Equipment

Tour Tech Rundown: Good Good plus the color Green(e)

Published

1 month ago

Apr 20, 2026

If you’re a Good Good fanboy like me (and that goes for Good Good Pros, Good Good Girls, and by extension, The Lads) the new out of Brasil this week is unexpected and exciting. GG is not just about Brad Dahlke, people! The season is fresh and we are young. The first men’s major is a week back, the first senior major just finished, and the first ladies’ major begins Thursday. Golf is everywhere, even in the northern hemisphere, where I live. PGA Tour Americas began its 2026 tour de fuerza, while all major tours but DP World and Asian were in action.

The Korn Ferry and Tour Americas proved that golfers don’t need to be on a streak to triumph. This week’s KFT winner opened the year T6, but missed four of the next seven cuts, with no finish higher than T34. The PGA TA titleist was better known for his YouTube golf than his competitive record, but no longer. Lots of powerful bats in bags this week, and we have the winners to prove it. Have a look at this week’s Tour Tech Rundown and find your next bat. Thanks to InsideTourGolf, Golf Monthly, GolfMagic, and Today’s Golfer for assistance with equipment research.

PGA Tour @ RBC Heritage: Fitzpatrick flirts with disaster

Matt Fitzpatrick and Scottie Scheffler battled all day Sunday in South Carolina. The Harbor Town resort, aka Fitzpatrick’s second home, saw a battle of two titans. In the end, one of them handled the wind better than the other, and it made all the difference. In regulation, Matt Fitzpatrick came to the 18th tee with a one-shot lead over Scheffler. Fitzpatrick missed the fairway by inches to the right, and his approach from a sandy wasteland finished pin high, greenside right. Scheffler ripped his approach to the same general area. Chipping first, the Texan snuggled his ball to inside ten inches, and tapped for par. Fitzpatrick’s cross-handed chip came up short of the bisecting ridge, and he took two putts for bogey, from twenty feet.

In the playoff, Scheffler’s tee ball sailed past Fitzpatrick’s. With four-iron in hand, Fitzpatrick played a low draw to 13 feet. We’ll never know what sort of approach trajectory Scheffler intended to play, but suffice it to say that his effort came up forty yards shy of the green. He did well to pitch to eight feet, but Fitzpatrick ended matters with a successful birdie putt.

Fitzpatrick’s Bats

This is the second time in a month that we’ve stolen a glance in Matt Fitzpatrick’s bag of tricks. A Titleist GT3 driver, with a Mitsubishi Tensei AV Raw Orange 65 TX shaft, rocks a Titleist ProV1x 2019 model for the 2022 US Open champion. Two TaylorMade Qi35 fairway metals fill out the launch section of his bag. For irons, Fitzpatrick stands by OG PING heads from 2013 and 2018. 2K18 saw the release of the i210 model, and the Heritage winner plays them in the 3 and 4 iron slot. Fitzpatrick’s 5-iron through PW are S55 with a fourteen-years old vintage. Fitzpatrick returns to the Titleist brand with three Vokey SM10 wedges, at 52, 56, and 60 degrees. For a flatstick, Fitzpatrick rolls his Titleist ProV1x with a Bettinardi BB1 proto.

LPGA @ JM Eagle LA Championship: Green triumphs in playoff…again

Hannah Green has won the JM Eagle three of the last four years. How she gets it done, varies from year to year. Twice, the Aussie has won in playoffs, while in 2024, she had the comfort of a three-shot margin over Maja Stark. During the LPGA off-season, Green went home to Australia, where she won the Open and PGA in consecutive weeks. For someone with nine LPGA/LET wins, Green has a surprisingly poor record in major events. Despite an early PGA Championship win at Hazeltine (age 23), Green has but one more, top-ten finish in the quintet of premier events.

That’s a conversation for another day. On this Sunday, at El Caballero, Green ran birdies at 11, then 13 through 16, to make up five shots on leader Sei Young Kim and chaser Jin Hee Im. The trio tied at 17-under par, so it was back to the par-four 18th for overtime. For the fans, it was one and done, as Green striped her approach twenty feet above the hole, then drained the putt for a winning birdie.

Green’s Bats

Hannah Green is not afraid to make changes. She currently pounds a Titleist GT3 driver with Diamana shaft off the peg. For longer fairway blasts, she games a Titleist GT3 three metal and a Titleist GT2 seven metal. The slicers in her bag are the Srixon ZXi5 Mk II 4-iron, and the Srixon ZXi7 Mk II irons (5 through PW.) Three Cleveland RTZ Tour Rack Wedges at 50, 56, and 60 degrees, rent space in her satchel. On the green, Green rolls her Srixon Z Star Diamond ball with a Scotty Cameron 3.2 Prototype mallet.

Senior PGA Championship @ The Concession: Cink gives chance to no one

The top five on the 54-hole leader board at The Concession featured an elephant on the tee. A series of talented but unproven senior golfers wrapped around Stewart Cink, currently on a heater on the Tour Champions. Cink looked to be the most likely guy to go out and play well, meaning that the wanna-be’s would need something special to challenge. When Cink posted seven birdies and an eagle for 63, that something special became unattainable. Cink’s third Tour Champions win of 2026 was his first major title on the Part-Two tour. Ben Crane was the A-Flight winner, signing for minus-four on Sunday, and a total of thirteen-under par, six shots behind the victor.

Cink’s Bats

No one does tour player equipment pages like Ping. Cink’s elegant Ping page reveals that the G440 driver, at 9 degrees, gets him off the tee. There is a bit of discrepancy on the fairway metal. Ping lists it as 3 metal, but a 17-degree 4 metal features in the photo. Cink follows with a G430 3 hybrid (although the 22 degree 4 H is featured), then a run of Ping i210 irons from 4 through P and U wedges. For putter, Cink relies on a Ping Vault 2.0 Ketsch mallet. These twelve clubs leave room for a Taylor Made Qi35 five metal and a Vokey 60-degree lob wedge. Titleist’s ProV1x orb resides in Cink’s ball pocket.

Korn Ferry Tour @ Tulum Championship: Menante’s Mexico Massacre of 2026

Dylan Menante was a decorated amateur golfer while competing for Pepperdine and UNC. He represented the USA at the Walker Cup (St. Andrews 2023) and the Pan-Am Games (bronze medal at Santiago, Chile) before turning professional. Menante has worked through the professional systems minor leagues, searching for the magical combination that elevates his game to PGA Tour status. This week in Tulum (near Cozumel) Mexico, Menante was that player.

On Sunday, Dylan Menante painted nine birdies on his personal canvas, totaling 63 for a six-shot win over Blades Brown. Brown held a one-shot advantage after three rounds, and was paired with Menante on day four. Brown posted 70 for a solo-second finish, but had an unfortunate, front-row seat to Menante’s brilliance. For pespective, nine rounds in the 60s were posted on Sunday, and none but Menante scored lower than 67. On this day, on this course, Menante was mightier than the rest.

Menante’s Bats

Dylan Menante wears the familiar tour uniform of the Titleist golfer. His bag features 13 clubs from the Massachusetts-based company, beginning with a GT2 driver. Menante’s fairway metal is not listed on his official Titleist page, which leads one to guess that he has a three or five metal from Taylor Made, Callaway, or Ping in the bag. A 3-hybrid (GT3) and a 4 driving iron (T250) begin the descent down the bag. Menante’s five through 9 irons are Titleist T100 series. Four Vokey SM 10 wedges check in at 46, 50, 54 and 58 degrees of loft. On the putting green, Menante rolls his Titleist ProV1x with a Scotty Cameron Phantom X T9 mallet.

Charging up the leaderboard ?

Dylan Menante is 5-under for the day with a two-shot lead. pic.twitter.com/dcoxWeJdRM

— Korn Ferry Tour (@KornFerryTour) April 19, 2026

PGA Tour Americas @ Brasil Open: Good Good’s Greene glows up

Here’s the promised Good Good element. I sense that purists see YouTube golf in the same way that purists viewed professional wrestling, back in the day. Featured are/were some very talented athletes, but not so talented that they could make it on tour. Well, Mason Green seems to disagree with you. The former UCLA golfer and Good Good stalwart jumped to the 36-hole lead at Rio de Janeiro’s Olympic golf course, then held off a flamboyance of flamingos to claim an inaugural PGA Tour-system title.

Greene began round four with five consecutive birdies. Greene’s partners and chasers, Charlie Crockett and Riley Lewis, faded to even-par and plus-one rounds. With no visible challengers, Green proceeded to play even-par golf until he reached the 18th hole. With three shots in hand, the former Bruin played safely down the par-five fairway, posting bogey for a two-shot win over Brett Roberts.

Greene’s Bats

Although Good Good has a corporate agreement with Callaway Golf, Mason Greene is not a part of that pact. Greene is a TaylorMade guy from head to toe, exclusive of his Good Good apparel sponsorship.

LIV Golf @ Mexico City: Rahmpage at Club de Golf Chapultepec

If there were a mind that you could inhabit for a time, for full dramatic effect, the one that belongs to Jon Rahm would not be a bad place to start. After a less-than performance at the Augusta National golf club last week, Rahm returned with a vengeance in Mexico’s capital city. The thick Basque posted 21-under par and left a Catalan and a Valencian to fight for second spot. Yes, they are all Spanish, but no, they are not all Spanish.

For a thin minute on Sunday, David Puig and Josele Ballester appeared to have a chance to overtake Rahm for the individual title at Chapultepec. Puig, from near Barcelona, signed for 66 on day four, to edge past Ballester, who totaled 67. As for Rahm, five birdies and an eagle reduced his tally to 64 shots, and six-shot win over Puig. Rahm’s Legion XIII team, featuring Tyrrell Hatton, Tom McKibbin, and Caleb Surrat, claimed its first event team title of 2026.

Rahm’s Bats

When last we checked into Rahm’s bat brigade, the man was all-in on Callaway. The two-time LIV winner in 2026 rips a Quantum Triple Diamond driver off the tee. Not much for hybrids, Rahm favors three and five fairway metals, both Paradigm Ai Smoke Triple Diamond models, off the runway. Rahm’s divot makers begin with the Apex TCB from 4 through PW, and finish with Opus SP Pro at 52, 56, and 60 degrees. Rahm plays froghair billiards with an Odyssey (by Callaway) White Hot Rossie putter and a Callaway Chrome Tour golf ball.

Equipment

Building the Bag: For Ryan Gerard, it’s all about launch and finding the right flatstick

Published

3 hours ago

May 20, 2026

Alistair Cameron

On the next installment, we’re diving into the bag of a serial tinkerer – and we mean that in a good way. PGA Tour winner Ryan Gerard grinds harder than most in the game. He even made a 10,000-mile trip from the U.S. to Mauritius to earn himself a spot in this year’s Masters.

He takes that same attitude to his bag setup, always looking for new equipment to test to see if he can get to the next level.

For Gerard, a lot of the bag focuses on one aspect – launching the golf ball. The American is first to admit that his swing fundamentals mean that he delofts the club more than most at impact, so his clubs are fit accordingly.

Driver: Titleist GT3 11 degree (Mitsubishi Tensei 1K Blue 60 X) C3 SureFit

With an 11-degree head, set at C3 in the Titleist SureFit adapter (+.75 degrees), Gerard’s driver is set up to do one thing. Get it in the air.

“It’s a lot of loft, but I do tend to deloft it a little bit,” Gerard said.

Along with the higher loft on the face, Gerard’s GT3 features plenty of back-weighting to shift the center of gravity rearward to help increase the launch angle and also spin.

“It helps my start lines be a little more consistent,” Gerard added. “It’s kind of a heavier shell with like a slightly lighter track weight, which has helped me find what I’m looking for in flight and spring off the tee.”

Gerard predominantly plays a left-to-right shot off the tee, averaging just 89 feet in apex height, well below the PGA Tour average, and believes that his spin is on the higher side, up to 2800 rpm on some hits.

“I could probably gain a few yards if I dropped spin, but I’m really looking to hit the window and keep it in the fairway.

Woods: TaylorMade Qi10 HL 3-wood 16.5 degree (Fujikura Ventus TR Red 7X), TaylorMade Qi35 9-wood 24 degree (Fujikura Ventus TR Red 7X)

Gerard’s 3-wood didn’t come from a Tour truck, and it wasn’t sent to him to try out.

“I actually bought this online,” Gerard told GolfWRX. “I’ve gone through three or four 3-woods and I just keep buying them online because they’re still available, so please don’t buy all of them because I might go buy more.”

The high-lofted 3-wood, which helps Gerard achieve a better descent angle and apex, is one of two TaylorMade woods he’s added to his setup, thanks to the forgiveness they offer when hitting them off the turf and allowing Gerard to use them off the tee.

He also uses a Qi35 9-wood, which reads at 24 degrees, but in fact, he’s bent it down closer to 22 to help with gapping.

“If I took a 7-wood and added loft, it would look more shut to me,” Gerard said. “But taking a 9-wood and bending it down, it gives the flight and trajectory that I’m looking for, which is high and spinny, but looking square when I put it down, and I feel very comfortable that I can hit it straight.”

Irons: Titleist T250 4-iron (Mitsubishi MMT Hybrid 100 TX), T100 5-9 irons (KBS C-Taper 125 S+)

Gerard recently upgraded his 4-iron to Titleist’s new T250 after damaging his previous T100. Let’s just say it decided to hug a tree in Napa, California. The less said about that, the better.

“The only reason I did that, is because I knew I had a backup that I liked,” Gerard joked.

With the new T250, Gerard has been able to flight it better than he expected, thanks to the MMT Hybrid 100 TX he’s equipped it with. It’s another club in the bag that he’s added loft to, though, to help overall with his stock launch and apex. It’s actually 24.5 degrees, which is more than the standard 5-iron loft in the set.

“It’s a lot of loft for a big 4-iron, and that’s just because I’m delofting at impact, but it’s also a big profile, so it’s going to want more ball speed to begin with. So I don’t want tons and tons of ball speed. … The way I launch and deliver it, it hits the numbers I’m looking for.”

Progressing through the irons, Gerard’s 5- and 6-irons are both bent weak, but then from 7- to 9-iron they’re closer to standard. This helps with his gapping, for which he likes “13 to 14-yard increments.”

All the clubs in Gerard’s bag are half an inch longer than standard, so to help with the weighting in the irons, he plays B-weighted (slightly lighter) iron heads.

Vokey Design SM10 46.10F, SM11 50.08F, 54.10S, 60.08M wedges (KBS C-Taper 125 S+ (46)), (Dynamic Gold S300 (50-60))

Ryan Gerard might not be cleanly shaven, but his wedges are.

His custom Vokey wedges feature, or should say, do not feature the traditional BV logo. It’s because the team decided to grind away most of the head where the insignia should be.

Unlike his irons, which are made slightly lighter than standard because of his height, Vokey wedge rep Aaron Dill and his team have to shed excess head-weight to help with Gerard’s feel

“I used to play wedges that had bore holes, so they’d take two small bore holes on either side, but they stopped doing that,” Gerard said. “The material they use now is a bit more amenable to being ground off, so we’re grinding off logos and essentially just looking to lose a little bit of material to get that swing weight down.

“I’m a very feel player and I don’t want to feel something really heavy in my hands when I’m around the green because you’re just living in a world where the ball might come off a little hot or come off a little more unpredictable if you don’t have control of the club face.”

Putter: Scotty Cameron…something…

Most weeks on Tour, Gerard will carry at least two putters in the bag leading up to the event. In some tournaments, he’s used up to three or four putters during competition.

Models that he regularly sees in the bag are his Scotty Cameron Newport 2, a Tour prototype Phantom 3 or a Phantom 5.2 Circle T (with which he won the Barracuda Championship), a Phantom 9

“I really like it (Phantom 3) because it matches the characteristics of a smaller mallet with the feel of a blade,” Gerard told GolfWRX. “I’ve been a blade guy my entire life, and then started messing around with mallets here recently.

“I don’t think anything matches the feel and speed control of a blade. … I always try to have a Newport 2-style blade in the bag, just to have a back-up option that could go into play at any moment.”

Therefore, this part of the bag will most likely be different depending on when it’s read.

Ball: Titleist Pro V1

Despite looking for more launch throughout the bag, Gerard plays the Pro V1 for the feel and spin that he can tap into in his short game, especially in the case of short-sided spots found out on Tour.

“It gives me the feel I’m looking for, especially around the greens, … It allows me to make a confident and committed swing on short shots,” Gerard says.

Whats in the Bag

Club Junkie WITB, week 17: Some underrated irons!

Published

6 hours ago

May 20, 2026

Brian Knudson

This week in my league, we are going with a rather interesting setup with old and new clubs. The PXG 0317 CB irons are one of the most underrated forged cavity back irons out there. Great soft feel and good perimeter weighting make them pretty darn playable on misses as well. In the bag will be one of my favorite putters that I just don’t seem to use as much as I should, but I have a soft spot for Scotty’s Catalina.

Driver: TaylorMade Qi4D (10.5 degrees @ 11)
Shaft: Project X Titan Black 60 6.0

3-wood: Tour. Edge Exotics Mini (11.5 degrees)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Blue 6s

5-wood: Callaway Quantum Ti (18 degrees @ 17)
Shaft: Project X Denali Frost Silver 70 6.0

Utility: Mizuno Pro Fli Hi (4)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Tensei 1K Black 85s

Irons: PXG 0317 CB (5-PW)
Shafts: KBS PGI 100 Stiff

Wedge: PXG 0317 CB (GW)
Shafts: KBS PGI 100 Stiff

Wedge: Mizuno Pro T-1 (56-10 M)
Shaft: True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400

Wedge: Mizuno Pro T-1 (60-06 X)
Shaft: KBS Hi-Rev 2.0 115

Putter: Scotty Cameron Studio Style Catalina

Ball: Callaway Chrome Tour Triple Diamond

Bag: Ghost Anyday Black Ops Stand Bag

Whats in the Bag

WITB Time Machine: Sergio Garcia’s winning WITB, 2016 CJ Cup Byron Nelson

Published

7 hours ago

May 20, 2026

Ben Alberstadt

Sergio García captured the 2016 AT&T Byron Nelson title, earning his ninth PGA Tour victory after taking down Brooks Koepka on the first playoff hole at TPC Four Seasons in Irving, Texas. García entered the final round tied for the lead and closed with a steady 68 to finish at 15 under.

Check out the gear the Spaniard had in play 10 years ago, below.

Driver: TaylorMade M2 (9.5 degrees)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Kuro Kage Silver TiNi XTS 80 X