Me and My Golf: The Secrets to Great Ball Striking
In this video, we reveal the “secrets,” or the keys, to striking the golf ball more solidly, especially as it relates to iron play. We also provide a must-try drill!
Time to jump into Aaron Rai’s WITB from his win at the 2026 PGA Championship. Aaron is an equipment free agent but pretty much has two brands, TaylorMade and Titleist, in the bag. We get to see clubs and shafts from 2018 up to current products and even some custom stuff!
Driver: TaylorMade M6 (9 degrees)
Shaft: Aldilda Synergy Blue 70 TX
3-wood: TaylorMade Qi10 (15 degrees)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Blue 8 X
5-wood: TaylorMade Qi10 (18 degrees)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus TR Blue 8 X
Hybrid: Titleist GT2 (24 degrees, D1 SureFit setting)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Tensei CK Pro White Hybrid 90 TX
Irons: TaylorMade P7TW (5-9)
Shafts: True Temper Dynamic Gold S300
Wedges: Titleist Vokey Design SM9 (46-10F @44, 48-10F @49), SM11 (54-12D), WedgeWorks (60-04L)
Shafts: True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S300
Putter: TaylorMade Spider Tour V
Grips: Golf Pride Tour Velvet
Ball: Titleist Pro V1
Alistair Cameron is on site and inside the ropes for the second major of 2026. This week’s episode of ITR features a heavy dose of WITBs (Bryson DeChambeau, Patrick Reed) and custom PGA Championship gear, as well as Cobra Golf’s Ben Schomin talking Rickie Fowler’s driver switch and Odyssey’s Cody Hale.
On a related note, you can check out all our photos from Aronimink here.
Kristoffer Reitan just won his first PGA Tour event at the 2026 Truist Championship. He is a Ping staff member and has a complete set of clubs from the brand. He did make a late driver switch this weekend that helped propel him to victory.
Driver: Ping G440 Max (9 degrees)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Tensei 1K White 60 TX
3-wood: Ping G440 Max (15 degrees)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Tensei 1K White 80 TX
7-wood: Ping G440 Max (21 degrees)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Tensei 1K Black 85 TX
Irons: Ping Blueprint S (4-9)
Shafts: KBS Tour X
Wedges: Ping S259
46-S
Shaft KBS Tour X
50-S
54-S
58-S
Shafts: True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400
Putter: Ping PLD Custom Ally Blue H (white finish)
Grips: Golf Pride MCC Midsize
Ball: Titleist Pro V1
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Jack Gallagher
Sep 20, 2017 at 1:19 pm
Why the negativity? I see value in this just from the demonstration of the clubface angel at the top being open vs closed (compared to the forearm angle) – and they are correct in how an open position at the top (due to wrist hinge that is more extended than flexed) promotes casting coming down (due to the pshycological fear of not being able to square the clubface enough with the pivot alone).
What is interesting to me is, after studying Hogan videos for years, is that Mr. Hogan opened his clubface going to the top of his backswing on purpose, and then had the ability to close it (or bring it back to square) on the way down. This is monumentally difficult (at least for me).
I am probably better off following their advice and just developing a backswing that gets the clubface square or closed at the top to begin with, so that the hands can just stay there in that position for transition and onward.
As far as the drill goes, I think that has value just doing it slowly and clipping a tee (without a ball). After all, they say this is more about the feel of getting the arm, wrist, and clubface angles into the right positions – on the way up in the backswing – so as to get rid of the fear of needing to square the clubface via additional (and early) wrist flexion and uncocking on the way down.
Call me gullible if you like. I’m going to work on this to get the feel of it, so that I can hopefully make an actual change to my backswing (as opposed to the “feel vs. real” illusion that my current drills seem to be stuck in). One of the things that Wayne Defrancesco has taught me is how difficult it is to actually make a change in my golfswing. We think we are capable of making changes on a dime (and we are sometimes) but they rarely “stick.”
Sam
Sep 19, 2017 at 4:44 am
Not one of their best..
Orin
Sep 18, 2017 at 4:49 pm
A redux, regurgitation, repeat explanation, and rediculous drill. Of course the gullible golfer will swallow this swill hook line and sinker.