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<\/p>\nWhat you need to know: Pros have been embracing high-lofted fairway woods at a rapid clip in recent years\u2014and amateurs have taken notice. Demand at the retail level has seen manufacturers expand their fairway wood lineups to include additional lofts beyond 18 degrees, in an effort to give golfers multi-purpose alternatives at the top of the set.<\/p>\n
But not everyone can generate enough spin with a high-lofted fairway wood to hold a firm green, which is the chief reason why Callaway created the Quantum Mini Spinner.<\/p>\n
The club initially came about in response to a request from a JLPGA player who wanted to compete with longer hitters on firm greens without switching to a long iron she couldn\u2019t control. Her ask wasn\u2019t for more distance, but rather more spin, a steeper landing angle and something she could reliably stop on the green.<\/p>\n
Callaway\u2019s answer already sells well in Japan\u2014it\u2019s the No. 1 fairway wood in the market\u2014and the Quantum Mini Spinner now arrives stateside, aiming to capture a market with similar wants and needs.<\/p>\n
Pricing\/availability: Callaway\u2019s Quantum Mini Spinner fairway wood is available in 7-, 9- and 11-wood lofts for $379.99 each, with retail availability starting Aug. 14.<\/p>\n
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1. Swapping places: Callaway typically builds its fairway woods with a composite crown and a steel sole, a combination meant to pull weight low and keep the centre of gravity down. The Mini Spinner, however, flips the script with a steel crown and composite sole. The result is a higher CG, which is unusual territory for a fairway wood; that\u2019s normally a wedge or short-iron design goal.<\/p>\n
A higher centre of gravity (CG) paired with a deeper face gives the club more spin at impact, since most players\u2019 contact point sits slightly lower to begin with. Move it up, and the gap between the contact and the CG increases, which generates the added spin.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe wanted a high centre of gravity to generate more spin,\u201d said Evan Gibbs, Callaway\u2019s senior R&D director of metalwoods. \u201cThe deeper face helped with spin as well, because players\u2019 impact locations are a little bit below the centre of gravity. So it tends to generate a little bit more spin when you hit it there.\u201d<\/p>\n
Callaway says the number lands between 500-800 rpm higher than its standard 7-wood, enough to meaningfully shorten rollout once the ball lands.<\/p>\n
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2. Not the same: At 21 degrees, the Mini Spinner carries the same loft as Callaway\u2019s standard Quantum 7-wood, but the shaft is nearly three-quarters of an inch shorter and the lie angle sits two-and-a-half degrees more upright. Shorter and more upright is designed to create more of an iron motion\u2014a steeper angle of attack instead of the sweeping motion a longer, flatter fairway wood encourages.<\/p>\n
That matters for consistency more than the numbers on a launch monitor. A shorter shaft is meant to be easier to control through impact.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe wanted something that was a little bit more repeatable, a little bit more consistent,\u201d Gibbs said. \u201cThe way that this club sets up with a shorter length, it\u2019s more approachable. Impact locations are going to be a lot more consistent. Players are going to tend to hit a little bit more down on it and feel that they can do that with a deeper face.\u201d<\/p>\n
That\u2019s the opposite priority of most new fairway woods, where added ball speed is usually the headline.<\/p>\n
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3. Return of the GBB: Instead of starting from scratch, Callaway engineers took a page from the past and used the Great Big Bertha-era 7-wood as the design reference. More specifically, the deeper face and heavy camber on the leading edge helped it perform out of the rough as well as the fairway.<\/p>\n
The current version keeps that camber and deep-face profile, which is also part of why the higher CG works. More face depth afforded the R&D team the freedom to push mass upward without sacrificing the low-face stability a fairway wood still needs off tight lies.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis particular player was using a GBB fairway wood from many years back, and we used that as sort of the starting point of the head shape,\u201d Gibbs said. \u201cIt had quite a bit of camber on the leading edge. [The JLPGA pro] felt that it was a very versatile shape\u2014she could hit it out of the rough as well as the fairway.\u201d<\/p>\n
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It\u2019s also a fixed-hosel design with no adjustability. That\u2019s a tradeoff in service of the same goal: locking the CG location in place rather than letting an adjustable hosel introduce variables the design is trying to eliminate.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was no limitation on the design\u2014from loft, from lie, from head shape,\u201d said Jacob Davidson, Callaway\u2019s VP of global product strategy. \u201cNormally you\u2019re taking spin out of things, and now, reverse to that, you\u2019re saying, let\u2019s see what it looks like to add spin.\u201d<\/p>\n
Where this actually lands in the bag is the more interesting question. It isn\u2019t pitched as a replacement for a 7-wood or a 4-hybrid; it\u2019s positioned as a third option in that gap, for a player who wants hybrid control with more launch, or a fairway wood launch without the rollout.<\/p>\n
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