Callaway RAZR Hawk Review

Forged Composite is the story here. Chopped carbon fibre is laid into a mould and compressed under heat and pressure, which lets Callaway build a crown and a sole in shapes ordinary titanium pressing cannot reach, at a fraction of the mass. The saving runs to tens of grams and it goes low and back, so the head launches high and spins less than a deep faced 460cc profile suggests it should. The face uses the hyperbolic variable thickness pattern, thinner toward the perimeter than through the middle, which keeps ball speed alive on the toe strikes that a big head invites.

The body is shaped for airflow rather than for looks, with a raised skirt and a narrow crown ridge meant to cut drag through the downswing. What it does not have is a single adjustment beyond choosing a neutral, draw or tour head at purchase, which in the year of the R11 and the SureFit hosel reads as stubborn. Impact is a bright hollow snap that carries across a range, and plenty of players never learned to like it.