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Callaway Elyte Drivers – Elyte, Elyte X, Elyte Max Fast and Elyte Triple Diamond

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vgolfman said:
Maybe I'm missing something... Was the shaft misaligned? What were the settings and how was it misaligned? Pic maybe?
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The line on the shaft was on the opposite side of the head from the line on the head.

Pictures here:

Callaway Elyte Drivers – Elyte, Elyte X, Elyte Max Fast and Elyte Triple Diamond

I had an Ai Smoke last year, I took lessons over winter and my swing speed increased to the point I was in need of a new shaft. Luckily, I had a family member that was in love with my Ai Smoke, and willingly bought it for $100 off new price. So now I am in a Stiff flex Elyte and absolutely love...
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I've reasoned it out in my brain.

The shaft is the key to the cog adapter settings. Once the adapter is installed, it is appropriately angled so that the COG settings "clock" the driver head at the various different positions.

Notice that you have two parts to the COG that can rotate freely and be puzzled together. These pieces are only relevant if the Shaft + Line + Adapter combo is installed in the proper orientation with the driver head. AKA lines are matched and you can seat the driver on the ground at N/S.

In the examples cited in previous posts, say you keep the shaft in your hand and you're looking down at the driver head. Now imagine, you hold the shaft in the same position but you move around the two COG pieces and mis-align the lines. Now when you have to rotate the shaft - to seat the club again (because the driver head is now in a completely different, unseatable orientation, It could be upside down!), the driver line and the shaft line are now mis-matched.

So what's changed? Well the shaft is misaligned therefore you simply have a completely different setting than stated (driver or shaft). I couldn't tell you what that setting is but it's 100% one of the other settings of the shaft depending on which part of the clock allows you to seat the driver head. You can reason this out by rotating one at a time until you go around 360 and end up back with matching lines.

Rambling done, but I'm pretty sure this is the answer. Don't take my word for my small brain theory. :censored:
 
The core head is really really good. I'm glad there are a ton of options out there but it's hard to argue with what this guy does.

It goes a long way and keeps the ball in play. Really sums up what I want out of a driver. I don't think there's an argument that this is the best driver head I've ever had.

The speed retention toe-heel is just incredible. I absolutely hit one so far on the heel last time out and still ended up in the fairway with a shot to a pretty long par 5. Completely undeserved result from that swing.


I've been tempted with some of the TD stuff. At ECPC the core and the reg TD were very very similar in the brief fitting so I keep reminding myself of that.
 
Joshnoble01 said:
Hey all. This is more callaway driver adjacent and regarding the cog settings. When I was fit at ECPC I was fit into core with N/S. When I was testing the proto and switching shafts around I thought I put myself back into N/S but I lined up head to N/S but shaft is lined up to N/+2. What setting am I actually in if I lined up the shaft correctly with head.


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This post @vgolfman
 
I've had the Elyte Core driver in play for 5 months now and I truly feel like I've experienced a big leap forward in my tee game. The Elyte is delivering improvements across the board and is the complete package of distance/speed and forgiveness.

So far, shotscope is telling me I'm hitting this about 10 yards further than my prior gamer (Paradym X). I've hit a couple of absolute bombs that blow my previous best drives out of the water which is always fun, but its not those one off bombs that has me excited about this driver, its the consistency of getting that little more distance. On my regular courses, I'm finding myself just a little further down the hole than before leaving me with shorter approach shots which is great. As someone who utilizes the entire face of the driver, I truly believe the Ai10x face is really doing its job to help me retain speed on my mishits and just deliver more consistent distance on each shot.

Distance is always a nice gain, but I think the biggest improvement and change to my tee game is tighter dispersion. Its as if the Elyte just wants to send the ball straight and into the fairway no matter where you hit it on the face. Don't get me wrong, I have put some way offline, but on the average, my tee shot is in play FAR more often with the Elyte. Again, turning to some of my shotscope data, my fairway % has gone from 36% last year to 50% this year with the Elyte Core in play. I'm kind of blown away seeing this kind of change.

Still early in the season so I'm sure some of these averages and data will change over time, but could not be happier with the Elyte Core at the top of the bag. Confidence off the tee is sky high.
 
outlawx said:
Man your driver game is light years better now. Those are some super impressive drives and gains in a very, very short period of time. How has the technology of the head improved your confidence and game. It seems the combo of spin reduction and forgiveness of the core head is absolutely money.
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The distance gains are absolutely due to lower spin, and somewhat due to a faster head.
The core head feels much more "solid" to me, and the results are absolutely driving confidence in the club for me. And thus I feel like I can go after it more. There is no doubt the core Elyte head is a much better fit for me though. I knew it three swings into the first session with it. The results were that obvious.

I will say I saw better results on the sim last night after I swapped out the front weight for one that is double the weight. It brought spin down some more in the process.
I am kind of wondering if just the overall increased weight is helping my swing more as well. I'm now in a 65g shaft vs 55, have heavier head weights in, and also a super heavy grip. I don't have any 75g shafts to try but am now wondering if that wouldn't be the ticket.

The results I'm seeing does not mean the core head is a better head than the Elyte X. It shows how much difference it makes from person to person on their swing and tendencies.
 
Checking in on my overall testing experience with the Elyte 9* driver -

A lot of what I experienced on the range at ECPC and in early testing has held true, along with a couple surprises. Like at ECPC, I still much prefer the matte/contrasting carbon finish to the TD and other lines. I've had to work a little bit to not get the ball turning over too much, but with the adjustability of the head I've been able to get it to a nice spot. A surprising benefit of the core head has been the low spin, where at time's I've actually moved the weights to add spin. So I'm getting the benefits of super forgiving head while still getting the benefits of low spin. At the moment I am settled on a 10g weight forward, 13g weight rear fade combo. There are times it dips a little too close to 2k spin, but I have not seen any knuckleballs on course so I am sticking with this combo for the time being.

The AI10x face has absolutely worked as advertised. I feel like if I get the clubface pointed in the right direction I don't need to worry too much about where I'm hitting it on the face. This frees me up to really just work on making square contact, which tends to be a bigger problem for me anyway.

The sound for me strikes a nice balance of not too loud/soft, not too carbon-y, and not too metallic. That might make it a little non-distinct, but you still get a nice feeling of power when you hit in on the screws.

The Aretera EC1 Blue I was fit into at ECPC produced good numbers, but I was kind of in a like-but-not-love relationship with it as far as feel and hitting it on course. Getting picked to test the Steelfiber Nexus Black for THP has been an incredible combo and I feel like I'm using it to extract all the performance out of the Elyte head, with both good and great swings getting great results.
 
Muchmore said:
What were your old Epic settings? is 12.5 different for you?
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Epic had the weight set on the draw side - other setting were N/S but I didn't have the white lines on the same side so kinda a mystery but I was hitting mostly draws/straight
12.5 is two degrees higher - just went and hit it felt like big bombs as I am not used to seeing that type of height - won't get out and play on a course till Thursday
 
bajapalm said:
Epic had the weight set on the draw side - other setting were N/S but I didn't have the white lines on the same side so kinda a mystery but I was hitting mostly draws/straight
12.5 is two degrees higher - just went and hit it felt like big bombs as I am not used to seeing that type of height - won't get out and play on a course till Thursday
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Excited to hear how it goes!
 
Wow 5 months with this driver is pretty incredible how fast the time goes.

So have to say this driver is pretty incredible. I no longer have a swipey right miss that goes off the planet. Breaking it down further these are what really stand out to me so far in my time with this incredible driver.

  1. Spin mitigation and retention. This face seems to be able to add spin when its needed and take some off when you do not. I have yet to see a ball drop out of the air due to lack of spin and some of "my oh man this is going off the planet" shots were still right edge of the fairway.
  2. Stability. There is a lot of talk about 10k moi and how that is forgiveness. The core head does not achieve this metric, however it is the most stable driver I have hit. Toe and heel strikes do not open or close the face like drivers I have used in the past. Even my patented top of the face/crown strikes seem to go an unreasonably long way given how poor the strike is.
  3. Speed. Weather its the new shaping or just over all increased energy into the ball due to lack of spin. This driver is as advertised and perhaps further for me due to all the characteristics listed. It is just such a consistent driver.

Overall this might not be a tech forward as the wood line is this release cycle but its so, so very good. It has really helped me improve my tee game by a large margin.
 
Check in on Grandaddy bag.

Driver –

What I was fit into at ECPC. I was fit into Elyte 12* Core Head. We had it set at N/S with the weight in the toe to help promote a fade and avoid my big miss which is a hook. I was fit into the Aretera ECI 55 regular.

Current Setup/Tinkering – I have played the club in the settings for all of my swings with the club until I received the THP UST Proto. I played 1 round with it and then started another round and had the round from hell and switched back to EC1 halfway through second round and played my subsequent round with it. I will probably tinker a bit with the Proto shaft but the Aretera is so good for me I will probably stick with what I was fit into at ECPC. I am not a huge tinkerer by nature so I don’t have some strong desire to buy shafts and test them out.

How is it going? - Very Well. I am driving the ball better than I have ever. I am loving this club so far. I can honestly say it is making golf more fun.

Distance wise I am about the same but accuracy seems so much better for me. I think 9% improvement is a ton for me. And I think the misses are smaller for me.

My biggest thing for me is the hook left into death and retee is pretty much gone. I am pretty much playing a slight fade. The misses to the left are mostly I hit a straight ball and aimed down the left side of fairway. 2024 lefts were death hook and gone.

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I am digging the core head. I have used it both with a Fuji Speeder VI shaft and a LINQ Blue, and am seeing some great distance and forgiveness with both.

Of course since I have been changing shafts, I have been forgetting to swap the Shot Scope tags so missing some data I would love to analyze. Will be more cognizant of that going forward.
 
amarkabove said:
The line on the shaft was on the opposite side of the head from the line on the head.

Pictures here:

Callaway Elyte Drivers – Elyte, Elyte X, Elyte Max Fast and Elyte Triple Diamond

I had an Ai Smoke last year, I took lessons over winter and my swing speed increased to the point I was in need of a new shaft. Luckily, I had a family member that was in love with my Ai Smoke, and willingly bought it for $100 off new price. So now I am in a Stiff flex Elyte and absolutely love...
www.thehackersparadise.com
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First off, WE DO NOT RECOMMEND YOU DO THAT! The line on the shaft adaptor should always be lined up with the line on the head.

> https://www.callawaygolf.com/optifi...hAmtvD_3vw_IvMgBTrpg54UFhpkJy0T1hrB_baABuo5ON

Second, that N/+2 setting being at basically at the 270-degree position should be about 2-3-ish degrees upright and about 1 degree strong. So, if the driver is performing well, move the cogs to -1/D and insert it correctly and you will be very close to the same loft/lie specs.

EDITED: I accidently wrote +1/D, not -1/D, in my original post. 1 degree strong equates to the -1 setting, obviously.
 
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vgolfman said:
First off, WE DO NOT RECOMMEND YOU DO THAT! The line on the shaft adaptor should always be lined up with the line on the head.

> https://www.callawaygolf.com/optifi...hAmtvD_3vw_IvMgBTrpg54UFhpkJy0T1hrB_baABuo5ON

Second, that N/+2 setting being at basically at the 270-degree position should be about 2-3-ish degrees upright and about 1 degree strong. So, if the driver is performing well, move the cogs to +1/D and insert it correctly and you will be very close to the same loft/lie specs.
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Yep, I assume we weren't supposed to do that. It was definitely an accident. Thank you for the help.
 
Joshnoble01 said:
Check in on Grandaddy bag.

Driver –

What I was fit into at ECPC. I was fit into Elyte 12* Core Head. We had it set at N/S with the weight in the toe to help promote a fade and avoid my big miss which is a hook. I was fit into the Aretera ECI 55 regular.

Current Setup/Tinkering – I have played the club in the settings for all of my swings with the club until I received the THP UST Proto. I played 1 round with it and then started another round and had the round from hell and switched back to EC1 halfway through second round and played my subsequent round with it. I will probably tinker a bit with the Proto shaft but the Aretera is so good for me I will probably stick with what I was fit into at ECPC. I am not a huge tinkerer by nature so I don’t have some strong desire to buy shafts and test them out.

How is it going? - Very Well. I am driving the ball better than I have ever. I am loving this club so far. I can honestly say it is making golf more fun.

Distance wise I am about the same but accuracy seems so much better for me. I think 9% improvement is a ton for me. And I think the misses are smaller for me.

My biggest thing for me is the hook left into death and retee is pretty much gone. I am pretty much playing a slight fade. The misses to the left are mostly I hit a straight ball and aimed down the left side of fairway. 2024 lefts were death hook and gone.

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That’s a nice bump in fairways found! Over 50% pretty damn good!
 
vgolfman said:
First off, WE DO NOT RECOMMEND YOU DO THAT! The line on the shaft adaptor should always be lined up with the line on the head.

> https://www.callawaygolf.com/optifi...hAmtvD_3vw_IvMgBTrpg54UFhpkJy0T1hrB_baABuo5ON

Second, that N/+2 setting being at basically at the 270-degree position should be about 2-3-ish degrees upright and about 1 degree strong. So, if the driver is performing well, move the cogs to -1/D and insert it correctly and you will be very close to the same loft/lie specs.

EDITED: I accidently wrote +1/D, not -1/D, in my original post. 1 degree strong equates to the -1 setting, obviously.
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Man of the people!
 
vgolfman said:
First off, WE DO NOT RECOMMEND YOU DO THAT! The line on the shaft adaptor should always be lined up with the line on the head.

> https://www.callawaygolf.com/optifi...hAmtvD_3vw_IvMgBTrpg54UFhpkJy0T1hrB_baABuo5ON

Second, that N/+2 setting being at basically at the 270-degree position should be about 2-3-ish degrees upright and about 1 degree strong. So, if the driver is performing well, move the cogs to -1/D and insert it correctly and you will be very close to the same loft/lie specs.

EDITED: I accidently wrote +1/D, not -1/D, in my original post. 1 degree strong equates to the -1 setting, obviously.
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@vgolfman with the knowledge bomb….. from downtown!

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Muchmore said:
Did you see his edit?
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Yes I did. I went to reset my driver and forgot if it was +1 or -1. Glad I didn't remember Plus 1. Will be curious how it works out next time out on the course. As I said in my update, I am not much of a tinkerer. But I want to test this because the driver was legit as good as I do purely because I messed up setting it up and had to know what it was..

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Where does everyone have the set to on the adapter (besides @Joshnoble01 ) ?


Been at -1/N since the start.

Debating going -1/D next time out. :unsure:
 
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