Callaway Strata Review (Must Read Before You Buy)

Hi everybody this is Dave for the Gulf and addicts and I'm going to do a review today on the Callaway strata 18 piece set for beginners and casual players it's a nice cavity back set it comes with everything you need a bag driver all the way up through sand wedge it's also comfortable putter club head covers they consider an 18 piece set you actually get 12 clubs counting the putter and five head covers and a bag I'm going to show you a little bit about everything and I got to play about three-quarters of the season with it so I can tell you how they felt for me and all that kind of stuff let's get started okay first we'll talk about the bag I didn't actually use the bag I have a similar callaway bag to somebody given to me that was a little bit nicer so I used it things I don't care for too much on this one is the shoulder strap it is a nice system it makes the bag like a backpack for when you're carrying it's got straps to go over to shoulders the thing I don't like about it is the padding on the shoulder strap is not there's not very much padding in it it is padded it's better than nothing if you walk a lot though you're probably going to want something with a little more padding like the other bag that I have but you know it is what it is you're getting the full set of golf clubs for cheap so they have to scrounge where they can and I'll get into that more a little bit later that's for the bag it's extremely lightweight to stay in bag it's got the leg kick out when you set it on the ground it's got plenty of storage got a nice big spot on the side it does come with the cover to cover your tops for whenever bad weather out that's got a couple extra pockets on the side for your gloves your keys and such it's got another nice area over here place where you put your balls your tees and what have you it is kind of then compared to the other bag that I have I don't know that's going to cause a problem durability or not but it is something to be aware of all in all it's not a bad bag for you know somebody that's not going to play a lot it does have a nice padding right here so when you're carrying it on your back it is padded against your side a little bit which that's nice my other bag actually does not have that um it doesn't have a full set of dividers on the top it does have you know enough to separate your clubs and mount that you can actually keep them separated into you know depending on how you organize them I put like my woods and stuff over here my driver my putter and then split my irons up between the other three larger pockets um okay so that's one of your pieces okay your next five pieces are going to be your head covers why they count in the head covers is beyond me probably so they can say they had 18 pieces but they're not bad head covers they're all cloth there's no leather to them they're not I wouldn't say the nicest head covers in the world but they will do what they're supposed to do keep your clubs from clinging together and protect them somewhat they don't just fall off so you're not going to lose them on accident they're actually decent head covers for for what you're getting there there's not a lot to say about them this is the driver head cover and that's a strat on it okay now let's talk a little bit about the club's first talk about the driver it's a 45 inch driver it comes in a 12 degree loft which is good for beginners the higher the loft the easier the club is to control a lot of people hit their irons just fine and then they get up to the bigger clubs and they slice them and what have you that has a lot to do with the gear effect and loft the higher the loft the easier it is to control and what-have-you so instead of giving you a 90 degree driver that you probably can't hit it all they give you a 12 which still not the easiest thing in the world to hit when you're a beginner but it's easier than a 90 degree driver is for that reason I will show you a few times into playing this probably after I've been playing for a month or so I got a little crazy on the driving range and I hit a ball way out of the heel when I was trying to you know as everybody is trying to change the swings and do it the best they can the reason I'm showing you this is it didn't really seem to affect the club at all and after another 2 or 3 sessions at the driving range hitting on her balls each and maybe a game or two some sort of baffle inside of this club broke loose now it sounds like you're hitting a metal fence with an aluminum bat sounds completely different than it used to which is you know annoying enough to me that I didn't even use it for another game I went out and purchased know a driver to replace it simply because of that reason it just didn't feel the same it seemed to hit balls the same but because of the sound it didn't feel the same I guess there's a lot to do with the sound in the field and what have you other than that it seems to be you know it seemed to be a fine driver it is a regular flex it seems a little wicker than some of the other regular flex clubs but I think it's probably just fine for / beginner the grip you'll notice has a nice alignment system on it some of these clubs have an offset to where when you're sitting them down by the ball the club faces actually should be closed and if you're holding it to where the clubface is open you're actually you're actually looks like it's square you're actually opening the face and they put these nice alignments on here so you can tell that you you have the club where it's supposed to be makes it a little a little easier for you to line up your shots and what-have-you um I'll show you the woods next here we've got the 3-wood it's basically the same design as the driver is it also has the graphite shaft same grip same grip alignment a little bit smaller head the three it comes with the 3-wood and a 5-wood when I very first started playing I left the plastic that came on the five would stayed on it for the first probably two and a half three months that I played because I really had no reason to hit it the gaps between my clubs weren't as big I didn't hit him as far the 3-wood seemed to fill the void that I needed I'd hit it off the deck on par fives and that was about the only time I ever hit it it felt pretty nice when I hit it as compared to my newer clubs it seems about the same this does have a a regular flex shaft which also seems a little bit wimpy to me compared to my newer one but you know it is what it is I'm sure it's a cheaper made you have to take into account that you're getting a full set of clubs with a bag driver all the way down to putter for 300 bucks so they have to sacrifice quality somewhere and I think sacrifice and quality was made in the driver and the woods possibly the hybrid slightly although they tended to be my favorite clubs in the bag I usually hit them better than any other Club I will skip over the five wood just because it's the same as the 3-wood looks and everything the hybrids it comes with the four hybrid and a five hybrid the four hybrid is 22 degrees sorry these are a little dirty I haven't cleaned them up since last time I used them has the same grip and this is one of the clubs that I will say it's a good thing it has the grip on there I don't know if you can see this but see how the face is slightly closed when the grip is straight up and down that's why the alignment grip on here is so important a lot of people will address this club like this which will be open and you'll have a lot of shots that will leak off to the side if you actually hold the club correctly the face is going to be closed it's going to be closed in this direction so it's going to help you hit straighter shots you might have already noticed these are left handed clubs I am a left-handed golfer so if things look a little funny to you that might possibly be why these said that's coming left and right handed as for the hybrids there's a 405 hybrid they both seem to hit very nicely they tended to be my favorite clubs in the bag I other than the high irons which everybody seems to hit pretty good because of the loft I spent a lot of time teeing off with the four hybrid because I couldn't seem to hit the woods or the driver without slicing it really bad as most beginning golfers do I was over the top and what-have-you and I but I could almost hit this straight and I was hitting this club almost 200 yards off the tee so it wasn't too much of a drawback to tee off with this club and I just got to where it has the steel shaft it's not as whippy I don't know if that has anything to do with that I'm sure the club handle was you know a lot shorter that probably helped with my accuracy and what-have-you but it's a really fun club I've tried long iron sense and I don't really care for them like a four iron or whatever I just assume have the hybrid I seem to hit them nice and I like the feel of them so that's why I prefer them now that irons you'll get a six seven eight nine a pitching wedge and a sand wedge the pitching wedge I believe is 46 degrees in the sand wedge is 56 degrees I think is what they are the irons they have a nice cavity back hollow in the bottom that helps with the center of gravity and helps you with the helps your miss hits go a little further helps you get the ball up in the air these are a little more lofted the the loft degrees are slightly higher than some other sets has the same grip pattern they do look pretty good when you're hitting them I mean they are they do have a fatter line on the top they are a little chunkier of a of an iron but as a beginner you probably won't even notice the difference in them they hit very nicely when you make a clean hit they feel good there's no vibrations a nice click sound whenever you miss hit them you'll you'll feel it you'll feel it for sure but I tried other irons that weren't so friendly and when I would miss hit them you you knew you miss hit them because the balls just went wherever short they would go off to the sides really bad these whenever I miss hit them I really didn't you know they seemed to be a little more forgiving I definitely could tell they were more forgiving club now that's all relevant to say you hit your 7-iron 145 yards if you hit a miss hit with these clubs it might go 135 yards 140 yards you hit a miss hit with another set of clubs it might go 120 yards so might be a little better but it's definitely not anything to write home about I mean you just they're not so bad on visits so you get those irons then you also get a putter this is the putter that came with it it doesn't have the same grip it's got a flat flat pistol grip type it's a smaller grip than I prefer now that I've played for a little while the putter I didn't really care for the putter I don't care for this style putter I kind of like the mallet putters better they fit my stroke a little bit nicer one thing you may notice about this one it's kind of a little scratched up dinged up on the bottom does have a flat face the thing the reason I'm pointing out the scratches on the bottom is I only use this for two games and then I ordered another one so I don't I can't imagine this putter is going to hold out you know the paint on this is probably going to look pretty bad after you've played a season with it I'm guessing just based on the peg paint is completely worn off on this edge here and like I said I've only played two games with this and maybe practice with it you know two or three times in my house puttan maybe 20 or 30 times so if this putter has more than 120 putts on it I'd be surprised I mean it's it's fairly new and it's already showing a little bit of where it feels okay seems to putt okay it just doesn't fit my style and I don't seem to putt it straight with it and it's 35 inches overall okay that concludes my review on the Callaway strata if you liked it go ahead and click down below and subscribe to our channel I'll be bringing 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They were here to launch Razer black the new raise a family so we've put the razor black driver out which is also coupled with the razor fairway raised up like fairway we've also introduced three razor irons into our family of raised rinds so now we've actually got 7 irons in our iron category but tonight's all about the three that would have been introduced as a Movember one the feasts of events of the raise up like driver is you can see now we've got a black finish on the face okay so the overall head now is black now what that's doing is it's called a PV deviation stands for physical vapor deposition now that prevents glare okay so that's a whole reason while we've gone to black bench the real real benefit about this driver it's got a speed frame based technology okay and what that means is is that when the the golfer doesn't hit the middle of the clubface there are porous feeders to increase so what we're saying is we've enlarged the sweet spot so how golfers can get maximum ball speed for off centre hits for the speed Frank base is fantastic definitely more forgiveness and like I said more more more distance with the speed frame face which sort of forged composite in the body of the driver which is the same material they use in Lamborghini cars so the light material in the head I'm actually increases club head speed so the light of material the quicker the golfing can swing the quicker the swing the further the ball will go so we coupled that lightness with also the speed frame face we really think we've got a great driver it's a beauty this is the Razer I love hybrids anyway but this is a particularly good feel it's just sensational having hit the 6-iron of the forged hand top of the lines which also not being a great iron here are a couple of miss hits but they still really really well yeah I got the Raj except it's sick science nice nice and light and definitely comes off an awesome to it expect it and bought along to come down and check out the new range and oh did you see the new razor exit on 6 on and then I'm gonna have to go a lot longer than I thought and get through that home yeah I've already put a bit I'm gonna bet 60% it's a six out of every 10 it's gonna fall yeah the four always hitting the eggs so I want to go to 85 no I'm just in through the hole yeah mixing it up hitting some low seven islands for its difficulty the pitching wedge but you know to work at my trajectory hitting with a razor xf6 iron and it's doing me wonders I'm here for obviously Calloway I've been invited up a guest and hitting a few balls I'm trying to say bill Tiger Woods is one symmetry dismiss but I'm getting to 150 with it and I've been given a couple of tips and I've had officer Khan the trips on my own so I try and what you want to do with a golf ball here I keep my I've been hitting with the Razer XM and it feels amazing my mouth only played golf a handful of times it feels a lot better than anything I'm here to help promote Callaway and try get my golf game up a little bit better Sam they've got some great golf but the pepper chance had sooner than see how they feel yeah I mean the Callaway RAZR X right it's it's a bit different because yeah I'm not much of a golfer but it feels it feels all right put a few dud ones but I think that's because the boys having some bad advice I'm using the razor Exeter hybrid the shaft is a lot harder stronger so that she feels really good we have a couple of cables couple of doozies as I seem to be doing do quite regularly bad tom overall I've enjoyed it rinoa trying out some of the great callaway clubs with a they have in their own yeah I'm meeting with the Callaway RAZR black now look at feels great someone else's hit every now and again so extra loot gets the ball up in the air and I think I hit one stray beautiful I've actually got an old that's my favorite fairway Club that's my least favorite Club it feel really good so I think from head to toe I think you know we've got the the decade grip which is the the multi compound grip white and black so this is one of the leading grips now out and out on the tour dual Mickelson actually uses his grip okay so from the head to toe of the club is um we feel that we could put a really good plug together the mature afh ARF which is made by few jakirah the heights of leading golf sure okay so we've got the but the here we've got the sharpened with the grip so overall a very good Golf Club

Hi this is Doug Hyman with Jo be calm and this is what's in my bag and a short review on all my clubs I take off my hood you'll see that just about everything is Calloway from driver to fairway wood to hybrid my irons even my putter is an odyssey which is owned by callaway the only item that i don't have is my that's callaway is my sandwich so let's go through them one two three the first item that most people want to see is the driver which in my case is an callaway ft IQ i mix what the I mix means is that you can actually change the shaft of this but this is their square the second generation square driver that they have titanium face actually has carbon fiber in the center here and then an extreme notch weighting towards the back for my shaft I have an old Allah Pro pipe 60 and it's a stiff shaft and let's hit this one and that won't look nicely the next item up is my fairway wood which and for this one I actually have a Callaway Big Bertha Diablo I didn't get a 3-wood just because I actually hit the 3-wood almost as far as I do my driver so there's really no need for it so this one I ended up buying it's a it's actually an 18 degree neutral which would be approximately well they call it a 5/5 wood it's actually between like a 4 and a 5 but I have the neutral version really neat-looking club in fact if you notice like the graphics on it it's got absolutely beautiful red shaft on this this again is another stiff shaft so let's hit this one beautiful next up is my miracle club at least it's a miracle club for most people as my hybrid witch and this is an older version for Callaway this is the Callaway k-- x hybrid I have a number four which is a 24 degree I really really like this in fact I like this more than the current versions of their hybrids just because of this X soul that they have it really goes through the turf very very easily it's just a beautiful setup and a graphite shaft with this and once again just a beautiful beautiful Club but let's hit this one now an uneven ligh 200 yards out in the rough that's where the hybrid comes very nice all of my irons are Callaway they're x20 NGS which is a brand new Club for 2010 what they do is they revive the old Callaway X 20 which is the predecessor to the X 22 they did a few things and they actually it's their budget club right now for the whole set going from 4 through sand wedge at a retailer is $399 like I said it's the old X 20 the few things that they did they change they put on new grooves in fact things called the X 20 ng which stands for new groove and how you can tell that is on the bat on the back here on the hosel it has a little V for the new V grooves so that it's got new groups that are conforming to USGA standards for 2010 and the other thing that you'll notice on the back here there's no through bore on the hosel so it's just a rate I think they call it a like a standard bore if I'm not mistaken but a really really nice Club I really really like these and for the money I mean the performance is so I mean the X 20s I like them a little bit more but to be quite honest I really don't see that big of a performance difference between the two and I've hit them side-by-side so I said this is just a great deal at 399 for the full set including sand wedge 100 yards a nice easy sandwich that's dead center on the green and my nice easy 100-yard sand wedge put the ball in center now we're coming to the only club that's not a Callaway that's in my bag even though I have a Callaway sock on it this is my sand wedge and of course I do have a sand wedge for my ex 20 ng but I really use that more as a wedge wedge so whether I'm on the fairway or on the rough I use that wedge whenever I'm approaching when I'm in the sand I actually use an alien to wedge and this is kind of a funky looking thing it's amazing I mean this is so easy to hit out of the sand that and I've had this Club for probably 5 6 7 years or so but I just won't give it up because it's so easy I mean you just line up you hit it you don't have to do anything out of the sand to get your ball out so I really like this club for that purpose lastly is my putter and this putter here - it's a an odyssey white ice I actually have a mallet version in fact this particular model is called the 330 mallet it has a son actually it's a harder polymer insert it's really for the newer softer balls for putting it has a I mean I really like how it has this extreme weighting in fact there's 360 grams in the toe and the heel to keep the ball nice and straight for a high mo eye or a moment of inertia and another thing that I like is that it has very nice scoring lines on this I don't know if you can see that but besides the lines the black lines there are white lines it just is real easy to line up the ball and hit a straight shot you if you are looking for a new job I've created a free job search website to help you out unfortunately Society teaches us all the wrong things to do or at least the most ineffective ways to try to find a position which would be utilizing online ads using you know recruiters or maybe even networking type contacts which in a stressful economy the way that we're experiencing it right now they are extremely ineffective in fact that's why it takes so many weeks if not months for people to find positions right now this job search website will show you what I call the secretive job search success and we'll take you through step by step on how to do an effective job search campaign in addition to that it has sample resumes and cover letters that you can utilize it also has the 50 most frequently asked interviewing questions it's got elevator pitches so there's a lot of resources here and all of it is free so I hope this will help you out