Tour Gear Round Up: New Callaway And TaylorMade Irons Spotted

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Tour Gear Round Up: New Callaway And TaylorMade Irons Spotted

It was a long three months with no PGA Tour golf but we’ve now been back up-and-running for a month and the European Tour is now also back.

So, what is the latest news from the pro tours?

British Masters, 3M Open and Memorial recap

The European Tour returns to British soil this week and we have spotted two new sets of irons in the bags of players.

Rasmus Hojgaard

The Dane has been spotted with a brand new set of TaylorMade irons.

We saw new blades in the bags of Charley Hull and Rory McIlroy over the past couple of weeks (scroll down for images) but Hojgaard’s look slightly more forgiving.

Here’s what our Technical Editor, Joel Tadman says:

The irons we see from TaylorMade stamped with P-7MC look to be a compact cavity-back style iron so could well replace the P760 which was launched just shy of two years ago. It’s likely they will offer a little more forgiveness than the new blade we saw in Rory McIlroy’s bag last week, stamped with P-7MB.

Jordan Smith

New bag panel for the restart of the @EuropeanTour with @milestone_uk full show pic.twitter.com/LegFVKBr7k

— Jordan Smith (@Jsmithgolf) July 21, 2020

We reported on these irons a few weeks ago when we saw the Englishman pictured with them at the Worplesdon Pro-Am and it looks like he has put them into play during the British Masters.

Here’s what our Technical Editor, Joel Tadman says…

Callaway’s current Apex MB iron has been around for nearly three years so it is due an upgrade and this new iron being played by Jordan Smith could well be it, albeit in a raw finish that is likely to be a tour-only option. We saw Aaron Wise using an early prototype at the end of last year and it’s interesting to see the weight port in the back which could be used to fine-tune swing weight or feel.

Jon Rahm

The Spaniard is now the World No.1 after winning the Memorial last week, where he had a full bag of TaylorMade clubs.

Related: Jon Rahm What’s in the bag?

Memorial Tournament and Workday Charity Open recap

Tiger Woods

The 15-time Major winner makes his first PGA Tour start in five months this week at Muirfield Village, check out our video below to see what clubs he is using:

Rory McIlroy

The World No.1 has added some new TaylorMade forged irons to his bag this week. Stamped with P-7MB, they could well be the blades that replace the P730 model.

Images suggest he’ll be using them in 3-PW and that he has added a new TaylorMade SIM Ti five wood to the bag to replace one of his wedges. He now has a 54° and 60° in the Milled Grind 2 model.

Rory McIlroy What’s In The Bag?

Tony Finau

The American was leading after the opening round and he has, like Brooks Koepka, put the Nike Vapor Fly long iron back in the bag.

Finau was a Nike staffer up until the company stopped making golf equipment in August 2016.

He is now a Ping staffer, check out our video with him on his equipment at last year’s BMW PGA Championship:

Justin Rose

The Englishman, now a free agent after splitting with Honma, doesn’t appear to have a shoe deal as we’ve seen him wearing plenty of different models over the last 18 months.

He looked to have settled on the adidas Retro model but was wearing G Fore’s Gallivanter shoes at the Memorial Tournament.

Sergio Garcia

Another free agent, they’re everywhere at the moment!

Watch our Sergio Garcia 2020 What’s in the bag video below:

Brandt Snedeker

The American split with Bridgestone earlier this year after 15 years with the company, and he finally looks to have replaced his trusty J15 irons.

Snedeker put a Ping G410 driver in the bag last week at the Workday Charity Open as well as Ping i210 irons.

He was using a TaylorMade SIM driver and his faithful Bridgestone J15 irons a week earlier.

He also has got rid of the Bridgestone ball and is using a Titleist Pro V1x.

The nine-time PGA Tour winner has TaylorMade fairway woods and Callaway and Titleist wedges.

Brooks Koepka

The four-time Major winner and former Nike staffer has put his Nike Vapor Fly 3 iron back in the bag.

It was replaced with a TaylorMade P790 UDI but the Nike is back.

He used the Vapor Fly 3 iron in all four of his Major wins.

Collin Morikawa

The American won his second PGA Tour title at last week’s Workday Charity Open using a full bag of TaylorMade clubs.

Morikawa is another to have the SIM Max hybrid in the bag, along with Dustin Johnson who has two in the bag.

Related: Collin Morikawa’s Workday Charity Open winning clubs

Gary Woodland

The 2019 US Open winner was using a new Wilson prototype WLabs driver but he has put the Ping G410 back into play.

He does, however, still carry the new Wilson prototype fairway wood.

Shane Lowry

The 2019 Open Champion has added a TaylorMade M5 fairway wood.

He was previously carrying the M4, which he had in the bag at Portrush last year, but we’re unsure if he has replaced it or just added another fairway wood.

JT Poston

Last year’s Wyndham Championship winner JT ‘The Postman’ Poston showed off his custom Titleist Vokey SM8 wedge on social media, pretty cool:

@Vokeywedgerep this thing is Best one get!! pic.twitter.com/I7XDskBi1A

— J.T. Poston (@JT_ThePostman) July 13, 2020

Matthew Wolff

The American looks to have put the new TaylorMade TP5 yellow golf ball into play this week at the Memorial.

Workday Charity Open, Austrian Open, Clutch Pro Tour

Charley Hull

The biggest story of the week perhaps comes from the Open Access Mixed Masters on the Clutch Pro Tour where Charley Hull had a brand new set of TaylorMade blades in the bag.

She was previously using the P730 irons but those have been replaced by these new blades that are stamped with P-7MB.

We saw on Hull’s social media that she was at Wentworth with TaylorMade on Tuesday so perhaps she only received the irons then.

We’re sure to hear more on these in the coming weeks and months.

Tapio Pulkkanen

The European Tour returns this week in Austria and we saw the Finn using a classic 3 wood.

He still has the Callaway RAZR X Black fairway wood in the bag that was released in 2012.

Fairway woods are always difficult to replace and Pulkkanen must be a big fan of his Razr X Black.

Matthew Wolff

The American finished runner-up at the Rocket Mortgage Classic using new shafts in his irons.

He switched his Nippon Modus shafts for the Project X 6.5 model from 3-PW.

Wolff wanted to hone in his spin control and ball flight and loved the soft feeling of the 6.5s after initially trying the stiffer 7s.

Here’s what the TaylorMade staffer has in the bag:

• SIM 9.0° driver | Graphite Design TP7tx
• SIM 15.0° fairway | Graphite Design XC 8tx
• P790 3 | Project X 6.5
• P750 4-PW irons | Project X 6.5
• MG2 50°, 52° and 60° wedges | DG X100
• Spider X chalk putter
• TP5 ball #21

New Mizuno tour bags

Look out for the brand new Mizuno tour bags on your TV this week.

They’re debuting on the PGA Tour at the Workday Charity Open.

Check out more pictures of our newest staff bag at https://t.co/yIKhzl2zT1. #teammizuno #nothingfeelslikeamizuno pic.twitter.com/EZ66iVH8DC

— Mizuno Golf Europe (@MizunoGolfEU) July 8, 2020

Bryson DeChambeau

The Golfing Scientist won his sixth PGA Tour title at the Rocket Mortgage Classic, becoming the first PGA Tour winner to average over 350 yards off the tee.

He uses a 5.5 degree Cobra Speedzone driver, which Cobra had to completely re-design for Bryson to accommodate his low loft.

Related: Bryson DeChambeau What’s in the bag?

Rocket Mortgage Classic

This week we round up the latest tour gear news and take a look at some old trusty clubs still in the bags of PGA Tour pros.

Rickie Fowler

We saw the five-time PGA Tour winner put a set of Rev33 blades in recently but he was pictured with an older Cobra set this week.

Fowler is using the Cobra AMP Cell Pro irons this week in Detroit.

They were launched back in 2013.

According to Golf WRX, Fowler is simply testing out Dynamic Gold X100 shafts as oppose to the KBS C-Taper 125 S+ shafts he has in the Rev33s.

Adam Hadwin

The Canadian was pictured using a Callaway X Hot hybrid.

The X Hots were brilliant clubs from Callaway, recognisable for their silver crowns, and came out in 2013.

Kevin Kisner

The three-time PGA Tour winner still puts faith in his Callaway Great Big Bertha driver.

It was released in 2015 and features a sliding weight at the back to adjust shot shape.

Jason Dufner

The 2013 USPGA Champion signed with Cobra last year and has a near-full bag of Cobra products, as seen above.

He has a Titleist 915f fairway wood and has recently put an Axis1 putter in the bag, the same brand that Justin Rose uses.

Jordan Smith

The Englishman played in the recent Worplesdon Charity Pro-Am where he was pictured with what look to be a prototype set of Callaway blades.

He signed with Callaway last year and has been using Apex MB blades so far in 2020.

Zac Blair

As reported by Golf WRX, the PGA Tour player has put a new set of National Custom Works irons in the bag.

The Buck Club, according to its website, “started With the idea of building a world-class golf course. Along the way it has transformed into a community of golfers all around the world who truly love the game and all it has to offer.”

Dustin Johnson

The new World No.3 won the Travelers Championship last week using TaylorMade’s Truss TB1 putter.

His flat stick is a tour only model with a lighter finish and a smaller Truss support.

The 21-time PGA Tour winner also had two TaylorMade SIM Max hybrids in the bag, in 19 and 22 degrees.

Related: Dustin Johnson What’s in the bag?

Travelers Championship

Bryson DeChambeau

The Golfing Scientist, with his one length clubs and 5.5 degree driver, has put an older fairway wood in play at the Travelers Championship.

From the images we’ve seen, DeChambeau has put in a Cobra F6 fairway 2 wood – a club that was launched in late 2015.

Previously he was using an old Cobra King Black LTD fairway with 12.5 degrees of loft and a 17.5 degree Cobra King Speedzone Tour 5 wood.

Rory McIlroy