“The red cavity-crown fairway with an adjustable hosel. Set loft to the carry gap you actually need to fill.”

The retail VR_S Covert fairway wood shared its NexCOR face and rear high-speed cavity design - weight redistributed from the back of the head into the heel and toe to raise MOI - with the flashier Covert Tour fairway that launched the same season, but it shipped as a simpler, smaller-headed, fixed-loft club rather than the adjustable model. Where the Tour version used Nike's FlexLoft system to let a fitter change loft and face angle independently across a five-degree range, the standard Covert fairway came with a glued, non-adjustable hosel in 3-wood and 5-wood lofts and a stock Mitsubishi Diamana Kura Kage shaft - a shallower-faced, higher-launching head aimed at players who struggle to get a fairway wood airborne rather than at better players wanting to dial in trajectory.

It sold as the mass-market half of a two-tier release, overshadowed at the time by the adjustable Tour version and by attention around Nike's new McIlroy sponsorship; it never built any following of its own and is essentially unknown outside the used-club market today.

Higher handicappers and slower swing speeds who need help launching a fairway wood and do not need to fine-tune loft or face angle; a better player who wants to dial in ball flight should pay the modest premium for the adjustable Covert Tour version instead.

• Uses the same NexCOR face and rear cavity weighting as the Covert Tour fairway wood, but ships with a fixed, glued hosel rather than the Tour's adjustable FlexLoft system.
• Offered in 3-wood and 5-wood lofts with a stock Mitsubishi Diamana Kura Kage shaft.
• Reviewers specifically noted the standard head is smaller and shallower-faced than the Tour version, designed to launch higher for players who struggle to get fairway woods airborne.
• Retailed under $230, a deliberate step below the adjustable Covert Tour fairway in Nike's 2013 lineup.

Launched alongside the VR_S Covert driver and irons as Nike introduced its 2013 Rory McIlroy-era product cycle, priced under the adjustable Tour model at roughly $199-230 retail; Nike replaced the whole Covert fairway family with the Covert 2.0 line about a year later.

Heavily discounted today: used examples commonly sell for well under $100, with some listings as low as $45-50, on 2nd Swing and similar sites in 2026, reflecting both its age and its position as the budget option even when new.