Performance Golf sells the 357 as three woods in one. I put it up against the 3-wood already in my bag, and here is what actually showed up.
Last updated: September 6, 2026
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Is the Performance Golf 357 Super 7-Wood worth buying?
Yes, for a fairly specific golfer: someone with a slower swing who fights a slice, and often someone whose 3-wood has stopped earning its place. I put it up against my own 3-wood on the course and on a launch monitor. It carried a little less than that 3-wood does, off a swing that took a lot less out of me. It sells for $249, marked down from a $299 compare-at price, with 21 degrees of loft, a 42 inch shaft and a 60 degree lie. Skip it if you fight a hook, or if your 3-wood is working.
Performance Golf sells the 357 Super 7-Wood on one idea: three woods in one. The brand describes the build as a 3-wood head on a 5-wood shaft length with a 7-wood loft, and calls it Tri-Fusion. Strip the branding away and what you’ve got is a 21 degree head on a 42 inch shaft, sold direct at $249. Whenever a club’s sold on a headline instead of a number, I want to see the specs first. Then I want to hit it.
So I did both. I hit this 357 wood on the course and at the range, including next to the 3-wood it would be replacing with a launch monitor running, and that head-to-head is the part most reviews of this club skip. Below I’ll walk through what I got, what each published spec changes, how to pick a variant, and the two things I don’t love. The return terms come up near the end too, because they matter more than the headline suggests. If you want the wider category picture first, start with my guide to choosing the right fairway woods.
Quick Overview
- Price: $249 direct from Performance Golf, listed against a $299 compare-at price.
- Loft: 21 degrees, published on the product listing.
- Shaft length: 42 inches, published on the product listing.
- Lie angle: 60 degrees, published on the product listing.
- Variants: 8 in total, all at $249. Right-handed in Stiff, Regular, Senior, Ladies and Soft. Left-handed in Stiff, Regular and Senior.
- What I got: a touch less carry than the 3-wood it would replace, from a noticeably easier club to hit.
Performance Golf 357 Super 7-Wood Specs
Everything in this table comes from Performance Golf’s own product listing, read on August 30, 2026, and none of it’s an estimate of mine.
| Specification | Detail |
|---|---|
| Model | 357 Super 7-Wood (also listed as 357 Fairway Wood and 357 Fairway Hybrid) |
| Price | $249, compare at $299 |
| Loft | 21 degrees |
| Shaft length | 42 inches |
| Lie angle | 60 degrees |
| Right-handed flexes | Stiff, Regular, Senior, Ladies, Soft |
| Left-handed flexes | Stiff, Regular, Senior |
| Variants listed | 8, all priced at $249 |
| Brand design language | Tri-Fusion. Performance Golf describes a 3-wood head, 5-wood length and 7-wood loft, with a progressive face, sole rails, a C-cup face and the crown |
| Head weight, swing weight, shaft model | Not published on the product listing |
| Returns | 365 days from purchase to start a return. Approved return authorization required, customer pays return shipping, and excessive wear, damage or alteration can limit the refund |
| Where to buy | Direct from Performance Golf |
The 357 Came Up Just Short of My 3-Wood, Off a Much Easier Swing
Here is the head-to-head, because it settles the claim this club is sold on. My 3-wood carries about 225. The 357 came in just a tad shorter. Not longer. Not the same. Just a little bit behind, from a club that asked far less of me to get there.
That result cuts both ways, so let’s read it properly. The advertising leans on three woods in one, and if you hear that as more distance, this isn’t that club. It landed a little behind my 3-wood, from a club that’s far easier to get in the air. So the honest question isn’t which club goes further. It’s which one you can actually hit on a Saturday with water down the right.
The strike is where it earns that. It’s super easy off the deck, whether I had a tee under it or just grass. Even off tight lies it picks the ball up clean, and the rails do something real through the turf. It doesn’t dig. That’s the shot most golfers have quietly given up on, and this club hands it back.
The flight matched what the spec sheet promised. High, with a soft draw. That’s exactly the picture Performance Golf is selling, and I got it. Your delivery decides how much shape you see, so treat that as my ball flight rather than a guarantee of yours.
Then there’s the landing, and for me that’s the part that matters more than the carry number. The ball comes down steep and just sits. I held greens with this that I’d normally run through the back of. A long club you can actually stop on a green changes what your approach shots look like, and there’s no figure on a box that tells you that. If you want the wider context on what this club category should do for you, my breakdown of 7-wood distance covers the yardages to expect.
One thing I can’t tell you: how it holds up across a full season, because I haven’t had it that long. And I fight a slice, not a hook, so my results answer the slicer’s question. They don’t answer yours if you miss left.
What the 357 Name Actually Stands For
The 357 name is Performance Golf’s shorthand for the build: a 3-wood head, a 5-wood shaft length and a 7-wood loft, put into one club.
That shorthand is the pitch, and it’s worth unpacking rather than swallowing. Those three category labels aren’t standardized across the industry. One brand’s idea of a 5-wood length isn’t another brand’s, and head sizes drift year to year. So the labels tell you the intent. The published numbers tell you the club, and on this one that means 21 degrees of loft, 42 inches of shaft and a lie set at 60.
Twenty-one degrees is the one that reframes everything else. Typical 3-wood lofts sit lower than that, and Performance Golf’s stated reason for the extra loft is easier launch off the deck. Pair it with the 42 inch length and you have a club the brand designed around getting the ball up and finding the middle of the face, rather than around producing the biggest number on a launch monitor. Having hit it, that is exactly what it does.
Performance Golf points at a progressive face, rails on the sole, a C-cup face construction and the crown to explain how the head is made. That’s the brand’s description of the construction. It’s not a measured result, and I’m not going to present it as one. What I can tell you is what the club did off a tight lie, which is pick the ball up cleanly instead of digging in.
What I like here is that the design has a point of view. This club isn’t trying to be everything to everyone. It’s aimed at the golfer whose 3-wood sits in the bag untouched, and it makes a clear trade to serve that person.
Check the 60 Degree Lie Against Your Current Club
The 60 degree lie angle is one spec worth checking against the fairway club you already play, because Performance Golf builds the 357 with a draw bias and lie angle is one of the things brands adjust to get there.
Lie angle is just how upright the club sits when the sole rests flat on the ground. Sixty degrees is upright for a fairway club, and lie angles vary enough by model that you’re better off comparing against whatever is in your bag right now rather than assuming. Performance Golf is open about the reason. They want this club to lean away from a slice.
So if your recurring miss is a slice, this is a build that’s trying to lean against that pattern, and that’s a legitimate thing club designers do. You aren’t fixing your swing. You’re buying a club that’s been set up to work against your miss rather than with it. In my testing it produced a soft draw, which is the intended result.
Here’s the honest caveat, and it cuts both ways. A draw bias is a design intent, not a promise about your ball flight. How much shape you actually see depends on your delivery, your face at impact and the shaft you order. Two golfers with the same handicap can order the same club and get two different pictures. That’s true of every draw-biased club, not just this one.
The flip side matters more. For a golfer who fights a hook, this build leans the same way the ball already wants to go. The product listing offers no lie adjustment and no adjustable hosel, so what you order is what you play. Before you spend anything, judge yourself on your typical shot rather than your best one. Track where the long clubs actually finish across a few rounds, and let that pattern make the call. If you’re still deciding whether a fairway club or a hybrid belongs in that slot at all, my breakdown of woods versus hybrids covers where each one earns its place.
What a 42 Inch Shaft Changes About How You Swing It
A 42 inch shaft is on the shorter side for a fairway club, and the brand says it built it that way to make the club easier to strike.
The brand’s thinking is straightforward enough, and it’s worth saying plainly. A shorter club is a shorter arc, and Performance Golf’s argument is that the shorter arc is easier to control and easier to repeat. It’s a deliberate trade: give up some length in exchange for a better chance of catching the middle. Pair that with 21 degrees of loft and the design idea lines up. Get the ball up, make the strike more repeatable, accept that the club is not chasing maximum distance. That trade is exactly what my own numbers showed, a little behind my 3-wood on carry for a lot more ease.
Whether it’s worth it for you is a question about your bag, and it’s testable inside the return window. Go hit whatever currently fills that slot, whether that’s a 3-wood, a 5-wood or a hybrid, and write down three things. Your typical carry, how wide your misses spread, and how the ball comes down. Then do the same with the 357 across two sessions.
Read the result honestly. If the 357 gives you slightly less carry but a noticeably tighter pattern, that club just became more useful even though one number went down. A shorter shot that stays in play beats a longer one in the trees. Less carry with the same spread isn’t automatically a failure either, because a higher, softer landing can hold a green that a flatter, longer shot runs through. Ask what job you need this slot to do before you judge it. And if you get nothing on carry, nothing on dispersion and nothing on the way it lands, it isn’t solving anything for you, and that’s what the return window is for.
How to Pick the Right 357 Variant
Performance Golf lists eight variants of the 357, all at $249, and the whole ordering decision comes down to hand and flex.
For right-handed golfers, the options are Stiff, Regular, Senior, Ladies or Soft. Left-handed builds come in Stiff, Regular or Senior. So the two menus aren’t the same length, and the Ladies and Soft options aren’t offered left-handed. Performance Golf doesn’t publish how those five labels compare to one another, so if one of the two missing options is what you’d have picked, ask them what to order instead before you buy. My explainer on senior flex and who should use it is the short version if you’ve never thought about it.
The listing publishes loft, length and lie. It doesn’t publish the shaft model, the shaft weight, the finished head weight or the swing weight, and those are fit details worth having in hand before you commit. So email Performance Golf before ordering and ask four questions:
- Which shaft is in this club, and what does it weigh?
- What is the finished swing weight, and does it change between flexes?
- Does the finished length stay at 42 inches across every flex?
- What grip ships standard, and is a midsize option available?
Then match the answers against the fairway club already in your bag. If the shaft you play now works for you, start with the one closest to it in weight and profile rather than picking off the label. If you’re caught between two, ask which of theirs sits nearer to what you already swing. And if you have access to a fitter, a fitting still beats a guess, whether the club came from a website or a rack.
One more thing the label won’t tell you. Flex names aren’t standardized between brands, so a Regular here won’t necessarily match the Regular in the club you own now, and Soft and Senior are the brand’s own labels rather than an industry scale. That’s the reason the shaft weight question above matters more than the name on the box. Weight and profile are measurable, and a label is a marketing decision.
And order the hand you actually play, obviously, but check it twice at checkout. Left-handed buyers only get three of the eight builds, so if Ladies or Soft is what the answers point you toward, you’re picking between the three that exist or waiting. Worth knowing before you’re attached to a spec that isn’t offered.
What I Don’t Love About the Performance Golf 357
There’s a catch. There’s always a catch. Here there are two, and neither one is a dealbreaker on its own.
The first is that the product listing sells this club on the idea of three woods in one without putting a carry number, a ball speed, a launch angle or a spin figure anywhere on the page. So the headline rests on category labels rather than on figures you can check before you buy. I’m not calling that dishonest. But the claim and the published evidence aren’t the same size, and my own testing landed the club just short of my 3-wood rather than level with it.
The second is that this is a fixed build. Hand and flex are your only choices at checkout. There’s no length option, there’s no lie option and there’s no adjustable hosel, and the head weight, swing weight and shaft model aren’t on the page. If it doesn’t fit you off the shelf, fixing it means paying someone to reshaft or adjust it after the fact. For a lot of golfers the stock build will be fine. But if you need a specific shaft weight to keep your tempo, there’s no dial to turn here.
One more thing worth reading before you order rather than after: the 365 day return window is long, but the terms attached to it are specific, and I’ve broken them down in the FAQ below.
Who It’s For
Buy it if:
- A slice is the shot you keep having to plan around, and you want a club the brand built to lean the other way.
- Your 3-wood has been living in the bag unused for a season or more.
- You’re a senior or a moderate swing speed player who needs a long club that gets up in the air without being forced.
- You want a long window to make up your mind, and you’re willing to read the return terms first.
Skip it if:
- You fight a hook. This build tilts in the same direction and there’s no lie adjustment on offer.
- Your 3-wood is working. There’s no reason to replace a club you hit well.
- You have the speed to flight a 3-wood on command and you want to shape shots with it.
- You want shaft, length and lie options at checkout, because this one ships exactly as listed. Another fairway wood and hybrid family worth a look is Callaway’s Quantum woods and hybrids.
Frequently Asked Questions
How far does the Performance Golf 357 hit the ball?
I hit it against my own 3-wood, on the course and at the range with a launch monitor. My 3-wood carries about 225, and the 357 landed a little way behind that, off a swing that felt far easier. That’s my swing though, not a spec. Performance Golf publishes no carry, ball speed, launch or spin figures for the 357 anywhere on its product listing, so there’s no manufacturer test number to compare against. What the listing does give you is a higher-lofted, shorter build than a typical 3-wood: 21 degrees on a 42 inch shaft. So log your own carry over two sessions, well inside the return window.
Is the 357 golf club worth it for seniors?
This is the golfer the club is aimed at most directly. A senior or slower-swinging player usually struggles with a 3-wood because a low-lofted head on a long shaft needs speed to get the ball airborne. The 357 answers it by stacking 21 degrees onto a shorter 42 inch shaft, so it’s built to launch without being forced. It also comes in Senior flex, and left-handed too. What sold me was the way it lands. It drops in steeply and stays put, and for that player holding a green on a long approach usually matters more than a few extra yards.
What are the common complaints about the Performance Golf 357?
Four come up fairly, and I’d raise every one of them myself. First, it doesn’t beat a 3-wood you can already hit, and against mine it gave up a little carry. Second, the draw bias is strong enough to be a problem if you’re already missing left, and there’s no lie adjustment to dial it back. Third, it’s a fixed build, so hand and flex are your only choices, and the shaft model, head weight and swing weight aren’t published anywhere. Fourth, at $249 it costs more than plenty of previous-generation fairway woods from the major manufacturers.
Is Performance Golf a legitimate company?
Yes. Performance Golf is a real golf brand that sells direct through its own store instead of stocking pro shops, which is why you’ll see it in social ads more than on a rack. It isn’t web-only either. The 357 is also listed on Amazon and eBay under the 357 Fairway Hybrid name. The company publishes a specific 365-day refund policy with named conditions attached rather than a vague guarantee, and it ships a real assembled club with published loft, length and lie figures you can check. Direct-to-consumer’s a sales model, not a red flag. Judge it on those specs and on your own results inside the return window.
Is the 357 Super 7-Wood the same club as the 357 Fairway Hybrid?
Yes. Performance Golf lists one club under more than one name, so 357 Super 7-Wood, 357 Fairway Wood and 357 Fairway Hybrid all turn up in different places, including inside the brand’s own product URL. No separate hybrid model is hiding behind that wording. Rather than comparing names, check any listing against three published figures: a 60 degree lie, a shaft finished at 42 inches, and 21 degrees of loft. Anything showing different numbers may be a custom order or a listing error, so confirm the exact model and variant with the seller before you buy.
Is the Performance Golf 357 available for left-handed golfers?
Yes, though the left-handed menu is the shorter of the two. Of the eight variants Performance Golf lists, all priced identically, three are built left-handed: Stiff, Regular and Senior. The right-handed side adds Ladies and Soft on top of those three. Performance Golf doesn’t publish how the five labels compare with one another, so if a left-handed golfer would have picked one of the two missing options, it’s worth emailing the brand for a recommendation before ordering. Options change over time, so read the live variant list at the moment you buy.
What does the Performance Golf 357 cost?
The 357 sells for $249 direct from Performance Golf, shown against a $299 compare-at price. All eight listed variants carry that same figure, whatever hand or flex you choose, and it covers the assembled club delivered as specified. Direct-to-consumer golf brands move pricing around with promotions. So confirm the number on the product page at the moment you order rather than trusting a figure in any article, this one included. And if you’re weighing the 357 against something already in the bag, price the whole decision rather than only the sticker.
What are the return terms on the Performance Golf 357?
You get 365 days from the date of purchase to start a return, which is a genuinely long window. It isn’t a free trial. Performance Golf requires an approved return authorization before you send anything back, and the customer covers return shipping. The club needs to arrive in resalable condition with minimal wear, in its original or comparable protective packaging. Excessive wear, damage or alteration can prevent a full refund. Read the current refund policy before you order so none of it catches you out later.
Final Thoughts: Performance Golf 357 Super 7-Wood Review
The 357 is a well-aimed club sold on a broad headline, and both of those are true at the same time. The published specs add up to a high-lofted fairway club that’s got a draw bias built into it, and my own testing backed up the two things that matter most: it’s genuinely easy to hit off the deck, and it stops on a green. If your 3-wood never leaves the bag and a slice is the shot you keep fighting, that’s a club worth $249 of your attention.
The three-woods-in-one line is fair as a description of how it’s built, and it’s the distance you’re meant to read into it that doesn’t hold up. Put next to my own 3-wood it gave up a few yards rather than adding any, and there’s no number on the product page that says otherwise. So this is a high-lofted fairway club, built with intent, aimed at a fairly specific golfer. If that golfer is you, the eight variants give you enough choice to order sensibly, and the year-long window gives you time to test it against what you already carry. If you fight a hook, or your 3-wood is doing its job, this one is aimed at somebody else. Either way, ask the four shaft questions before you order and check the specs against the club it would replace.
About the author: I’m Paul Liberatore, founder of Golfers Authority. I review golf gear to help everyday golfers spend smarter and avoid products that don’t fit how they actually play.
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Paul Liberatore
Paul Liberatore is the founder of Golfers Authority and a former four-year golf gear contributor to Sports Illustrated. He tests golf equipment hands-on to help golfers make better buying decisions.