Why You Ought to Care Concerning the New Cleveland Fairways and “Hy-Woods”

I like that Cleveland Golf is getting a leap on the 2025 launch season.

For a challenger model on the skin trying in with metalwoods, getting your stuff out forward of the January launch cacophony is just good advertising and marketing. When your new stuff is attention-getting, properly, that’s even smarter.

The brand new and distinctive Cleveland HiBore XL driver most undoubtedly deserves your consideration. Nonetheless, the brand new additions to Cleveland’s HALO XL fairway wooden and “Hy-Wooden” traces would possibly matter probably the most to you.

Particularly in case you’re the kind of golfer who heads south for an prolonged winter keep and will use a little bit lightness in your life.

Let’s look at, lets?

Cleveland HALO XL Lite fairway woods

You may typically be taught the aim of one thing by merely studying its identify backward. A stress differential bypass valve, for instance, is a valve that bypasses stress differential. Due to this fact, a Cleveland HALO XL Lite fairway wooden is a fairway wooden that’s lighter than Cleveland’s year-old HALO XL fairway woods.

You bought it. Class dismissed.

Particularly, the HALO XL Lite fairways are 22 grams lighter than their extra bloated counterparts. Moreover, every mannequin (3-, 5- and 7-wood) is higher-lofted by 1.5 levels. If it’s dawning on you that these fairways are focused for slower swing velocity gamers, you get a gold star.

If it isn’t, we’ll wait whilst you catch up.

For many novice golfers, fairway woods may be irritating. We are inclined to grip tighter and swing more durable. For gradual to average swingers, getting the ball up within the air may be much more irritating. Twenty-two grams lighter might not sound like a lot (it’s in regards to the weight of an AA battery) however when mixed with the upper loft, it’s a recipe for carry and distance for many who want it.

It’s a recipe Cleveland is aware of properly, relationship again to the unique HALO hybrid. HALO, in any case, stands for Excessive Angle Elevate Off.

HALO XL Lite specifics

The Cleveland HALO XL Lite fairways function all the identical expertise because the non-Lite variations. The XL denotes a relatively extra-large head design to push the CG low and deep for high-launching forgiveness. You’ll additionally discover Cleveland’s signature Rebound Body expertise which options a number of flex zones close to the face to advertise ball velocity. Flip it the other way up and also you’ll see GlideRails, Cleveland’s tackle COBRA’s authentic Baffler sole rails.

The HALO XL Lite additionally options Cleveland’s Mainframe AI-designed variable-thickness face. Whereas the pattern in fairway woods is towards shallower faces, the HALO line leans deeper.

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“Your max forgiveness fairway woods have gotten thinner within the face since you’re attempting to get the CG a low as attainable to maximise launch,” explains Cleveland Product Supervisor Casey Schultz. “That is smart on a launch monitor and it is smart on the vary once you’re hitting off a comparatively flat lie.”

When you’re on the course, nonetheless, the lie you get is the lie you get. A fluffy lie on the perimeter or tough makes the ball sit up. Mix that with a higher-handicap swing that sweeps under the ball and also you wind up with shot so excessive and quick the ump will name the infield fly rule.

“The taller face works properly within the becoming bay but it surely works higher on the course,” says Schultz. “It’s the sort of factor that doesn’t essentially present up on launch screens but it surely does make a distinction once you’re taking part in golf.”

Two new Hy-Woods

It’s quiz time, fellow Golf Spies.

What’s greater than a hybrid however smaller than a fairway wooden?

Sure, my pals, it’s a Hy-Wooden.

Cleveland didn’t invent the outsized hybrid/undersized fairway wooden however since its introduction in 2021, the HALO XL Hy-Wooden has given Cleveland a management place in that admittedly small class. The brand new launch isn’t an improve; it’s merely Cleveland including two new lofts to the road.

“It’s a singular product that makes quite a lot of sense for individuals who battle with fairway woods however need a little bit extra distance of their recreation,” says Schultz. “We’ve had quite a lot of success with the three+ and 4+ Hy-Woods so we’re including a 5+ and 6+ so gamers can expertise distance and forgiveness larger up of their bag.”

The brand new 5+ Hy-Wooden is 24 levels, the 6+ is 27 levels. The brand new fashions function the identical expertise as the green woods: MainFrame variable-face thickness, GlideRails on the only real, Rebound Body for ball velocity and an XL (extra-large) head. That permits for weighting decrease and deeper than you’d discover in any hybrid so, in idea, making them simpler to hit.

The Hy-Wooden incorporates a shorter shaft than a comparable fairway wooden which, once more in idea, must also make them simpler to hit.

Specs, value, availability

The brand new Cleveland Halo XL Lite fairway woods shall be out there in males’s and girls’s fashions. They’ll be supplied in 3HL, 5HL and 7HL (16.5, 19.5 and 22.5 levels) in S-, R-, A- and L-flexes. The Aldila Ascent PL 40 is the inventory shaft. The Golf Delight Tour Velvet 360 Lite is the inventory males’s grip whereas the Lamkin ST Mushy is inventory for ladies.

The 3HL and 5HL males’s and girls’s fashions shall be out there for lefties and righties; the 7HL right-handed solely. Ladies’s left-handed fashions shall be out there by way of customized order solely.

The 5+ and 6+ HALO XL Hy-Woods shall be out there in males’s and girls’s fashions however solely in right-handed. The Aldila Ascent PL 40 is the inventory shaft in the identical 4 flexes. The Lamkin Crossline 360 is the inventory males’s grip whereas the Lamkin ST Mushy is the inventory girls’s grip.