Equipment
2024 Callaway Apex irons: New Apex MB, Apex CB, Apex Pro, Apex UT irons launched
As evidenced by the line’s performance in Best Irons, Callaway had a winner on its hands with its 2021 Apex iron family. Thus, engineers faced what is arguably the best problem to have in golf club design: How to find areas for improvement in a winning design without “losing” in other areas.
Brian Williams, VP of Callaway R&D, spoke to this:
“We really have been on a journey for multiple years working with some of the world’s best players, getting feedback from them the whole way on things that we could do really in pursuit of perfection – how we can take a great product line and make it even better.”
“It’s us being calibrated with these players to be able to understand and see the things that they see. Their ability to perceive even the slightest change in designs is truly unbelievable and so we’ve been able to saddle up alongside some of these players on this journey that we’ve been talking about, the specificity that we use on these designs is next level.”
To see how the company navigated the paradigm (no pun intended), let’s dig in to the designs.
2024 Callaway Apex MB irons
Callaway’s “modern tour blade” was developed in collaboration with tour professionals and is designed to deliver efficient turf interaction (thanks to Dynamic Sole Design), optimum workability, and a classic feel in a one-piece, 1025 carbon steel forging. Callaway engineers designed the Apex MB line with progressive CG throughout the set — lower in the long irons for higher launch, higher in the short irons for a more penetrating trajectory.
As mentioned, the Dynamic Sole Design integrates “dual chamfer” (multi-angle) leading and trailing edges for efficient turf interaction.
Regarding the sole design, Williams said:
“This is the outcome of extensive work – I think we did 7 or 8 versions of this sole until we
had it perfected. We saw this Tour validated feedback where even when we had the slightest
thing off, they could pick it up and tell us how to fix it. We really changed that leading edge, the sharper leading edge, and this trailing edge chamfer for us gives a little bit of relief – it glides through the turf. All these versions have a similar approach, and we’ve worked on getting our balance to be very centralized – so we call it Dynamic Bounce, it’s variable as you move from heel to toe, and we have some additional toe relief. A player with very high speed they can have the toe down on impact, and that’s a way that we’ve really worked on the bounce.”
2024 Callaway Apex CB irons
Callaway touts an all-new forged construction in its 2024 Apex CB irons and its associated feel and workability. Forged from 1025 carbon steel in a five-step process, Apex CB ‘24 irons also feature MIM weighting in the toe and similar progressive CG and Dynamic Sole Design to the Apex MB irons.
2024 Callaway Apex Pro irons
Multi-material forged construction plus Callaway’s patented urethane microspheres create a new level of feel in the Pro series of Apex irons, according to the company. For the first time in an Apex iron, hollow body construction joins a 1025 forged carbon steel body.
Callaway touts an all-new progressive face design that delivers both increased distance and more precise distance control across the lineup. Long irons feature a forged 455 face cup for enhanced distance control, short irons have a 1025 forged face plate for enhanced control. Again, Dynamic Sole Design is featured with this iron.
2024 Callaway Apex UT irons
Callaway targets distance and versatility with the 455 forged face cup powered 2024 Apex UT irons. All the notable party guests are here as well: Dynamic Sole Design, urethane micropsheres, multi-material forged construction. Also worth pointing out: The new Apex UT is slightly more compact than the previous generation with a slightly shallower face.
Created for combo-ing
As with the previous generation of Callaway Apex irons, Callaway is again emphasizing combo set possibilities with 2024 Apex irons.
Discussing combo sets, Williams said, “We have the same weight across the entire family, and that opens a lot of opportunities for us. It’s a difficult challenge to develop a set with perfect gapping, and when you want to allow players to mix and match that’s a next-level complexity to solve. The team has worked on that, and I think we have something that’s incredible when you can just about swap any of these irons out.”
2024 Callaway Apex irons: Pricing, specs, availability
- Pre-sale: 8/18
- At retail: 9/8
- Stock grip: Golf Pride Z-Grip Firm
- Stock shafts: True Temper Dynamic Gold Mid (Steel), Mitsubishi MMT (Graphite)
- Pricing: Apex Pro, Apex CB, Apex MB: $215/iron
- Apex UT: $275/iron
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Whats in the Bag
Dustin Johnson WITB 2024 (May)
- Dustin Johnson what’s in the bag accurate as of PGA Championship. More photos from the event here.
Driver: TaylorMade Qi10 (10.5 degrees @12.5)
Shaft: Fujikura Speeder 661 Evolution 2.0 Tour Spec X
3-wood: TaylorMade Qi10 HL (16.5 degrees)
Shaft: LA Golf Prototype
Check out more in-hand photos of Dustin Johnson’s clubs here.
7-wood: TaylorMade Stealth (21 degrees)
Shaft: LA Golf Prototype
9-wood: TaylorMade Stealth (24 degrees)
Shaft: LA Golf Prototype
Check out more in-hand photos of Dustin Johnson’s clubs here.
Irons: TaylorMade P730 DJ Proto (4-PW)
Shafts: True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100
Wedges: TaylorMade MG (52 @54, 60)
Shafts: KBS Tour Custom Black 120 S
Check out more in-hand photos of Dustin Johnson’s clubs here.
Putter: TaylorMade Spider Tour T3.0
Grip: SuperStroke Zenergy Pistol 1.0
Ball: TaylorMade TP5x
Grips: Golf Pride Tour Velvet
Check out more in-hand photos of Dustin Johnson’s clubs here.
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Whats in the Bag
Phil Mickelson WITB 2024 (May)
- Phil Mickelson what’s in the bag accurate as of the PGA Championship.
Driver: Callaway Paradym Ai-Smoke Triple Diamond Prototype (9 degrees @8)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Blue 6 X
3-wood: Ping G430 Max (15 degrees @13.5)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Blue 7 X
4-wood: Callaway Mavrik Sub Zero (16.5 degrees)
Shaft: KBS TD 80 Category 5
Hybrid: Ping Anser (17 degrees)
Shafts: Mitsubishi Kuro Kage Prototype 90 X
Irons: Callaway Rogue ST Pro (5), Callaway X Forged 2013 (6-9)
Shafts: KBS Tour-V 125 (5), Mitsubishi MMT 115 TX (6-9)
Wedges: Callaway Jaws Raw (50-10J) Callaway Mack Daddy PM Grind 19 (60, 64)
Shafts: Mitsubishi MMT 115 TX
Putter: L.A.B. Golf DF3
Grips: Golf Pride MCC
Check out more in-hand photos of Phil Mickelson’s clubs here.
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Equipment
Coolest thing for sale in the GolfWRX Classifieds (5/20/24): Callaway Triple Diamond Ai smoke 7-wood
At GolfWRX, we are a community of like-minded individuals that all experience and express our enjoyment of the game in many ways.
It’s that sense of community that drives day-to-day interactions in the forums on topics that range from best driver to what marker you use to mark your ball. It even allows us to share another thing we all love – buying and selling equipment.
Currently, in our GolfWRX buy/sell/trade (BST) forum, there is a listing for a Callaway Triple Diamond Ai smoke 7-wood.
From the seller: (@bogeywoods03): “Triple Diamond ai smoke 7 wood 20 degree with Denali 6.0 70 shaft , hits nukes and comes with og headcover $225 shipped obo.”
To check out the full listing in our BST forum, head through the link: Callaway Triple Diamond Ai smoke 7-wood
This is the most impressive current listing from the GolfWRX BST, and if you are curious about the rules to participate in the BST Forum you can check them out here: GolfWRX BST Rules
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Bill Smith
Aug 2, 2023 at 4:15 pm
The original Hogan Apex blades were a thing of beauty.
Billy
Aug 1, 2023 at 2:56 pm
Is the Pro replacing the normal Apex then?
H
Aug 1, 2023 at 11:41 am
So is it 23 or 24? LMAO
Jer
Aug 1, 2023 at 10:19 am
Will they be releasing Apex and Apex dcb’s soon ??
Boomer
Aug 1, 2023 at 9:50 am
The Pro looked promising until the picture of the top-line. Hopefully it looks thinner in person than in pictures.
Stephen
Aug 1, 2023 at 1:41 pm
Play the CB then
mtjrpro
Aug 2, 2023 at 8:12 pm
Was thinking the same, even the CB looks thinner at the top than the pro.