“Forgiving, adjustable fairway from Nike's final line. An easy-launch rung-1 fairway that still holds up.”
Released alongside the Vapor Fly driver and irons in Nike's bold blue-and-yellow 2016 colorway, the fairway wood used an extremely thin, light crown to lower CG for higher launch and less spin, a covert-style cavity back spreading weight to heel and toe for forgiveness, and a FlyBeam structure to stabilize the face at impact. It carried FlexLoft adjustability for on-course loft tuning. Reviewers found above-average carry distance and ball speed across the test field, a deep face suited to more confident players, and a notably solid, 'zingy' sound and feel — an improvement, testers noted, over the preceding Vapor Speed fairway wood.
Well-reviewed as a solid, above-average performer for its category but with no lasting reputation attached — it was one of the final Nike clubs of any kind, released the same year the company exited golf equipment, and has generated no forum reverence or collector interest since.
Golfers wanting a forgiving, high-launching fairway wood with real ball speed and don't need the shallowest-face, easiest-off-the-deck option on the market — the deeper face rewards a confident strike more than an ultra-forgiving shallow design would. A good fit for mid handicappers upgrading from an older fairway wood.
Released for 2016 against Callaway's XR16, TaylorMade's M2, and Titleist's 916F fairway woods, as part of the same jacked-distance push seen across the whole category that year. It was Nike's last fairway wood release: the company exited the golf equipment business in August 2016, the same year this club launched.
The thin, light crown and covert-style heel/toe cavity were both explicitly engineered for a lower CG and higher MOI, and period reviews confirmed strong forgiveness and above-average carry across mis-hits, though the deeper face made it better suited to more confident ball-strikers than an ultra-max-forgiveness shallow-face design.
Calibrated across the whole catalog — a tour blade scores low here on purpose; it means control, not ease.
Realistic 2026 private-party price for a clean example is roughly $40-$80 on eBay/SidelineSwap — a well-regarded but discontinued-brand fairway wood from Nike's final year in golf equipment, priced in line with other late-model orphaned clubs rather than commanding any premium.
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