It’s worth noting that there is no fade bias. The nice thing about this new hosel is you can make these loft adjustments without effecting the face angle of the club, although if you wanted to add a draw bias, you can do that as well. So, for instance, if you normally play a 8.5° driver, you’d get the 9.5° and bump it down one. While it still allows for face angle changes, it also allows for changes to the loft of the club one degree down, or up to two degrees up, in one degree increments. The new version of the hosel, however, is entirely different. There was also a “tour authentic” version of this hosel which added a second ring and giving more sub choices. Going back to the original RAZR Fit driver, Callaway has used the original Optifit Hosel which allowed the player to select either a square, open, or closed face at address. Unlike previous drivers from the company, you won’t see multiple loft offerings beyond those two and that is because of the new Advanced Optift Hosel. The new FT Optiforce driver comes in two basic versions a 460cc head with a starting loft of 10.5° and a 440cc head with a starting loft of 9.5°. For those interested the other stock shaft is the lighter (43g) Project X PXv. I recieved the Diamana (Blue) S+ shaft (one of two stock shafts) in stiff flex. This club comes with a 9.5° starting loft, which can be adjusted down one or up two degrees.
Read on to find out if this is the latest and greatest of Callaway drivers or just another club crowding the shelf.įor the purpose of this review, I received the 440cc version of the Callaway FT Optiforce driver. The new club has a number of features, some of which haven’t been seen before with a Callaway driver, including a new hosel design. This driver isn’t aimed at replacing either the RAZR Fit or X Hot line (in fact, we’ll see the X2 Hot line in early 2014), but as a third choice for consumers. It seems that Callaway is starting to go back that way already, as they have introduced a third line of drivers, the FT Optiforce. They had too many products going at the same time and I felt that it led to a bit of confusion on the part of the consumer. When I wrote both the X Hot Pro driver and iron reviews, I mentioned how Callaway had decided to scale back on it’s product line, which was in my opinion a good thing. Both clubs were solid offerings and gained big followings. Early in the year, Callaway made a splash in the golf world with the introduction of their new drivers, the X Hot (which had a standard and Pro model) and the RAZR Fit Xtreme.
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