The prelude to the Launch Season is officially upon us, as eight new drivers have entered the USGA Conforming List. It looks like both Callaway and COBRA will offer four distinct driver models in January, with each model following in the footsteps of their 2025 counterparts.
We only have rudimentary information from the USGA listing, as well as images of the sole only. Furthermore, at best we can only infer a few things from the lists and what we think it all means.
With that, let’s take a peak.
A quantum leap for Callaway?
We’re guessing that’s the notion Callaway is going for with the new Quantum line. We won’t know for sure if the Quantum drivers are, in fact, a quantum leap from the Elyte, but we do know that the four new offerings aren’t quite the same.
The Quantum TD looks like the follow-up to MyGolfSpy’s 2025 Best Driver, the Elyte Triple Diamond. Of particular interest is a removable weight port on the back, with labels for Fade and Neutral.
The Quantum MAX TD looks essentially the same, but the MAX proves to be more forgiving. The head shape indicates a lower and further back CG
The Quantum MAX D appears to be the more forgiving and family appeal-biased version, while the Quantum TD TD only appears in a left-hand drive model. It’s in the Triple Diamond family, all right, but as with the Elyte Triple Diamond TD, one can assume the second TD stands for Tour Draw only.
As Callaway added to the Elyte line as 2025 went on, at launch, we had the standard Elyte, the more forgiving Elyte X, the lightweight Elyte Max Fast, and the Elyte Triple Diamond. The widespread popularity and relative playability of last year’s Triple Diamond seems to indicate that the new Quantum TD will be Callaway’s “standard” offering for 2026, with others filling various niches.
COBRA goes OPTM
Golf has discriminated against vowels for a while now, so we can only assume that OPTM is a shortened acronym for Optimum. Judging from what we can interpret from COBRA’s weighting system, Optimum looks like a pretty good bet.
There are four new OPTM drivers on the conforming list. The OPTM LS (we assume it’s for “low spin”) features two weight ports on the sole. The toe-most port is labeled “Fade,” while the one on the back is labeled “Precision.” There is a third weight port that you can’t see, but it’s on the back that’s labeled “Sorry.”
For a company that gave us a 33-position hose adapter last year, this represents another level in customization possibilities.
The rest of the line includes the OPTM Max-D, which should be the ultimate forgiving, bias-pull model. There is also the OPTM Max-K, which would logically be the 10K MOI model, and then the OPTM X, which has two weight ports. The port on the toe side is labeled “Accuracy,” while the back rear port is labeled “Forgiveness.”
We will wait and see
That’s pretty much all we’ll get on these drivers until launch season begins early next month. If the calendar holds true, Callaway and TaylorMade will lead the first week of January, while every other OEM on the planet will be released after that. COBRA jumped the gun a bit last year by launching the DS-ADAPT line in early December. We expect the new models to hit the market in mid-January.
Additionally, we have no word on pricing, but we can assume that $600-plus is the new normal.
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