Equipment

Spotted: Raw Ping S159 wedges in Harris English’s bag

Published

8 months ago

Nov 15, 2023

We posted photos earlier this week from the RSM Classic of new Ping S159 wedges, and it turns out Harris English has been testing them for a little while now. Ping looks to be offering a bunch of grinds with its new wares, and players are noticing.

We caught up with English ahead of the event in Georgia and asked him about his new raw S159 wedges.

“Man, they’re good. I like the raw look…I haven’t had that in a while. And really just in the 60. They have so many more different grinds, which is great. Every player is different and they have kind of a good base to start with and you can kind of start working off that. So they have a lot more options.”

The new Ping wedges look to have a classic and compact shape, but also an insert in the back that we can assume will dampen vibration for a softer sound and feel. Ping isn’t giving us any details yet on the new wedges, so we’ll have to speculate. In Harris’s bag, he has been testing out four of the new Ping wedges and thinks he will be putting them in play this week at the RSM Classic.

With all the new sole options Ping is offering, it is interesting to see how a player gets into his wedges. We asked Harris about that process and how he got into his four wedges.

“I tried everything. Hit different shots. Hit the tight lie, hit the flop shot, hit it out of the rough, hit it out of the bunker. You just kind of hit all the shots you’re going to have and kind of see what works best.”

Below is Harris English’s wedge setup at the RSM Classic.

46 degrees, S-Grind, 12 degrees of bounce

52 degrees, S-Grind, 12 degrees of bounce

56 degrees, S-Grind, 12 degrees bounce

60 degrees, T-Grind, 6 degrees of bounce

Check out the rest of our photos from the 2023 RSM Classic.

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Product Reviews

Three Swing Challenge: Testing the Titleist Vokey WedgeWorks A+ grind

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1 day ago

Jul 19, 2024

GolfWRX Staff

The first wedge has made its way to the Three Swing Challenge! This week we have the WedgeWorks A+ grind that was recently released by Vokey. BK is looking for a new 60-degree wedge, and this could be a contender.

Why three swings?

Many years ago, the legendary Barney Adams, founder of Adams Golf told us this:

“My formula as a fitter was three shots only. I discounted No. 1 just because it was the first one, counted 100 percent of No. 2 and discounted No. 3 because the player was starting to adjust.”

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Whats in the Bag

Daniel Brown WITB 2024 (July)

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1 day ago

Jul 19, 2024

GolfWRX Staff

Daniel Brown WITB accurate as of The Open Championship.

Driver: Ping G430 LST (9 degrees)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Blue 6 X

3-wood: Ping G430 Max (15 degrees)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Blue 7 X

(Image courtesy of SMS on Tour)

Irons: Ping i230 (3), Ping Blueprint S (4-9)

Wedges: Ping s159 (50-12S, 54-12S, 58-06T)

Putter: Ping PLD

Grips: Golf Pride MCC

Ball: Titleist Pro V1

Info an images via SMS on Tour.

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Equipment

Collin Morikawa’s pre-Open equipment adjustments

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2 days ago

Jul 18, 2024

GolfWRX Staff

Editor’s note: This is an excerpt from a piece our Andrew Tursky originally wrote for PGATour.com’s Equipment Report. Head over there for the full article.

Three years later, Morikawa has once again changed his irons to deal with the unique Scottish turf.

Morikawa has been using TaylorMade P730 blade short irons (7-PW), P7MC mid irons (5-6) and a TaylorMade “Proto” 4-iron with a cavity-back construction this year.

However, he switched into a new set of TaylorMade P7CB irons (5-PW) before finishing T4 at last week’s Genesis Scottish Open, to go along with his familiar “Proto” 4-iron. TaylorMade’s P7CB irons are the finalized versions of the “Proto” 4-iron that Morikawa has been using, except they remain unreleased to retail.

According to TaylorMade, Morikawa switched into a full set of the new P7CB irons to aid with turf interaction, just like he did prior to his 2021 Open victory.

Morikawa is honing in on his winning formula overseas.

Morikawa also has switched from his usual TaylorMade Qi10 5-wood to a lower-launching TaylorMade P790 3-iron equipped with a Project X HZRDUS 105 Hybrid shaft. The loft of the club has been bent down to 19 degrees.

TaylorMade says that Morikawa switched into the new driving iron In order to “have an option to hit something lower that will roll out in the fairways.”

Head over to PGATour.com for the full article.

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