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

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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.

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.

Ronald Montesano writes for GolfWRX.com from western New York. He dabbles in coaching golf and teaching Spanish, in addition to scribbling columns on all aspects of golf, from apparel to architecture, from equipment to travel. Follow Ronald on Twitter at @buffalogolfer.

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Spotted at the PGA Championship: Koepka’s new putter, L.A.B. Golf’s latest prototype and custom Philly gear

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Aronimink Golf Club takes center stage for the 2026 PGA Championship, as the world’s best, along with America’s top club pros, take on the Donald Ross classic, just outside Philadelphia in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania.

Even on the first official practice day of the championship, there was plenty of gear news and storylines to dive into, with a three-time champion going through an extensive putter testing, as well as new prototype putters spotted and custom gear galore. Let’s dive into it.

Brooks Koepka’s putter testing

Three-time PGA Championship winner Brooks Koepka spent plenty of time Monday morning and into the afternoon on the practice putting green in front of the Aronimink clubhouse, working with coaches and Tour reps and putting plenty of different flasticks through their paces, after apparently recently breaking his new TaylorMade Spider Tour X last time out at the Myrtle Beach Classic. 

Koepka tested out a couple of Scotty Cameron heads, similar to that of Cameron Young’s Phantom 9.5R with a full sightline. It’s not the first time a Tour pro has asked to follow in Young’s footsteps. Justin Thomas had the same request last week at the Truist Championship. Why not follow the hot hand?  

Koepka’s custom Cameron featured the same style Teryllium insert that he has used previously, most notably during his PGA Championship wins in a Newport-style blade. The putter, however, that looks to have the best chance of making its way into the bag come Thursday is a TaylorMade Spider Tour V, the model of head recently launched on Tour at the RBC Heritage. 

What’s unique about Koepka’s new Tour V putter is the custom length L-Neck (plumbers) hosel that he has equipped. The extended version looks ot reduce the toe-hang of the putter along with adding stability to the stroke. 

The putter change comes with a plethora of additions to Keopka’s bag after his split with Srixon/Cleveland. Along with already playing a Titleist ist Pro V1x golf ball, Koepka added Vokey wedges to his Grove XXIII staff bag last week in South Carolina. The 36-year-old is using SM11s in 48.10F, 52.12F and 56.10, along with the WedgeWorks 60B, a special grind with an interesting letter choice. 

Look at Koepka’s full bag here.

L.A.B. Golf’s new vision

As GolfWRX continued the long tradition of capturing players’ bags and equipment, we got a glimpse of the latest L.A.B. Golf putter in the bag of Adrian Saddier. The Frenchman, who’s making his PGA Championship debut at Aronimink, is rolling with the newly added VZN.1i putter, which features a closed-back, winged-mallet design, resulting in a square cutout in the middle of the mallet. 

Saddier’s new stick is center-shafted with two thick white alignment lines. The VZN.1 is the latest L.A.B. putter to be spotted. It comes after the traditional blade-style LINK.2.1 & LINK.2.2 were released on Tour, featuring a heel-shaft. 

Take a look at the full gallery here.

Custom Philly-themed gear

As with every major championship, the PGA sees a bevy of custom gear from equipment manufacturers to highlight the theme of the week. With Aronimink sitting just west of Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love takes full focus. 

Callaway is ringing the Liberty Bell with its Philly special-edition staff bag that tour players will be rocking at Aronimink. The bag features a pin-striped design, embossed with the Liberty Bell itself and a special green-fluff strap for the Philadelphia Phillies’ mascot, the Phillie Phanatic.

TaylorMade is also theming the staff bag around the birth of a nation, with a specially crafted staff back to celebrate the city where American independence was born. The bag features Philadelphia’s fingerprints with Independence Hall lives on the ball pocket, the Liberty Bell graces the valuables pocket, and Benjamin Franklin holds court on the back. The bottom collar reads – City of Brotherly Love – and custom “LOVE” zipper pulls pay tribute to the iconic Robert Indiana’s sculpture situated in the city center.

Tileist has adopted a different design for its GTS headcovers, going with Kelly Green, for the 2025 Super Bowl-winning Philadelphia Eagles.

Check out more custom gear in the forums

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Whats in the Bag

Alex Fitzpatrick WITB 2026 (May)

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Driver: Ping G440 LST (9 degrees)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Black 6 X

3-wood: TaylorMade Qi4D (15 degrees)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus TR Black 7 X

7-wood: TaylorMade Qi4D (21 degrees)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Black 9 TX

9-wood: TaylorMade Qi4D (21 degrees)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Black 9 TX

Irons: Titleist T100 (5-9)
Shafts: Nippon N.S. Pro Modus 3 Tour 120 X (5-9)

Wedges: Titleist Vokey Design SM11 (46-10F, 50-12F, 56-14F), WedgeWorks (60-A+)
Shafts: Nippon N.S. Pro Modus 3 Tour 120 X (46, 50), True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400 (56, 60)

Putter: Odyssey Ai-One #7S

Grips: Golf Pride MCC

Ball: Titleist Pro V1x

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Lead Tape Hall of Fame: Hideki Matsuyama

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Today is a very special day for the Lead Tape Hall of Fame. Our second inductee is announced, and with great honor, we welcome Hideki Matsuyama to the Silver Jacket ceremony. Hideki’s meticulous attention to detail and precision have earned him his place in the Lead Tape Hall of Fame.

Hideki turned professional in 2013 and began his career on the Japan Tour. He was the first rookie on the Japan Tour to lead the money list, highlighted by five wins in his first season. His first appearance on the PGA Tour was the 2013 U.S. Open at Merion, where he came in 10th place in his debut. In 2014, he won his first PGA Tour event at Memorial. Hideki is currently at 11 PGA Tour wins, including a scoring record at The Sentry in January 2025 at 35 under par. In 2021, he won The Masters. An incredible career and still full of momentum, what kind of tools does Hideki use to get in the mix week in and week out?

Matsuyama has been a career Srixon and Cleveland staff player. Typically with Graphite Design shafts in his woods and True Temper Dynamic Gold S400 shafts in his irons. A unique trait is that in his wedges, he will play X100 shafts that suit his launch preferences. Rarely do you see a stiffer profile in wedges compared to irons. 

Speaking of wedges, Hideki plays the Cleveland RTX4 Forged wedges. These debuted in 2018, but due to his level of detail, this is what he plays today. You can see the lead tape placed on the wedges in different places on the back flange. Usually erring towards the heel promoting certain launch characteristics and if anything a slight draw ball flight. In a 2021 GolfWRX interview, we found Hideki does not want to see the ball fall to the right. He wants the ball to fall to the left.

We see the use of lead tape on clubs like his fairway metal, where we see a small strip near the ferrule and even at the base of the grip. Looking at the details, Hideki operates; everything is done with purpose and measured for his stats. Not the type of feel player that doesn’t know how much weight is where and says, “That’s fine.” 

Srixon told us, “We also travel with pre-cut lead tape in half-gram and one-gram increments, and Hideki will apply the tape to different areas of the club (muscle, flange, hosel, shaft), depending on how the club feels while testing.”

Hideki and his team have his club spec’d to the half gram for what to add or subtract from his set. This is Hall of Fame level here, nearly alone, but with Hideki’s meticulous attention to detail for each club is amazing to see.

This attention to detail carries down to the putting green as well. Hideki rotates through a series of Scotty Cameron Newport putters with subtle changes on sightlines, bumpers, and welded plumber’s necks. Sometimes on the bottom of the putter? A strip of one-inch lead tape. The tape has been on there so long that you can see the hand-stamped logo underneath. That is absolutely Hall of Fame grade!

It is incredible to see through the lens of the level of detail that Hideki operates in. We see lead tape anywhere from the shaft, above the hosel, in different positions on the back flange of wedges, and on the bottom of the putter. The precision he brings to the course has translated into a record of winning results from the beginning. We will have to stay tuned if his new Silver Jacker accompanies his Green Jacket in the trophy room!

RELATED: Lead Tape Hall of Fame: Why Scott Piercy is a first ballot inductee

 

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