Callaway launched the new Great Big Bertha Epic drivers in our market on April 19 of this year at the Wack Wack Golf and Country Club in Mandaluyong; fashionably late to the party, just after its rivals products have already hit the market. No matter. After all, the Callaway Great Big Bertha Epic and Epic Star drivers have a competitive advantage their opponents do not—Jailbreak Technology.
Tour drivers typically emphasize the performance that better players want most—speed, low spin and control—at the expense of forgiveness. Great Big Bertha Epic series of drivers combine tour performance and forgiveness to make it a breakthrough in driver engineering.
Epic is based on Callaway’s innovative new Jailbreak Technology, which fundamentally changes how the head and clubface behave at impact to deliver more speed and distance. At impact, a metalwood’s face flexes and the crown bulges upward while the sole bulges downward. The Jailbreak bars behind the clubface form a firm connection between the crown and sole to inhibit the flexing. That puts more of the load of impact on the clubface. Physicists call this “energy lensing”. In Epic it promotes greater ball speed for increased distance.
Both Epic clubheads are made from one-piece castings to minimize energy loss at impact and create the highest ball speeds within conforming CT limits. Both heads have three-way carbon (tri-axial) material on the crown and sole to allow more free weight placement on the heads. This triaxial carbon is lighter and thinner than forged composite and adds just 9.7 grams of weight to the clubhead.
The Epic Subzero has front and back adjustable weights to create low or high spin control and an adjustable hosel. Epic Star has perimeter weighting for CG bias control but a non-adjustable hosel. Epic Subzero is a low spin driver and Epic Star a speed driver.
Somewhat lost in the limelight was Odyssey’s new O-Works line of putters with the revolutionary new insert featuring Microhinge Technology. The Microhinge insert consists of two pieces—a 304 stainless Hinge Plate backed by a soft thermoplastic elastomer inner layer. The Hinge Plate is populated with “microhinges” designed to gently flex and rebound at impact to impart forward spin. This helps start the ball rolling immediately, smoothly and accurately. The two components are comolded to ensure they fit perfectly together in an elaborate 23-step process.
Odyssey’s O-Works putters are available in the company’s most popular head shapes to appeal to the most number of golfers possible. Odyssey O-Works putters also employ Odyssey’s Versa-T alignment technology, making it extremely easy to determine precisely where the face is aimed.
Look for Callaway Epic drivers and the Odyssey O-works line of putters and the rest of the Callaway family of products in a proshop near you.