Equipment
PGA club pro Michael Block makes hole-in-one at the 2023 PGA Championship using irons from 2014!
Michael Block’s story somehow gets even more fascinating once you take a look at the golf clubs he’s using at the 2023 PGA Championship.
Block is a PGA professional at Arroyo Trabuco Golf Club in Mission Viejo, California, where he reportedly charges $125 for a 45-minute lesson. He’s all booked up on PGA Championship Sunday, though, because has a tee time with Rory McIlroy at Oak Hill Country Club.
With his fine play, a dash of showmanship, and a ton of appreciation for the moment, Block finished his third round in the PGA Championship at even par, sitting at T8. Soon after the round ended, he learned he’d be playing with McIlroy on Sunday.
Michael Block will be paired with Rory McIlroy in the final round of the PGA Championship tomorrow.
His reaction to finding out will make you smile ? pic.twitter.com/hjs6G8Nopj
— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) May 21, 2023
Block isn’t a complete stranger to major championships – this is his seventh appearance in a major, and he won the 2022 PGA Professional Player of the Year award.
Although he works as a teaching pro day-to-day, he’s a professional gamer on the golf course.
UNBELIEVABLE!
MICHAEL BLOCK JUST DUNKED A HOLE-IN-ONE! pic.twitter.com/Qin8FYXFQV
— PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) May 21, 2023
As if Block’s perfect week couldn’t get any better, he also made a hole-in-one on the par-3 15th hole while playing alongside McIlroy.
Block probably won’t win the event, but he’s certainly won the hearts of golf fans everywhere.
The gearheads will love him, too, because he’s using TaylorMade Tour Preferred MC irons from 2014, an original Odyssey White Hot 2-Ball (Tour Filled) putter, a TaylorMade MG3 TW-Grind 60-degree wedge with a custom grind on the sole for added heel relief, and a TaylorMade M5 5-wood from 2019. He also received a fresh TaylorMade Stealth 2 Plus driver this week, which is equipped with a Fujikura Ventus Black 6X shaft.
He has the type of club setup where you see him on the first tee at the club and immediately know it’ll be a tough match. The clubs have seen a lot of success, and they’re seeing even more this week.
Check out Block’s 2023 PGA Championship WITB below!
Driver: TaylorMade Stealth 2 Plus (9 degrees)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Black 6 X
3-Wood: TaylorMade Stealth 2 Plus (15 degrees)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Tensei CK Orange 70TX
5-Wood: TaylorMade M5 (19 degrees)
Shafts: Mitsubishi Tensei CK Orange 70TX
Driving Iron: TaylorMade Stealth UDI (4 iron, 23 degrees)
Shaft: Graphite Design Tour AD-DI 85 Hybrid X-Flex
Irons: TaylorMade Tour Preferred MC 2014 (5-9 iron)
Wedges: TaylorMade MG3 (48 and 60 degrees), TaylorMade Milled Grind (52 and 56 degrees)
Shafts: True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400
Putter: Odyssey White Hot 2-ball (Tour Filled)
Ball: Titleist Pro V1
See more photos of Block’s WITB here
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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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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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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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Kevin O
May 22, 2023 at 5:06 am
What a cool bag and a fun story!