charles Schwab Challenge
- Cameron putters – 2024 Charles Schwab Challenge
- Chris Kirk’s new Callaway Opus wedges – 2024 Charles Schwab Challenge
- ProTC irons – 2024 Charles Schwab Challenge
- Dragon Skin 360 grips – 2024 Charles Schwab Challenge
- Cobra prototype putters – 2024 Charles Schwab Challenge
- SeeMore putters – 2024 Charles Schwab Challenge
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Golfer
Apr 18, 2016 at 8:48 pm
Last time there were this many screws, Tiger got in trouble.
kev
May 8, 2015 at 10:33 am
I heard the designer of this club was a former Home Depot clerk
Desmond
Apr 30, 2015 at 5:07 pm
It’s a fashion statement for the goth crowd
David
Apr 30, 2015 at 7:38 am
you know that part of the club, oh, what do you call it? The place that matters, where the club contacts the ball! Uh…. Oh!! The FACE!! It might have been nice to have a pic of that. You know, just to see if the screw placement there is going to affect ball impact.
Gary Gutful
Apr 30, 2015 at 2:53 am
It looks like something I would scoop dog poop into. Does it come with an added nugget sweeper?
hmmmm.....
Apr 29, 2015 at 7:03 pm
phuck it! i meant screw it! how long before there’s a scotty with 26 screws?!?
ron
Apr 29, 2015 at 1:46 pm
I envision Parsons screaming “I need more screws”, much like Christopher Walker screamed “more cowbell” in that SNL skit.
slider
Apr 29, 2015 at 1:59 pm
last time I checked there are not a lot of golf clubs that feature the screw
RadioActive
Apr 29, 2015 at 11:31 am
This guy must own stock in Fastenal or Dynamic Fastener…
rer4136
Apr 29, 2015 at 8:21 am
Looks like something made by RONCO and sold only on Christmas commercials.
Jim
Apr 29, 2015 at 7:56 am
And yet another ugly club from PXG. Did they hire quality designers or outcasts from other manufacturers to design their clubs? They are the oddest, ugliest clubs I’ve seen in recent memory and I’ll be hard pressed to imagine too many pro’s or consumers using them. Another pipe dream from a too-rich guy with money to burn I guess.
Gary
Apr 29, 2015 at 12:58 pm
If I recall correctly, they hired the top 2 designers away from Ping (Karsten). Perhaps Mr. Parsons also thinks he is a “club designer.”
pk20152
Apr 29, 2015 at 6:50 am
I think it needs more screws. wtf is that monstrosity. If you miss a putt I guess you could say you screwed up.
joe
Apr 28, 2015 at 8:21 pm
Tungsten is heavier than stainless but the volume replaced by the screws is much less than what was removed. Ill guess the head weight net is 1 gram heavier. I dont see screws all over the putter, i see star shaped holes. Appreciate the guy loctiting and screwing those in.
Andrew
Apr 28, 2015 at 7:41 pm
Screwy guy, screwy clubs.
adam
Apr 28, 2015 at 7:13 pm
I’ll be curious to see how the clubs hold up and how easy the screws will come lose, be lost, or strip when you try to remove them but I think the concept is interesting so I’ll probably give them a chance
RadioActive
Apr 28, 2015 at 6:30 pm
Is there a reason for not showing the face?
CHARGERS
Apr 29, 2015 at 11:13 am
They never show the face on the WITB pics either…cant figure that one out
Golfraven
Apr 28, 2015 at 5:35 pm
this guy really has a fetish for screws. this club is like out of space