Every Time I Have The New PXG Lightning Metalwoods In My Hand I Feel Like Thor The God Of Thunder

One of my favorite perks of this job are the times when someone somewhere trusts me to test out unreleased technology or preview a major product release that is somehow up my alley. A few months back, I had the chance to travel out to Scottsdale National Golf Club for PXG’s 10th anniversary and while there I got to preview the all-new Lightning Metalwoods that PXG announced today.

Am I great golfer? Negative. Am I a better golfer with the new PXG Lightning Metalwoods in my hands? Well, the scorecard says so and my brain believes that’s the case so I’m going with ‘definitely’ on this one.

Hands-On With PXG’s New Lightning Metalwoods

My journey out to Bob Parsons and PXG’s HQ started months back when I wrote an article where I mentioned how the Bad Little Nine course at Scottsdale National Golf Club is one of the most exclusive courses on earth. Scottsdale National is home to 3 courses: The Other Course (ranked #1 in Arizona), Mineshaft (ranked 14th), and the Bad Little Nine which is arguably the most fun and toughest 9-hole course on planet earth.

Case in point, this hole where my ball wound up on the other side of a boulder-sized mound:

So anyway, I was extremely fortunate to be invited out to Scottsdale National GC by PXG for their 10th anniversary where I got to test out their new equipment including the all new PXG Lightning Metalwoods which were debuted today.

From here, I could dive deep into the specs and tech that make the new Lightning Metalwoods the longest fairway woods of the year. I could discuss how the Lightning Metalwoods have a perimeter that is 12.5% thinner than its predecessor, the Black Ops 0311 model. Or how PXG focused on a design that produces maximum ball compression at impact by nailing the natural frequency alignment.

We could talk at length about how the new PXG Lightning Metalwoods incorporate more carbon fiber than the Black Ops 0311 model which creates a lighter and stronger club leading to more clubhead speed. And we could spend an entire day talking about the Frequency Tuned Face which is a tech PXG borrowed from the aerospace industry, and how PXG’s industry-best engineers used Vibration-Mode Analysis to perfectly sync the ball’s compression with how the driver/wood face vibrates at impact and by syncing these together they were able to create the greatest line of drivers and fairway woods of the year.

Sure, we could talk about all that but I’m here to speak from the heart and my heart is saying when I’ve got these new PXG Lightning Metalwoods in my hands I feel like Thor of Asgard, God of Thunder and Lightning, wielding the mighty Mjölnir hammer.

Here I am holding my new PXG Lightning driver for the first time:

The new PXG Lightning Metalwoods are pure ⚡️🔥

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— BroBible (@brobible.bsky.social) December 2, 2025 at 1:53 PM

My Fitting Experience

For these clubs, I went through two fittings, we had a drive/chip/putt competition that was partially MC’d by Rob Riggle who I interviewed years ago, so that was fun to reconnect. I also went out and played the Bad Little Nine and in between all of that I got to go into the lab and actually watch my clubs being built to my specifications after going through the fittings, weighted and tuned up to the exact specifications that best fit my swing.

In fact, here they are literally building my clubs just an hour or two after my second fitting:

As you can plainly see here, I both look and feel like Thor of Asgard. Do you see those veins in my forearm? Whether or not this was a good shot, I have no clue. I will say that my stats on the Trackman were better than I expected and since I’ve been playing with PXG’s it’s like I’m a new man on the course but c’mon, there is literal lightning flowing through my veins here:

Now that we’ve moved past that we can take a look at how sexy these new PXG Lightning Metalwoods are. Yes, I said sexy. Am I actually attracted to these clubs? I guess as far as one could be in a normal world without things getting weird. I do find myself staring longingly at them because they look so dang good.

Circling back to how my clubs were built to specifications that match my swing… That’s truly at the heart of the PXG experience. Virtually everything is customizable. The weighting of the clubheads, shafts, grips, degrees, which line of clubs is best, all of this is determined during the PXG fitting experience to put the best possible club for you in your hands.

In the press release, PXG stated “across the driver, fairway, and hybrid offerings, the PXG Lightning line was engineered with fitting at the center of the product architecture. Mass-adjustability systems, tailored internal structures, and PXG’s adjustable hosel work together to give fitters broad control over launch dynamics, shot shape, and player-specific optimization.”

PXG Chief Operating Officer Brad Schweigert expanded on this, saying “frequency tuning, structural reinforcement, and advanced MOI engineering allowed us to create metalwoods that are objectively faster and more stable. The gains are real, measurable, and available across every model.”

My Takeaways From The New PXG Lightning Metalwoods

Do I have a consistent enough golf swing to the point where I could be used in a lab to test equipment? Definitely not. I work full time, have a family, and I’m training for a triathlon. 95% of all the time I spend at my golf club these days is inside the gym and not on the range or course.

But I grew golfing, I was on the golf team in HS, have played on and off my entire life, and I have a consistent enough golf swing to know when I’m seeing tangible gains from technology.

Beyond that, doing my fittings on the Trackman with PXG I was able to actually see further distance, faster ball speed, and better ball flight with these new PXG Lightning Metalwoods compared to the data I had from my old TaylorMade M5s. Which were great when I got them. Heck, they still are. But this new PXG technology is night and day better in comparison, even more so after going through the fitting process and having the irons and metalwoods built to fit the needs of my swing.

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