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2024 Callaway Paradym Ai Smoke fairway woods, hybrids — GolfWRX Launch Report 

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What you need to know: Ai Smart Face — the centerpiece of Callaway’s Paradym Ai Smoke drivers — is also the key technology of new Callaway Paradym Ai Smoke fairway woods and hybrids. The lineup features four models: Callaway Paradym Ai Smoke Max, Callaway Paradym Ai Smoke Max D, Callaway Paradym Ai Smoke Triple Diamond, and Callaway Paradym Ai Smoke Max Fast. As with the drivers, the carbon chassis is lighter, allowing for 24 grams of weight to be redistributed throughout the head for enhanced launch, spin, and forgiveness. As utilized in Paradym, engineers leverage a tungsten speed cartridge to push CG low and forward. The hybrid lineup — Callaway Paradym Ai Smoke Max, Callaway Paradym Ai Smoke Max HL, Callaway Paradym Ai Smoke Max Fast — utilizes similar technology with a shallower profile and more sole camber than previous models.

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2024 Callaway Paradym Ai Smoke fairway woods, hybrids: What’s new, key technology

  • Ai Smart Face: Drawing on the swing dynamics of thousands of real golfers, Callaway developed an all-new Ai Smart Face for each driver model. Swing speed, club delivery, and face orientation prior to impact were considered to create club faces catered to optimal launch and tighter dispersion.
  • Carbon chassis: Paradym Ai Smoke fairway woods (excluding Triple Diamond) feature a carbon chassis to allow for discretionary weight distribution.

Additional model details

2024 Callaway Paradym Ai Smoke fairway woods

Callaway Paradym Ai Smoke Max: Designed for the majority of golfers, Ai Smoke Max promotes a neutral ball flight.

Callaway Paradym Ai Smoke Max D: The most forgiving model in the lineup, Ai Smoke Max D features an upright lie angle and neutral face for a draw bias. The 3-wood is adjustable.

Callaway Paradym Ai Smoke Triple Diamond: Better player-preferred shaping with a full-groove, deeper face. Neutral to fade-biased. Steel sole, forward weight screw for low spin. Adjustable hosel.

Callaway Paradym Ai Smoke Max Fast: Lightweight for slower swing speeds. Bonded hosel. Light grip and shaft.

What Callaway says

Brian Williams vice president of Research & Development…

On how the company approached fairway wood design this year:

“We did take the same approach in terms of categorizing real player swings with their fairway woods to look at where there were commonalities or differences. We saw a lot of similarities in terms of things like path and face angle, but consistently different impact locations in our Max D and Max Fast player segments. We saw impact locations that were much lower on the face. Consistently on all these products, there were Swing Codes that swing down on the ball. In our Smoke Max, core market segment [product], impact locations were still lower on the face, but just slightly before the center line. And the Triple Diamond player consistently had impact locations on the center of the face.”

On fairway wood improvements from original Paradym:

“We were pleased with the ability to bring in the composite sole on Paradym, but we still had to reinforce it with steel to ensure our quality and durability. We tasked our composites team to get us to the place where we were on the driver with a full carbon chassis. We’ve been able to do that now with a full carbon sole and crown, we’ve been able to free up over 24 grams of weight and re-invent [the club]. Half of it is moving forward into our tungsten speed cartridge for low spin and distance and half of it is moving rearward to increase our MOI.”

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2024 Callaway Paradym Ai Smoke fairway woods, hybrids: Pricing, specs, availability

Fairway woods

  • Max: 3, 3HL, 5, 7, Heavenwood, 9, 11
  • Max D: 3, 3HL, 5, 7
  • Triple Diamond: 3, 5, 7
  • Max Fast: 3, 5, 7, 9

Hybrids

  • Max: 3H, 4H, 5H, 6H
  • Max HL: 3H, 4H, 5H, 6H, 7H, 8H
  • Max Fast: 4H, 5H, 6H, 7H, 8H

Standard shafts: Project X Cypher 2.0, Mitsubishi Tensei AV Blue, Project X Denali Black, Mitsubishi Eldio, Mitsubishi Tensei Silver

Grips: Golf Pride Tour Velvet 360, Winn Dri-Tac Lite (Max Fast)

Pricing: $349.99 (fairway woods), $279.99 (hybrids)

Pre-sale/at retail: 1/12, 1/26

More photos of Callaway Paradym Ai Smoke fairway woods, hybrids

Callaway Paradym Ai Smoke Max 5-wood

Callaway Paradym Ai Smoke Triple Diamond 5-wood

Callaway Paradym Ai Smoke Max hybrid

Callaway Paradym Ai Smoke Max HL hybrid

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Whats in the Bag

Drew Brees WITB 2024 (April)

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Driver: TaylorMade Stealth 2 Plus (10.5 degrees)

Mini driver: TaylorMade BRNR Mini Copper (13.5 degrees)

5-wood: TaylorMade Stealth Plus (19 degrees)

Irons: TaylorMade P790 (4-8, PW), TaylorMade P760 (9)

Wedges: TaylorMade MG Hi-Toe (52-09, 56-10, 60)

Putter: Scotty Cameron Select Newport 2 Prototype

Check out more in-hand photos of Drew Brees’ clubs here.

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Putter Roundup: 2024 Zurich Classic of New Orleans

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We always get some great photos of some phenomenal putters at tour events and love to share them. Here are a few from the 2024 Zurich Classic that caught our eye and seemed interesting. (And as a reminder, you can check out all our photos from New Orleans here)

MJ Daffue’s Scotty Cameron T-11 Prototype

MJ is going with the new Scotty Cameron T-11 Prototype this week. The putter is a multi-piece mallet that puts an emphasis on stability with the wings on the back. Daffue’s putter does have a design that differs from retail with a monotone finish, which eliminates the black paint on the aluminum parts that we see at retail. He also has a half siteline milled into the top and an L-neck welded on for some additional toe hang. The face features a deeper milling that should offer a softer feel and slightly quieter sound.

Scotty Cameron T-7.5 Prototype

We spotted a few different Scotty Cameron Phantom models with modified rear flanges. It looks like the straight black flange was cut into a half circle for a little softer look at address. On this T-7.5, you can still see the raw aluminum from the back view, so this might have been a last-minute job to get them out on tour. The semi-circle also has a white line on it, maybe to frame the ball differently.

Alex Fitzpatrick’s Bettinardi SS16 DASS

Alex’s SS16 is made from Bettinardi’s famous D.A.S.S., or double-aged stainless steel, for a softer and more responsive feel. The face has a unique diamond pattern milling and features a logo that I feel like I have seen before, but can’t put a name to. The putter is a classic mid-mallet style with a simple, single white siteline on the top. The sole is clean with just the SS16, DASS, and a green triangle logo on it.

Steve Stricker’s Odyssey White Hot No. 2

This putter has made some amazing putts in its long career! Stricker’s White Hot No. 2 might be in the top 10 of most famous putters in golf. When you see all the dents and lead tape, you know the heel will be up and it will be sinking putts! The soft White Hot insert looks to be in good shape and has less wear on it than the rest of the putter. We don’t know how much lead tape is on the sole, but it has to be multiple layers compacted down over the years.

Doug Ghim’s Scotty Cameron T-7 Prototype

This T-7 should win the award for “best color finish” in this list with its deep chromatic bronze. It looks like Scotty added a cherry bomb dot to the heel of the deep-milled face and filled it with a very dark blue paint. The rest of the putter looks pretty stock with its single site line on the topline and twin site lines down the “fangs” of the putter. Twin 5-gram weights are installed in the sole and the putter is finished off with a gloss black double bend shaft with a fill shaft offset.

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Spotted: Project X Denali hybrid shaft

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Project X’s Denali wood shafts have been seen in more and more golf bags this year as we start off the season. As a refresher, Denali Blue is the mid-launch and mid-spin model while Denali Black is for players seeking lower launch and spin.

Denali combines great feel with stability and increased ball speed. Currently, Project X only offers Denali Blue and Black in wood shafts, but we spotted a hybrid shaft in Daniel Berger’s bag at the 2024 Zurich Classic.

The shaft looks to be a Denali Blue 105G – HY in TX flex. No word on details from Project X yet but we can assume that this is a mid-launching shaft that weighs around 105 grams in Tour X-Stiff flex.

Berger has this shaft in his TaylorMade P770 3-iron, likely for some added launch and spin to hold the green from longer distances.

Hopefully, this means we will see some more shafts coming under the Denali name in the future, as I think many of us would like to try one in a hybrid or utility iron!

 

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