Phantom 5

The Phantom 5 that this record holds begins in 2024, a single release within the wider Phantom family that also includes the 5.5, 5S, 7, 9, and 11 series designations. The maker's own page describes it as staying true to its compact mallet configuration and blade-like feel, with what it calls an updated, more modern shape, precision milled and engineered using a combination of 303 stainless steel and 6061 aircraft grade aluminum. The maker's page also notes that astute comparison to former versions reveals a straighter wing angle, language that points backward toward earlier Phantom mallets without this record holding those releases itself.

On the 2024 head, the maker's page points to a topline carrying elegantly milled sight dots accented with translucent smoke paintfill, a refinement from what the copy describes as prior solid-line alignment approaches. The construction pairs a 303 stainless steel face and body with a 6061 aircraft aluminum sole and flange component, fitted with a dual-milled face texture and, per the maker, an updated, more rigid aluminum sole plate and stainless steel sole weights. The 2024 Phantom 5 shipped with the new Full Contact grip that the maker describes as custom-designed with a chain link texture, a feature the maker's page notes was applied across the Phantom line that year.

At present this record holds only the one entry in the Phantom 5 line, the 2024 release, so the arc here is a single point rather than a lineage across years. The maker's current site does reference a later Phantom 5 configuration, including an Onset Center option and a mid-single bend shaft geometry, and notes tour players competing with Phantom 5 prototypes, but those descriptions sit outside the 2024 release row this record carries and belong to what the maker's page shows today rather than to what this record has on file for this line.