Equipment
10 Revealing photos from the 2016 Memorial Tournament
GolfWRX was live this week from the 2016 Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village in Dublin, Ohio. If you missed any of the photos this week, make sure to browse the galleries below.
The Memorial Tournament is special for two reasons:
- It attracts a heavy-hitting field.
- It’s “Jack’s Place.”
The course itself is beautiful, but it makes it that much more remarkable for a golf fan that Muirfield Village is dreamed up and designed by Jack Nicklaus — either the best or second-best golfer of all-time, depending on who you ask.
We’ll reveal some photos below, but first, a video that honors the Golden Bear, and what he has done for and in the game of golf.
The longest yard
Next time you head to the practice green to work on your stroke, bring a yardstick. This is one of the simplest, effective and frustrating putting drills around. And if you get too angry, remember to snap the yardstick over your knee, not your putter.
New Srixons on the horizon?
Based on the irons in Hideki Matsuyama’s bag, showing Z765s, and the photo snapped below, showing Z965s, it appears that Srixon will be unveiling a new line of irons some time in the near future.
Refreshing simplicity
Much of Muirfield Village takes after Augusta National, so it’s only right that the course utilizes log-looking stakes as tee markers. Sure, it’s not as entertaining as FedEx trucks or John Deere tractors, but golf isn’t always about extravagance.
Camilo’s customs
In recent years, Camilo Villegas has had his irons bent to his liking, with a drawn-on reminder of the lofts. But his new PSi irons are unique in the fact that the soles have been ground, and stamped with new numbers, creating an awesome one-of-a-kind look.
A 40.5-degree 8 iron? That’s got to be one of the weakest 8 irons on the PGA Tour. The reason why? Camilo is a very low spin player, and needs the added loft to create optimal launch conditions.
Wedge stampings refuse to die
So, I proclaimed a stricter criteria for wedge stampings in a recent rendition of revealing photos, saying I had to be blown away to include a stamping due to overabundance on Tour. And I’m already eating my words over this super-creative Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde stamping. Brilliant.
Spieth’s decision
We’ve seen Jordan Spieth bounce back-and-forth between a Titleist 716 T-MB 3-iron and a 712U 3-iron for most of the 2016 season. After winning with the T-MB at last week’s Dean & DeLuca Invitational, it appears he’s made a long-term decision. He’s not even carrying the 712U during his practice round this week.
See Spieth’s Winning WITB from the Dean & DeLuca Invitational here.
A photograph-off
This is a photo taken by our photographer Greg Moore of GolfWRX Founder and President Richard Audi. So they’re taking a picture of each other taking a picture of each other. Did GolfWRX just explode in on itself? The guy on the right is mind blown, too.
Taking dead aim
Fun fact: Jonas Blixt once had dreams of being a hockey star rather than a professional golfer, but said he “never really got big enough or good enough.”
He seems to have some prowess with the wrist shot, but struggled to keep this shot on goal. Juuuust a bit outside.
Bryson is serious about his shaft testing
We spotted Bryson DeChambeau testing a few different fairway wood shafts on the practice range — and by a few I mean nearly every Oban, Graphite Design and Mitsubishi Rayon Tensei shaft in existence. It will be interesting what shaft the most-interesting-equipment-geek-in-golf decides on this week, and whether he sticks with it going forward.
Hole No. 1, 470 yards
Must be nice to pull a fairway wood with no worries, huh Rory?
Bubba went with a driver, but he was probably going for the green. And who could pull off a pink driver, pink shaft, and non-matching yellow glove like Bubba can? Answer: No one.
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Whats in the Bag
Kevin Streelman WITB 2024 (April)
- Kevin Streelman what’s in the bag accurate as of the Zurich Classic.
Driver: Titleist TSR3 (10 degrees, D1 SureFit setting)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus TR Black 6 X
3-wood: Titleist TSR3 (15 degrees, A1 SureFit setting)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Blue 8 X
5-wood: Ping G (17.5 degrees)
Shaft: Graphite Design Tour AD DI 10 X
Irons: Wilson Staff Model CB (4-9)
Shafts: Project X 6.5
Wedges: Wilson Staff Model (48-08, 54-08), Titleist Vokey Design WedgeWorks (58-L @59)
Shafts: Project X 6.5 (48), True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400 (54, 58)
Putter: Scotty Cameron TourType SSS TG6
Grips: Golf Pride Tour Velvet
Ball: Titleist Pro V1x
Check out more in-hand photos of Kevin Streelman’s clubs here.
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Equipment
Choose Your Driver: Which 2012 driver was your favorite?
The year was 2012. Gangnam Style ruled supreme, its infectious beats and ludicrous horse-riding dance moves hypnotizing us with their stupidity. Everyone was talking about the Mayan calendar, convinced that the end of days was near. Superheroes soared on the silver screen, with the Avengers assembling in epic fashion. Katniss Everdeen survived The Hunger Games. And the memes! The memes abounded. Grumpy Cat triumphed. We kept calm and carried on.
In much the same way that automotive enthusiasts love classic cars, we at GolfWRX love taking a backward glance at some of the iconic designs of years past. Heck, we love taking iconic designs to the tee box in the present!
In that spirit, GolfWRX has been running a series inspired by arguably the greatest fighting game franchise of all time: Mortal Kombat. It’s not “choose your fighter” but rather “choose your driver.”
Check out some of the standout combatants of 2012 below.
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Nike VRS
Often harshly critiqued during its years releasing golf equipment (right, Phil Mickelson?), Nike’s tenure in the club-and-ball business gets a gloss of nostalgic varnish, with many of its iron and putter designs continuing to attract admirers. Among the company’s driver offerings, the 2012 VRS — or VR_S, if you will — drew high marks for its shaping and toned-down appearance. The multi-thickness, NexCOR face was no joke either.
Check out our coverage from 2012 here.
Callaway RAZR Fit
Callaway’s first foray into moveable weight technology (married with its OptiFit hosel) did not disappoint. With a carbon fiber crown, aerodynamic attention to detail, and variable and hyperbolic face technologies, this club foreshadowed the tech-loaded, “story in every surface” Callaway drivers of the present, AI-informed design age.
Check out our coverage from 2012 here.
Cleveland Classic 310
Truly a design that came out of left field. Cleveland said, “Give me a persimmon driver, but make it titanium…in 460cc.” Our 2012 reviewer, JokerUsn wrote, “I don’t need to elaborate on all the aesthetics of this club. You’ve seen tons of pics. You’ve all probably seen a bunch in the store and held them up close and gotten drool on them. From a playing perspective, the color is not distracting. It’s dark enough to stay unobtrusive in bright sunlight…Even my playing partners, who aren’t into clubs at all…commented on it saying it looks cool.” Long live!
Check out our coverage from 2012 here.
Titleist 910
While there’s no disputing Titleist’s “Titleist Speed” era of drivers perform better than its 2010s offerings, sentimentality abounds, and there was something classically Titleist about these clubs, right down to the alignment aid, and the look is somewhere between 983 times and the present TS age. Representing a resurgence after a disappointing stretch of offerings (907, 909), The 910D2 was a fairly broadly appealing driver with its classic look at address and classic Titleist face shape.
Check out our coverage from 2012 here.
TaylorMade RocketBallz
The white crown. The name. You either loved ‘em or you hated ‘em. TaylorMade’s 2012 offering from its RocketBallz Period boasted speed-enhancing aerodynamics and an Inverted Cone Technology in the club’s titanium face. Technology aside, it’s impossible to overstate what a departure from the norm a white-headed driver was in the world of golf equipment.
Check out our coverage from 2012 here.
Ping i20
Long a quietly assertive player in the driver space, Ping’s i20 was more broadly appealing than the G20, despite being a lower-launch, lower-spin club. Ping drivers didn’t always have looks that golfer’s considered traditional or classic, but the i20 driver bucked that trend. Combining the classic look with Ping’s engineering created a driver that better players really gravitated toward. The i20 offered players lower launch and lower spin for more penetrating ball flight while the rear 20g tungsten weights kept the head stable. Sound and feel were great also, being one of the more muted driver sounds Ping had created up to that time.
Check out our coverage from 2012 here.
GolfWRXers, let us know in the comments who “your fighter” is and why!
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Equipment
Coolest thing for sale in the GolfWRX Classifieds (4/29/24): Krank Formula Fire driver with AutoFlex SF505 shaft
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 Krank Formula fire driver with AutoFlex SF505 shaft.
From the seller: (@well01): “Krank formula fire 10.5 degree with AUtoflex SF505. $560 shipped.”
To check out the full listing in our BST forum, head through the link: Krank Formula Fire driver with AutoFlex SF505 shaft
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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Brandon
Jun 4, 2016 at 10:30 pm
Those Srixon Z9s look incredible!
OH
Jun 6, 2016 at 7:51 am
I cannot wait for more on those. Absolutely beautiful.
greg Moore
Jun 4, 2016 at 3:01 pm
I can’t believe the guy in the camo shirt and shorts didn’t make the top photos.
Andrew Tursky
Jun 4, 2016 at 6:08 pm
He must have blended in so well that I missed him!