These professionals have moved on to the new leaders of 2025 at Sentry

Aside from Max Homa making a move to Cobra, the start of 2025 has been relatively quiet in terms of players changing gear sponsors. But with the 2025 product starting to roll out on Tour, many pros have jumped at the chance to upgrade to the latest and greatest at the top of the bag.

While currently Callaway, Cobra and Cleveland (GT title drivers have already been out since the summer) are the only OEMs to announce their 2025 drivers, touring pros have a knack for getting the good stuff before us mere mortals.

Continue reading below to see who is already playing 2025 New Drivers this week at Sentry in Hawaii.

Callaway Elyte

Callaway officially became the first OEM to launch their new 2025 driver on Thursday with unveiling the Elyte product line.

Immediately, Xander Schauffele, who won two major championships last season with the Paradym Ai Smoke driver, switched to the new Elyte Triple Diamond driver.

“I’ve got all the new Elyte woods. It was probably — I’ve been with them, I shoot, I’ve been with Callaway for six or seven years now, and I’d say that was probably the easiest,” Schauffele said Tuesday. “I’ve been testing the Elyte driver for two months, and I literally have the same driver that they gave me in Vegas as my first look that they did for their social media team. So it’s been such an easy transition, super.” The easy, and I really didn’t feel like I put much thought into it. Looking down and it’s good to go.”

According to Callaway Tour Content Manager Johnny Wunder, Schauffle’s final build is a 10.5-degree Triple Diamond head in the N/-1 setting with a Mitsubishi Diamana PD 70TX shaft at 45.5″ and a one-inch tip, the same shaft from He Smoke his. He shot an opening round of one-under 72 at Kapalua on Thursday while winning by nearly a half stroke off the tee.

Schauffele is not alone in the transition to the new Elyte family. Akshay Bhatia, Max Greyserman, Adam Hadwin, Si Woo Kim and defending champion Chris Kirk are all using the new driver at Kapalua as well.

Bhatia had been aboard the now-three-year-old Rouge ST, which he had for both of his PGA Tour wins the past two seasons, but is now atop Eltye with a Fujikura Ventus Black 7-X. He opened with a 71 on Thursday.

Cobra DS-ADAPT

Cobra made the biggest splash of 2025 gear so far when it announced Max Homa as their newest Tour employee.

Homa is debuting the new DS-ADAPT LS driver this week. He is playing a 9-degree head with Hosel FutureFit33 in the C4 setting, giving the club 9.4˚ of actual loft and using a Fujikura Ventus Blue 7-X at 44.625 inches.

Homa shot an opening round four-under 69 with the new gear setup, gaining nearly eight-tenths of a stroke with the new driver in the process.

The DS-ADAPT drivers were announced last month in an early launch and have been on USGA Conforming List as of October. Rickie Fowler put the DS-ADAPT X driver into play last month at the Grant Thornton Invitational.

Ping G440

While still unreleased, the Ping G440 has already claimed one win worldwide since being added to the conformation list in early December after Joaquin Niemann won the PIF Saudi International. Several players took the club into action at the Hero World Challenge and the Grant Thornton Invitational last month.

At Sentry, Ping employees sporting the new G440 models include Corey Conners, Sahith Theegala and Austin Eckroat. Denny McCarthy and Taylor Pendrith are also playing the driver, though neither is under contract with Ping.

Conners began his 2025 season with a seven-under 66 Thursday using a G440 LST with a UST Mamiya Elements LIN-Q M40X White 6F5 shaft and had a .917 stroke earned: off the tee.

TaylorMade Qi35

TaylorMade only has two employees on the ground in Maui after Scottie Scheffler’s shocking WD, but both are already playing with new Qi35 drivers that have yet to be released.

Collin Morikawa opened with a 66 with the new Qi35 LS driver as he hit 11 of 15 fairways at Kapalua and won by nearly seven-tenths of a stroke off the tee. It took Morikawa until last season to finally retire his trusty SIM driver, which he used to win his two major championships in 2020 and 2021, but he still proved to TaylorMade’s three Qi10 models in competition last year.

To begin 2025, it will go with the same type of model that ended 2024 with (LS) and the same axle in the Mitsubishi Diamana D+ Limited 60 TX.

Meanwhile, Nick Dunlap, fresh off his PGA Tour Rookie of the Year season, is switching to the basic Qi35 model. Dunlap won his historic win at American Express last season using the Qi10 LS, but played a Ping G430 LST at the end of the season. Dunlap said he liked how the main model resembled Ping.

“I think it’s a lot better for me,” Dunlap said. “The head is a little bigger than in the past, the core head, I think it’s like LS, core and Max. And the core head is a bit bigger, looks more like my Ping. And they changed it, now it’s gray on top instead of black, so I think it looks really, really good. I can’t wait to play it.”

Dunlap first added the driver last month at the Grant Thornton Invitational, the same week the driver entered the conformation list.

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