Callaway have been well known for having popular wedges on tour throughout the years, and the Opus wedge was one of their best models to date. In 2025 the brand are back with another wedge called the Opus SP, short for ‘Spin Pocket’.
Fortunately, they recently invited me to Princes to properly test these wedges on links turf and explore all the different bounce options.
Who Are They Aimed At?
Callaway are targeting better golfers with the Opus wedges. As the brand already offer the game-improvement CB12 wedge, this allows them to focus on more accomplished golfers for the Opus SP. It’s for those who don’t need or want a chunky, forgiving wedge in the bag.
If you don’t struggle getting the ball airborne and want a lower-launching wedge for spin control, these could suit you. Alongside this, Callaway have packed in a bunch of tech to help you generate more spin around the greens too.
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The Tech
The Callaway Opus SP has been designed to flight the ball lower and increase spin. The brand’s new Spin Pocket and advanced construction aim to make this one of the best wedge designs available.
Opus SP has a re-engineered 2-piece construction head design, to help optimise CG locations. The Spin Pocket helps move the weight much higher and raises the CG. This will help promote a much lower launch angle and increase spin.
A new 17° groove angle with tighter spacing increases edge contact, providing more consistent spin from various lies. It combined with Spin Gen 2.0 – a deeper cross-hatch laser pattern across the face to produce extra friction.
Shape 6 is Callaway latest favourite head shape in the Opus SP. This features progressive shaping in gap wedges to seamlessly blend with modern iron sets.
Callaway Opus SP Wedge Review
Looks And Feel
Thankfully Callaway offered us their black nickel finish as well as their chrome finish so it was great to see the differences in the two. Personally I’m more of a fan of the chrome finish in my wedges. I spent more time testing this one, so I’ll focus mainly on it.
First impressions though… wow! As soon as I took the wrapping off these clubs I was instantly in awe of the retro design. It reminded me of a Callaway prototype iron that I’ve seen at a few of the major championships this year!
The blend of gloss/matt chrome stands out, mixing modern Opus and retro Callaway branding with black detailing on the back of the head for framing.
If you’re choosing the black wedges, their subtle premium details are much harder to notice compared to the chrome.
I managed to take a look at a number of different grind options too that were all very neatly designed. One grind I particularly like was the new X grind which did remind me of my own Vokey SM10 M-Grind.
The face itself has much tighter grooves from previous Opus models. The designers made each groove wider but not quite as deep. One thing that stood out when I met the Callaway engineers was that the 48-52 wedges had solid bodies, and they included their ‘spin pocket’ in the 54-62 degree wedges. So I was interested to see how they performed during testing.
At address, the design of the club was really sleek, with a wider toe area and thin top line.
The head shape itself isn’t as rounded as in some wedges, and it has very little offset. So for better players this would be much more suited for them.
Performance
To test these out, I headed to the fantastic Princes GC to put them through their paces in some proper links conditions.
On my first few shots, I was really struggling to strike the wedges consistently off the links turf.
Even after trying a few of the lower bounce options I was still struggling around the greens. I tested them head to head with my Vokeys but felt they were noticeably harder to strike.
I’d describe the feeling with the wedges as feeling ‘too sharp’, as in it required some serious precision to be able to strike these properly, even more so off the tight turf. I wasn’t sure whether this was the leading edge kicking in too much or not.
However, spin around the greens was exceptional, they really did provide the drop and stop option if you’re confident enough to play that shot.
Back home during testing on more familiar grass with the GCQuad I was able to hit some longer shots, as well as some different on-course scenarios.
When it came to longer shots, there was a different story. They felt very forgiving, and they consistently produced reliable numbers.
For this test I hit full shots with all 3 wedges and some 75% swings with the 60 degree model to test how accurate the yardages were.
The 52 and 56 degrees were stand out performers, with really consistent launch angles without even striking them that well.
I usually like to see them launch within a couple of degrees every time when they are struck from the centre. So to see the same result from 6 out of 10 strikes was really impressive.
What surprised me the most was with the 75% swings with the 60 degree.
This is an area of the game I usually find most volatile in terms of carry distances and I managed to hit all five shots within 3 yards of each other.
Callaway Opus SP Wedge Verdict
Overall these wedges were really impressive and definitely look the part too. The chrome finish really offers the perfect blend of retro branding with a modern twist.
During testing on full shots these were possibly the most consistent performing wedges that I’ve ever tested.
However, I had a hard time getting used to them around the greens. This could possibly be my own chipping technique so I wouldn’t count on this as the reason to avoid them.
Even with the new X grind I still found them feeling ‘too sharp’ around the greens. I feel like Callaway could have possibly made them a little bit more forgiving.
The wedges come in at £179 per club. This isn’t cheap, but these wedges easily perform against the other top brands in the wedge department.
So if you’re a pretty good golfer looking for some low launching wedges which feel great around the greens, then the Callaway Opus SP could be just what you want.
Would I Use Them?
I’m stuck between the great long-game performance, and the lack of forgiveness on shorter shots. I think I’ll need to test these out for a couple of weeks to see if I can get used to them.
