WITB 2025

harpo_72

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As usual this years line up - some new some old hands

Driver - TSR1 8.5 degrees
Fairways- Callaway Rogue 5 wood ( love affair continues this year)
Hybrids - Ping crossover 3 stiff( tee only) ping crossover 4 reg anywhere if opportunity comes.
Irons
Ping G430 Alta CB reg graphite retro lofts 6-45 .. still very strong 🤯

Vokey 52 and 56 wedges
Putter - Axis 1 ( currently)

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Options in : 7 wood or 3 wood - but don’t offer me much difference to my 5 wood.


Golf balls are
Wilson Triad 2025
Callaway chrome tour x
Wilson staff x
Pro V1x
( all the premium ones are very similar but 2025 triad is good enough and significantly longer lasting and cheaper)
 
I haven't changed mine this year, and don't think I will be. Last new clubs I got were new driver in September last year, and new (second hand) 3 wood shortly after that. I am liking everything else in the bag at the moment so they'll stay as they are. Thought about upgrading the 7 wood but it's just so easy to hit that I think it'll be hard to upgrade upon.

I do need to get my irons re-gripped though, they're starting to disintegrate around where my thumb sits, and I end up with blackened fingers after the round. 😆
 
I haven't changed mine this year, and don't think I will be. Last new clubs I got were new driver in September last year, and new (second hand) 3 wood shortly after that. I am liking everything else in the bag at the moment so they'll stay as they are. Thought about upgrading the 7 wood but it's just so easy to hit that I think it'll be hard to upgrade upon.

I do need to get my irons re-gripped though, they're starting to disintegrate around where my thumb sits, and I end up with blackened fingers after the round. 😆
Grips are crucial! Plus very easy to do apart from putter grips
 
Likely bag contents...but, as usual, nothing is safe except the putter..and probably the driver

Driver - Ping G440 10.5 Denali Red 60 6.0 backweight in draw position
Fairway - Callaway Mavrik 4w 16.5 Tensei Blue 65 regular
Hybrids - Titleist TSi1 4h 20° set to 21° Aldila Ascent 40 regular (shouldn't work but ..)
Callaway Apex 2016 5h 26° Kuro Kage Black regular
Irons - Callaway Apex 21 Pro 5 - AW MMT85 regular graphite
Wedges - Callaway Jaws Raw 54/12 W grind Accra 95 stiff
Vokey 58/08 M grind Recoil 95 stiff
Putter - Mizuno M-Craft #6 34"

Ball - Prov1, Prov1x, TP5, TP5x, Chromesoft X, RB Tour, B xs......
 
Tinker man as usual, currently:

-Driver - ping g430 10k max (I’m not convinced it’s better than my g425 max, I need to do some testing to decide), tensei stiff orange shaft
- Taylormade stealth 2 5 wood, regular stock shaft
- Taylormade stealth 2 4 hybrid
- Ping g400 7 wood

- Titleist t300 irons, 5-pw, regular shafts

Vokey sm9 54 & 58 degree wedges
Vokey sm10 50° wedge

Cleveland Huntington beach soft #11 putter

Balls - whatever’s on offer, currently prov1x
 
Only change is the putter

A blue TM Spider X has been replaced this week by a Black Spider X Tour

The rest

TM Sim Driver
QI10 HL 3 Wood
TM Sim Max 3 Hybrid

4-PW Mizuno MP18 SC

TM Milled Grind Wedges - 50,54 and 58
 
Changing my tees this year from Sports Direct '2 for £7' bags to bamboo ones.
Rest of the bag is staying the same.
 
Mizuno ST220 driver
Mizuno 923 HM 5-Gap
Mizuno S23 wedges 54 & 60
Ping G425 -5w
Ping G425- 7w
Ping G430 9 w
Odyssey Rossie putter
Generally use Wilson Soft balls
 
A pretty eclectic mix and, as has been the case throughout my golfing years, nothing is forever.

Only 11 clubs but I have very rarely had a full 14 in the bag.

Honma TW757 S 10.5 driver
Cobra DarkSpeed 3w
Srixon ZX Mkll 7w
Srixon ZX Mkll 6h
Mizuno 223 pro 7-PW
Mizuno S23 52 GW
Cleveland RTX Zipcore 56 SW
Cobra King Nova 3D putter
 
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GT3 driver / Denali Red 50
TSR3+ / Tensei Blue 65
TSR 5w / Tensei Blue 65
GT2 7w / Denali Red 60

i230 5-GW / DG120s
Vokey SM10 54/58 (both S grind)

Jailbird Mini

ProV1x
 
Ping G440 Driver, 4w and 7w. All with tour black stiff shaft.

Srixon ZX7 irons 4-sw

LAB Mezz putter

Prov1x balls

GX leather gloves and bamboo white tees with an orange, pink and red line on them !
 
I did a lot of change last year and slotted in my 14th club last week to complete my bag

8.25 degree TSR3 driver
16.5 degree TSR3 4 wood
16.5 degree mizuno fli hi 2 iron
19 degree mizuno fli hi hybrid
24 degree mizuno fli hi hybrid
6-gw mizuno jpx 925 HMP
54 and 60 degree s23 mizuno wedges
Scottie Cameron Newport 2

Avx balls

Beautiful
 
After a dismal month or two I decided on a factory reset yesterday. This morning I had my best round in months with a new old bag...

Ping G400 Max driver
Cobra Baffler 3 hybrid
Mizuno Pro MS-5 4i-PW
Ping Glide 4.0 56°
Mizuno MP T-series 60°
Ping Heppler ZB3 putter
Homemade chipper - Ping Eye 2 8i bent upright and shaft cut to 34"
 
Taylormade M3 9*
Titleist 91015*
Titleist 913 18* 5 wood
Ping I500 3 iron @ 17*
Titleist 915 27* hybrid
Ping I500 irons 6-pw
Vokey SM 8 gap wedge 50*
Vokey SM 5 K grind 58 bent to 56*
Vokey wedgeworks Low bounce K
Taylormade Spider tour black

Not much change since last year. Tweaked the wedge set up. Put in a low bounce K lob wedge this last couple of rounds as the ground has firmed up. My usual lob is 9 years old. This one gets me more stopping power on pitches.
56 changed too although I'm not really using it for chipping that often. Only approach shots.
 
Titleist Tsi2 big stick 10deg
Tsi2 3 wood
U500 utility iron 19deg
T100 irons 4-9
46,52,56 & 60 sm8 wedges
And old trusty Newport pro platinum (1998 model I think?) still in the bag but this year with a big chunky superstroke

A drive upto Aberdeen with clubs in the back of the works van a few weeks ago resulted in a diesel spillage, bag binned, all headcovers and towels binned. Looking a bit makeshift at the minute and still a nice smell of diesel off a few of the grips
 
For this year I've just added a hybrid into the bag:

WITB: Mizuno STX 10.5° Driver : Cobra F-Max 16° FW : Adams Red 3 Hybrid : Mizuno JPX923 4-PW Irons : Mizuno ST-22 Copper 48° & 54° Wedges : Nike Method 001 Putter

Unless something comes to market that can guarantee a par I'm not buying anything for the foreseeable
 
Putters are the only thing that are in and put. Ping PLD Anser currently in but thinking the Odyssey V-fang red 2 ball is getting another go, at least in practice and potentially back in for the weekend roll up
 
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