7 drivers tie as the lowest-lofted of 2024: Callaway Paradym Ai Smoke Triple Diamond, Cobra DARKSPEED LS Driver, PXG Black Ops Drivers and 4 more, all down to 8°.
All 29 drivers with a loft are ranked below, along with 7 more lists: highest opening loft, widest loft range, narrowest loft range, most upright lie, flattest lie, longest, shortest.
Every driver the record publishes a 2024 release year for. A model year is the year a club was launched, not the year it was designed or the year it left the shops — a driver still on sale is still filed under the year it launched.
Each figure is ranked from both ends — strongest and weakest, most and least — over the same clubs, and each list counts only the clubs that publish that figure, so the totals differ between them. Loft, lie, offset and bounce are fitting specifications — a stronger loft is a longer-carrying club of the same name, not a better one, and neither end of any list here is the good end. How this is worked out.
Who they are built for
The 29 drivers by handicap band — DERIVED from published loft, offset and length by the same classifier the fitting uses, never taken from a maker's marketing copy. A club whose category publishes nothing to read keeps its own row rather than being sorted into a band nobody computed.
| Handicap band | drivers | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Low handicap | 4 | 13.8% | |
| Mid handicap | 15 | 51.7% | |
| High handicap | 10 | 34.5% |
Lowest published loft
— the top 25 of 29 clubs with a loft
| # | Club | Brand | lowest loft |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Callaway Paradym Ai Smoke Triple Diamond | Callaway | 8° |
| 1 | Cobra DARKSPEED LS Driver | Cobra | 8° |
| 1 | PXG Black Ops Drivers | PXG | 8° |
| 1 | TaylorMade Qi10 LS Driver | TaylorMade | 8° |
| 1 | Titleist GT2 Driver | Titleist | 8° |
| 1 | Titleist GT3 Driver | Titleist | 8° |
| 1 | Titleist GT4 Driver | Titleist | 8° |
| 8 | Callaway Paradym Ai Smoke MAX | Callaway | 9° |
| 8 | Callaway Paradym Ai Smoke MAX D | Callaway | 9° |
| 8 | Cobra DARKSPEED MAX Driver | Cobra | 9° |
| 8 | Cobra DARKSPEED X Driver | Cobra | 9° |
| 8 | Honma BERES 09 Black Driver | Honma | 9° |
| 8 | Honma TW767 Driver | Honma | 9° |
| 8 | Honma TW767 LS Driver | Honma | 9° |
| 8 | Honma TW767 Max Driver | Honma | 9° |
| 8 | PING G430 MAX 10K | PING | 9° |
| 8 | TaylorMade Qi10 Driver | TaylorMade | 9° |
| 8 | TaylorMade Qi10 Max Driver | TaylorMade | 9° |
| 19 | Honma BERES 09 2-Star Driver | Honma | 9.5° |
| 19 | Honma BERES 09 3-Star Driver | Honma | 9.5° |
| 19 | Honma BERES 09 4-Star Driver | Honma | 9.5° |
| 19 | Mizuno Mizuno ST-G (24 ST-G) | Mizuno | 9.5° |
| 19 | Mizuno ST-MAX 230 Driver | Mizuno | 9.5° |
| 19 | Tour Edge Hot Launch C524 Driver | Tour Edge | 9.5° |
| 19 | XXIO XXIO 13 Driver | XXIO | 9.5° |
The lowest loft the model is sold in. A driver line opening at 8° and one opening at 10.5° are aimed at different players; this is that difference, stated in the manufacturer’s own numbers. Irons are excluded — their lowest loft is whichever long iron the set happens to start at, which measures set composition rather than the club.
Highest opening loft
— the top 25 of 29 clubs with a loft
The lowest loft the model is sold in. A driver line opening at 8° and one opening at 10.5° are aimed at different players; this is that difference, stated in the manufacturer’s own numbers. Irons are excluded — their lowest loft is whichever long iron the set happens to start at, which measures set composition rather than the club.
Widest loft range
— the top 25 of 29 clubs with two or more lofts
Degrees between the highest and lowest loft the model is published in — how far the line stretches to fit different players. Measured over the lofts on record for the model; a model we hold in a single loft has an unmeasured span and is left off rather than recorded as zero. Putters are excluded, being sold at one loft.
Narrowest loft range
— the top 25 of 29 clubs with two or more lofts
Degrees between the highest and lowest loft the model is published in — how far the line stretches to fit different players. Measured over the lofts on record for the model; a model we hold in a single loft has an unmeasured span and is left off rather than recorded as zero. Putters are excluded, being sold at one loft.
Most upright lie
— all 23 clubs with a lie angle
| # | Club | Brand | lie angle |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tour Edge Hot Launch E524 Driver | Tour Edge | 62° |
| 2 | Callaway Paradym Ai Smoke MAX D | Callaway | 60° |
| 2 | Honma TW767 Max Driver | Honma | 60° |
| 2 | PXG Black Ops Drivers | PXG | 60° |
| 2 | Tour Edge Hot Launch C524 Driver | Tour Edge | 60° |
| 6 | Callaway Paradym Ai Smoke MAX Fast | Callaway | 59.5° |
| 7 | Cobra DARKSPEED MAX Driver | Cobra | 59.2° |
| 8 | Honma BERES 09 2-Star Driver | Honma | 59° |
| 8 | Honma BERES 09 3-Star Driver | Honma | 59° |
| 8 | Honma BERES 09 4-Star Driver | Honma | 59° |
| 8 | Honma BERES 09 Black Driver | Honma | 59° |
| 8 | Honma TW767 Driver | Honma | 59° |
| 8 | Honma TW767 LS Driver | Honma | 59° |
| 8 | XXIO XXIO 13 Driver | XXIO | 59° |
| 8 | XXIO XXIO 13 Ladies Driver | XXIO | 59° |
| 16 | PING G430 MAX 10K | PING | 58.5° |
| 16 | Titleist GT2 Driver | Titleist | 58.5° |
| 16 | Titleist GT3 Driver | Titleist | 58.5° |
| 16 | Titleist GT4 Driver | Titleist | 58.5° |
| 20 | Callaway Paradym Ai Smoke MAX | Callaway | 58° |
| 21 | Cobra DARKSPEED X Driver | Cobra | 57.2° |
| 22 | Callaway Paradym Ai Smoke Triple Diamond | Callaway | 57° |
| 23 | Cobra DARKSPEED LS Driver | Cobra | 55.7° |
The published lie angle, measured from the ground. Irons are read at the 7-iron; every other category at the most upright figure the model publishes. PING quotes putter lie from vertical rather than horizontal, so those figures are converted onto the common scale before comparison and the club’s own page still shows the number PING published.
Flattest lie
— all 23 clubs with a lie angle
| # | Club | Brand | lie angle |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cobra DARKSPEED LS Driver | Cobra | 55.7° |
| 2 | Callaway Paradym Ai Smoke Triple Diamond | Callaway | 57° |
| 3 | Cobra DARKSPEED X Driver | Cobra | 57.2° |
| 4 | Callaway Paradym Ai Smoke MAX | Callaway | 58° |
| 5 | PING G430 MAX 10K | PING | 58.5° |
| 5 | Titleist GT2 Driver | Titleist | 58.5° |
| 5 | Titleist GT3 Driver | Titleist | 58.5° |
| 5 | Titleist GT4 Driver | Titleist | 58.5° |
| 9 | Honma BERES 09 2-Star Driver | Honma | 59° |
| 9 | Honma BERES 09 3-Star Driver | Honma | 59° |
| 9 | Honma BERES 09 4-Star Driver | Honma | 59° |
| 9 | Honma BERES 09 Black Driver | Honma | 59° |
| 9 | Honma TW767 Driver | Honma | 59° |
| 9 | Honma TW767 LS Driver | Honma | 59° |
| 9 | XXIO XXIO 13 Driver | XXIO | 59° |
| 9 | XXIO XXIO 13 Ladies Driver | XXIO | 59° |
| 17 | Cobra DARKSPEED MAX Driver | Cobra | 59.2° |
| 18 | Callaway Paradym Ai Smoke MAX Fast | Callaway | 59.5° |
| 19 | Callaway Paradym Ai Smoke MAX D | Callaway | 60° |
| 19 | Honma TW767 Max Driver | Honma | 60° |
| 19 | PXG Black Ops Drivers | PXG | 60° |
| 19 | Tour Edge Hot Launch C524 Driver | Tour Edge | 60° |
| 23 | Tour Edge Hot Launch E524 Driver | Tour Edge | 62° |
The published lie angle, measured from the ground. Irons are read at the 7-iron; every other category at the most upright figure the model publishes. PING quotes putter lie from vertical rather than horizontal, so those figures are converted onto the common scale before comparison and the club’s own page still shows the number PING published.
Longest
— the top 25 of 29 clubs with a length
Published playing length in inches. Irons are read at the 7-iron, so a set starting at a 3-iron is not credited with length a set starting at a 5-iron never had; every other category is read at the longest club the model is published in.
Shortest
— the top 25 of 29 clubs with a length
Published playing length in inches. Irons are read at the 7-iron, so a set starting at a 3-iron is not credited with length a set starting at a 5-iron never had; every other category is read at the longest club the model is published in.
Who makes them
The 10 brands with the most, of 10 with at least one driver on record. Each brand with its own boards links to them, where its line is ranked against itself and never against another maker's.
| Brand | drivers | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Honma | 7 | 24.1% | |
| Callaway | 4 | 13.8% | |
| TaylorMade | 4 | 13.8% | |
| Cobra | 3 | 10.3% | |
| Titleist | 3 | 10.3% | |
| Mizuno | 2 | 6.9% | |
| Tour Edge | 2 | 6.9% | |
| XXIO | 2 | 6.9% | |
| PING | 1 | 3.4% | |
| PXG | 1 | 3.4% |