How It Works: Picking the Right Fairway Wood

The 3-wood has always been the hardest club to hit in golfers’ bags, and fairway woods in general are historically known as an intimidating category. But the club engineers at Callaway have been leading the crusade to make fairway woods easier to hit since the early 90s (remember the Big Bertha Warbirds?), and in 2025, they’re taking their mission to new levels. Golf Digest’s Senior Editor Luke Kerr-Dineen made the trip to Carlsbad to find out everything there is to know about the new Callaway Elyte line of fairway woods, and how its versatile technology can help change your game.