PRGR EGG Spoon Fairway Wood Review

Living in Japan, I follow the Japanese tour even closer than I do the PGA tour. All the websites here and magazines cover pro players and the gear they use extensively. One thing I noticed at the beginning of the season was the number of pro players on the JPGA carrying the PRGR Egg Spoon PX-03.  Top players including Hideto Tanihara and Shingo Katayama use the Spoon as their choice 3 wood.  This peaked my curiousity and being a big fan of PRGR or Pro Gear as it is known here in Japan (Pro Gear is the golf wing of Yokohama Rubber Industries), I decided to pick up a Spoon for my bag around 2 months ago.

So after two months of play, I’m ready to report back on this interesting fairway wood.  The EGG Spoon was originally released last year with 13, 15 and 17* lofts. It became so popular in Japan that this year, PRGR expanded the line to include the EGG Fairway Woods which included 5, 7 and 9 woods. Both Tanihara and Katayama use the PX-03 as a 15* 3 wood but many Japanese amateurs who struggle with the driver have picked up the 13* strong 3 wood to even replace their driver off the tee. I typically play a 4 and 7 wood in the bag along with a higher lofted driver so I grabbed the Spoon with a 17* loft.

The EGG Spoon PX-03 is a mid sized fairway wood with all lofts being 165cc in size. The head however looks bigger because of its shape and design. It has a similar concept to the Cleveland HiBore. While the crown and back isn not exactly “scooped out” ala HiBore, the head is tapered towards the back stretching the head from front to back and pushing CG deeper in the head.  It does have an aligbment mark on the top, a big red EGG like dot, that I am not a fan of but I quickly got used to and forgot was there.  The face is on the shallow side, while not ultra shallow like many woods today, I would call it mid shallow which makes it easy to hit the sweet spot which is higher on the face.

Design aside, what really sets the Spoon PX-03 apart from other fairway woods is the materials it uses. The Spoon has a Ti-6AL-4V Titanium Crown and Face laser welded to a SUS630 Stainless Steel sole plate.  With the Crown and Face being light weight Titanium, this allows PRGR to use a heavier SUS630 Sole to again bring CG deep in the club. Also while its common to see Ti faces in fairway woods these days, they are typically paired with SUS630 bodies meaning both the sole and crown are SUS630.

What the combination Ti Crown and Face does is create driver like performance. I must admit, when  I first got the EGG Spoon the sound and feel took getting used to. It does not sound or feel like the typical fairway wood. Impact is more of a solid “THWOCK” unlike some woods today that emanate a higher pitched metallic “TINK”. I realized after a while that the Spoon sounded and felt like older sub 400cc drivers. In other words a very solid confident feel which many players crave for.

Performance wise, this is a mini driver. Distance for fairway wood is above average. Even with the deep CG, trajectory is piercing, starting low and slowly climbing, peaking then still coming down with roll.  The low spin Spoon is made to go far.  It’s performance makes it the go to club for reaching par 5’s in 2 shots. The square angled face produces very straight shots (fade and draw at command) and I found that I could almost equal my driver distance on several occasions!

One thing some people may not like and some may love, is the overall weight of this club. The Spoon is light, which again gives the impression that it was meant to be a mini driver.  The heaviest 13* barely breaks 310g on the scale which is the equivalent of some drivers today. This light weight really contributes to distance. Lately I have been experimenting with light weight clubs and found that they do in fact allow average golfers with very average swing speeds like myself to swing faster and hit longer. I’ll be honest here that sometimes on a hot summer day, by the 15th hole, my clubs feel heavy and I wish they were lighter.  The EGG does the trick and paired with the stock PRGR EGG graphite, the Spoon is a very controllable distance performer.

As for the stock shaft, it is available with M-35 (80mph), M-37, M-40 and  M-43 which in PRGR’s ratings mean 43m/s or just under 100mph for the stiffest stock shaft. PRGR originally released the club with only these stock shafts available but found that better and faster swinging players were yearning to play this club so the EGG Spoon is now available with all the top shafts directly from PRGR.

I rely on my PRGR 7 wood for accuracy and I want a stronger wood for distance. The Spoon fits that bill perfectly and I have grown to really like the feel and sound.  I average around 230y with my driver and last week I hit a shot from the fairway with my Spoon that traveled nearly 230y as well. Needless to say I was very happy and this club will stay in the bag for quite a long time coming. Looking for a mini rocket launcher behind your driver? The PRGR EGG Spoon PX-03 is ready for take off!