CALLAWAY EPIC FLASH DRIVERS
CALLAWAY EPIC FLASH DRIVER
CALLAWAY EPIC FLASH UPGRADE

In fact, much of the cosmetics are an updated version of those introduced with the Epic. With the Epic Flash, Callaway has continued the black and green theme it gave to the original Epic. While the Sub Zero still wins the eye test, we don’t really mind the look of the Epic Flash, especially not when we find ourselves in the fairway a healthy distance from the tee. We must be getting used to the typical geometry of these game improvement-style drivers. The Sub Zero’s more traditional shape suited our eyes better. It looked a tad large and maybe a bit long from front to back.

In 2017, we had some minor quibbles with the shape of the original Epic. On the original Epic this sliding weight was replaced in the Sub Zero with a pair of center-aligned weights, but in this iteration the sliding arc is found in both models. In addition, a 16-gram moveable weight can be moved along an arc at the rear of the sole to promote a draw or fade ball flight. One of the things that we like about the OptiFit hosel is that it allows a player to change make adjustments, like adding or subtracting loft, while keeping the shaft and grip in the same orientation (that works out nicely since the stock grip is a Golf Pride MCC Align). In addition, a separately adjustable ring provides a Draw and Neutral setting.

CALLAWAY EPIC FLASH DRIVERS

Players will be able to tune their Epic Flash drivers to their individual games using the OptiFit hosel, which allows 3° of loft adjustment. Redistributing the weight saved within the head raises MOI for forgiveness on off-center hits. Callaway has improved the crown over the original Epic by employing a lighter triaxial carbon fabric called T2C, which enables a tighter weave. There’s a carbon crown that allows weight to be redistributed low in the clubhead and to the periphery of the sole.

CALLAWAY EPIC FLASH DRIVER

While just those two features are very impressive, Callaway has added the forward-thinking Flash Face and Jailbreak technology to a clubhead design that includes most of the cutting-edge features you’d expect to find in any top-of-the-line driver in 2019. Two titanium bars positioned just behind the face connect the crown to the sole and serve to stiffen and stabilize the face to (again) enhance ball speeds. This high-tech face gets a boost in stability from Callaway’s Jailbreak technology, which made its debut in the original Epic. Where we have become fairly familiar with face technology that puts the thickest part of the face in the center of the clubface, Callaway’s Flash Face does that but also adds another couple rings of ridges, bumps and depressions, all designed by AI to maximize ball speed across the entire face. Images of the face more resemble some sort of high tech imaging of barometer readings around the eye of a hurricane or possibly the moment just after a raindrop lands in an oblong container of water. Even better, the computers “learned” from each attempt and used that information to improve the design. Using these technologies allowed Callaway to evaluate some 15,000 iterations of the face, while a typical driver goes through 5-7 virtual prototypes. Watch out for Skynet! Callaway used artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to design the clubface of the new Epic Flash. Heck, maybe the teal color scheme didn’t appeal to golfers as well as the Epic’s green.īut Jailbreak truly delivered in both drivers, so when Callaway started to talk about adding its AI-designed Flash Face technology to a new Epic, we couldn’t wait to tee it up.

CALLAWAY EPIC FLASH UPGRADE

Maybe Epic owners didn’t want to upgrade their $500 drivers that quickly. It was an improvement over the Epic in terms of forgiveness and was a very good driver ( we liked it), but it didn’t fly off shelves the way that the Epic had. Understandably, Callaway sold a ton of drivers. It introduced a new design concept, Jailbreak, that paid noticeable benefits on the course.

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