What you need to know: At the core of Callaway’s new Ai Paradym Smoke irons is the Ai Smart Face. With the Ai Smart Face, these irons are designed to promote exceptional distance, tight dispersion into the green, and optimal launch in a modern construction. The new shape consists of longer blade lengths, thinner toplines, and optimized sole widths in a bid to create a forgiving, yet streamlined look at address. In addition, an all-new Dynamic Sole Design features a pre-worn leading edge with variable bounce that cuts through the turf with efficiency.

2024 Callaway Paradym Ai Smoke irons: What’s new, key technology

• AI Smart Face: The all-new Ai Smart Face optimizes iron performance using swing data from thousands of real golfers. This set of swing dynamics, or Swing Code, consists of swing speed, club delivery, and face orientation just prior to impact. The result is a face that is designed to promote maximum distance with tight dispersion into the green.
• New design with Classic Back construction: The Ai Smoke irons feature a modern shape consisting of longer blade lengths, thinner toplines, and optimized sole widths to create a forgiving, yet streamlined look at address. The Ai Smoke HL and Max Fast irons are designed in a deep cavity back construction. This proven design is combined with precision tungsten weighting to produce a low, deep CG for a high apex. An all-new shape consists of longer blade lengths and optimal sole and topline widths to create a confident, yet clean look at address. The Max Fast irons feature more loft and lightweight components, including a 40-gram shaft, to ensure an easy, high launch.
• Dynamic Sole Design: The all-new Dynamic Sole Design features a pre-worn leading edge with variable bounce that bids to cut through the turf with extreme efficiency. This dynamic design promotes crisp contact on all shots and is engineered to provide exceptional forgiveness.

 

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Additional model details

Ai Smoke: Best suited for golfers with average to high swing speeds looking to maximize distance and improve dispersion.

Ai Smoke HL: Designed for higher launch and more spin for players that need those added benefits.

Max Fast: Built to optimize swing speed and increase launch.

What Callaway says

Brian Williams, vice president of research & development…

“It starts with the work we did on Swing Codes specific to irons, and they’re very different. You don’t see quite the exaggeration that you see on woods around path and face angle. What you do see is wide variations in speed, and we saw that players with speed and players with slower speeds had fundamentally different outcomes. Especially when we look at stronger lofted modern spec packages, players with speed can generate plenty of launch and spin with those spec packages, but players that are slower with launch conditions.

“So we started with players with speed, and we talked about using AI to harness that power with a modern hollow body construction. It allows us to harness that power and speed, and to really work on dispersion control. As we’re adding distance, we’re working to control that downrange dispersion result that helps this to be a longer and more accurate golf club.”

Pricing, specs, availability

Lofts

Standard shafts: True Temper Elevate (steel), Project X Cypher 2.0, Mitsubishi Eldio, Tensei (graphite)

Grips: Lamkin Crossline, Winn Dri-Tac 2.0

Pricing: $999.99 steel, $1,099 graphite

Pre-sale/at retail: 1/12, 2/9