Callaway’s gone Rogue—at least sort of. With its latest driver—and the follow up to its best-selling GBB Epic—Callaway wants golfers to feel confident and smash away. To accomplish that, Callaway has crafted some key improvements over Epic, including making Rogue more forgiving, and tweaking Jailbreak, the ground-breaking technology Callaway used to increase ball speed. Increased speed with more forgiveness—that’s Rogue in a nutshell. The company is also offering new fairway woods and hybrids, as well as two variations on the Rogue driver—Sub Zero and Draw.
What Your Need to Know
The Jailbreak Effect
Jailbreak, bars designed to stiffen the crown and sole of a driver, were introduced with significant benefits. Initial Jailbreak testing showed two miles per hour of additional ballspeed, or up to eight yards. With Rogue, Callaway has tweaked Jailbreak, with new hourglass-shaped titanium bars that are 25 percent lighter, while still stabilizing the sole and crown. Callaway says the stiffer body allows for faster ball speeds, while changes to the face offer more distance on strikes that aren’t on the center of the clubface.
Greater MOI
Moment of inertia, or the amount of forgiveness a club offers, has been a big story in recent months. Rogue’s Triaxial Carbon Crown uses a carbon composite material to enhance performance. The composite crown is stronger and lighter, allowing for discretionary weight to be repositioned into the head’s perimeter to significantly increase MOI and forgiveness. The company says Rogue features the largest carbon crown of any Callaway driver to date.
460cc Head
The new 460cc head boasts a larger address footprint than Epic, encouraging golfers to relax, cut loose and make a free and fast swing. Once again, Callaway worked with airline giant Boeing to develop technology to give the driver less drag. Callaway and Boeing created “Speed Step,” reworking the geometry of the leading edge to improve airflow to promote faster head speed.
Variations on Rogue
Rogue Sub Zero
Callaway’s low-spinning version of Rogue, the Sub Zero offers tour styling packaged in a high MOI head shape. Though designed to appeal to low-handicappers, Rogue Sub Zero is forgiving and easy to hit for the player looking for less spin. Rogue Sub Zero’s head shape and construction allowed Callaway engineers to position the center of gravity low and deep with a more neutral bias. This position promotes higher launch and low spin—which is are the optimal conditions for big drives.
Callaway’s newest Staff Player, 2017 Masters Champion Sergio Garcia, won the Singapore Open this weekend by five strokes, his first tournament with a full bag of Callaway equipment, including Rogue Woods and Sub Zero Driver.
One-for-won.@TheSergioGarcia #RogueDriver #SingOpen2018 pic.twitter.com/FQHt6rPKh3
— Callaway Golf (@CallawayGolf) January 21, 2018
Rogue Draw
Since the vast majority of amateur golfers struggle with a slice—a problem that shows up most often in drives—Callaway has created a driver that limits the side spin. Rogue Draw features a 5-gram screw in sole near the heel and substantial internal weighting at the heel, all designed to increase “gear effect,” a physical action that minimizes slice spin.