Saw some new Callaway Woods last night (The Epic Thread)

[niscur24]

So is the gravity core totally a thing if the past?One of the best drivers I've ever owned was an alpha with the core weight up.

[rileyprather]

When are they scheduled to hit the USGA conforming list? Has that been mentioned before and I missed it??

[swanry30]

the unfortunate part is you wont see many non-staffers playing this driver. it would be nice to see OEM's break away from a true 14 club deal.

[misplacedtexan83]

Actually I was really hoping something like this. I already figured my GBB would be kicked out of the bag...it's okay.

 

I enjoy the fws though so we shall see.

 

Who am I kidding.. take my money Callaway!

 

 

 

 

[J13]

the unfortunate part is you wont see many non-staffers playing this driver. it would be nice to see OEM's break away from a true 14 club deal.

 

I agree but maybe if it's that good there will be. I wonder if Callaway does or would do woods deals.

[Sef]

I love the green. The Razr Fit Xtreme (most lame name in golf history) driver and 3 wood worked really well for me, then I sold them to a buddy who still games them. I hope they still offer a black tie as a no upcharge option.

[shakey]

Just got to hit both Epic models. They are SOLID.

 

Nice! How does it look at address? Is the crown CF?

Sorry. Didn't see this til now.

 

Love the look at address. Both looked open even at Neutral setting. Same crown as the Fusion. Their new material.

 

 

[ago33]

This thing looks sweet! Much better than the updated M1

[dacatalyst41]

Makes sense - the WRX Giveaway contest mentions that this visit will be "EPIC" so I bet that is the name of the new stick.

Where praytell can this "alleged giveaway" be found?

[DTown3011]

Makes sense - the WRX Giveaway contest mentions that this visit will be "EPIC" so I bet that is the name of the new stick.

Where praytell can this "alleged giveaway" be found?

 

It's already closed.

[dacatalyst41]

Makes sense - the WRX Giveaway contest mentions that this visit will be "EPIC" so I bet that is the name of the new stick.

Where praytell can this "alleged giveaway" be found?

 

It's already closed.

Who has the keys?!

I kid. I kid.

[swanry30]

the unfortunate part is you wont see many non-staffers playing this driver. it would be nice to see OEM's break away from a true 14 club deal.

 

I agree but maybe if it's that good there will be. I wonder if Callaway does or would do woods deals.

 

should if they don't - it would be a smart move right now if the swoosh staffers haven't already locked down contracts for next year. some of these guys and other free agents might not want to be locked to one company for a full contract.

 

i would sign a clothing / shoe deal / bag / ball deal and play a mixed bag.. if i happened to get money for a driver or irons so be it...

[Callaway Golf Official]

It has certainly been quite interesting reading through this thread as it always is when people are responding to a hastily taken picture from a camera phone.

 

People can form a poor first impression based purely on a lousy representation of the actual product. This is exactly why OEMs, Callaway included, hate it when folks sneak pictures they are explicitly told not to take.

 

Here, let me show you what I mean:

Here’s a bad picture of my Greg Maddux signed baseball. See how lousy it looks in a hastily taken iPhone picture? This ball is awesome. Here it looks terrible.

 

 

Here’s another example:

This is my San Diego Padre Truvis balls for the Links at Petco this week. They look awesome in real life, though quite unspectacular in this picture.

 

 

We are a nation of laws, for Pete’s sake, and in the grand scheme, why someone would literally risk their jobs, livelihoods, and reputations over something so trivial doesn’t make any sense to me.

 

It is also unfortunate that we have had to cancel our December GolfWrx Callaway trip because of this.

 

MCoz said some terrible things. MCoz was once a great poster. But he hasn’t been in years. Horrible! Sad! (I was just kidding about that. I just wanted to write something that sounded like Donald Trump. MCoz is on the money most of the time). He thought we had leaked this picture on purpose. In this case, he’s dead wrong. Believe me (oops, more Trump), we think using an iPhone leak photo as part of a campaign is totally hackneyed and undermines things we spend a ton of time on. Specifically, we take a lot of pride in our photography, tech information, testing of products, and delivering a look to a product that has been carefully vetted through a painstaking process that includes amateur golfers, retailers, Tour professionals, club professionals, and key experts.

 

We take this process and our innovations very, very seriously. As such the path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. (Did you think I was going use Jules’s entire quote from Pulp Fiction? Well, if you insist, but I’ll make it PG-13…) Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness. For he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know I am the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you.

 

I been sayin' that stuff for years. And if you ever heard it, it meant your rear end. I never really questioned what it meant. I thought it was just a cold-blooded thing to say to a dude before you popped a cap in his behind. But I saw some stuff this mornin' made me think twice. Now I'm thinkin' it could mean you're the evil man. And I'm the righteous man. And Mr. .45 here, he's the shepherd protecting my righteous behind in the valley of darkness. Or it could be you're the righteous man and I'm the shepherd and it's the world that's evil and selfish. I'd like that. But that stuff ain't the truth. The truth is you're the weak. And I'm the tyranny of evil men. But I'm tryin, Ringo. I'm tryin' real hard to be the shepherd…

 

This particular phone-leak incident came from an unfortunate place and it is being dealt with accordingly. We have a lot more information about this and other products coming, which we are incredibly excited to share with you all (and you guys know you’re usually among the very first to hear about product from us). TaylorMadeLuv, even YOU will be excited for this one, and maybe you’ll even have to change your user name to something like “StillTaylorMadeLuvButTheresNoDenyingTheseCallawayGuysHaveDoneSomethingTrulyIncredible.”

 

Scratchswinger, though your conspiracy theories should be on a new golf segment Alex Jones launches on InfoWars (we will sponsor you with a Tour Authentic tinfoil hat), we did not acquire Toulon Design for it’s ground breaking 20 year old Zevo patents…

 

We don’t think any of these things are life and death (though giving y'all a driver like this one will easily be the most important thing we at Callaway ever do, including getting married, having our families, blah blah blah.)

 

A wise man named Rob Miller once told me, “Son, sure as an ice cream cake is great for birthdays, golf is golf.”

 

And I’m not really even sure what that means, except somewhere Ely Callaway is looking down on us and wondering, “What the hell is wrong with you all?”

 

Looking forward to telling you all more about this product as part of our actual, planned product release.

 

Harry Arnett

Callaway Golf

 

Ps: I was just kidding about canceling the GolfWrx event. We are jacked up to host you guys. See you all in a month!

[misplacedtexan83]

Harry is the MAN!

[Mob]

Harry, I thought you had sworn off coming on here. Just couldn't resist could you?

[Imp]

Thanks Harry! :)

 

--kC

[JohnSimon]

I bet Harry has better pictures for us.

[mackepa]

It has certainly been quite interesting reading through this thread as it always is when people are responding to a hastily taken picture from a camera phone.

 

People can form a poor first impression based purely on a lousy representation of the actual product. This is exactly why OEMs, Callaway included, hate it when folks sneak pictures they are explicitly told not to take.

 

Here, let me show you what I mean:

Here’s a bad picture of my Greg Maddux signed baseball. See how lousy it looks in a hastily taken iPhone picture? This ball is awesome. Here it looks terrible.

 

 

Here’s another example:

This is my San Diego Padre Truvis balls for the Links at Petco this week. They look awesome in real life, though quite unspectacular in this picture.

 

 

We are a nation of laws, for Pete’s sake, and in the grand scheme, why someone would literally risk their jobs, livelihoods, and reputations over something so trivial doesn’t make any sense to me.

 

It is also unfortunate that we have had to cancel our December GolfWrx Callaway trip because of this.

 

MCoz said some terrible things. MCoz was once a great poster. But he hasn’t been in years. Horrible! Sad! (I was just kidding about that. I just wanted to write something that sounded like Donald Trump. MCoz is on the money most of the time). He thought we had leaked this picture on purpose. In this case, he’s dead wrong. Believe me (oops, more Trump), we think using an iPhone leak photo as part of a campaign is totally hackneyed and undermines things we spend a ton of time on. Specifically, we take a lot of pride in our photography, tech information, testing of products, and delivering a look to a product that has been carefully vetted through a painstaking process that includes amateur golfers, retailers, Tour professionals, club professionals, and key experts.

 

We take this process and our innovations very, very seriously. As such the path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. (Did you think I was going use Jules’s entire quote from Pulp Fiction? Well, if you insist, but I’ll make it PG-13…) Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness. For he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know I am the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you.

 

I been sayin' that stuff for years. And if you ever heard it, it meant your rear end. I never really questioned what it meant. I thought it was just a cold-blooded thing to say to a dude before you popped a cap in his behind. But I saw some stuff this mornin' made me think twice. Now I'm thinkin' it could mean you're the evil man. And I'm the righteous man. And Mr. .45 here, he's the shepherd protecting my righteous behind in the valley of darkness. Or it could be you're the righteous man and I'm the shepherd and it's the world that's evil and selfish. I'd like that. But that stuff ain't the truth. The truth is you're the weak. And I'm the tyranny of evil men. But I'm tryin, Ringo. I'm tryin' real hard to be the shepherd…

 

This particular phone-leak incident came from an unfortunate place and it is being dealt with accordingly. We have a lot more information about this and other products coming, which we are incredibly excited to share with you all (and you guys know you’re usually among the very first to hear about product from us). TaylorMadeLuv, even YOU will be excited for this one, and maybe you’ll even have to change your user name to something like “StillTaylorMadeLuvButTheresNoDenyingTheseCallawayGuysHaveDoneSomethingTrulyIncredible.”

 

Scratchswinger, though your conspiracy theories should be on a new golf segment Alex Jones launches on InfoWars (we will sponsor you with a Tour Authentic tinfoil hat), we did not acquire Toulon Design for it’s ground breaking 20 year old Zevo patents…

 

We don’t think any of these things are life and death (though giving y'all a driver like this one will easily be the most important thing we at Callaway ever do, including getting married, having our families, blah blah blah.)

 

A wise man named Rob Miller once told me, “Son, sure as an ice cream cake is great for birthdays, golf is golf.”

 

And I’m not really even sure what that means, except somewhere Ely Callaway is looking down on us and wondering, “What the hell is wrong with you all?”

 

Looking forward to telling you all more about this product as part of our actual, planned product release.

 

Harry Arnett

Callaway Golf

 

Ps: I was just kidding about canceling the GolfWrx event. We are jacked up to host you guys. See you all in a month!

 

Thanks for taking the time to post! The event sounds like so much fun. I pray I get picked!

[TexasCarlos]

do some folks just not want to try some new stuff without bashing it before it even hits the market, if you want something, try it and see if you like it, dont go off about how every driver release claims the same thing, if you cant afford it than go ahead and say so, dont say its not good

[caloge]

Harry! Can you make the Epic SZ come with a Mortal kombat Sub Zero head cover!? Instabuy even if I can't hit it.

[misplacedtexan83]

We all pray that we get picked

[TheMoneyShot]

It's good to see Harry posting on here again like the old days..

[dacatalyst41]

Harry! Can you make the Epic SZ come with a Mortal kombat Sub Zero head cover!? Instabuy even if I can't hit it.

Nice!

[MadGolfer76]

It has certainly been quite interesting reading through this thread as it always is when people are responding to a hastily taken picture from a camera phone.

 

People can form a poor first impression based purely on a lousy representation of the actual product. This is exactly why OEMs, Callaway included, hate it when folks sneak pictures they are explicitly told not to take.

 

Here, let me show you what I mean:

Here’s a bad picture of my Greg Maddux signed baseball. See how lousy it looks in a hastily taken iPhone picture? This ball is awesome. Here it looks terrible.

 

 

Here’s another example:

This is my San Diego Padre Truvis balls for the Links at Petco this week. They look awesome in real life, though quite unspectacular in this picture.

 

 

We are a nation of laws, for Pete’s sake, and in the grand scheme, why someone would literally risk their jobs, livelihoods, and reputations over something so trivial doesn’t make any sense to me.

 

It is also unfortunate that we have had to cancel our December GolfWrx Callaway trip because of this.

 

MCoz said some terrible things. MCoz was once a great poster. But he hasn’t been in years. Horrible! Sad! (I was just kidding about that. I just wanted to write something that sounded like Donald Trump. MCoz is on the money most of the time). He thought we had leaked this picture on purpose. In this case, he’s dead wrong. Believe me (oops, more Trump), we think using an iPhone leak photo as part of a campaign is totally hackneyed and undermines things we spend a ton of time on. Specifically, we take a lot of pride in our photography, tech information, testing of products, and delivering a look to a product that has been carefully vetted through a painstaking process that includes amateur golfers, retailers, Tour professionals, club professionals, and key experts.

 

We take this process and our innovations very, very seriously. As such the path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. (Did you think I was going use Jules’s entire quote from Pulp Fiction? Well, if you insist, but I’ll make it PG-13…) Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness. For he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know I am the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you.

 

I been sayin' that stuff for years. And if you ever heard it, it meant your rear end. I never really questioned what it meant. I thought it was just a cold-blooded thing to say to a dude before you popped a cap in his behind. But I saw some stuff this mornin' made me think twice. Now I'm thinkin' it could mean you're the evil man. And I'm the righteous man. And Mr. .45 here, he's the shepherd protecting my righteous behind in the valley of darkness. Or it could be you're the righteous man and I'm the shepherd and it's the world that's evil and selfish. I'd like that. But that stuff ain't the truth. The truth is you're the weak. And I'm the tyranny of evil men. But I'm tryin, Ringo. I'm tryin' real hard to be the shepherd…

 

This particular phone-leak incident came from an unfortunate place and it is being dealt with accordingly. We have a lot more information about this and other products coming, which we are incredibly excited to share with you all (and you guys know you’re usually among the very first to hear about product from us). TaylorMadeLuv, even YOU will be excited for this one, and maybe you’ll even have to change your user name to something like “StillTaylorMadeLuvButTheresNoDenyingTheseCallawayGuysHaveDoneSomethingTrulyIncredible.”

 

Scratchswinger, though your conspiracy theories should be on a new golf segment Alex Jones launches on InfoWars (we will sponsor you with a Tour Authentic tinfoil hat), we did not acquire Toulon Design for it’s ground breaking 20 year old Zevo patents…

 

We don’t think any of these things are life and death (though giving y'all a driver like this one will easily be the most important thing we at Callaway ever do, including getting married, having our families, blah blah blah.)

 

A wise man named Rob Miller once told me, “Son, sure as an ice cream cake is great for birthdays, golf is golf.”

 

And I’m not really even sure what that means, except somewhere Ely Callaway is looking down on us and wondering, “What the hell is wrong with you all?”

 

Looking forward to telling you all more about this product as part of our actual, planned product release.

 

Harry Arnett

Callaway Golf

 

Ps: I was just kidding about canceling the GolfWrx event. We are jacked up to host you guys. See you all in a month!

 

Y'know, Harry?

 

If you guys had stuck to traditional chrome or gloss finishes, you might be able to see the reflection of the person taking these pics.

 

;)

[dacatalyst41]

Would be cool if custom color options were available. Got a feeling everyone is not going to flip over the green.

[roho]

What a diatribe.

 

It just reinforces why I have never bagged a Callaway product and NEVER will.

[Pure745]

LOL!! In summary.. someone just got fired for taking that pic :cheesy:

[sandiegonative]

It has certainly been quite interesting reading through this thread as it always is when people are responding to a hastily taken picture from a camera phone.

 

People can form a poor first impression based purely on a lousy representation of the actual product. This is exactly why OEMs, Callaway included, hate it when folks sneak pictures they are explicitly told not to take.

 

Here, let me show you what I mean:

Here’s a bad picture of my Greg Maddux signed baseball. See how lousy it looks in a hastily taken iPhone picture? This ball is awesome. Here it looks terrible.

 

 

Here’s another example:

This is my San Diego Padre Truvis balls for the Links at Petco this week. They look awesome in real life, though quite unspectacular in this picture.

 

 

We are a nation of laws, for Pete’s sake, and in the grand scheme, why someone would literally risk their jobs, livelihoods, and reputations over something so trivial doesn’t make any sense to me.

 

It is also unfortunate that we have had to cancel our December GolfWrx Callaway trip because of this.

 

MCoz said some terrible things. MCoz was once a great poster. But he hasn’t been in years. Horrible! Sad! (I was just kidding about that. I just wanted to write something that sounded like Donald Trump. MCoz is on the money most of the time). He thought we had leaked this picture on purpose. In this case, he’s dead wrong. Believe me (oops, more Trump), we think using an iPhone leak photo as part of a campaign is totally hackneyed and undermines things we spend a ton of time on. Specifically, we take a lot of pride in our photography, tech information, testing of products, and delivering a look to a product that has been carefully vetted through a painstaking process that includes amateur golfers, retailers, Tour professionals, club professionals, and key experts.

 

We take this process and our innovations very, very seriously. As such the path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. (Did you think I was going use Jules’s entire quote from Pulp Fiction? Well, if you insist, but I’ll make it PG-13…) Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness. For he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know I am the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you.

 

I been sayin' that stuff for years. And if you ever heard it, it meant your rear end. I never really questioned what it meant. I thought it was just a cold-blooded thing to say to a dude before you popped a cap in his behind. But I saw some stuff this mornin' made me think twice. Now I'm thinkin' it could mean you're the evil man. And I'm the righteous man. And Mr. .45 here, he's the shepherd protecting my righteous behind in the valley of darkness. Or it could be you're the righteous man and I'm the shepherd and it's the world that's evil and selfish. I'd like that. But that stuff ain't the truth. The truth is you're the weak. And I'm the tyranny of evil men. But I'm tryin, Ringo. I'm tryin' real hard to be the shepherd…

 

This particular phone-leak incident came from an unfortunate place and it is being dealt with accordingly. We have a lot more information about this and other products coming, which we are incredibly excited to share with you all (and you guys know you’re usually among the very first to hear about product from us). TaylorMadeLuv, even YOU will be excited for this one, and maybe you’ll even have to change your user name to something like “StillTaylorMadeLuvButTheresNoDenyingTheseCallawayGuysHaveDoneSomethingTrulyIncredible.”

 

Scratchswinger, though your conspiracy theories should be on a new golf segment Alex Jones launches on InfoWars (we will sponsor you with a Tour Authentic tinfoil hat), we did not acquire Toulon Design for it’s ground breaking 20 year old Zevo patents…

 

We don’t think any of these things are life and death (though giving y'all a driver like this one will easily be the most important thing we at Callaway ever do, including getting married, having our families, blah blah blah.)

 

A wise man named Rob Miller once told me, “Son, sure as an ice cream cake is great for birthdays, golf is golf.”

 

And I’m not really even sure what that means, except somewhere Ely Callaway is looking down on us and wondering, “What the hell is wrong with you all?”

 

Looking forward to telling you all more about this product as part of our actual, planned product release.

 

Harry Arnett

Callaway Golf

 

Ps: I was just kidding about canceling the GolfWrx event. We are jacked up to host you guys. See you all in a month!

 

That was EPIC!!! Pun intended... where can we find that tinfoil hat

[Hot Rod 71]

Welcome back, Harry. Thanks for clearing things up!

[Noke]

I'm assuming that Callaway can make a driver at or above the legal COR limit from the center of the face, even without all the cupping and jail breaking and all that.

 

So why not put the jail-break stuff on the perimeter of the face where ball speeds suffer the most?