Equipment
TaylorMade golf bags: 2019 lineup includes 5 models, new self-adjusting strap system
TaylorMade has launched its latest lineup of golf bags for 2019, which feature the company’s FlexTech technology and an all-new self-adjusting strap system.
The FlexTech base system consists of a multi-piece collapsible base that which aims to provide for easy deployment with additional space that negates club crowding.
As well as TaylorMade’s FlexTech technology, all of the latest bag additions from the company include an all-new self-adjusting strap system. The self-adjusting strap system is designed to provide players with a balanced bag without having to adjust large and awkward straps. According to the company, with no back pads, the straps on each bag are more effective when utilized as a single or double configuration.
TaylorMade FlexTech & FlexTech Lifestyle Stand Bags
Headlining TaylorMade’s bag releases for 2019, the FlexTech and FlexTech Lifestyle Stand Bags feature a design which sees each main side pockets built into the center of the golf bag to create a single piece construction which seeks to allow for more storage without adding weight.
TaylorMade’s Lifestyle Stand Bags are aimed at customers seeking a more casual, lifestyle-focused bag with the same performance features as the FlexTech bag.
Both new bags weigh 4.5 pounds and come in six different colorway options.
Specs & Features:
- 5-way organizational top
- Water-resistant, seam-sealed valuables pocket with micro suede lining
- Anti-split stand system
- Full length dividers to eliminate club crowding
- 11 pockets
- FlexTech colorways: titanium/blood orange, black, charcoal, silver/gray/navy, navy/red/white & blue/white
- FlexTech Lifestyle colorways: tweed, gray canvas, plaster, cosmic & checks
- MSRP $215 USD
TaylorMade FlexTech Crossover & FlexTech Crossover Lifestyle Stand Bags
TaylorMade’s best-selling bag of 2018, the FlexTech Crossover, features a new design for 2019. Designers straddled the line of a cart & stand bag when designing the Crossover. The latest model allows for a cart strap passthrough that aims to make loading the bag on carts more efficient while also allowing the golfer access to the two oversized apparel pockets on the side of the bag, made possible by the design built into the center ball pocket.
The bags feature three large front-facing pockets (including a cooler pocket with a drain port) and weigh 5.5 pounds each. The Crossover comes in six different colorways, while the Crossover Lifestyle Stand Bag arrives in two.
Specs & Features:
- 14-way top
- 10 pockets
- Cart strap passthrough for easy access to all pockets
- Large internal insulated cooler pocket
- Easily accessible insulated water bottle pocket
- Full-length dividers to eliminate club crowding
- 6 colorways: silver gray/blood orange, navy/red/white, black/blood orange, black, titanium/blue & navy/white
- MSRP $235 USD
TaylorMade FlexTech Lite
The FlexTech Lite is the lightest bag in TaylorMade’s Flextech family, weighing in at 4.1 pounds.
Designers saved weight in this bag by moving to a single stay construction versus 3 or 4 stays previously used, and the main stay in the Lite bag that runs along the spine of the bag has been modified with the goal of keeping the bag lightweight while also adding durability.
The bag also features a rangefinder pocket/capsule which has been integrated into the side accessory pocket to allow golfers to have easy access to their rangefinder before taking the bag off their back.
The FlexTech Lite is available in five different colorways.
Specs & Features:
- 4-way organizational top
- New no-zip rangefinder capsule
- Micro-suede lined valuables pocket
- Anti-split stand system
- Full-length dividers to eliminate club crowding
- 8 pockets
- colorways: blue/gray, black/white, gray/lime, orange/black & navy/blood orange
- MSRP $200 USD
TaylorMade LiteTech 3.0 Stand Bag
Completing their 2019 bag line, TaylorMade’s LiteTech 3.0 Stand Bag weighs in at just 3 pounds and marks the companies first venture into the ultra-life category of golf bags.
Designers of the LiteTech 3.0 Stand Bag utilized bag body materials three times lighter than the FlexTech Lite with an ultra-lightweight and durable stand system that features carbon fiber legs and a lightweight collapsible base system.
The new bag from TaylorMade also looks to provide players with maximum club storage through its 4-way top that includes three grab handles. The LiteTech 3.0 StandBag contains six pockets that include a large apparel pocket, big enough to store a rain suit.
Specs & Features:
- Ultra-lightweight design
- 5-way top
- 6 pockets
- Full-length club dividers
- Full-size side pockets
- All-new self-adjusting strap system
- 5 colorways: blue/gray, black/white, gray/green, orange/black & navy/blood orange
- MSRP $220
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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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mario
Feb 4, 2019 at 1:06 am
TaylorMade LiteTech 3 is the best lightweight and stylish. much easy to use.
Cdub
Jan 31, 2019 at 8:25 pm
What in the world does this mean?
“TaylorMade’s Lifestyle Stand Bags are aimed at customers seeking a more casual, lifestyle-focused bag with the same performance features as the FlexTech bag”.
What is a casual lifestyle focused bag?
I want a bag that is not fugly.
Tom
Jan 31, 2019 at 5:19 pm
Boy, this brand is in a free fall!!!
Actually knows what he's talking about
Feb 1, 2019 at 1:16 am
Yeah, that’s usually what a bag line release means.
Tom
Jan 31, 2019 at 4:54 pm
WOW, stand golf bags….sooooooo new and exciting!
Rofl
Jan 31, 2019 at 4:38 pm
To heavy! Sun Mountain got a 2.5 three years ago?!?
Speedy
Jan 31, 2019 at 1:01 pm
FlexTech technology. $100 is all I’ll pay.
Chip
Jan 31, 2019 at 9:51 am
Bags look really nice, except they say TaylorMade on them. Gross