Callaway Elyte hybrids

Gear: Callaway Elyte hybrids

Price: $299.99 (Elyte, Elyte X, Elyte Max Fast) with Project X Denali shafts and Golf Pride Tour Velvet grips

Specs: Stainless steel chassis and face with carbon fiber crown, internal tungsten weight and adjustable hosel

Available: Feb. 7

Who they're for: Golfers who want a long-iron replacement that looks like a miniature fairway wood and blends distance with control (Elyte) or distance and extra forgiveness (Elyte X and Elyte Max Fast).

What you should know: Callaway is touting the Elyte hybrids to be the brand’s most versatile hybrids ever because they have a faster face that protects ball speed on mis-hits, along with moveable weights and an adjustable hosel to help fill distance gaps.

The deep dive: At the recreational level, hybrids forced 3-irons into retirement and they’ve put a lot of 4-irons on the bench. When properly fit, hybrids make it easier to gain distance and hit shots higher, and they are more forgiving than long irons. The key part of that, however, is getting a hybrid that is properly fit to match a player’s needs. With the release of the Elyte hybrids, Callaway believes it has a three-club family that can do all that for a wide variety of players.

Like the Elyte drivers and fairway woods, the Elyte hybrids have been designed with Callaway’s updated 10X face. Last season, Callaway fed "real player" data into its supercomputers and used artificial intelligence (AI) to create the face of its hybrids. For the Elyte hybrids, more "real golfer" data was used, allowing the AI to create 10 times more simulations to fine-tune the hitting area. Callaway said golfers can expect well-struck shots to fly high and far, and they will see better performance on mis-hits.

Each of the three Elyte hybrids features a lightweight carbon fiber crown that removes weight from the top of the head and helps lower the center of gravity, which should promote a higher ball flight and steeper descent.

All three Elyte hybrids also feature Callaway’s seven-setting OptiFit adjustable hosel that allows players and fitters to independently change the loft and lie angles of the clubs.

• Elyte (3/19 degrees, 4/22 degrees, 5/26 degrees, 6/30 degrees): The standard Elyte hybrid comes with two moveable weights, a 13-gram weight and a 4-gram weight. With the 13-gram weight in the toe, the club has no shot-shaping bias. Moving the heavy weight to the heel creates a draw bias.

• Elyte X (3/18 degrees, 4/21 degrees, 5/25 degrees, 6/29 degrees): Like the standard Elyte, this club comes with interchangeable 13-gram and 3-gram weights, but it has a larger profile and is designed to be more forgiving and more stable on mis-hit shots. It should produce slightly more spin and create a slightly higher launch than the standard Elyte hybrid.

• Elyte Max Fast (4/23 degrees, 5/27 degrees, 6/31 degrees, 7/35 degrees, 8/39 degrees): This club comes standard with a lighter shaft and grip to make it easier for slower and moderate-speed players to swing. It has a slightly longer blade length and lower profile than either the Elyte or Elyte X, and is designed to encourage a higher ball flight for golfers who struggle to stop shots on the green.

This article originally appeared on Golfweek: Callaway's three Elyte hybrids are designed for distance and height.