I was watching the Barclay's tournament from Singapore today and noticed several of the players using stand bags around the green.

I never saw that before in a pro tournament... Is there a reason they use them in Singapore or on the Euro tour but not the PGA tour?

My opinion is that on the PGA Tour, Staff Bags provide and larger area for sponsorship.
Not only is the main sponsor on the bag much larger, but it also provides room in other areas for other sponsors.

Granted, and obvious that, you have much more room in a Staff bag... but money talks a lot louder than a caddy does about a sore back.

I seem to recall that there are some players on the PGA tour that use stand bags. I went to the Travelers, and followed Bubba Watson's group on Saturday for a bit. One of the guys in his group had a stand bag...I wanna say Bob Estes, but I could be wrong...I know it wasn't a younger player, that's for sure.


EDIT - Could be John Huston too.

Does anyone know where I can score good tour issue stand bags?

What's with the "tour issued" stand bag? Can't it just be a good stand bag or does it being "tour issued" bring you something I wouldn't understand?

For real, why would you want a tour issued stand bag? If you must get a tour issued bag at all, get a staff bag, not a stand bag.

Mike Hulbert had a stand bag at the Children's Miracle Network. He stepped in for Fred Couples who pulled out after having a bad back.

ANyone have pics of these tour stand bags?

guys THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A TOUR STAND BAG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! they are the same bags that you can get in the shop!!!!!! THE SAME BAGS!!!!!!!!! alot of no-name guys use them espically in reno since it's a lower tier tourney and a hard course to walk. and yes John Huston probably had one, when I caddied for Rick Fehr this year we played a practice round with him and he had a callaway one.

true and not true..



most of the stand bags can be found for retail sale.


but there are select colors that are TOUR ISSUE. (just like clothing, hats, headcovers, etc.)

i don't really doubt you, but i don't see why companies would make "tour Issue" something that isn't even supposed to be used regularly on tour.

YEs.. but he has to have a "Tour" stand bag! Just a stand bag won't do. It has to be tour or nothing....

Nobody regularly uses a Stand bag on the European Tour, a couple of guys use them in Madeira (the hillest course known to man, and one to avoid unless you really want to play, and played a week before the tour hits mainland Europe and all the new tour bags are on the tour vans)


The Singapore Open isn't on the European Tour this season, (maybe one of the reason's Phil didin't sign up yet) but there does seem to be a few more stand bags in use on the Asian tour, it comes down to the more flying they do and keeping excess baggage costs down

Different colours?

More a case of 'custom made' than tour issue, if we're honest.

Mind you, if the bloke wants to pay double the going rate for a bog standard carry bag with some ambitious claims from the seller attached, let him do it...

'See that little pull in the thread there..? Tour issue that is...'

I saw quite a few stand bags at the senior PGA championship when it was played down here at Kiawah in 2007. Howard Twitty (I think it was) was even using a Titleist pencil sunday bag. It looked to me like most of those using lightweight bags had someone other than their regular caddy on the bag, in Howard Twittys case it looked like it might have been his son.