This is my full review of the brand new callaway epic flash driver callaway spent a lot of money on a supercomputer. And apparently with its artificial intelligence it's making the club face faster than they have ever been able to make it before let's see if that's actually the case hi guys i'm rick shields pj golf professional if you are new to my youtube channel welcome hit that subscribe button share this video around to your girlfriends. And also like the video we're going to be covering the callaway epic flash. And the callaway epic flash sub-zero testing it on launch monitor and out on the golf course to see if a super computer artificial intelligence can make the ball come faster off this club face the big story with the new callaway driver is it's going to produce more ball speed. Or that's what they say and they've done that via this new flash face callaway have spent a lot of money on a super computer using artificial intelligence this super computer is around 15 000 virtual prototypes to come to this new design which is the flash face design. And it's baffled engineers because it looks nothing like driver faces i've ever seen before internally it is a series of thinning. And thicknesses of the club face that almost circulate around the center spot and out towards the perimeter which is claiming is going to be giving you faster ball speeds across the face. And it looks so unusual because it doesn't look tidy it doesn't look neat it looks like it's it's almost a prototype that's gone wrong but this apparently supercomputer has tested it and test it and test it until it says this is the best version that we can make inside the legal limits governed by the governing bodies. And that's what they've put in the new callaway epic flash and i guess that's where the the word flash comes from so that's the face behind the new callaway epic flash and the callaway epic flash sub-zero both drivers still feature jailbreak which is a big story over the last couple of years. For callaway a way of connecting the top and the bottom of the driver to give more stability epic flash has now introduced again the sliding weight across the back of the perimeter it's got a new weave on top a new carbon weave apparently but they've removed any airflow aerodynamic features on the top of the crown which was a big story over the last couple of years both drivers do feature the adjustable neck system. And the epic flash sub zero has a weight closer to the face to bring that spin down and the weight at the back isn't as heavy as the weight that's in the epic flash the one thing i find weird is the naming they've come back out with the name epic which really feels two years old now they're epic rogue. And then.
They've gone back to epic flash i think these could have just been called callaway flash. And callaway flash sub zero the price of the callaway flash and the flash sub zero at the time of release 500 pounds and 529 which is definitely on the high side of the spectrum it's kind of where drivers are going at the moment they're all in around that 500 mark. So now it comes to the time of testing to see if the new flash face actually gives me any more ball speed where the supercomputer has designed something that's going to make me hit the ball a lot further. So gc quad probably runs and i tested the subzero version first because that's the one that suits me the most wait a little bit more forward and these are the numbers i got. So i've got my optimum performance chart up on screen and i've got the epic flash sub-zero numbers coming into the screen now and as you can see we saw massive gains in distance 293 yards of carry distance 316 total distance which is huge high launch super low spin giving me long long hit some of the longest i've ever hit. And test which was the flash sub-zero with the epic flash i was getting 284 carry three. Or four total slightly higher spin not as high launch it's kind of what i normally see with the more standard version not the low spin but that's just me testing them then.
We go back to ball speed did we find any more ball speed with the callaway epic. And the epic flash sub-zero well the answer to that is yes with the sub-zeros getting 161.5 miles per hour. And the flash 160 miles per hour and those numbers are definitely on the top end of my spectrum however. they're not the fastest i've ever got from drivers i've ever tested callaways tend to give me very fast ball speeds. And at the the time of testing i also put the rogues into test to see how much of a difference it made from last year's models and it was marginal gains. But it was gains the sub-zero from last year versus the new sub-zero i was getting one. And a half miles per hour faster ball speed and that was giving me slightly more distance bearing in mind only two to three yards of extra distance. But i find that the callaway drivers do produce fastball speeds whether that's the jailbreak whether that's the new flash face whether it's a combination of everything. And do hit these a long way getting them out in the golf course. And testing them that's where we went next.
Foreign [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] so after spending some time with both drivers out on the golf course i saw similar results from the launch monitor i was hitting these drivers a long way they were absolutely being smoked what i also found with both drivers off-center hits performed really well i didn't feel like i got punished that badly when i didn't hit the middle of the face it's a huge positive. For someone who doesn't hit the middle of the face all the time i really like the shaping of the callaway flash sub-zero it's a slightly smaller head shape noticeably smaller than the flash and it just is very pleasing to the eye when it sat behind the golf ball. And the things that i disliked with the epic flash and the epic flash sub zero was the sound of these two drivers all right. So high pitched it was tinny. And i appreciate that's personal preference but i really love the sound of the original epic i thought that was the best sound kind of crunchy carb. And dead noise you can get from a driver where both the flash. And the sub-zero didn't offer that it was much more high pitched another thing personally i'm not a big fan of is the cosmetics don't particularly like the bright green. Or the yellow and even bringing the word epic back in just feels like it's dated too quickly and i realize again that's something that i'm not fond of and other people will do. But when you are looking to purchase a driver it's important to factor in all these components because when you're spending this type of price tag on a driver 500 pound plus 500 you need to love it a bit. So if anything kind of slightly puts you off it might really put you off the quality of driving or even the performance because it could affect it in that way distance wise it's right up there these things are flying machines. And for me certainly the sub-zero was high on the end of the spectrum if it sounded better. And have a slightly different paint job which is actually something that might be worth noticing i think they are bringing out a sort of uh customization option which i think a lot of people might do maybe that's why they made it this horrible green color it's worth giving it a go because i found good distance. And good gains guys thanks for watching that was my full review of the callaway epic flash. And their flash sub-zero thanks for watching we'll see you next.
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