Equipment

8 Revealing Photos from the 2016 PGA Championship

Published

8 years ago

Jul 30, 2016

GolfWRX was live this week from the 2016 PGA Championship at Baltusrol Golf Club’s Lower Course in Springfield, New Jersey. If you missed any of the photos from this week, make sure to browse through the galleries in the links below.

Monday’s photos
Tuesday’s photos

Glory’s Last Shot takes on multiple meanings this year; not only is it the season’s final major, but it’s the last “revealing photos” for awhile, as we’re taking a hiatus from the feature. So it’s either glory or bust in this week’s revealing photos.

So, let’s get started with Revealing Photos: Glory’s Last Shot.

Baltus Roll

Major championships are often described as a battle, meaning the players must fight against not only difficult courses, but unrelenting nerves. Recently, however, there’s a new type of battle at the majors, and it’s between equipment companies to see who can design the coolest one-off staff bag to commemorate the event.

At the Open Championship, TaylorMade won with its Open leaderboard inspired bags. The PGA Championship staff bag champion, on the other hand, belongs to Callaway with its Baltus Roll bags and headcovers.

If you don’t know who Baltus Roll (B.R.) is, you must read this story right now. To summarize, he’s the victim of a murder, is buried 5 miles from the premises, and the land he once owned was turned into a golf club named after him: Baltusrol Golf Club.

The bags are a tribute to Baltus Roll and Baltusrol’s historic club house. The brown represents the club house’s base color, while the green-and-white stripes represent the awning (as seen below).

The wings are a tribute to the club’s logo, as are the yellow and red color schemes shown throughout. “Springfield” written on the base of the bags are for the township the club is located.

Callaway didn’t miss much in its intricate design, did it?

Fujikura (Baltus) Rolls out new Evo shaft

We spotted a new shaft from Fujikura at the final major of the year. We don’t know anything about it, or if anyone was demanding a third rendition of the Speeder Evolution shafts, but feel free to speculate. Read what GolfWRXers are saying about it in our forum.

Spieth is changing it up

As we’ve seen, Spieth isn’t one to change clubs very often, so when he does we take notice. Previously, he was using Titleist’s new 716 T-MB 3 iron, but looks as though he’s back with the familiar 712U driving iron he’s played the last few years.

He’s also yet to change to Titleist’s new 917 driver, unlike Byeong Hun-An, who used it to win the PGA Championship’s long-drive contest with a 347-yard blast.

Spieth will take to the PGA Championship with some new stampings on his wedges, though, starring the “Towel Mike.” That’s pretty funny, since he constantly asks caddie Mike Greller for a towel to dry his hands or clean his club.

But the switch he should be making is re-gripping his driver, since his thumb has nearly dug a hole through the grip into the shaft.

Nice try, Charley

A note to Charley Hoffmann: You can hide your lead tape from T.V. cameras with a little black marker cover up, but you can’t hide from GolfWRX.

This ain’t the lesson tee

The PGA Championship provides PGA Club Professionals, who typically make their paychecks running the show at country clubs and giving lessons, a chance to participate in a major championship. All they have to do is qualify in the PGA Professional Championship, which was held this year at Turning Stone Resort in New York.

Click to see the top-20 finishers who earned invites into the field.

Rich Beem WITB

Gotta love the stand bag from the one-time Assistant Pro at a course in Texas. In case you forgot, Beem won the 2002 PGA Championship at Hazeltine, holding off none other than Tiger Woods by one stroke.

And he has a set of black PXG 0311 irons in the bag. While people will surely call him out for putting lead tape on the irons, saying the move “defeats the purpose of the screws,” but remember, the Tungsten weights on the irons are not interchangeable like they are on the driver, so we’ll give him a pass.

Also, nothing but respect for the Beemer strolling out to the PGA with an old school Bullseye putter. Awesome WITB. Give em the dance, Richie!

On the grind

No better way to grind out a major than grinding the soles of your irons until they’re raw. I like Freddie Jacobson’s chances this week solely for that reason.

For the love of cars

At first glance, Scotty Cameron’s custom putter for the 2016 PGA Championship is a bit confusing, so we cleared up the design with a Titleist representative:

“Scotty was inspired by the Baltusrol Golf Club’s flying golf ball logo and wanted to celebrate his love of cars, American Craftsmanship, and gorgeous hood ornaments… thus came the Goddess in Flight headcover.”

As a reminder, here’s the Balustrol Golf Club logo.

Enjoy your viewing of the season’s last major, and I hope you enjoyed the last revealing photos for awhile. See you next season!

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Whats in the Bag

Kevin Streelman WITB 2024 (April)

Published

17 hours ago

Apr 29, 2024

GolfWRX Staff

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

Check out more in-hand photos of Kevin Streelman’s clubs here.

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

Check out more in-hand photos of Kevin Streelman’s clubs here.

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?

Published

17 hours ago

Apr 29, 2024

GolfWRX Staff

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

Published

21 hours ago

Apr 29, 2024

Gianni Magliocco

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