Nike SQ Sumo2 Fairway Wood Review

What’s the shortest distance between two points? A straight line. No. Try again, its square. The Nike SQ Sumo2 Fairway Wood is the straightest line from the tee to pin brought to you by the square geometry of the SQ Sumo2 Fairway Wood. I’ve been testing the 5 wood of the SQ Sumo2 Fairway Wood and I’m really impressed with how easy it is to hit this club from the tee or on the fairway.

Look and Feel
The square shape of the club has stealth bomber like appearance with a black matte paint job and grey arch at the back of the club outlining the PowerBow design.  The matte color gives the SQ Sumo2 Fairway Wood a minimalist appearance that won’t distract you when you tee it up or hit from the fairway. Some people might be put off by the nontraditional square shape and find it intimidating to use, but that’s not the case. The sole of the club utilizes a monorail design, that makes it quite easy to hit the club from all types of lies. The lightweight tour quality, 65 gram regular flex Diamana Yellow Board Shaft by Mitsubushi, provides optimum distance and accuracy.

Performance
Is a square shape better than a traditional fairway wood? The answer to this question is a resounding “Yes!” What Nike did when designing the square shape of the Nike SQ Sumo2 Fairway Wood is push the weight to the farthest corners of the head, creating a more forgiving club that hits straight shots from practically any lie. The PowerBow design lowers the SQ Sumo2 Fairway Wood’s center of gravity to make it very easy to get the ball off the ground with pinpoint accuracy. The PowerBow weighting is located in the rear of the club and outlined by a graphite grey color on the crown of the club.The square shape also promotes greater stability and less twisting of the clubface, making it very forgiving on off-center hits and limits the amount of sidespin produced on the ball, which leads to better accuracy. The face of the Nike SQ Sumo2 Fairway Wood utilizes a Lightweight Cryo Steel face that provides a very large responsive sweet spot, for increased distance and forgiveness across the clubface. In my tests I was able to hit Nike SQ Sumo2 Fairway Wood so easily, I thought I was hitting a hybrid club, that’s how easy it is to get the ball up in the air with this club. The ball just explodes off the face of the SQ Sumo2, launching  my shots high into the air which did limit the amount of carry distance, but it does make the ball stop quite quickly. I also noticed that the square shape allowed me to hit the SQ Sumo2 from the rough without any problems, making this a very versatile club. I always thought that fairway woods were not very practical, since the introduction of hybrid clubs, but I stand corrected. The Nike SQ Sumo2 Fairway Wood makes a great case for why square is better than round and I have to say I’m a believer.

Specs:
Loft: 19*
Shaft: Diamana Yellow Board Shaft by Mitsubishi
Length: 42″


Nike SQ Sumo2 Fairway Wood retails for $276