2025 BEST FAIRWAY WOODS: Taylormade, Titleist, Callaway, Ping, Cobra, Srixon

2025 has been a great year for fairway woods and with 20 clubs covered in this ultimate review – there’s something for everyone.

CLUBS COVERED IN THIS REVIEW
TaylorMade Qi35 Core Fairway
TaylorMade Qi35 Max Fairway
TaylorMade Qi35 MaxLite Fairway
TaylorMadeQi35 Tour Fairway
Titleist GT1 Fairway
Titleist GT2 Fairway
Titleist GT3 Fairway
Ping G440 Max Fairway
Ping G440 LST Fairway
Ping G440 SFT Fairway
Cobra DS-Adapt Max Fairway
Cobra DS-Adapt X Fairway
Cobra DS-Adapt LS Fairway
Srixon ZXi Fairway
Callaway Elyte Core Fairway
Callaway Elyte X Fairway
Callaway Elyte Triple Diamond Fairway
Wilson DynaPWR Max Fairway
Wilson DynaPWR Carbon Fairway

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DRIVERS & WOODS – FULL RANGE including
Titleist GT1, GT2, GT3, GT4 Series drivers GT280 Mini Driver
TaylorMade Qi35 Qi10 Core, Max, Maxlite and LS
Ping G440, G430 MAX, LST SFT and 10K
Cobra DS Adapt, Darkspeed
Callaway Elyte, Ai-Smoke, Paradym, Max D, Triple Diamond
Srixon ZXi Driver
Mini-Driver, Fairways and Hybrids

IRONS AND WEDGES – FULL RANGE including
Titleist T100, T150, T200, T350, 620, 722
Taylormade P7CB, P790, P770, Qi irons
Ping G430, G730, i230, i530, i59, Blueprint T
Callaway Elyte, Standard, X, HL (high launch) and Max Fast. Paradym Ai Smoke, Apex
Srixon ZXi7, ZXi5, ZXi4 Z-Forged II, ZX4 MkII, ZX5 MkII, Zx7 MkII
Mizuno JPX925 Hot Metal, JPX 923, Pro 245, 243, 241

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Hello and welcome back to SGT. Today, myself, James, and Aaron, we’re going to discuss fair woods for 2025, what’s on the market, what works the best for certain golfers, and what we’d use ourselves. Aaron, initially, what’s the big one so far? What are you finding? Tailormaid’s always good for fairywoods. Tailor Made. I’ve always been synonymous with fairway woods ever since for a long time, but RBZ, I think, was the kickoff of it. That was the start. I’ll go with that. Basically a driver’s a driver in fairway wood form. So Qi35, they’ve gone to adjustable sleeves on some of the product. Um, which from a gapping standpoint is fantastic. It makes it it makes it easier to hit a specific yardage. Um, you can change lies throughout that as well. You can go a little bit upright. Um, so I’ I’ve really liked the Qi35 range. You’ve got five different heads in there as well. Four. Four or five. Ka included, you’ve got five. Okay. Um, so you’ve got Qi35, Qi35 Max, Qi35 Max Light, and Qi35 Tour. Okay. Um, core models been the biggest seller. Okay. Probably closely followed by Max. I was I’d say so. Yeah, definitely. Um, Tail has been has kicked the year off really strongly. Okay. What else we got? Titus James, how’s it looking? Uh, GT1, 2 and 3. And so GT GT1 was a we bit later to the party. I hope all that came out we bit later on this year. Sorry, ear earlier this year even. Um, GT1, it’s lighter. Um, so just like the driver head, it’s a wee bit lighter. It spins a little bit more. It’s easier to get the ball up there. So for that golfer who maybe doesn’t have quite the same sort of speed as a GT2 or GT3 player, they’re really, really user friendly. Then we go into GT2 and 3. There’s a bit more separation between these ones. Um GT2, uh the weight’s kind of kind of in the in the middle. It’s not really all that far forward. It’s certain certainly not far back, but you go anywhere from like a 13° head all the way to like a 21 degree 7wood. So there’s load there’s loads of gaps covered. And every single one of them is adjustable with the sleeve. And then GT3 we can really get dialed in for that stronger player or somebody who needs to take some spin off it. The weight’s a bit further forward. We’ve got a track we can move towards the heel and the toe. Uh loads of adjustability with that one. Plenty of options. Plenty of options. Really solid product. Ping. Ping been good. Yeah, you’ve got uh 440 max. Uh and the LST is a unique kind of product. I’m sure we’ll we’ll touch on that um in a bit. But the Max has been really good. A little bit flatter in line angle and then it goes flatter again. Okay. So that’s really good for someone that’s maybe missing fairways a little bit left. got shallow head as well. So if anyone’s got a tendency of catching it quite low on the face, that max product, the ping max, they’ve been good. Yeah. Great for kind of getting the ball going up and maybe a little bit more right bias. Okay. Uh and then you got SFT, which is the opposite. That’s very much not right bias. Still quite shallow, but very much let’s get that ball turning over as quickly as possible, as much as possible. And what is that LS head that you spoke about? The LS head, low spin. Um big tungsten titanium weight in there. Tungsten or titanium? Oh, it’s definitely not going to be both. There’s definitely titanium in there at the price point. It’s a titanium head with a tungsten weight. Yeah, there it is. So, I knew there was both, but that’s why we bring them along. Um, super low spin option, but it’s the same price as a driver. It’s a bomber, isn’t it? Um, it’s Is it fast? It’s It’s low spin. I’m not sure because it’s still 15°. I mean, it can only be so fast. Yeah. Um, but it’s really low spin. Okay. So, if you’ve got someone that’s really struggling with that high ball flying and just need to bring it down. if you’re fitting James for example, but I use all the loft in the world. You find some. Somehow you find some. But that LS fairway wood is is a great option. Go spin option. Cobra. We’ve got five heads with 35 33 options and weights and all the settings. What we got, James? Tons. Tons and tons. So, we have a a max, an X, and an LS. Loads and loads of options in in all them. And we’ve got the same future fit 33 adapter as we have with the driver. So it really means that we can get that can really really dial in uh to whatever golfer whatever like a golfer needs. Okay. So you can chop and change lie angle and loft independently from one another. So in fittings that’s brilliant. Um the the Max product there’s a weight at the back and there’s a weight in the heel. So it’s definitely the more draw biased. It’s a we more upright in terms of its lie angle. Um spins a little bit. really good to get that ball up in the air. And we’ve got a ninewood in in that one there as well, which is brilliant fun to go and play with. Did one of them yesterday. Um the X head is the kind of bread and butter one that’s going to fit the the kind of largest range of golfers. Okay. Weights towards the back of the head. We go anywhere from a kind of 15, there’s a fourwood, they call a 3HL, they call it HF. Okay. Um we go into fivewood, there’s a 7wood. Again, just really easy to play. And then there’s the LS heads. So LS head, it’s titanium. There’s weight further forward. A little bit smaller profile ahead. Um I it’s a it’s a a really really clean looking head. I would say the faces are all relatively deep with the Cobras. So just like you said with the with the pings, they’re on the shallower side. Cobras and tightest exact they’re like more on the deeper side. Okay. Um but again, really really solid product and a really complete range. Yeah. Good. Shrexen curve ball here. ZXI really good option. We’ve actually done quite well with this. Yeah, they’re quite small, aren’t they? They’re nice. Really neat profile. I like it. Um particularly that five and seven would three comes in 13.5 and a 15. Okay. Um someone again who wants to kill a bit of spin. We can do it through loft rather than having a tungsten weight you move. Um loft is going to dictate launch and spin more than anything. We know that. Um and again what I like about it is you can go a little bit flatter. adjustable sleeve in that one that that Stricken haven’t done before. Yeah. And it’s it’s a lot easier to interpret. Their new sleeves way better. Yeah. So much easier to see. That’s been that’s been great. And and the fairywoods, they look really nice. Good. Brilliant. Callaway. Callaways do really well. Yeah. Um so we have the Elite Corehead. Uh we have an Elite X which is their kind of more draw bias. It’s a little bit more upright. Uh, and there’s also the triple diamond. So, triple diamond, we’ve got a weight at the back, we’ve got a weight at the front. Um, so again, if we want something that we can take some spin off, triple diamond works really quite nicely that way. Face is like a little bit deeper at the same time, but the center gravity is definitely further forward in the head. So, it wants to take some spin off anyway. The the normal elite product would go down to like a wee bit shallower face. So for me like when whenever I’m fitting fairway if I’ve got that golfer who’s a little bit shallower who really doesn’t sort of squeeze down on it that much a picker. Yeah. Um I find that head really really pretty easy to use. Um and the X product again because it’s a we more upright. It’s easier to get the ball to turn over more. But the same sort of thing. Loads and loads of scope to chop and change this with the sleeves. Right, James Wilson. What’s he offering? So we’ve got a couple of different heads. There’s a there’s a max and there’s a carbon. Um the max wee bit lighter head. Um very very easy to get that ball kind of up in the air. Um the the heads are quite lightweight. So again, it suits that golfer maybe doesn’t have like loads and loads of club head speed and just needs a we bit lighter overall build and again plenty kind of get up in the air juice. Good. But then there’s also the carbon up in the air juice. Up in the air. Coin phrase. We’re getting all them today. Bingo. Hey. Um, then we’ve got the carbon. So, the carbon looks a bit more meaty. Um, just like the driver, we’ve got kind of weight in the front and the back. Um, it’s hotter off the face. There’s a we bit more weight in the product. There’s an adjustable neck sleeve there as well. There’s an awful lot we can we can do with that product. Kind of like the driver. I found that to be one of the lower spinning ones as well. Brilliant. Fairways. Now, there golf clubs have gotten to a point where let’s kill spin, increase speed, kill spin, increase speed. The fairway woods are inherently difficult to spin now. Yes. So having that slightly shallower profile and having basically everything available in a four-wood, we’re doing a lot more four and seven combinations than we ever did or than we will three and five now just because loft is has been helpful. I think that that sort of thing on on like 7wood. Um 7wood’s definitely been a big big thing for us this year far far far more so than before. Yeah, I think because we’ve seen the trend on tour, you know, there’s way way more guys putting seven woods in. Some have even put like nine woods in that there’s more there’s more of these kind of high lofted high lofted fairways. It’s a kind of acceptable thing to put in the bag now. It’s the mark of a player. Whereas it used to be if you had a two iron that was you were the guy. Now we need a sevenwood in the bag. 7woods are brilliant. Right Aaron. So fairwood, you can have your picky what you’re going to play this year. What would you put in? Um, I went QI35 core loft 15. Okay. Um, set it standard. I want fairwood to do a specific thing there. I could have got it to go a little bit further by delofting it. It goes nice and high. Kind of what I want out of a fairway wood. H I really like the shape. It’s quite big. It’s not Well, it’s not big. It’s not It’s certainly not one of the smaller ones. It’s probably around about midsize. Um, bit more confidence inspiring. If I want to hit 3-wood, it needs to be a little bit more forgiving. Okay. So I I really liked it from that point of view. Um and I’ve done I’ve done a fair amount of them. Good. James Qi35 again. Yeah. Again. Yeah. I think the big big difference with Qi35 over Qi 10 from last year is like the when they’ve really kind of made the sort of center gravity a little bit deeper. Okay. As soon as they’ve dropped that down, it was like a bit of a cheat code. So last year tailor made fairways and have been like really quite deep in the face for really quite a long time. So that golfer who hits it off the tea, tail made fairies were great, but off the deck they were a wee bit harder. And that’s when like last year you’d go into like a little bit shallower fairywood, but by dropping that CG it’s even better off the ground than it was before, but then you’ve still got the depth in the face for shots off the tea. I think it’s a really a really really complete head. That’s that’s the one. Yeah. Um for me personally, I think I would play Cobra. um on the basis I play mini driver. I probably don’t need 3-wood as well. So I want a fivewood, but I want a fivewood that comes out flat and hot. And I think the LS version gives me what I want a fivewood to do. It gives me the ball flight. I don’t want it to be high. I want to be able to hit it to a green into the wind without popping up. My ball flight’s high and wafty as it is. So fivewood typically doesn’t go where I need it to go, but that fivewood enables me to hit it with the speed of a fivewood but on the trajectory that I can control where it’s going to go. So if we’re going to say what’s the best fairywood for each category here, right? For a higher handicapper, let’s go about a higher handicapper that misses to the right hand side. Let’s categorize it. Who what’s the best fairway on the market? Call X. Yeah. Why? Nice and shallow, upright, bit of heel waiting. Uh everything that’s going to point a little bit left uh without looking awful. It looks really nice. It’s really a clean it’s a clean product. H and it’s it’s nice and stable. Oh, it’s nice and forgiven. Good. So, he’s easy to get going that way. And a higher handicapper that maybe doesn’t hit it to the right hand side. James, doesn’t need the draw by us. What’s the best fair we would done market? I think I think the pings are I think the ping’s a really solid one. Something that’s a we bit flatter. Same sort of thing. We bit shallower. There’s that forward option there as well. Yeah, they’ve all got a bit more loft this year than they have done last year as well. I think that’s a really good guy. And what about middle of the road? What about your average golfer? What’s he going to need? What’s the best fairwood on the market for your average golfer this year? Again, I think that I think that Qi35. Yeah. Um we’ve done loads and loads of those three HLS. So like the fourwoods, that’s been one of the really really popular guys. Bad handicapper with a decent amount of speed. That’s it’s the first one you pull off the shelf. Good. And your low guy between the two where we at? Somebody that hits it hard. Who’s What do we need in a fairy wood? Yeah. a lot something a little bit less spinning potentially something that doesn’t go doesn’t go left. Um you’d probably go you could go Qi35 Tour. Um but I think what you said earlier about that fivewood if you got that in a 3-wood Cobra Dark Speed Adapt LS Yeah. in a 3-wood that’s going to be a really good option for someone who’s hitting it hard, needs to kill a bit of spin, wants to control the trajectory. You touched on tight list earlier to you as well. Good for a better player. Good for a better player. Yeah. Um for that player who kind of maybe squeezes down down a little bit more. I think that’s a really really solid option. Yeah. Um I think Callaway I think Titus Fairways Callaway Triple Diamond and that co and the Cobra LS. I think they’ve all got to be in that in that same sort of conversation. And it’s then going to be, you know, what does a golfer really like to look at? So guys, plenty of options from a fairwood standpoint. There’s strong threes, threes, fours, fives, sevens, nines. There’s a loft in there for everyone. Ah, definitely an array of different shafts. So, anybody looking to come in and try some fairwoods, see what works out best for you, head over to the website at sgt.co.uk and it’d be great to get you in the studio and try and optimize your long game and get it as good as we can possibly get it. For more great content, please like and subscribe to our YouTube channel for more content coming. regularly. Thank you.