These pros have replaced their new 2025 drivers at Sentry

With the exception of Max Homa switching to Cobra, the beginning of 2025 has been relatively quiet for players changing equipment sponsors. But as 2025 products begin to roll out on tour, many pros are jumping at the chance to upgrade to the latest and greatest.

While currently Callaway, Cobra and Cleveland (Titleist GT drivers have been available since this summer) are the only OEMs to announce 2025 drivers, there’s always a way for Tour pros to get the good stuff before us mere mortals do.

Continue reading below to find out who is competing in the 2025 new driver class at the Sentinel in Hawaii this week.

Callaway Elyte

Callaway officially became the first OEM to launch a new driver in 2025 with the launch of its Elyte product line on Thursday.

Xander Schauffele, who won two major championships last season with the Paradym Ai Smoke rider, immediately switched to the new Elyte Triple Diamond rider.

“I’ve been using all the new Elyte woods. It’s probably — I’ve been around them, shooting, I’ve been with Callaway for what feels like six or seven years now, and I would say it’s probably the easiest Yeah,” Schauffele said Tuesday. “I’ve been testing the Elyte driver for two months now, and I actually have the exact same driver that they gave me in Las Vegas, which was the first thing they did for the social media team. So it was such an easy, super easy transition that I really didn’t feel like I was overthinking and just went ahead and went.

According to Callaway Tour content manager Johnny Wunder, the final version of the Schauffle is a 10.5-degree Triple Diamond head in an N/-1 setting paired with a 45.5-inch, one-inch lofted Mitsubishi Diamana PD 70TX shaft, paired with his Ai Smoke The body is the same. He shot a 1-under 72 in his opening round at Kapalua on Thursday while hitting nearly half a stroke off the tee.

Schauffele isn’t the only one turning to the new Elyte line. Akshay Bhatia, Max Greyserman, Adam Hadwin, Si Woo Kim and defending champion Chris Kirk are also at Kappa Lua used this new driver.

Bhatia was using the now three-year-old Rouge ST wood, which he used in both of his wins on the PGA Tour the past two seasons, but is now using an Eltye core and a Fujikura Ventus Black 7-X. He started with 71 points on Thursday.

Cobra DS-ADAPT

Cobra made their biggest equipment splash of 2025 so far when they announced Max Homa as their newest Tour staff member.

Homa will launch the new DS-ADAPT LS driver this week. He plays with a 9-degree FutureFit33 hosel in the C4 setting, giving the club 9.4 degrees of actual loft, and uses 44.625-inch Fujikura Ventus Blue 7-X.

Houma used the new shifter to shoot a 4-under 69 in the first round, improving his score with the new driver by nearly eight-tenths in the process.

The DS-ADAPT driver was released ahead of schedule last month and has been on the USGA compliance list since October. Rickie Fowler used the DS-ADAPT X driver at the Grant Thornton Invitational last month.

Flat G440

Although not yet released, the Ping G440 has been racking up wins around the world since Joaquin Niemann won the PIF Saudi International in early December. Last month, several players took the club to the Hero World Challenge and Grant Thornton Invitational.

At Sentry, Ping employees playing with the new G440 models include Corey Conners, Sahith Theegala and Austin Eckroat. Denny McCarthy and Taylor Pendrith will also play drivers, although neither is signed to Ping.

Connors started his 2025 season with a 7-under 66 on Thursday using G440 LST and UST Mamiya Elements LIN-Q M40X White 6F5 shafts, adding 0.917 strokes off the tee.

TaylorMade Qi35

TaylorMade’s Maui field staff is down to two after Scottie Scheffler’s shocking WD, but both are already playing with the new, yet-to-be-released Qi35 tee Rod.

Collin Morikawa, using the new Qi35 LS driver, hit 11 of 15 fairways at Kapalua, opening with a 66 and a tee shot success rate of nearly 7 out of 10. Morikawa didn’t finally retire his trusty SIM driver that won him two major championships in 2020 and 2021 until last season, but he still tried all three of TaylorMade’s Qi10 models in competition last year.

Starting in 2025, he will use the same type of model as he ended 2024 (LS) with the same shaft, the Mitsubishi Diamana D+ Limited 60 TX.

Meanwhile, Nick Dunlap, coming off a PGA Tour Rookie of the Year season, is switching to the Qi35 core model. Dunlap used the Qi10 LS for his historic win at the American Express last season, but ended the season with a Ping G430 LST. Dunlap said he likes the core model’s similarities to Ping.

“I think it’s a lot better for me,” Dunlap said. “The head is a little bigger than what they used to have, the core head, I feel like the LS, Core and Max. And the core head is a little bigger and looks more like my Ping. They changed that so now the top is gray instead of It’s in black, so I think it looks really, really good and I’m looking forward to playing with it.

Dunlap originally added the rider last month at the Grant Thornton Invitational, the same week the rider was added to the qualifying list.

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