Equipment
Tiger Woods’ Winning WITB: 2018 Tour Championship
Driver: TaylorMade M3 460 (9.5 degrees)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Diamana D+ White 70TX
3 Wood: TaylorMade M3 (13 degrees)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Diamana D+ White 80TX
5 Wood: TaylorMade M3 (19 degrees)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Diamana D+ White 80TX
Irons: TaylorMade TW-Phase1 prototype (3-PW)
Shafts: True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100
Wedges: TaylorMade Milled Grind Raw (56 and 60 degrees)
Shafts: True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400
Putter: Scotty Cameron Newport 2 GSS
Golf Ball: Bridgestone TourB XS
Grips: Golf Pride Tour Velvet Cord
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- Tiger Woods WITB 2018 (Masters)
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Whats in the Bag
Chesson Hadley WITB 2024 (March)
- Chesson Hadley what’s in the bag accurate as of the Texas Children’s Houston Open. More photos from the event here.
Driver: Titleist TSR3 (10 degrees, D1 SureFit setting)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Diamana D+ 70 TX
3-wood: Titleist TSR2+ (14.5 degrees, A1 SureFit setting)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Diamana D+ 80 TX
Irons: Titleist T200 (3), Titleist 620 CB (4, 5), Titleist 620 MB (6-PW)
Shafts: Graphite Design Tour AD DI 105 X (3), True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100 (4-PW)
Wedges: Titleist Vokey Design SM10 (52-12F, 56-14F), WedgeWorks (60-K)
Shafts: True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400
Putter: Odyssey White Hot OG 2-Ball
Grip: Odyssey
Grips: Golf Pride Tour Velvet
Ball: Titleist Pro V1x
Check out more in-hand photos Chesson Hadley’s clubs here.
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Whats in the Bag
Gary Woodland WITB 2024 (March)
Driver: Cobra Darkspeed X (8 degrees)
Shaft: Accra TZ5 70 M5
- The white circle that appears at the top of the face a removable sticker that’s used for launch monitor tracking, and Woodland removes it for competition!
3-wood: Cobra Darkspeed X (14 degrees)
Shaft: Accra TZ5 GW100 Prototype
7-wood: Cobra LTDx LS prototype (20 degrees)
Shaft: Accra TZ5 GW100 Prototype
Irons: Wilson Staff (18 degrees), Cobra King MB (4-PW)
Shafts: KBS Tour C-Taper Limited X
Wedges: Cobra SB (48), Titleist Vokey Design SM10 (52-08F, 56-14F), Cobra King (60)
Shafts: KBS Tour C-Taper Limited X (48 degrees), KBS Tour V-Ten 125
Putter: Scotty Cameron T-5 Proto
Grip: SuperStroke Zenergy Tour 3.0P
Ball: Titleist Pro V1x
Grips: Golf Pride Tour Velvet Cord
See more in-hand photos of Gary Woodland’s WITB in the forums.
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Equipment
Q&A: Martin Trainer on his Bobby Grace “Greg Chalmers” putter, 6.5-degree driver, and “butter knife” 2-iron
As unbiasedly as I can put it, Martin Trainer has one of the coolest club setups in professional golf. (At some point soon, I’ll put together a top-10 list of “coolest club setups on Tour,” but I know that Trainer will be in the top-10)
What a lineup. He plays a 6.5-degree Wilson prototype driver, a 13-degree Wilson prototype 3-wood, a true blade Wilson Staff Model 2-iron, and a Bobby Grace “Greg Chalmers Commemorative” putter!
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I mean, look at this 2-iron from address…
To quote the great author R.L. Stine: “Goosebumps.”
On Wednesday at the 2024 Texas Children’s Houston Open, I caught up with Trainer to learn more about his bag setup.
Here’s what he had to say:
You have the Internet going crazy over your bag setup, and your putter. Where’d you pick the Bobby Grace-Greg Chalmers putter up? How long have you had it?
MT: This was from when Bobby Grace came to my course in California: Cal Club. And for whatever reason, they just started having them in the shop. So then I took my buddy’s, started using it, and made, like, a million putts in a row, which is how every putter story begins, I guess.
And then, I bought a couple of my own, used it for years, got to the Tour with it, won on Tour with it (the 2019 Puerto Rico Open). Then, about a year later, started using another putter, did that for a couple years, but now it’s back in the bag.
When did it come back in the bag?
MT: December of this past year. So a few months ago.
What year would you say was the first time you threw that in the bag, or, like, when you bought it?
MT: God…Probably, 2016, maybe? 2018?
Do you remember how much you paid for it?
MT: I don’t know, actually. Maybe $100-150 bucks or something. I think that’s the only golf club I’ve bought between high school and now. Well, two, since I bought two of them.
The driver is interesting, too. What went into the prototyping process?
MT: That was a version of the current driver, but it was the prototype that they first came out with for Tour guys to try. And for whatever reason, I just never switched out to the new one.
It’s just 6.5 degrees, right?
MT: Yeah. Very low loft, yeah.
What kind of ball speed do you have with that these days?
MT: Like high 170’s.
Yeah, that’ll work. And then a 2-iron blade? We’re seeing fewer and fewer of those out here.
MT: Yeah. The butter knife.
Very cool thing to have in the bag. Have you done any testing with driving irons?
MT: Yeah, I used to have a thicker one, but it was a little offset, and I never hit it that well. And then finally, I started messing around with the butter knife. And I remember the first time I looked down at it, I was terrified. And then I ended up getting used to it, putting it in play, and it’s been in place since. It’s a pretty good club for me.
How far do you carry that?
MT: Like 235.
A good little wind club, I’m sure.
MTL Yeah, exactly. I can hit it very low. It’s great.
I love it. You have people shook looking at that. Thanks for the time, man.
MT: Absolutely.
To see more photos and discussion of Trainer’s bag, click here.
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big jones
Oct 10, 2018 at 3:54 pm
I can relate to the LPGA WTIB, but not this one. Wasn’t it Mickelson who said he needed better sticks?
J.R.
Sep 26, 2018 at 4:38 pm
Can you say Mizuno MP-9s?! I believe the Phase 1 happened back in 1990… lol
LJB
Nov 18, 2018 at 12:40 am
Yep
Yogi Bear
Sep 26, 2018 at 4:01 am
oh, I could’a swore his driver was 44.874 and 1/3. 3 wood, 42.23 and 1/8. 5 wood 40.3 and 1/4. Hahahaha!! you guys kill me with this nonsense.
Lee
Sep 26, 2018 at 12:37 am
I find it interesting that Tiger had a Ping grip on his putter…did anyone else notice this?
Tony
Sep 26, 2018 at 10:29 am
This is the grip he’s been using since his amateur days. Despite all of the different grips that have come out over the last decades, he likes this one the best. And he has always blacked out the PING logo with a sharpie to keep it low key for his sponsors.
Bob
Sep 24, 2018 at 10:47 pm
The best players use Taylormade. It’s interesting but no one wins with Callaway on tour. What does that tell you?
Thomas A
Oct 3, 2018 at 9:19 am
2017/2018 winners using Callaway: Aaron Wise, Patrick Reed, Brice Garnett, Phil Mickelson.
WAGs all day
Oct 26, 2018 at 1:39 pm
Tells me you have no idea wtf you are talking about
Curt
Sep 24, 2018 at 7:43 pm
Shouldn’t it be illegal for other golf companies to just copy clubs?
John Bennett
Sep 24, 2018 at 8:13 pm
Like everything titleist and Cameron put out?
Rock
Sep 24, 2018 at 5:37 pm
I’m gonna get Tiger’s exact set of clubs… so I can feeeel what he feeeels… booyah!!!
Ricky J Tomes
Sep 24, 2018 at 4:14 pm
I wonder who really makes those TW proto-type irons? Could it be Miura?
namnam
Sep 25, 2018 at 4:34 am
A very interesting article on the topics. Please keep posting more on this. For more info/
JP
Sep 24, 2018 at 2:06 pm
I like how he abuses his putter. The thing has won him a ton and earlier this year I saw him jamming it in the holes on the practice green scooping golf balls out. I’m worried about scratching my $179 putter. He doesn’t GAF. It was great seeing it.
Steve Cantwell
Sep 24, 2018 at 1:16 pm
Probably a stupid question, but why do people care what shafts Tiger Woods uses? Do they expect the same results if they were to use the same product?
MacAttack67
Sep 24, 2018 at 2:41 pm
He uses Dynamic Gold in his irons. The members here love to trash Dynamic Gold for hundreds of reasons yet it is still the #1 shaft on Tour by a mile and is played by the best players. Maybe Phil should switch back?
Ricky J Tomes
Sep 24, 2018 at 4:10 pm
The funny thing is people do expect the same results from using the same equipment he uses. Along, with the rest of the buying industry. That very thing is what drives the industry. Look how they market clubs and shafts and balls. Funny I Know.
Benny
Sep 29, 2018 at 11:01 am
Would you also like to know what car he drives? Or maybe what he eats for lunch? Follow them on Twitter? Color of his underwear… wait what?
Andrew Tursky
Sep 24, 2018 at 10:34 am
Many people are questioning Tiger’s wood shafts. We’ve confirmed directly through Mitsubishi and Darrell that he’s playing Mitsubishi’s “Diamana D+ White” 70 gram in his driver and 80 gram in his fairway woods.
Jon
Sep 25, 2018 at 7:08 am
Andrew – can you use the power of Golfwrx and the Golfnerdery gods to get the details of the loft/lie of his irons – in fact I think this would be a welcome addition to all WITB. Thanks.
Tim
Sep 25, 2018 at 4:19 pm
He had Tensei orange or white prior, do we know why he switched?
Andy
Sep 24, 2018 at 6:26 am
What loft is his PW? What’s the gap between it and his 56?
JuannyBravo
Sep 24, 2018 at 10:25 am
lol. Tiger doesn’t need a gap wedge
Karl
Sep 24, 2018 at 11:56 am
I believe it’s 50 degrees for his PW. Old school lifts.
Jon
Sep 25, 2018 at 7:07 am
Great question. Also, 3-PW means nothing these days, it would be nice if they could list the loft/lie so we could know in much the same way as woods and hybrids are listed.
And then of course change them to his lofts then we will all play like him 🙂
travis
Sep 24, 2018 at 2:59 am
Well, this might be one of those clubs that does not fit for everyone, I might be lucky enough to be in the general targeted audience. Although it may not be the greatest club, but it’s not too bad either
D Mack
Sep 23, 2018 at 8:07 pm
It’s the D+ LTD, I have one n my diver (S) flex. Smooth feeling shaft that I know. Long too.
Fred
Sep 23, 2018 at 7:53 pm
It’s the df series not the d+
Travis
Sep 23, 2018 at 7:32 pm
HE’S BAAAACK!!!
Ryan Michael
Sep 23, 2018 at 7:20 pm
Wrong shafts he uses the newer line not the old school ones that are 73 and 83 grams.
dat
Sep 23, 2018 at 12:00 pm
Was the Cameron sent in for refinishing work? How current is that photo?
Ben
Sep 23, 2018 at 10:09 am
What´s about the length of the wood shafts? He has far less clubhead speed than at the beginning of the season.
Kevin
Sep 24, 2018 at 11:39 am
I’m curious about shaft length too, but I don’t think that is why his clubhead speed is down a little. this week he FINALLY brought is ‘range swing’ to the course. Just watch video of his smooth, controlled swing while warming up then he gets to the 1st tee and comes out of his shoes and sprays it all over the place! You would think he’d have figured that out a long time ago but he did this week. Hopefully he keeps it going at the Ryder Cup.
Matt
Sep 23, 2018 at 6:57 am
Driver is Diamana D+ LTD 70 TX
3 wood and 5 wood are Diamana D+ LTD 80 TX
Jim
Sep 23, 2018 at 6:43 pm
Yea they kinda really really messed up that one.
Marius Bjone
Sep 23, 2018 at 3:28 am
Are you sure he’s not playing the Diamana DF-series?
/MB
Matt
Sep 24, 2018 at 10:37 am
Forsure the Diamana LTD D+ graphics
Typically he has been 44.75″ driver
roughly 42.5 and 41.5 in the fairways
Matt
Sep 24, 2018 at 5:41 pm
Correction: It was 44.875″ for the driver… not 44.75… my bad