Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Callaway RAZR Hawk Fairway Wood review

The Callaway RAZR Hawk Fairway Wood review are very likely the fairway wood most people expected to see when the latest iteration of Callaway's Diablo series came out. After all, forged composite is all the hype with the latest version of The Diablo Driver, and many people expected to see it on the accompanying fairway woods as well.

This was not meant to be just yet, as Callaway was busy coming out with several versions of The Razr Hawk Series from Irons, to Drivers, as well as fairway metals and hybrids. They couldn't afford to let anything steal the thunder from their latest release, as The Callaway RAZR Hawk Fairway Wood  is the replacement for both the "X" Series of Irons and Woods as well as the "FT" line of Woods and Drivers. Whereas the Diablo Line is set up more for the "Grip It and Rip It" types within The Callaway Crowd, these will be more appealing to the "Techno-Kitsch" fans who enjoy the shop talk and all that goes with the latest technology.



   The Build Quality on these is rather nice. Unfortunately, the club heads are still attached to an OEM Shaft that lacks a little in character.  The "Lite" Flex is a 55 gram shaft with a low kick-point. The "Regular" is also a Low Kickpoint shaft, but slightly beefed up to weigh in at 60 grams. The "Stiff"  is also a middle weight model at 60 grams, but has been slightly tip trimmed and features a mid kick point. Nothing wrong with these shafts at all, but they are a little bit plain vanilla for such a kitschy head as this. 
  Balance and Feel-- is roughly a four out of five star feel here. The forged composite crown is a far cry from the earlier versions of carbon topped fairway metals stamped out by the likes of Cleveland, Cobra, and Nickent. None-the-less, they still have a very slight thuddiness at impact reminiscent of the old Nickent Cross fairway woods. (Funny, Nickent used a tie in with Lamborghini as their claim to carbon composities as well.) These are definitely balanced better than earlier versions, so there is not that vagueness of club head location during the backswing that all too often accompanied earlier versions of  carbon crowned fairway metals.

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