Equipment
Shane Lowry on the new Srixon ZX Mk II line (fairway wood, utility, ZX5/ZX7 irons)
It appears that Cleveland-Srixon’s slow rollout of new equipment is continuing, and this time we have player insight from company staffer and 2019 Open Champion Shane Lowry.
Before we get to Lowry’s feedback, let’s first recap the recent Cleveland-Srixon news: Last month at the 2022 Fortinet Championship in Napa, we spotted PGA Tour players testing new ZX7 Mk II and ZX5 Mk II LS drivers. Hideki Matsuyama – who doesn’t often switch driver heads – ended up switching to the new ZX5 Mk II LS in the first week. Then, earlier this month at the 2022 Shriners Children’s Open in Las Vegas, we spotted new Srixon ZX7 Mk II irons, and Cleveland RTX 6 ZipCore Tour Rack wedges.
This week, at The 2022 CJ Cup in South Carolina, Shane Lowry showed up with a bag full of new Cleveland-Srixon equipment, including a Srixon ZX Mk II fairway wood, a Srixon ZX Mk II driving iron, Srixon ZX5 Mk II long irons (4 and 5 iron), Srixon ZX7 Mk II mid-and-short irons (6-PW), and a new Cleveland RTX 6 ZipCore Tour Rack 50-degree gap wedge.
After taking photos of his 15-club WITB setup on Wednesday at The CJ Cup (he was testing two different 3-woods), I caught up with Lowry to get his thoughts on the new products he had in the bag.
Check out what Lowry had to say below, along with in-hand photos…
Cleveland RTX 6 ZipCore Tour Rack 50-degree wedge
“The new gap wedge, for start – they’re not making a Full Face in the new [RTX 6 ZipCore wedges] this year, so I’m still using the Full Face [lob wedge] – but the new gap wedge, I took it out of the box straight away, and I was like, ‘Oh, wow, this looks nice.’ It feels a bit more solid, and the misses are a little bit better.”
Srixon ZX5 Mk II and ZX7 Mk II irons
“The irons themselves, they’ve not changed a whole lot [from the previous ZX5 and ZX7 release], but they do feel more solid. I only got them last week, and I practiced with them, and just straight away [they went right in the bag]…I obviously had a lot of success with the last irons, they were amazing, and these are definitely as good, if not better.”
Srixon ZX Mk II driving iron
“The driving iron is definitely better. I can hit that higher and softer, and I can hit a bullet and flight it, as well. It does everything I want it to do. It’s really good.”
Srixon ZX Mk II fairway wood
“I won’t be using it this week, but the 3-wood, I was pleasantly surprised when I hit it. It needs to be dialed in a bit more, but that was just for me to test this week. It’s very good. It’s definitely got a chance [to beat out my current TaylorMade SIM2 Titanium]…I played a [Srixon] 5-wood years ago, but yeah [I haven’t used a Srixon fairway wood much in my career]. They’re not really pushing it on me, but this one definitely has potential.”
Click here to see Shane Lowry’s 2022 WITB from The CJ Cup.
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- Daniel Berger what’s in the bag accurate as of the Farmers Insurance Open. More photos from the event here.
Driver: Ping G430 LST (10.5 degrees)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Black 6 X
3-wood: TaylorMade Qi10 (15 degrees)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Black 7 X
6-wood: TaylorMade Qi10 Tour (21 degrees)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Black 8 X
Irons: TaylorMade P770 (3), TaylorMade Tour Preferred MC 2011 (4-PW)
Shafts: Project X Denali Blue 105 TX (3), Project X 6.5 (4-PW)
Wedges: Titleist Vokey Design SM9 (50-12F), Titleist Vokey Design SM10 (56-14F), Callaway Jaws Raw (60-08C)
Shafts: Project X 6.5 (50), True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400 (56, 60)
Putter: Odyssey Ai-One Jailbird Mini DB
Grip: SuperStroke Zenergy PistolLock 1.0
Grips: Golf Pride Tour Wrap
Ball: Titleist Pro V1
Check out more in-hand photos of Daniel Berger’s clubs in the forums.
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What are the driver and shaft combinations of the best golfers in the world? For gearheads, it’s an endlessly interesting question — even if we can only ever aspire to play LS heads and 7 TX shafts.
At this week’s Zurich Classic of New Orleans, GolfWRX got in-hand looks at the driver setups of a wealth of players.
Check out some of the most interesting combos below, then head to the GolfWRX forums for the rest, as well as the rest of our galleries from New Orleans.
Rory McIlroy
Driver: TaylorMade Qi10 (9 degrees @8.25)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Black 6 X
Grip: Golf Pride MCC
Alex Fitzpatrick
Driver: Ping G430 LST (10.5 degrees)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Black 6 X
Grip: Golf Pride MCC
Daniel Berger
Driver: Ping G430 LST (10.5 degrees @9)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Black 6 X
Grip: Golf Pride Tour Wrap
Rasmus Hojgaard
Driver: Callaway Paradym Ai Smoke Triple Diamond (10.5 degrees)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Tensei 1K Blue 60 TX
Grip: Golf Pride MCC
Alejandro Tosti
Driver: Srixon ZX5 Mk II LS (9.5 degrees @10.5)
Shaft: Project X HZRDUS T1100 75 6.5
Grip: Golf Pride MCC Plus4
James Nicholas
Driver: Titleist TSR3 (8 degrees, A1 SureFit setting)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus TR Blue 7 X
Grip: Golf Pride Tour Velvet
Kevin Streelman
Driver: Titleist TSR3 (10 degrees, D1 SureFit setting)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus TR Black 6 X
Grip: Golf Pride Tour Velvet
Sang-moon Bae
Driver: Callaway Paradym Triple Diamond (9+ @8)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Blue 6 X
Grip: Golf Pride Tour Velvet
Russ Cochran
Driver: Callaway Paradym Ai Smoke (9 degrees)
Shaft: Graphite Design Tour AD TP 6 X
Grip: Golf pride MCC Align 
MJ Daffue
Driver: Callaway Paradym Ai Smoke Max (10.5 degrees @9.5)
Shaft: Project X HZRDUS Smoke Green RDX 65 TX
Grip: Golf Pride ZGrip Cord Align
Check our more photos from the Zurich Classic here.
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- 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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Daniel Berger what’s in the bag accurate as of the Farmers Insurance Open. More photos from the event here. Driver:...
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Shane loves Buffets
Oct 22, 2022 at 7:08 pm
Ya can’t eat em Shane.
Shane
Oct 22, 2022 at 11:32 am
“The irons feel more solid”. Shane Lowry
How is that a thing? Sounds like “I had to say something that illustrates that they are better. I’ll just say they feel more solid”
AWW
Oct 21, 2022 at 2:01 pm
Are we going to see a Mk II Z Forged type muscle back?
JubJub
Oct 21, 2022 at 9:24 am
Too much going on with the irons and wedges.
BD
Oct 21, 2022 at 12:02 pm
What do you mean?
Brentm08
Oct 21, 2022 at 7:47 am
Is this fairway wood coming to retail? it looks good.
Anybody Can 2Putt
Oct 20, 2022 at 12:41 pm
Puuuurty!!