Equipment
Ping to sell 5,000 Bubba-inspired pink G30 drivers
If you’re ever wanted a Ping G30 driver that looks like the one Bubba Watson uses, here’s your chance. Ping is selling 5,000 all-pink G30 drivers and will donate $60 for each driver sold to the Bubba Watson Foundation.
The Bubba Watson Foundation was founded by the golfer and his wife, Angie, and states its mission as “enhanc[ing] the every-day lives of people in need with a particular emphasis on helping and inspiring children, young adults, and those associated with the U.S. Military.”
[quote_box_center]“Bubba has a huge heart and continues to use his success on the golf course to help people in need, especially children,” said John A. Solheim, PING Chairman & CEO. “As we’ve seen on the golf course with his shot-making skills, he’s a creative thinker and his decision to distinguish himself by using a pink driver and shaft helped make this program possible. We’re blessed with the opportunity to partner with Bubba and are very grateful to golfers who choose to support this program for the benefit of the Bubba Watson Foundation.”[/quote_box_center]
The G30 drivers ($550 MSRP) are currently available for pre-order through Ping authorized retailers. They’re available in right-handed (9.5 and 10.5 degrees) and left-handed (10.5 degrees) models, and come with all-Pink Ping TFC 914D shafts (R and S flexes).
Related: Ping’s G30 driver earned the top spot on our 2015 Gear Trials: Best Drivers List. Read our full review of the G30 driver, here.
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Whats in the Bag
Rory McIlroy’s winning WITB: 2024 Wells Fargo Championship
Driver: TaylorMade Qi10 (9 degrees @8.25) Buy here.
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Black 6 X
3-wood: TaylorMade Qi10 (15 degrees) Buy here.
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Black 8 X
5-wood: TaylorMade Qi10 (18 degrees) Buy here.
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Black 9 X
Irons: TaylorMade Proto (4), TaylorMade Rors Proto (5-9) Buy here.
Shaft: Project X 7.0 (4-9)
Wedges: TaylorMade MG4 (46-09SB, 50-09SB, 54-11SB) Buy here, Titleist Vokey Design WedgeWorks (58-K @59) Buy here.
Shafts: Project X 6.5 (46-54), Project X 6.5 Wedge (60)
Putter: TaylorMade Spider Tour X3 Buy here.
Grip: SuperStroke Zenergy Pistol Tour
Ball: 2024 TaylorMade TP5x Buy here.
Grips: Golf Pride MCC
Check out more in-hand photos of Rory McIlroy’s WITB in the forums.
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The winning WITB is presented by 2nd Swing Golf. 2nd Swing has more than 100,000 new and pre-swung golf clubs available in six store locations and online. Check them out here.
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Whats in the Bag
Kevin Tway WITB 2024 (May)
- Kevin Tway what’s in the bag accurate as of the Wells Fargo Championship. More photos from the event here.
Driver: Ping G430 LST (10.5 degrees)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Black 6 X
3-wood: TaylorMade Stealth 2 (15 degrees)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Diamana D+ 80 TX
5-wood: TaylorMade Stealth 2 (18 degrees)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Diamana D+ 90 TX
Irons: Wilson Staff Utility (2), Titleist T100 (4-9)
Shafts: Mitsubishi MMT 100 TX (2), True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100 (4-9)
Wedges: Titleist Vokey Design SM10 (48-10F @47, 52-12F @51, 56-14F), SM7 (60-10S)
Shafts: True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100 (48-56), True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400 (60)
Putter: Scotty Cameron T-5 Proto
Grip: Scotty Cameron Black Baby T
Grips: Golf Pride Tour Velvet Plus4
More photos of Kevin Tway’s WITB in the forums.
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Equipment
Did Rory McIlroy inspire Shane Lowry’s putter switch?
Editor’s note: This is an excerpt from a piece our Andrew Tursky originally wrote for PGATour.com’s Equipment Report. Head over there for the full article.
The timing of Lowry’s putter changeup was curious: Was he just using a Spider putter because he was paired with McIlroy, who’s been using a Spider Tour X head throughout 2024? Was Lowry just being festive because it’s the Zurich Classic, and he wanted to match his teammate? Did McIlroy let Lowry try his putter, and he liked it so much he actually switched into it?
Well, as it turns out, McIlroy’s only influence was inspiring Lowry to make more putts.
When asked if McIlroy had an influence on the putter switch, Lowry had this to say: “No, it’s actually a different putter than what he uses. Maybe there was more pressure there because I needed to hole some more putts if we wanted to win,” he said with a laugh.
To Lowry’s point, McIlroy plays the Tour X model, whereas Lowry switched into the Tour Z model, which has a sleeker shape in comparison, and the two sole weights of the club are more towards the face.
Lowry’s Spider Tour Z has a white True Path Alignment channel on the crown of his putter, which is reminiscent of Lowry’s former 2-ball designs, thus helping to provide a comfort factor despite the departure from his norm. Instead of a double-bend hosel, which Lowry used in his 2-ball putters, his new Spider Tour Z is designed with a short slant neck.
“I’ve been struggling on the greens, and I just needed something with a fresh look,” Lowry told GolfWRX.com on Wednesday at the 2024 Wells Fargo Championship. “It has a different neck on it, as well, so it moves a bit differently, but it’s similar. It has a white line on the back of it [like my 2-ball], and it’s a mallet style. So it’s not too drastic of a change.
“I just picked it up on the putting green and I liked the look of it, so I was like, ‘Let’s give it a go.’”
Read the rest of the piece over at PGATour.com.
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Junca valerie
May 2, 2015 at 2:08 pm
Hello. I am french I would like to buy Watson’s driver. Is it possible to buy it on Internet ? I am waitting your answer. Thank you
Jacob
Apr 8, 2015 at 12:51 pm
I was looking forward to this and even thinking it would knock my G25 out of the bag from last year. Not cool only offering left hand in 10.5* and R or S regular version head . I wanted a G30 LS 9*and Xshaft. 0 for 3 for what I need and wants. $90 Pant job really?
What is more comical are the ones on Ebay for $1000-1200 already a week before it has even shipped! 5000 is Not that limited flippers!! WTH
golfiend
Apr 7, 2015 at 1:42 pm
I think my wife will get one of these … she loves pink.
ND Hickman
Apr 7, 2015 at 9:37 am
Coming to the UK in specs other than a 10.5 with a Regular Shaft this time?
llamont
Apr 7, 2015 at 1:11 am
This just end… After reading GD’s scathing article about PGA Tour pros disdain for Bubba, Ping has cut production of Bubba’s pink driver to Bubba-only personal prototypes.
Kyle
Apr 6, 2015 at 11:13 pm
Gross
Nor
Apr 6, 2015 at 7:11 pm
Worse than TMAG white heads or Nike Red/Volt colors, but i don’t see people mocking Ping?
jason
Apr 6, 2015 at 11:16 pm
It’s a charity thing. And a good driver. Nothing wrong with this move by PING.
lsf_21
Apr 8, 2015 at 10:41 pm
So Nike and Taylormade dont make good drivers?
jonno
Apr 6, 2015 at 6:58 pm
bubba has a one-off custom slightly smaller and lower spinning G30, if that’s the head they sold i’d buy one.
a pink normal g30 is rubbish and is paying for paint
jason
Apr 6, 2015 at 11:17 pm
This is not true. Bubba’s G30 is not smaller. And any modification of spin would be through the use go G-loo which WRX will do for any customer who asks.
John Jones
Apr 8, 2015 at 10:33 pm
Bubba’s driver is the same size as every G30 and is not lower spinning due to Giloo either. Bubba does however play a very low lofted G30 due to his ball speed and club head speed…Bubba is a guy whose stock shot is a 20 yard cut gonna need some spin to hit that shot…and his bomb is launched at 15 w 1800 spin because he swing up 5 at it. You sir need to talk of what you know and not try to look cool.
Dirt
Apr 6, 2015 at 5:46 pm
I wants one. Are they going on sale in Canada?
other paul
Apr 6, 2015 at 1:20 pm
I want one. But if I was going to play a pink driver that screams Bubba long, I would have to play a long 48″ shaft to hit it that far. Otherwise, why buy one? To put on a shelf?
ooffa
Apr 6, 2015 at 12:53 pm
I would love to play like Bubba, but look or act like Bubba, no thank you very much.
johnnyb
Apr 6, 2015 at 12:15 pm
Bubba is a good dude. That is all.
Scooter McGavin
Apr 6, 2015 at 12:36 pm
Yeah, especially when he’s swearing and yelling at his caddie.
jason
Apr 6, 2015 at 11:19 pm
And donating heavy amounts of money to the Soldiers fund.
RadioActive
Apr 6, 2015 at 11:21 am
So take a $350 driver, paint it pink, charge $550 and donate $50 to charity? Hmmm something doesn’t add up…
JE
Apr 6, 2015 at 11:47 am
Actually, Morton’s Golf has them for $499 so your math is off. More like 500 – 60 = $440. $60 to a foundation that supports people in need sounds like a good deal for everyone.
RadioActive
Apr 6, 2015 at 3:15 pm
Relax Archimedes, i was using the $550 quoted in this article wasn’t going out looking for actual quotes, and I’m petty sure when this article 1st went up it read that $50 was going to charity they either edited it or I was mistaken… But lets use your numbers, still an additional ~$90 profit per club or $450K over 5000 clubs under the guise of helping a charity.
JE
Apr 6, 2015 at 3:53 pm
Thanks for the compliment. 🙂
lsf_21
Apr 8, 2015 at 10:44 pm
Sounds like good business.