3 fairway woods tie as the lowest-lofted of 2025: Titleist GT280, Tour Edge Exotics C725 Fairway and Tour Edge Exotics LS Fairway, all down to 13°.
All 43 fairway woods 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 fairway wood the record publishes a 2025 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 fairway wood 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 43 fairway woods 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 | fairway woods | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Low handicap | 5 | 11.6% | |
| Mid handicap | 25 | 58.1% | |
| High handicap | 13 | 30.2% |
Lowest published loft
— the top 25 of 43 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.
Highest opening loft
— the top 25 of 43 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 40 clubs with two or more lofts
| # | Club | Brand | loft range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Callaway Elyte | Callaway | 12° |
| 1 | PXG Lightning Fairways | PXG | 12° |
| 3 | XXIO XXIO 14 Ladies Fairway Woods | XXIO | 10° |
| 4 | Callaway Elyte Max Fast | Callaway | 9° |
| 4 | Cobra DS-ADAPT MAX Fairway | Cobra | 9° |
| 4 | PING G440 MAX | PING | 9° |
| 4 | PING G440 MAX HL | PING | 9° |
| 4 | TaylorMade Qi35 Max Fairway | TaylorMade | 9° |
| 4 | Titleist GT1 Fairway | Titleist | 9° |
| 4 | Tour Edge Exotics Max Fairway | Tour Edge | 9° |
| 4 | XXIO XXIO Prime Fairway Woods | XXIO | 9° |
| 12 | XXIO XXIO 14 Fairway Woods | XXIO | 8° |
| 13 | Srixon ZXi Fairway Woods | Srixon | 7.5° |
| 13 | Wilson DYNAPWR Carbon Fairway Wood | Wilson | 7.5° |
| 15 | Tour Edge Exotics Lite Fairway | Tour Edge | 7° |
| 15 | XXIO XXIO Prime Royal Edition Ladies Fairway Woods | XXIO | 7° |
| 17 | Ben Hogan PTx MAX Fairway Woods | Ben Hogan | 6° |
| 17 | Callaway Apex Utility Woods | Callaway | 6° |
| 17 | Callaway Elyte Triple Diamond | Callaway | 6° |
| 17 | Callaway Elyte X | Callaway | 6° |
| 17 | Cobra DS-ADAPT X Fairway | Cobra | 6° |
| 17 | Honma TW777 Fairway Wood | Honma | 6° |
| 17 | Honma TW777 Max Fairway Wood | Honma | 6° |
| 17 | PING G440 SFT | PING | 6° |
| 17 | PING G440 SFT HL | PING | 6° |
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 40 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
— the top 25 of 41 clubs with a lie angle
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
— the top 25 of 41 clubs with a lie angle
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 42 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 42 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 12 brands with the most, of 12 with at least one fairway wood 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 | fairway woods | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Callaway | 6 | 14.0% | |
| XXIO | 6 | 14.0% | |
| PING | 5 | 11.6% | |
| Tour Edge | 5 | 11.6% | |
| Honma | 4 | 9.3% | |
| TaylorMade | 4 | 9.3% | |
| Cobra | 3 | 7.0% | |
| Titleist | 3 | 7.0% | |
| PXG | 2 | 4.7% | |
| Srixon | 2 | 4.7% | |
| Wilson | 2 | 4.7% | |
| Ben Hogan | 1 | 2.3% |