Going Rogue... With it currently being monsoon season here in Devon the weather can start to leave you with a bit of cabin fever, with not being able to get out! Contrary to beliefs, we are still busy in the shop with NEW products arriving daily with the most notable this week being the NEW Callaway Rogue Drivers. These Callaway Drivers have evolved from the Epic Driver which was the Number 1 Driver in the game in 2017- so has the best just got better? Callaway will say so, of course they would! I was speaking with one of the research and development staff at Callaway Golf last week about how difficult it is to explain to customers that the 'game changing' club they bought out last year has now been superseded with supposedly the next 'game changing' club! The response I got was that this new Rogue Driver is a “more refined and forgiving version of the Epic. We spent so much time working on Jailbreak itself and getting that to work” he said “we didn’t have the time to optimise the face.”
Jailbreak was a new technology in golf and, like many advances in golf equipment, it takes a lot of trial and error to work from both a mass production and cost standpoint. So I understand why they couldn’t get it all done at once. The bottom line with Rogue is that Callaway have tweaked a few more variables since Epic to optimise weight in the head and increase MOI across the face on off-centre hits and increase forgiveness. So it’s easier to hit and longer than Epic. A few other highlights of the Callaway Rogue driver and woods line include: - The Rogue Draw driver, which provides 21 more yards of draw bias versus Rogue
- The Sub Zero driver, highlighted by 14-gram and 2-gram weights that can be positioned to reduce 400-500 rpm of unwanted spin for the high-spin, high-swing-speed golfer
- Rogue and Rogue Sub Zero fairway woods, which are the first fairways to feature Jailbreak technology – an addition Callaway noted they’re very excited about
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