The prelude to Launch Season is officially upon us, as eight new drivers have hit the USGA Conforming List. It looks like both Callaway and COBRA will be offering four distinct driver models come January, with each model following in the footsteps of their 2025 counterparts.
We only have rudimentary info from the USGA listing, as well as imagery of the sole only. Additionally, we can at best infer only a few things from the listings, and what we think it all means.
With that, let’s take a peak.
A Quantum leap for Callaway?
We’re guessing that’s the notion Callaway is going for with the new Quantum line. We won’t know for sure if the Quantum drivers are, in fact, a quantum leap from the Elyte, but we do know the four new offerings aren’t quite the same.
The Quantum TD appears to the follow-up to MyGolfSpy’s 2025 Best Driver, the Elyte Triple Diamond. Of particular interest is a movable weight port in the back, with labels for Fade and Neutral.
The Quantum MAX TD looks essentially the same, but the MAX denotes that it’s more forgiving. The head shape indicates a lower and more rearward CG>
The Quantum MAX D appears to be the most forgiving, draw-biased version of the family, while the Quantum TD TD is shown in a left-handed model only. It’s in the Triple Diamond family, alright, but as with the Elyte Triple Diamond TD, was can only assume the second TD stands for Tour Draw.
While Callaway added to the Elyte line as 2025 went on, at launch, we had the standard Elyte, the more forgiving Elyte X, the lightweight ELyte Max Fast and the Elyte Triple Diamond. The widespread popularity and relative playability of last year’s Triple Diamond would seem to indicate that the new Quantum TD will be the “standard” Callaway offering for 2026, with the others filling different niches.
COBRA goes OPTM
Golf has been discriminating against vowels for a while now, so we can only assume that OPTM is a truncated acronym for Optimum. Judging from what we can interpret from COBRA’s weighting system, “Optimum” seems like a pretty good bet.
There are four new OPTM drivers on the conforming list. The OPTM LS (we presume that’s for “low spin”) features two weight ports on the sole. The most toe-ward port is labelled “Fade,” while the one toward the back is labelled “Accuracy.” There’s a third weight port that you can’t see but is on the back that’s labelled “Forgiveness.”
For a company that gave us a 33-position hosel adapter last year, this represents another level in fitting possibilities.
The rest of the line includes the OPTM Max-D, which should be the maximum forgiveness, draw-biased model. There’s also the OPTM Max-K, which would logically be the 10K MOI model, and then the OPTM X, which has two weight ports. The toe-side port is labelled “Accuracy,” while the back-rear port is labelled “Forgiveness.”
We’ll wait and see
This is pretty much all we’ll get on these drivers until Launch Season starts early next month. If the calendar holds true, Callaway and TaylorMade will lead the way the first week in January, while every other OEM on the planet lets loose after that. COBRA jumped the gun a bit last year by launching the DS-ADAPT lineup in early December. We expect the new models to launch in mid-January.
Additionally, we have no word on pricing, but we can assume $600-plus is the new normal.
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