To say last years x hot line of drivers was successful for callaway would be an understatement. Feb 27, 2014 flagging up my shot data up from last years 20 golfmagic drivers test with the x hot driver, i averaged 243 yards off the tee from 10 balls with a longest drive of 255 yards. Arguably, this is the best premium shafts available on the market. The x2 hot head is 460 cc in volume, while the x2 hot pro head is 440 cc. Callaway x2 hot driver callaway set out to create a driver better than the one played by the longest hitters in golf. While the xhot is the less technical model in the callaway driver lineup, it still offers many great features. The speed frame face is the real tech behind this driver. Both alltitanium drivers use callaways forged cup face design, which callaway says leads to high ball speeds across the face, and are adjustable with callaways optifit hosel system. Callaway engineers say that the x2 hot driver is ten yards longer than its predecessor, thanks to a thinner and lighter titanium face that boosts ball speeds. But they rarely address using the adjustable settings. Reviews about this club will tell you about how the club performs. True spec golf, miura, nicklaus companies, golf logix, club conex.
Project x shaft for even superior performance, the driver presents a project x hzrdus shaft which is made of graphite. The x2 hot driver is available in three different lofts. Golf torque wrench tool, lightweight replace adjustment torque wrench tool for golf club driver shaft adapter 4. The big story in the x hot range was the hyper steel face. Callaway golf pushes the limits of performance to develop drivers that are designed to. Where do you guys go to pick up extra adjustment tools for. How to adjust the callaway x2 hot driver bonaventure. What do the adjustment letters c, o and s mean in callaway. Sep 16, 2014 you want precise control so youve chosen an adjustable driver. Jan 02, 20 x hot and x hot pro drivers most major equipment companies offer at least two drivers in their new product lineups.
Jun 05, 20 for many years, the goto look was a dark usually black crown but all that changed with the introduction of white drivers. Replacement shaft mpf code 2008 x 22 irons x 22 graphite callaway a,r,s 65 75. An oral history of phil mickelsons callaway x hot phrankenwood. The 0811xf gen2 driver presents the same performanceenhancing technology as the 0811 x gen2 driver, with a deeper cg location and a weight back design.
No problem understanding, but my club is as follows. How to adjust your callaway rogue driver optifit hosel. Anyone in the know as i can only find videos pointing to xhot or x2 hot. Make offer new callaway x hot driver adjustment wrench tool brand new. Make sure lines on top and bottom match up, then use your callaway torque wrench to tighten it back up. We are the inventors of a process known as golf driver shaving which reduces the face thickness on golf drivers to create more trampoline effect and distance. Callaway specifically i need to get a replacement driver tool for a callaway x2 hot pro driver, and the local golf store says they dont have any extras for sale individually.
How to adjust your callaway rogue driver optifit hosel youtube. It is an all titanium head with callaways optifit hosel. The pro version has two adjustable tips or whatever they call them. Why blade putters have increased in weight over the last decadeplus. Broke an adjustment cog on my x2 hot hosel i called callaway and they are happy to send me one free of charge but they dont know when theyre going to get them. X2 hot is 46 inches in length, and x2 hot pro is 45. Flagging up my shot data up from last years 20 golfmagic drivers test with the x hot driver, i averaged 243 yards off the tee from 10 balls with a longest drive of 255 yards. While the x hot is the less technical model in the callaway driver lineup, it still offers many great features.
Nov 01, 2014 what do the adjustment letters c, o and s mean in callaway x hot driver. For those interested the other stock shaft is the lighter 43g project x pxv. Callaway x2 hot and x2 hot pro drivers, fairway woods and. Personally seems the callaway offerings are very good, too many, too soon perhaps.
Finding the perfect fit was easy for tour professionals. The second line on the card is showing that you have two options for ball flight, n for neutral and d for draw. And if you hit with a pronounced draw then the open setting might be a good idea. Rated 5 out of 5 by avidgo from havent taken them out of my bag in 3 years whenever i buy a new driver i usually buy the matching 3 wood and at least one hybrid. Callaway created their fastest face for this driver and it shows. The larger face helps the x2 hot driver retain all the forgiveness of the x hot, but it adds about 1. In callaways player testing, x2 hot was, on average, 9 yards longer than x hot while x2 hot pro was 4 yards longer than x hot pro.
Tools when you shop the largest online selection at. To prove just how much an adjustable driver can change your game, we collected new drivers from callaway, cobra, nike, ping and taylormade. Pick up a callaway driver, a highperformance club that makes shooting balls down the fairway easy. The fun comes from callaway razr fit driver adjustments. The x2 hot driver offers a new hyper speed face, an improved head shape and construction, and new advanced adjustable hosel technology. According to the manufacturers, when the weight moves back, the driver becomes higher launching and lower spinning, and with the weight forward, the ball flight is lower with more spin.
Unlike the x hot, the x hot pro driver does not have any alignment markings on the crown, providing a clean at callaways new dark grey matte finish. However, after trying the callaway x hot driver, i have to say, callaway is back in the driver business. You want precise control so youve chosen an adjustable driver. With loft adjustment, the pro model can be lowered to 7. Thanks to the new head shape and construction, the sweet spot is located where youre more likely to hit it while ball speed and distance are maintained if you dont. Mar 25, 2015 anyone in the know as i can only find videos pointing to xhot or x2 hot. How they appear on the two parts that make up the optifit hosel is different because there has. I found a couple of the entire adapter sleeves on amazon but they seem a little shady. Now companies are getting bolder with their looks and we have seen many different colors popping up.
The x2 hot driver, with a slightly larger, moreforgiving face and higherlaunching ball flight, is a total performance driver that can really fit in the bag of any player. To do that, they had to start fresh and change everything, and the results were not incremental. The club has the stock, project x velocity shaft with a stiff flex. Callaway pushes limits with face design on x hot metalwoods. According to the manufacturers, when the weight moves back. Nick faldo suggests a ban on golf tees to reduce driver distance. In fact, callaway say the x2 hot is 9 yards longer than the original x hot driver, thanks to a thinner face, larger sweet spot and improved head shape. What do the adjustment letters c, o and s mean in callaway x hot driver. Founded in 1982 by the late ely callaway, the mission of callaway golf is to passionately pursue advanced, innovative technologies to sell the worlds best golf clubs, balls, and accessories. A 7gram nonadjustable external weight screw can be found in the back of the x2 hot pro.
With proven technologies, great sound, and great feel, its designed with everything you need to hit longer, straighter drives. This is the hot adjustment of 2015 cobras flipzone and nikes flexflight are both good examples of it. X hot and x hot pro drivers most major equipment companies offer at least two drivers in their new product lineups. Simple explanation of callaways optifit hosel parts and instructions on how to use them to adjust loft and lie of callaway. We can take any golf driver and make it hit 2040 yards further. This allows for an easy of interchanging shafts from head to head throughout the callaway lineup if necessary razr fit, x hot pro, and razr fit xtreme rather than requiring a unique shaft adapter. If you tend to fade the ball, the closed setting can help you hit more fairways.
After a small adjustment in my stance and ball position, i was quite surprised at not only the heap of forgiveness the pro ld has over other long drive drivers ive tried, but how high i was hitting the ball. The hosel consists of two cogs an upper cog and a lower cog that rotate independently to provide a total of 8 possible loft and lie combinations. And the adjustable driver of your choice is the callaway x hot. Along with callaways razr fit xtreme driver, callaway. This is an alltitanium head that feels and sounds the way i expected a callaway driver to feel and play. The x hot also uses callaways optifit hosel system. Fortunately, its easy to make callaway razr fit driver adjustments. Since i bought the matching x hot driver, i have changed drivers 4 times and i still give the matching 3 wood and hybrid a shot at the title.
After last years xhot driver being the most successful driver in the callaway line up, i was a little unsure of what they were going to produce or change to add to the already great performance of the xhot. Illegalnon conforming golf drivers worlds hottest drivers. Add 2040 yards to your drives with our driver face machining technology. Brand new callaway golf torque adjustment wrench tool. But for the amateur golfer, getting the ultimate driver could be a slow and annoying process. Jun 04, 2014 i would recommend checking out the x2 hot due to its advanced hosel settings. The x2 hot has a hot face and definitely gets the ball out there. Mark hita the xhot from callaway golf and talks about the speed frame face, optifit and thin wall tech that callaway.
For the x hot pro and standard x hot, callaway has opted to go for a matte grey for the crown of the driver. What do the adjustment letters c, o and s mean in callaway x. So callaway had its work cut out to produce a successor. The rogue driver delivers exceptional ball speed from the combination of our new jailbreak technology and x face vft plus increased moi for a breakthrough in driver performance. Aug 25, 2015 if you consistently hit the heel or toe of the driver, you might adjust the weight to move the sweet spot towards your normal contact point. Where do you guys go to pick up extra adjustment tools for drivers.
While the x2 hot driver has performed well it was not much of a leap forward in comparison to its original model. The larger, light face more forgiving face of callaways x2 hot driver. And the adjustable driver of your choice is the callaway xhot. Theyve got plenty of time and a truckload of options to choose from. However, they believe the new x2 hot driver is longer, faster and more forgiving. This is our highest rated certified preowned condition. This is the best reason for the x hot owner to pick up the x2 hot, it will help you influence shotshape trajectory as where the xhot could only influence height. The x hot comes in 3wood through 11wood lofts 15, 17, 19, 21, 23 and 25 degrees with a 5558gram project x velocity shaft, while the x hot pro is available in four lofts. To usher in the new year, callaway has followed the two drivers up with the new callaway xr driver. Jan 29, 2015 performance in combination with price points have made the x2 hot and x hot drivers excellent options for many a golfer.
Performance in combination with price points have made the x2 hot and x hot drivers excellent options for many a golfer. Ok, maybe im missing something, but the options on my 2019 epic flash driver are different to those in the manual supplied with the driver adjustment tool. Callaway x hot driver adjustment settings magazinefasr. Theres usually a larger, more forgiving model aimed at average golfers and a more compact model with lowerspin characteristics for players who have more swing speed. Esthetics over the last few years, driver esthetics have gone under a bit of an overhaul. In fact, callaway say the x2 hot is 9 yards longer than the. X hot with adjustable shaft, x hot n14 with fixed shaft and x2 hot. Its that tshape tool you tend to forget about after taking your new driver out of the box.
One quick screw on the bottom of the head with a standard club wrench will make. How adjustable drivers can fix your swing flaw golf digest. I originally had it set up with d at the top and s on the bottom. Aug 29, 2018 however, they believe the new x2 hot driver is longer, faster and more forgiving. Read on to find out if this club is really a hot as they say it is. Your new callaway driver wont languish in the closet. As you may recall, x hot was the overall winner in our most wanted driver competition earlier this season, so if x2 hot is actually longer, and more forgiving like callaway claims, the x hot series could be a.
The callaway x2 hot driver is designed to be even longer and more forgiving off the tee than its x hot predecessor. Optimizing face angle on your new callaway driver 3balls. Featuring hot rod technology inspired by the look and extreme performance of american muscle cars, the pxg 0811 gen2 golf driver is designed for outandout forgiveness and raw power. Callaway year club model shaft description shaft manufacture flex shaft wt. Callaway x hot driver the callaway x hot driver is built for ball speed, long distance, and more forgiveness for consistent shots across the face.