Equipment
WRX Spotted: New blades for Bryson
If there was ever someone on tour known as a tinkerer it would be Bryson DeChambeau. Yes, there are obviously players that don’t have exclusivity to a single OEM and have very mixed bags, but as far as testing and “getting into the weeds” Bryson is our man.
Spotted this week at the Memorial, Bryson had a new set (6-PW) of Cobra King Forged MB (muscle back) irons in the bag. Thanks to some great detective work from our own Johnny Wunder, we were able to get some cool inside information on the reason for the switch and if we will see these sticking around for the rest of the year.
When speaking to the team at Cobra Golf, Bryson was feeling recently his short irons (Cobra King One Length irons) were apexing a bit too high, which made it more difficult to control trajectory and spin into greens as much as he wanted. After working with the team at Cobra, the team built him a set of King Forged MB irons to his specs (True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400 shafts, 37.5 inches) for the five clubs. As far the the build goes, the team at Cobra confirmed that these heads worked well to build to single length thanks to the tungsten weighting found in the heads – exactly same as what is found in the retail sets.
With two more Major Championships before the end of the season being played at what could potentially be windy layouts (Pebble Beach and Royal Portrush), this iron change could certainly provide an advantage versus his previous set when it comes to playing in the wind and helping improve trajectory control.
Considering these are already in the bag, this is a big sign DeChambeau has a lot of confidence in both his set and the team at Cobra Golf for getting his equipment built and dialed in before defending his title at Jack’s place.
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Whats in the Bag
Rasmus Højgaard WITB 2024 (April)
- Rasmus Højgaard what’s in the bag accurate as of the Zurich Classic.
Driver: Callaway Ai Smoke Triple Diamond (10.5 degrees)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Tensei 1K Blue 60 TX
3-wood: Callaway Ai Smoke Triple Diamond Prototype (16.5 degrees)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Tensei 1K White 80 TX
Utility: Callaway Apex UW (21 degrees)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Tensei AV Raw White 85 TX
Irons: Callaway Apex Pro (3), Callaway X Forged (4-PW)
Shafts: KBS $-Taper 130
Wedges: Callaway Jaws Raw (52-10S, 56-10S, 60-06C)
Shafts: KBS Tour 130 X
Putter: Odyssey Ai One Milled Eight T DB
Grips: Golf Pride MCC
Check out more in-hand photos of Hojgaard in the forums.
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Whats in the Bag
Rory McIlroy WITB 2024 (April)
- Rory McIlroy what’s in the bag accurate as of the Zurich Classic.
Driver: TaylorMade Qi10 (9 degrees)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Black 6 X
3-wood: TaylorMade Qi10 (15 degrees)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Black 8 X
5-wood: TaylorMade Qi10 (18 degrees)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Black 9 X
Irons: TaylorMade Proto (4), TaylorMade Rors Proto (5-9)
Shaft: Project X 7.0 (4-9)
Wedges: TaylorMade MG4 (46-09SB, 50-09SB, 54-11SB), Titleist Vokey Design WedgeWorks (58-K @59)
Shafts: Project X 6.5 (46-54), Project X 6.5 Wedge (60)
Putter: TaylorMade Spider Tour X3
Grip: SuperStroke Zenergy Pistol Tour
Ball: 2024 TaylorMade TP5x
Grips: Golf Pride MCC
Check out more in-hand photos of Rory McIlroy’s WITB in the forums.
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Equipment
Spotted: Nate Lashley’s Ping PLD “Wolverine” putter
Ping PLD putters have been a very common site on profesional tours. Pros seem to gravitate toward the PLD line’s custom options and precision milling. We have seen the PLD line expanded over the years, but we haven’t seen too many, if any, large mallets.
This week we spotted a PLD putter in Nate Lashley’s bag that has a similar look to the old Ping Wolverine head shape. This putter is a large mallet with the famous “claws” on the outside and oval center that housed the alignment aid.
Nick’s putter has the PLD logo on the back but also looks like it might have an insert installed on the face. It is hard to tell but at the address picture, it looks like the face is a lighter material than the rest of the putters. The putter is center-shafted and should be face-balanced with a high MOI for stability and forgiveness on mishits. The sole is completely milled and has no markings of name or technologies that might be present in the head. A single white site line is on the top of the putter for alignment.
Nick’s putter is finished off with a chrome steel shaft and a Super Stroke Zenergy Flatso 2.0 grip in black and white.
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cody reeder
May 30, 2019 at 1:31 pm
such a head case. In his win earlier this year he was playing DG X7 shafts. some of the stiffest on the planet. Then he switched to something else, I do not remember what. now S400s, different irons, and a new putter.
JUST STICK WITH WHAT YOU WERE WINNING WITH MAN!!!!! STOP TRYING TO BE THE SMARTEST IN THE ROOM!!
brickhouse
May 30, 2019 at 12:32 pm
New putter head as well, any idea what it is? #7 style wings
Ross Baker
May 30, 2019 at 10:00 am
So now it’s only 6 iron to PW that are single length 37.5″! His wedges are ‘obviously shorter’ his ‘long irons’ are obviously longer! looking at pics! So his ‘One Length Set’ is ‘slowly reducing’ back to what any ‘Playable Set’ is! So much for ‘one length irons’! Soon he will be back to ‘standard’ iron configuration! Then he’ll have some chance of ‘playing to his potential!’ Funny Thing That! ????
Thomas A
May 30, 2019 at 10:24 am
That’s not ‘obvious’ by looking at a 2 dimensional image at an angle. His 5&4 irons are still One Length Forged irons. 5 wins on tour is pretty freaking good. Maybe you should aim so high?
Baking Ross
May 30, 2019 at 10:35 am
Just to make sure you know so you dont sound silly in future angry rants about One Length clubs.
His long irons, both 4 and 5 are One Length utility irons. Keep in mind though, you also dont need to get angry over people being different. Are you still upset over the switch from steel to graphite? Things change and it’s going to be ok. Funny Thing That! ????
Carole
May 30, 2019 at 12:19 am
Still comes down to how one is playing on any given day…Bryson has proved his single plane swing can be very good on good days and very bad on bad days…the search for more good days will go on for ever.
Orca
May 30, 2019 at 1:12 pm
Isn’t that every golfer who has good and bad days?
Rich Douglas
May 29, 2019 at 7:13 pm
This is SUCH non-news.
Bryson has them built to a 6-iron length already. That means removing weight from the 7I – PW, weight that’s already found in the tungsten weight block to get the swing weights right. Oh, and not mess up the playing characteristics of each club because of that weight removal. I’m sure Bryson got that done, but YMMV.
Want a better trick? Try getting a set from 4I through LW all built around a 36.5″ shaft length, each with the same weight, swing weight, MOI, length, etc. Now THAT’s engineering. This? This is tinkering.
EddieBigEddie
May 29, 2019 at 6:57 pm
Any idea how they removed weight from the 8-pw to get SW to match up?
Thomas A
May 30, 2019 at 10:25 am
Probably built them specifically for him, so they never added it in the first place.
Big Mike
May 29, 2019 at 6:20 pm
Oh boy! I bet these come to retail at some point