Callaway’s new golf driver face combines titanium, carbon fiber, and a military-grade polymer found in an unlikely way
Sign Up For Goods 🛍️ Product news, reviews, and must-have deals. Golf driver faces have been almost exclusively titanium for more than three decades, with some detours into carbon fiber. Callaway tried one of those detours itself with the all-composite C4 in the early 2000s. Its new Quantum drivers take a different approach to the problem: keep the titanium, add the carbon, and bond the two with a polymer the company describes as “military-grade.” The layered build, which Callaway is calling the Tri-Force Face, debuts across all five of its flagship Quantum driver heads this season. The titanium-carbon trade-off It’s a slick-looking face. Callway Titanium has been the industry standard for driver faces for years and for good reason. At impact, the face has to flex inward and snap back fast enough to launch the ball before contact ends. Golf’s governing agency, the USGA, caps how long the ball can stay on the face using a measurement called Characteristic Time, or CT. It’s one of the biggest technical constraints that keeps drivers in check for …
