In this video we review the new Callaway Paradym AI Smoke Drivers (Max, Max D and Triple Diamond) and analyse the data they produced.
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Thanks for watching this review of the Callaway Paradym AI Smoke drivers.
Welcome back to the golf YouTube channel it’s a brand new year and we are going to be kicking off the year with some brand new drivers from Callaway we have got our hands on the Callaway Paradigm AI
Smoke drivers I was super excited to get my hands on these and test them out and see what they can Do before we get into it make sure that you’re subscribed to the GOL lot YouTube channel so that you don’t miss any videos from us in the future now obviously there was huge hype over the Paradigm drivers last year but now Callaway are making even bigger claims about what these
Drivers can do including giving golfers up to seven yards extra distance across face with a new AI face that took over 50,000 iterations to get right interestingly as well Callaway have also removed a key part of technology that we have seen in their drivers for years which to me is a really
Interesting decision and made me really excited to get my hands on these and see what they can do so every single year since 2017 Callaway have been using jailbreak technology in their drivers and now it’s it’s just not there anymore we’re not seeing it in the AI smoke drivers and their
Reasoning behind this is they have said that the jailbreak technology adds that extra little bit of weight and if they take that out they can redistribute the weight across the club head and doing this just outweighs the gains that we were finding from the jailbreak technology now I can
Understand the logic behind that but to me it’s a really interesting move for them to be raving about this technology talking about it every single year putting it into every single one of their drivers and suddenly it has just gone now obviously I’m not an expert at designing
Golf clubs but it’s just an interesting decision in my opinion but I want to know what you guys think are you in the same boat as me did you like the jailbreak are you surprised to not see it in
These clubs let me know down in the comments now as I said earlier Callaway have made the claim that with the AI smoke drivers golfers could see up to 7 yards extra distance across the club face
So this is because of a new AI smart face now ai technology is something that we’ve seen before with the Callaway Drivers but what is a little bit different this year is they’ve taken the AI and they’ve combined it with real player data so they took data from 250,000 golfers to develop
A club face with what they’re claiming to be multiple sweet spots across the face so that you can still get Optimum speed Spin and distance no matter where you strike it on the face so there’s
Four drivers in the range we’ve got three of them today so we’ve got the max the triple diamond and the maxd so going on to looks Calla have still really focused on this forged carbon design now
The difference is that it is a lot more in your face with the AI smoke range than we saw previous VI ly with Paradigm with the Paradigm drivers you’d maybe have to hold it at a certain light to actually see the forged carbon pattern coming in whereas here they’ve really Amplified that to
Make it a lot more visible both on the base of the club and on the crown of it as well personally I quite like this design because of the coherence across it obviously we’ve got this Smokey pattern
To it which fits in well with the name and to me that just makes a nice overall collection for the drivers however I do appreciate that it’s very out there it is very in your face it’s not necessarily
The exact design I would go for for a perfect driver in my opinion but I do still like it however I do think it’s going to be a little bit more like Marmite and it’s just going to divide a
Few opinions because it is so out there and so in your face now you guys are going to really want to stay tuned until the end of this video because one of these drivers I literally could not hit
Offline this could potentially be the straightest driver I’ve ever hit so on the golf course I have have to admit when I first stood over the ball and I was looking at these clubs with the max driver I
Wasn’t super keen on it I liked the size of the head I like the size with the Max and the Max D with the triple diamond the head was a little bit too small for my liking but I think with how
In your face the carbon design is it was just a little bit off-putting for me I hadn’t really been used to a driver like that before and so I wasn’t 100% sold on the drivers when we first took them
Out of the bag and first started hitting shots with them combining this with the fact that the first few shots I hit were on a tough haul there was wind coming off from the left to the right
And a big collection of trees over on the right hand side so obviously not the ideal position for a lot of golfers so on that first hole with the max driver what I found was that it was just
Pretty much starting off dead straight and just slightly tailing off to the right with the wind so I didn’t have any complaints there other than like I said that little bit bit of new look to it
With the carbon at the crown of the club with the Max D I was expecting to see a draw shot as you would with that but it was essentially just ending up straight because of the wind which I was more
Than happy with especially on that hole I think if you’re a golfer who imagin that scenario it makes you really uncomfortable you’re not happy with that shot you’re worried about it going off to the right the Max D driver could be a really good shout for you to try out because it was
Just helping me keep that control especially with that really harsh wind pulling the ball back over to the right hand side now going on to the triple diamond unfortunately I don’t have quite so much
Positive things to say about it as I did with the Max and the Max D out on the course because most of the time I was just hitting it off to the right and I found myself a lot of the time
In the trees which obviously wasn’t ideal now the reasoning behind this is because the triple diamond is designed for somebody with a faster swing speed to get better ball strikes and for me I was just struggling a little bit with that because it’s not designed for me with that said
When I really went for it and I put my fastest possible swings onto it I did find that I was getting a nice low straight ball flight but that wouldn’t be my normal swing and it wouldn’t be
How I would normally be approaching stots out on the golf course so I wasn’t feeling as though the triple diamond was quite the right club for me so once we were happy that I’d got a grasp of
These drivers out on the course we then took them indoor to hooked so that we could use foresight to get a good idea of the numbers the ball speeds how far we were able to hit these clubs so before
We go into that let’s just make a note of what I would be expecting to see now these drivers were a little bit on the heavy side for me so my swing speed was at about 90 mph so for that I would be
Looking to push ball speeds at about 130 getting a carry distance of around 210 and a total of 2 3 5 those would be pretty good distances for me at that swing speed so as you guys can probably tell
I wasn’t 100% sold on these drivers especially out on the course I wasn’t necessarily thinking they were the ideal drivers for me it was only when we got over to hooked that one of them especially was
Performing really well and I was really starting to get excited based on the numbers I was seeing from the foresight data so let’s talk about the max driver and how well I was able to hit this in
Indoor at hooked now what was really impressive to me about this driver was how straight it was going consistently if you imagine a par four short Par Four around that 230 yards nearly every single
Time I would have ended up on the green because of how straight this was going it was a case of about 95% of shots were literally going dead straight with only one going out quite far to
The right and one going out quite far to the left but there was nothing in between that at all and that equated to an average offline of only four yards from the center which to be honest is
Pretty unbelievable I have never seen that stat before with a driver so this very well could be the straightest driver I have ever hit in terms of distance the max driver was going a average carry
Of 208 yards and a total of 234 yards now in terms of the dispersion between that the dist dispersion was incredibly low for the max driver there was only a couple yards difference between each of my shots including the ones that went slightly offline so that is really showing how much that AI
Face is coming into play and making sure that I’m not losing any distance and the distance is nice and consistent amongst every type of shot that I’m hitting now going on to the draw biased driver the
Carry and total distances were almost exactly the same as what I was seeing with the max the only difference was that the total on average was going 2 yard shorter with the drawer compared to the max
However some of the main differences I saw there was that the distance dispersion was a little bit bigger I was seeing up to 6 yards difference on both the carry and the total which just shows that the draw bias driver was that little bit more inconsistent however something that was
Really consistent as you would probably expect with the draw driver is that I just couldn’t hit it right every single shot with it was going nicely off to the left with what looked to me to
Be the same shot shape every single time so I was quite happy with that I just preferred to see the distance dispersion with the max driver instead going on finally to the triple diamond as we mentioned earlier that particular Club is designed for somebody with a faster ball speed and I was
Struggling to get a good strike going unless I was really really swinging into it as fast as I could now what that meant was that I was seeing the ball speed a little bit higher with the triple diamond
Compared to the Max and the draw bias with 3 mph faster and that did equate to some extra distance so I was seeing the triple diamond going a carry of 211 yards and a total of 242 yards which I
Was quite impressed with and it does show that you can get that extra distance with the triple diamond but the inconsistency was still there and I was still struggling to get a nice strike every single time something that was interesting though was that my spin rates were the lowest I’ve ever
Seen with a driver before coming eight at 1,810 RPM which I’ve literally never ever seen before with a driver so if you’re looking for a low spin option the triple diamond is definitely that so
Let’s do a little bit of a wrap up of everything we said about the AI smoke drivers now if we compare them to the previous model to the Paradigm last year I definitely think that there has been
An improvement there in terms of the consistency and the accuracy like I said the max driver was potentially the straightest driver I have ever hit so obviously some big improvements there from the previous Paradigm model interestingly enough I just wasn’t sold on these drivers initially
I wasn’t feeling super Keen with them but after giving them time and hitting enough shots I was really impressed especially with the Max driver so one final thing that I know you guys will be wanting to hear about is how much do these drivers cost now it’s a little bit strange this year
Because we saw the Paradigm being very expensive really pushing the mark for the cost of a driver at £599 RP last year now Calla have come out with the AI smoke range they’re saying it’s better it’s got this new technology that’s going to help you hit it straighter and be more consistent
But it’s actually £3 cheaper coming in with an RP of £569 now to me that’s just interesting a little bit strange a little bit hard to wrap my head around that they’ve decided to make a better
Driver but they’re lowering the price so I don’t know how you guys would be feeling so if you did buy the Paradigm last year it was more expensive and now they’ve brought out a better one that’s
Cheaper it’s just an interesting decision for me not sure how I feel about it I’m not sure how you guys guys are going to be feeling about it but it is that bit cheaper than the Paradigm
Was last year so that’s been my review on the callow Paradigm AI smoke drivers hope you guys have all enjoyed it if you have make sure to drop a like on this video and also make sure that you
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Over time, manufacturing of a new technology, e.g. the all carbon crown, becomes cheaper due to process optimisations. Also, the supply and shipping crunch from Covid affected last year's price. So it's only correct for Callaway to reduce the price of the driver compared to last year. However, £569 is still much higher than the 2022 Rogue ST, which was £479, so Callaway is really just doing everyone a tiny favour.
No such thing as a straight driver , it’s ridiculous that a new £600 driver is released every year. Drivers haven’t really moved on in 5 years for average golfers and you’d be better getting a few lessons and buying a 3 or 4 year old model
Nice review Georgina.
Hate the name 'Smoke' though, maybe it will grow on me…
30 yards of slice collection and some pretty decent distance could be a big winner for us power faders out there
The smoke colour looks dirty I would be forever cleaning the bottom of the driver. I brought the paradym but ended going back to the Rogue ST
It looks crap..
They are not available till Feb.. Good review.. Looking forward to seeing you test the NEW Ping G430 Max. 10K…
Can you do a follow up video comparing the max fast vs the max
Sick and tired of the so-called improvements all these manufacturers claim to make, it is all media hype to sell gear instead of being honest to the punters and themselves, we are all aware how much money is generated in golf, the only trouble is, they are not welcoming prices to encourage new blood.
I have been playing for 20years now, I am a 7.5 handicap, surely when I started over the last 20years based on the manufacturers claims on average it gives us and extra 5 – 10 yards each year/upgrade, if this was the case I should be able to drive the ball now on average 450 yards plus now, that is further than anybody on tour! All rubbish promises, far better to focus on dispersion, straighter the better for all. 😡😡😡🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️
Learned to hit golf balls on a field at 7 years old (1982) started playing golf at 10 in 1985
the best thing ever taught to me was with a sticker on my driver head saying head down for 2 seconds (seriously)
I play off 5, I’m not even a every week golfer too
The last driver I bought was a Taylor made R5 duel
I can hit that with accuracy like a missile hits a bunker,
260 carry to 270
My advice to the average golfer is use the £600 and invest in a gym membership to increase upper body strength and a cheap old driver that does what it’s called with no fancy gimmicks and learn to hit that pin point!
Todays club golfer depends too much on tech
Play golf the KIFS system
imo
Did last year’s model have Jailbreak?
Falling asleep listening to this 😴😴😴
What about the Max Fast head, there’s four heads not three 🤷♂️
Perhaps fewer hand movements would be a little less distracting?
Wrong title?
Excellent review, by far the best i have seen about the new Callaway drivers. The details about club construction, the new selling narrative by Callaway, the performance figures and progress versus last year's model are spot on. This is benchmark stuff and a review the average golfer better relates to. Great. Keep it up and keep new reviews coming.
Unless you are able to hit a shorter iron into the green, Keep what you have and save $600+ , Spend it on lessons !!!!🏌🏌🏌🏌
No. Enough is enough of this non sense promotion.
2025’s edition they will add back Jailbreak. Else how to keep it fresh and convince golfers to buy again? It will be called Callaway Paradym AI Smoke Jailbreak… watch this space…
It’s alright golf pro’s doing these videos, but how about doing one with players that they are aimed at, let’s see if they work then?
In an earlier video you promised to add captions asap to each video. There are no captions on any videos from the past month. Please correct this 🙏