Best Golf Hybrids Available This Year

Laying in front of me are some of the best hybrids released in 2025

We're going to break them down into a few categories including sound, build

and then decipher the performance of these clubs to determine which ones may be right for your game

Let's get into it. so when it comes to choosing a golf club you really have to like the looks of it both

from a shelf appeal point of view when it's in your bag so you can boast all your friends

but also when it's down behind the ball at address that's the most important thing

but looks are very much a matter of personal preference some people like a slightly larger

head some like a more compact head it depends on what you're trying to get out of a hybrid and the

performance that you're seeking i've selected three that i think all golfers will love and

The first one I want to talk about is the Shrixen ZX-i. Now, Shrixen are making massive waves in the metalwood industry. I think their drivers and fairywoods this year alone are outstanding. And the hybrid follow suit, they're all uniform. They all look the same, which I really, really like. They haven't changed from the driver to fairy to hybrid. They all look the same. The mixture of gloss and satin tones across the head, I think, looks superb

there is one little bugbear um the technology highlighted on the face here the eye flex

on the toe there just kind of stands out a little too much for my liking but my next choice um

doesn't fail in that category and that is the Mizuno ST Max I think this thing just looks

absolutely awesome it's a carry-on product from last year and I raved about this in last year's

video as well but the black head with the bolt blue Cortec chamber you've got the Mizuno bird

alignment aid on the top to ensure that you're centering that ball at address. And while it is

a teardrop finish and it probably will suit the eye of the better player, I still feel like it's

large enough that those seeking a bit more confidence can get it out of this club. But

there was one standout winner for me and the rest of the Golf Monthly team agreed with me on this

front and that is that it's the Cobra DS Adapt Hybrid. This thing just looks mega. It's this

matte black head all over it's got little gloss tones a bit like the Strixon I guess on the sole

the power bridge technology underneath is highlighted in this silver that really makes

it just pop a little the QR code highlighting the future fit hosel was something that I don't

particularly like but at the end of the day we spend most of the time looking down on this club

at address not so much in our hands so it's not too much of an area of concern when the club is

down at address the score lines on the face here a bright white really highlight the loft on this

face will inspire confidence and I just think for me there is no better looking hybrid in 2025 than

the Cobra DS Adapt. Okay while the looks are important obviously when choosing a golf club

you still have to like how it sounds and feels and there's a few models to me that stood out

Now, the first one I want to talk about is the Black Ops 0311 Hybrid from PXG

I'm going to clip a few away and hopefully the microphone can pick up the sound here and you'll gain a good understanding of just why I like the sound and feel of this club

Now, it does have this kind of gloss carbon crown on the top, which is said to have muted the sound of these hybrids

I still find it's quite high pitched. It's quite a light sound, but some people may like that

Some people think that sounds powerful. so let's give one a hit here hopefully you can understand what I'm talking about

well it's a really nice strike and what I really like about this is yes it is slightly high pitched

and it does sound powerful and it feels really powerful it feels quite fast off the face

and for that reason I think a lot of golfers will really love the Black Ops Hybrid so the next model

that I want to talk about is probably the latest release in the hybrid world and that is the

Titleist GT2. Now there are three hybrid models that have just been released by Titleist. You've

got the 1, 2 and 3. The 2 fits in the middle and has seen a 10% increase in MOI compared to the TSR2

model which I was equally impressed with So what is it that changed with this hybrid in terms of the sound and feel Well I think it actually sounds a little more lively It not quite as high frequency and

high pitched as the Black Ops but it falls just under that. It sounds a little louder than the

TSR2 model. Let's give this one a hit and hopefully you'll be able to hear it

it just sounds there's a whooshing sound through the ball which I really love that was actually

hit slightly out the bottom and that's another reason why I love this club it feels just as good

out the bottom of the face as it does the middle I think a lot of golfers will really get on with

this club but the last model I wanted to talk about was the tailor-made QI35 now again there

are two models in the 10 make ui 35 hybrid family you've got this one and the max this is the

standard version to me i feel like this did everything the max did and for that reason i

just don't see why you would need to go to the max model unless you were looking for a slightly

larger head but in terms of the sound and feel you've got this chromium carbon crown on the top

which not only looks great but actually has saved weight put it in the bottom it's easy to launch

but also dampens the sound and vibrations through impact as well that's something i particularly love

I've always loved like a thud-like sound and for that reason I think this is the best feeling hybrid of 2025

So rather than just tell you what I felt was the most forgiving hybrid of this year

at Golf Monthly we wanted to come up with something a little more substantial, some quantifiable data to back up what we're saying

And so what we've done is we have taken the furthest shot hit with this particular club

minus the yardage between that and the shortest club hit, as well as the furthest left hit shot

and the furthest right hit shot, divide it by two, and that will give you your number

Because of that, there were two clear standouts when it came to the most forgiving hybrids

The first of those is the Callaway Elite Hybrid. And this isn't just the Elite, this is the Elite X

it's the slightly larger model it's got two weight ports as does the standard model so you can kind of

dial in that preferred shot shape but it is a slightly more draw bias club now the reason i

found this to be the most forgiving is it does have the ai 10x smart face in there thousands of data

points have gone into the production of this face in order to produce a face that has variable

thickness so if you hit one out the toe or out the hill you should see the same kind of ball speeds

and same ball flight that you would see as if you hit one out the middle. Let's give one a hit

I'm almost going to try and miss this one on purpose just to show you what I mean but I find

that this club just produces, it just wants to produce a high draw. That's all it does. No matter

where I hit it on the face I seem to get a high draw and that is largely down to the head design

and where it is weighted. Just absolutely beautiful. I didn't actually miss it, that was

probably one of the best hits that I've had while I'm out here at this beautiful golf course but

it's an ultra forgiving head this is one to check out but there is one that is slightly more forgiving

and that is the Ping G440 yes Ping always seem to feature in the most forgiving segments of our

videos because they are just outrageously consistent when it comes to downrange dispersion

and I just couldn't fault this club when it came to mishits. I've tried hitting them out the bottom

the slightly taller face means I was hitting a few more out the bottom than last year's model

but it just climbs up in the air as if it was a normal shot. I found it to be extremely versatile

out of different lies even when I mishit them. These hybrids have now got the carbon wrap crown

which means that there is more flexion in the face and a more stable face from heel to toe

therefore producing more consistent ball flights across the board. Let's give one a hit here and

see how we get on. So I've actually hit that one a long way out the hill and it has faded and it's

climbed up a touch but I haven't lost much distance. In fact it's only gone about five yards shorter

than the Callaway Elite X and for that reason the Ping G440 Hybrid for me and it's not just for my

opinion the data proves that this is the most forgiving hybrid of 2025 Okay as you may have noticed I am not in fact in the UK I am at the beautiful La Hacienda Lynx golf course here in the south of Spain If you enjoying the backdrop make sure

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in your selected area. Okay so we've talked about the looks we've talked about the sound

and feel but ultimately a golf club has to perform in order for it to gain a place in your bag

Now the data here on the left of myself gives you a chance to compare all the different models

between launch, spin, carry, even descent angle and you can work out which one you feel like may

suit your game the best. But there I'm going to run through a few key areas of performance and

which hybrids I think actually performs the best in those select areas. So if there's a part of the

game you're really looking to improve on with your hybrids this is the time to listen up

Now you may not want a hybrid necessarily that just performs off the fairway you may want one

as an alternative option to say a driver or a fairway with off the tee and for that you're

going to want something that produces fast ball speeds but also relatively low spin in order to

produce a penetrating flatter ball flight that you get maximum roll and therefore maximum distance

there were three models that stood out in particular and that would be the tailor-made

qi-35 there were two models like i said in earlier in the video but the core model for me

produced a nice flat ball flight and ball speeds on average of around 147 mile per hour

now we ramp it up one more notch and we go to the strixen zx i hybrid now again produced very fast

ball speeds thanks to the iflex and rebound frame technology in the face that essentially creates

more flexibility within the face and therefore off-center hits come out with the same ball speeds

as they would out the middle or relatively but the last one i want to talk about is the cobra ds

adapt and not only is this the best looking hybrid like i said in my opinion it was the fastest this

hot face technology that has been around in the last few generations of cobra metalwoods and

hybrids continues in the ds adapt hybrid and it produces just i wouldn't say knuckleball ball

flights because that's doing it a disservice it's they're hot but penetrating you can almost lean

back and crank it up in the air if you need to but for the most part you get quite a fast

penetrative bull flight and it's one that I really love. If you're looking for a hybrid to hit

particularly off the fairway you're going to want something that launches quite high with a lot of spin so it can come down steeply onto a green and hold the green instead of rolling out. Now there

are three models that stood out in particular the first of those is the wilson dyna power i found

this was actually my highest launching hybrid that i tested it had quite a lot of excess spin though

and did occasionally balloon up in the air but the other two would be the callaway elite and the

tight list gt2 not only do these hybrids look spectacular but they both feature dual weight

ports so you can dial in a preferred ball flight switching the weights from the heel to the toe but

They both also feature an adjustable hosel, which means you can actually dial in the trajectory

So when you're hitting off the fairway, if you find it's climbing too high, you can knock the flight down

And vice versa, if you find it's launching too low, you can bump the loft up on the head to produce that high, powerful ball flight off the fairway that will hopefully get you holding greens more often

So if, like me, and you find yourself being slightly erratic off the tee, you'll end up playing from the first cut of rough quite a lot

So I have found two hybrids that I feel are particularly strong at playing out of the rough

Trust me, I've had a lot of practice on this one. The first of those is the Ping G440

And even sat down behind the ball in the rough, I just feel like it frames it so well

The scorelines on the face make the loft really stand out, and it makes it look really confidence-inspiring behind the ball

There's a new free hosel design as well, which means weight has been saved in the hosel

redistributed lower and further back in the head in order to create high launch and maximum spin

which is exactly what we want when coming out the rough. Let's give one a hit here, we're in quite

a thick snaggy lie in the rough here, let's see how it pops out

Well it come out pretty clean if I do say so it gone chasing down the fairway it wasn overly high but it got enough spin on it You can just see it wanting to climb which means if you playing into a green it likely to hold And if you just trying to advance it down the fairway you getting enough

carry on it to gain considerable distance. But the one that I thought was absolutely exceptional

out of the rough was the PHG Black Ops 0311. Now, the reason behind this, I'm just going to tread

this down a little here so hopefully you can get a really good understanding of how this club performs. Naturally this club spins quite a lot. I found that even when testing off the tee in the

fairway so you're likely to see that ball again pop up a really high floaty ball flight even out

the rough and I found this club to be extremely good at holding greens when playing out the rough

Let's give this one a hit. I mean it's absolutely incredible. Okay so for the better player and more confident ball striker

among you you're going to want a hybrid that's a bit more workable it doesn't just produce the same

high straight ball flight you're going to want something that you can turn in and out and it's a

bit more iron like and for that i've got two suggestions the mizuno st max has got that

teardrop look which makes it really easy to manipulate the club face without making it appear

like it's pointing miles offline but the second option and my favorite is the tight list gt3

There's plenty of customizable options here through the hosel and again the dual weight

ports on the top of the club here but the ability to be able to hit I would say high cuts and low

draws has never been easier than with this tight list hybrid. I'm going to hit a few here to start

with we're going to aim down the left side here we're just going to peel a high cut into the air

i mean that was just effortless launch and what i absolutely love about this hybrid

is the fact i can pull another ball over and i can go from a high cut that just climbs and will

land like it's got a butterfly with sore feet or i can put a ball back in my stance just close the

toe in a touch and feel as though i swing slightly out to the right

and I get a completely different ball flight much flatter chasing down the fairway with a hint of

draw and that is perfect for advancing down long par fives or if there's a long par three that you

might struggle to carry to you can pull this club out get one turning over a bit of run and who knows

you might even chase it up onto the green okay so this little section here is talking about which

hybrids are the most adjustable and if you're like me and you like to tinker or you play different

courses and you actually want slightly different setups within your clubs then these are the three

hybrids that offer the most when it comes to adjustability you've got the tailor-made qi35

which has the standard tailor-made adjustable hosel and then you've got the tight list gt2

which has like i said the two weight ports one slightly heavier than the other in the toe and

the hill you can flip them over to dial in a ball flight or use the sure fit setting in order to

change loft and lie but the one that is probably the most impressive and is a new release this year

is the cobra ds adapt now i'm going to quickly take the head off here and you'll understand

why this is so impressive it's got the cobra future fit 33 hosel that does mean there are 33

different loft and lie settings that you can actually have on this one hybrid i mean that is

absolutely insane and while it may seem overly complicated there is actually a really handy

qr code etched into the hosel here scan it quickly with your smartphone and it brings up

a really simple chart that shows you exactly what setting would uh what setting that you're looking

for or let's say you hit a low draw and you want to hit a high fade it shows you exactly what

setting you need to put it in in order to achieve that ball flight so for that reason the cobra ds

Adapt I think is by far the most adjustable hybrid release this year. So there you have it I have

tested all of the best hybrids released this year. I've split them up into different categories and

given you the best ones from each but if I was to pick a favorite it would be the Cobra DS Adapt

This thing offers superb ball speed, amazing amounts of forgiveness and even looks spectacular

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