 Right, okay, thank you for joining the Average Golf for another bit of club testing. We're going to be looking at closely the Epic Sub-Zero Epic Standard Fairway Woods. Some big story behind these 2019 models, which we'll get to very shortly. Just to remind it, if you've not watched this channel before, I call myself the Average Golfer. I'm a nine handicap golfer, so bear that in mind when you look at the performance, statistics and obviously my opinion. Anyway, let's get straight into this club. Like I said, big stories on this one. I've been out on the course, I've been in the driving range, collecting dry ball data, done as much as I possibly can in this short period of time at least to get you my opinion on these two releases. And we'll get to that summary very, very shortly. But we've got to talk about the first thing, which is flash face. That is the big story about this whole range from Callaway in terms of the drivers and the fairway woods. Before I explain what flash face is all about, let's throw some images up on screen and you can tell me what you think in terms of the visuals. Now for me, I said it on the first when we put up the driver images. I'm not keying on the yellow tones with that green, to be quite honest with you. And I'm also not keying on the name Epic Flash either. That aside, once again, solid piece of kit. It's not overly different in terms of its looks from the standard Epic driver. They've rebuilt the hosel. Once again, stripping down a bit of weight out of that as well. In terms of our looks when it's just behind a ball, absolutely stunning. Anyway, what is flash face? If you watch the driver, you already know. But wait for the difference in terms of what the computer, the super computer came up with in terms of the design for this face. So don't switch off just yet. Flash face was designed by a computer, a super computer as Callaway called it. Artificial intelligence. So in effect, the engineers built the computer, the computer built the club face. And it came up with looking at we've got jailbreak technology. We all know about jailbreak jailbreak technology in in Callaway Woods. So I won't go back into that detail. And what they looked at was how they could couple the best possible club face to go with jailbreak technology and the other elements that are built into this club face to get the best performing club face for center off center hits. And we're all talking about ball speed, aren't we, across that club face. And the computer basically run through a number, far more permutations than the human could do in terms of the different algorithms, in terms of the different variations of club face. And what they came up with on the drive, if you've seen, it was very much a wave ripple effect in varying thicknesses of the club face, very different from the standard design. What it did with three wood was quite different again. And this is a bit that interests me. It came up with a whole different design for this. And if you have a look at the image you throw up on screen for you now, probably more similar to what you'd expected. However, not the norm. The norm would have always been that the slightly, excuse me, slightly thicker element of material would have been in the center of the club. And it would gradually get thinner towards the perimeter. And you can see these sort of rings, oval-shaped rings that it's produced. They indicate the different thickness, the thicker elements, if you like, of the club face that the computer designed in terms of artificial intelligence. And that's what it came up with in terms of flash face for the three wood. So really interesting that putting the two together, they came up with totally different club faces from that. And that's where it was interesting listening to Alan Hucknell in terms of from Callaway, in terms of their head design, was that this kind of information doesn't, in terms of copyright or the ability to copy this intelligence over to another manufacturer, another club head design, it doesn't relate because this is very much all about matching a very best club face design to the actual build of the Epic Driver, to the build of the Epic Three Woods. So there's a number of variations that have gone in there. And it very much means that it's a very bespoke design for the club head that it is attached to. So that's flash face. Thing is, how fast was it? Did we get the fastball speed when we went out there on the course? And I went out there on the course not having the benefit of dry ball data. And I say the benefit, I'm trying to do this so I'm not persuaded by dry ball data. So no preconceived ideas out there on the course, how did it do? Well, first of all, from the T, as I've already said, I think it sits and looks superb. So plenty of confidence at address. Absolutely well up the ball to be fair. And I mean, let's get straight to the point here. One of the best three woods I've played for a long, long time. Three wood that's not been in my bag for a long, long time. And maybe that'll change as well very soon. But it performs so well off the tee. Lots of confidence. I always, and I've used it in other videos in the last couple of days, easy to hit. Nice easy swing, no great effort required. And balls seem to zip straight off that club face. Yes, I can hit it left and I can hit it right and I can do all those things that my swing will do. But overall I performed particularly well with it. And but the big story for me was not off the tee because I don't have a problem with three wood off the tee, it was off the deck. And I could not believe how easy it was to get the ball airborne. The launch conditions was unreal. As soon as I put club on ball, it just fired in right up there. I mean, again, something I have not been able to do confidently for a while. And I've not found a club with the ability to do that. And it launched the ball so well, really, really high. Picked it up nice and clean, powerful again. And the interesting thing for me is what they've done with these fairway woods. They're available in, there's the three wood. I'm gonna look down and just glance at these. There's a five wood, heaven wood, which is 20 degrees. Seven wood, 21 degrees. Nine wood, 23 degrees. I mean, it's just, and what have we got there? 11 wood, 25 degrees. So lots of variables in this, lots of options. And again, for a number of players, those lofted fairways will be a great option. And with those kind of ball speeds that we were looking at out there on the course, at least, anyway. And that ability to pick it up off the deck absolutely super performed out there on the course. I then went into four golf chester and we started it in some balls to clap for some dry ball data to see what it said in terms of that. So I'm gonna throw two lots of data up for you now. It's a standard model we'll look at first of all. The standard model, 139, I mean, someone in ball speed, 142 ball speed on them too is unreal. 15.3 on average, launch, two six spin, really good spin number for this type of club. 35 piquites on average and 233 carry. That's with the standard. And then I'll throw the, I beg your pardon, that was with the sub zero. I'll now throw the standard numbers up, which was 141 on average, very consistent ball speeding, all over 140, 15.4 launch, two nine spin, 36 piquite, two, two nine carry. I mean, I'll just go back to the numbers on the sub zero. 238, 236, 237, three balls out there. I mean, it performed so well in terms of carry distance. Unreal, I mean, it was literally 10 yards shorter, 15 yards shorter, out there on the courses. In terms of dry ball data, it was 10 yards shorter. In terms of reality out there on the golf course, when eight driver and three would off the same tee with similar sort of strikes, the drive was probably 15, 20 yards longer than the three which is suppose is about where you'd expect it to be. But really, really impressed with the overall performance. I love the looks of it. In terms of the way the face has been designed, I think once again, I'd like to get out there and play with both of these clubs, both versions of this club for a longer period of time out there on the golf course, but also collecting some more dry ball data that can see. We've seen some really consistent ball speeds with this club. Was it just, and it's a small sample set of numbers. If we did that over a broader spectrum, what would the numbers be then? That's what I would like to see. But on first glances, they seem to have produced something very, very decent here in this three wood. I said it with the driver, I'm gonna say it with the three wood. I've not got a three wood in the bag because I've been struggling for a number of years to find something I'm comfortable with to use in a number of situations. This potentially is that I'd be very confident almost saying that it is that because I would stick that in the bag straight away, but I'll hold back a little bit. We'll play a few more rounds out there on the course. We'll do some stuff where we'll stick some head to heads together and pay a little bit more attention to overall performance once I've played with it for a number of rounds. But for the time being, huge, huge thumbs up. I can't wait for you to go out and try this and give me your own feedback because that's one person's opinion as I always say in these videos. The important thing is it's all about what you think from how you find them and I can't wait to see what it is. So in a few weeks time when the clubs get released, come back to this video, stick your comments down below and see what, give me your opinions on performance for the time being, give me a feedback on the story from Callaway on what you think it is in terms of looks and anything else you wanna throw in there and I'll do my best to respond. Right, keep on enjoying this next few days because you're gonna have, and not just from me, obviously there's a load of videos coming out so you've got plenty of, I was gonna call it entertainment, some might call it other, but for the time being anyway, keep on watching, keep on enjoying them, thumbs up if you like the video and I'll see you very soon.