Equipment
12 Revealing photos from the RBC Heritage and Lotte Championship
GolfWRX was live this week from the 2016 RBC Heritage at Harbour Town Golf Links on Hilton Head Island, and we also had contributing photos (thanks tod071!) from the LPGA Lotte Championship at Ko Olina Golf Club on the Island of Oahu.
Make sure to catch up on all of the photos in the links below:
From South Carolina to Hawaii, GolfWRX was living the island life this week and providing some amazing photos from both the PGA and LPGA tours. Let’s throw those shaka fingas up and reveal some photos.
Jason Day’s preshot routine, gone awry
It appears that Jason Day’s preshot routine, featuring intense and long-lasting visualization, is sweeping the LPGA Tour. Except something tells me some of these ladies aren’t doing it right.
You’re not supposed to shut your eyes the entire round!
Ground control to Major Tom
Bryson DeChambeau working on the Air Traffic Controller drill to keep his head steady.
Looks about right.
The putter seen round the world
Surprisingly, Ernie Els is sticking with the same putter he used in his Masters 6-putt ordeal. Hank Haney was calling for him to putt lefty in his second round, so the fact he isn’t changing it up shows some gumption.
We can joke all we want, but that took guts from Ernie to not only continue playing, but actually taking a run at making the cut.
Those yips will forever give me nightmares, however.
Sea Pines vs. The Masters
Are the people at Sea Pines Montessori Academy trying to tell me their Pimento Cheese sandwich is $2.50 better than The Masters famous Pimento Cheese sandwich?! Blasphemous!
Actually, maybe they’re right.
The real Tour sauce
You don’t know Tour sauce until you literally have a graphic of pasta sauce on your golf bag.
Stayin fly on the links
Take notes, boys. This caddie rocking Baltimore Orioles’ mid socks and Nike Kyrie 2‘s in the White/Urban Lilac/Bright Mango/Hyper Jade colorway is how you bring the heat.
Michelle Wie has some decent kick game at the LPGA Lotte, as well. And her putting stance is looking more and more like Jack Nicklaus’ by the day.
She just needs to start wearing her glove.
Bro-in’ Out
Bro.
I don’t know what’s more chill, a man bun or 80 pounds of ice.
Tyga may have brought snapbacks back to the world, but Harris English is bringing cord hats back to golf. Nice lid, bro.
Bringing back the old style, I dig it.
LPGA Headcovers
PGA Tour players have some interesting head covers, like Tiger’s and whatnot. But the ladies on the LPGA Tour really go all out.
Check out the gallery below of awesome head covers, and some interesting club setups, too.
Is that a Callaway Steelhead X-14 iron? You can buy one here for $50… not one iron, the entire set!
Swag daddy
Someone smack me the next time they see me at golf course and I’m not wearing rainbow Skechers and skull socks, equipped with a ball retriever. Go hard or go home.
All corded up
Check out Jim Herman’s SuperStroke prototype cord grips.
So that’s how he held onto the lead so tight at the Shell Houston Open.
Harbour Town Golf Links
The course is diabolically tight off most of the tees.
But it’s an undeniably gorgeous track.
And I can’t remember the last time I saw someone make par on the par-3 17th (pictured below). I recall Jim Furyk making birdie last year in a playoff to win, but it seems as though everyone else just makes bogey or worse.
Zach Johnson’s PXG wedge is awesome
Wait. Why does Z. Johnson have Florida-Gators colored headcovers?
Wait. That’s not Zach Johnson’s bag.
Turns out Billy Horschel is playing Z. Johnson’s wedge? #PXGTroops stick together, including sharing weapons of mass par saves, apparently.
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Whats in the Bag
Michael Block WITB 2024 (May)
- Michael Block what’s in the bag accurate as of the PGA Championship.
Driver: TaylorMade Qi10 “Dot” (9 degrees @7.5)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Black 6 X
3-wood: TaylorMade Qi10 Tour (15 degrees @14.25)
Shaft: 2024 Fujikura Ventus Blue 7 X
5-wood: TaylorMade M5 (19 degrees @17)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Tensei CK Orange 70 TX
Irons: TaylorMade Stealth UDI (4), TaylorMade Proto (5-9)
Shafts: Graphite Design Tour AD DI Hybrid 85 X (4), Project X 6.5 (5-9)
Wedges: TaylorMade Milled Grind 4 (46-09SB, 60 [unconfirmed]), TaylorMade Milled Grind 2 (52-09S, 56)
Shafts: True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400
Putter: Odyssey White Hot 2-Ball
Grips: Golf Pride MCC
See the rest of Michael Block’s WITB in the forums.
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Whats in the Bag
Brooks Koepka WITB 2024 (May)
- Brooks Koepka what’s in the bag accurate as of the PGA Championship.
Driver: TaylorMade Qi10 “Dot” (10.5 degrees @9.75)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Diamana D Limited 60 TX (44.5 inches, tipped 1 inch)
3-wood: TaylorMade M2 Tour HL (16.5 degrees)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Diamana D+ 80 TX
Irons: Nike Vapor Pro (3), Srixon ZX7 Mk II (4-9)
Shaft: Fujikura Pro Tour Spec 95 X (3), True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100 (4-9)
Wedges: Cleveland RTX ZipCore Tour Rack Raw (46-10 Mid), RTX6 ZipCore Tour Rack (52-10 Mid, 56-10 Mid, 60-6 Low)
Shaft: True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100 (46), True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400 (52-60)
Putter: Scotty Cameron T-5.5
Grips: Golf Pride Tour Velvet Cord (Midsize)
Ball: Srixon Z-Star Diamond
Check out more in-hand photos of Brooks Koepka’s clubs here.
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Equipment
Coolest thing for sale in the GolfWRX Classifieds (5/13/24): Full set of ‘Tiger Slam’ clubs
At GolfWRX, we are a community of like-minded individuals that all experience and express our enjoyment of the game in many ways.
It’s that sense of community that drives day-to-day interactions in the forums on topics that range from best driver to what marker you use to mark your ball. It even allows us to share another thing we all love – buying and selling equipment.
Currently, in our GolfWRX buy/sell/trade (BST) forum, there is a listing for a full set of ‘Tiger Slam’ clubs.
From the seller: (@CaymanS): “During the year of recovery from leg surgery that never quite healed, I was bored. One thing led to another, and I ended up gradually building/acquiring the individual pieces to complete a set of “Tiger Slam” clubs. They are what Tiger played to win 4 consecutive majors, which nobody has ever done. This is not an exact replica of course, but something close that fit me to play a few times per year and experience what Tiger did. But my bad leg, 4 shoulder tears, and age prevents me from the ball-striking needed to enjoy these to their fullest. They may not be everyone’s cup of tea, especially since the driver and fairway shafts are regular flex and most players good enough to play these will need to change them, but it’s not a perfect world. I am not a historian on this stuff, but my research indicates these are the same models Tiger used, with slightly different specs to fit me.
Full set $1,600, or…
…a donation for a Pro Kids fundraiser, or…
Driver: $70
Fairway: $250
Irons: $1,100
Wedges: $100
Putter: $350″
To check out the full listing in our BST forum, head through the link: Full set of ‘Tiger Slam’ clubs
This is the most impressive current listing from the GolfWRX BST, and if you are curious about the rules to participate in the BST Forum you can check them out here: GolfWRX BST Rules
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blindkarma
Jul 23, 2016 at 10:05 pm
Andrew Tursky graduated with a bachelor’s in Journalism from Rutgers. Yet he writes casually racist jokes about Asian women golfers with their eyes closed. Way to crush it and make your alma mater and professors proud of your career. To the publisher and editors of Golfwrx, would Mr. Tursky make jokes about hair or skin color if he was covering the NBA or professional boxing? But Asian females in his own sport, sure why not.
Mike R
Apr 21, 2016 at 2:39 pm
What’s happened in the last 5-10 years with the whole over-sensitivity and the whole “somebody somewhere might be hurt”. I work with a lot of East Asians and have never even thought about eyes closed thing, and Asians blink just like everyone around the world (apart from the people with some disease preventing them from blinking whom I obviously don’t want to hurt by writing this comment).
I just thought that this was the girl’s reaction to a bad shot somehow. It’s a a very common reaction around the golf course, just like the more offensive reactions like swearing or throwing clubs around. So what, captured on a photo and put in a different perspective to attempt humour (it’s not very intelligent kind of humour, but still…). I really don’t see the problem.
All of a sudden, it’s an Asian thing.
I’ll write “photos of East Asians with eyes closed” on an every expanding list of things that offend people these day. Hopefully, I won’t forget before I use one get castigated for being a racist.
And for the Asians who wrote above, please consider that the people in West Asia (e.g. Pakistan) might get offended by your generalisations.
Jnak97
Apr 17, 2016 at 2:20 am
I feel like you people need to cool it with the racism card. Four different women being shown at four different times in the round that are not a pre-shot routine with their eyes closed was definitely not interpreted as racist by me.
ana
Apr 18, 2016 at 3:14 pm
>was definitely not interpreted as racist by me.
Well Jnak97, it was, by me – and i’m not even Asian.
blindkarma
Jul 24, 2016 at 12:33 pm
*was definitely not interpreted as racist by me* Why do racists or misogynists always think this is a defense?
Michael Lee
Apr 16, 2016 at 9:31 pm
Apology accepted, please think about what you said though. Some of your last comments really did hurt especially the last one.
Matt
Apr 16, 2016 at 7:56 am
Why are people so butt hurt about the eyes closed thing. You probably aren’t even Asian. Get over it. This is what’s wrong with America. Write what you want man !
Jack Nguyen
Apr 16, 2016 at 10:55 am
Hello Matt,
Just to let you know I am Asian and I came to America 6 years ago. When I attended middle school I got made fun of people would also ask me why were my eyes always closed and people said I would never pass my drivers test because Asians are bad drivers. So when you see a post like this it does hurt. Although this is America and free speech is allowed please be respectful about others. What if this post had something that offended you. You would feel exactly the same.
Cheers,
Jack
Matt
Apr 16, 2016 at 10:08 pm
I’m American. I don’t get butt hurt. I can call me what ever u want. Also theses women have their eyes closed so…..
Michael Lee
Apr 16, 2016 at 11:11 am
It does hurt sometimes Matt. Being Asian-American growing up a lot of those jokes do hurt over time, such as “open up your eyes” and you got the casual joke where someone goes “Ching Chong li long” to me it’s joke a I get it, but some people would get hurt even if they are not Asian because their looking at our point of view and find it offensive. I do agree this post is inappropriate but there is no racism at all in the post. Just a little editing would help! 🙂
Golfer1
Apr 16, 2016 at 6:00 pm
These comments are uncalled for and getting out of hand. The comment section needs to be deleted on this article and Andrew has some explaining to do.
Cyd2293
Apr 16, 2016 at 6:26 am
Will you metrosexual millennials quit with the cries of racism. Most of you spoiled, pampered brats don’t know what racism is.
12 may have been inappropriate but racist. No.
In other words lighten up ladies.
Dr Troy
Apr 16, 2016 at 9:53 am
110% agree. Lighten up Francis.
TMTC
Apr 16, 2016 at 10:25 am
I agree wholeheartedly.
Lighten up.
Schizo Smizzle
Apr 16, 2016 at 4:19 am
Clueless. Totally clueless. And not even funny. And no, none of your comebacks will even be as clever as those girls.
Jane
Apr 15, 2016 at 10:16 pm
12 is rascist. seriously.
Schizo Smizzle
Apr 16, 2016 at 4:18 am
Smizzle just doesn’t get it. He never will.
ATC
Apr 15, 2016 at 7:22 pm
The guy in #11 is a ramp agent. Not an air traffic controller.
cgasucks
Apr 15, 2016 at 4:44 pm
I wonder who’s bag had that X-14 3 iron?
mark
Apr 15, 2016 at 4:22 pm
asian eyes closed the entire round?! well done golfwrx in making fun of asian. what next? people with different colour? go ahead and i leave your website altogether.
Derek
Apr 15, 2016 at 2:41 pm
Asian women…eyes closed? Really?
JZ
Apr 15, 2016 at 12:47 pm
The Asian women with their eyes closed is completely inappropriate.
Mike Thomas
Apr 15, 2016 at 12:07 pm
#12 isn’t even funny… Please edit this post. I agree that the writer should have took 2 seconds to think about what he just wrote.
Mike Honcho
Apr 15, 2016 at 11:29 am
WOW!!! 4 pics all of Asian women with their eyes closed. I agree that the world has gone over the top with PC, but you gotta stop and think a second before you post something like that. Writer may have a Masters in Communications, but doesn’t even have a 2-year JUCO certificate in Journalism (sorry Rutgers).
Tyler
Apr 15, 2016 at 10:37 am
Lot of guys starting to play PXG. Horschel is a big loss for Ping.
Fred
Apr 15, 2016 at 2:31 pm
Two of the players using the PXG irons at the Masters (Zach Johnson (+8) and Chris Kirk (+9) didn’t even make the cut. Billy Horschel made the cut, but finished 17th at +4. Johnson wants us to believe that he gave up using the irons he won 10 tournaments with, because the PXGs are better. Will be interesting to see how many, if any, PGA and LPGA players win with these irons this year.
Mike
May 2, 2016 at 1:32 pm
Let’s be honest here – PXG wants you to think that’s what Johnson wants you to think.
But we all know Johnson switched because of the $$$$. That’s what drives 99.9% of equipment choices on Tour nowadays.