It’s Masters week at Augusta National. While plenty of players have had their bags locked in for weeks, there have been more than a few notable changes that have surfaced heading into the year’s first major.

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Bryson DeChambeau’s club building adventures

It started on Monday at the Masters Tournament, where Bryson DeChambeau was spotted with lead tape on the top of his Krank Formula Fire fairway wood.

Then on Tuesday, he gave some insight into his current setup and the equipment he’s been testing. 

“In South Africa, I was trying wedges,” DeChambeau said in the Masters press room. “So I was going quite a bit down a rabbit hole there and figured a couple cool things out.” 

Between his two victories in Singapore and South Africa, DeChambeau had switched from Bettinardi Golf’s HLX 5.0 wedges to the newer 6.0s.

DeChambeau continued, “Then I am working on irons, building irons, building a driver. So we’ll see where it goes, we’ll see where it takes me. All I could say now is, if I don’t put them in the bag, it’s my fault now.”

After that, golf fans were wondering whether they’d see the golf clubs DeChambeau had been building. The wait wasn’t long. On Wednesday, he broke news to ESPN that one of the clubs he has built, a 3D-printed 5-iron, will be in the bag. 

Why just the one club, though?

“Because they’re finally ready,” DeChambeau told ESPN.

Then on Thursday, after an opening-round, 4-over 76, he was quizzed again by the media about the process of printing the clubs. 

“Prints in eight hours,” DeChambeau said. “Machines in either three or four hours. Then you have to cut grooves in it and do a bunch of other stuff. So you can have something within a day and a half.”

According to DeChambeau, he hit the mystery 5-iron once for his second shot on seven. He was quick to shut down more questions about where and how the club was made.

“That’s a longer conversation,” DeChambeau said. “It’s not for here.”

??? #SHUT DOWN — A reporter asked Bryson DeChambeau if he would want to have a new 3D-printed club ready for the weekend

Bryson: “Pffff… no. It has to be USGA conforming, it’s a whole process you have to go through.” pic.twitter.com/JgRNmsiw4c

— NUCLR GOLF (@NUCLRGOLF) April 9, 2026

TaylorMade’s fairway dominance 

Defending champion Rory McIlroy went back to his older Qi10 3-wood ahead of an opening-round, 5-under 67, instead of the Qi4D he had played earlier in the season. Tied for the first round lead, McIlroy’s fairways were part of the 79 TaylorMade total in play at Augusta. 

The newest to be added to a bag was that of Wyndham Clark, who vaulted ted up the leaderboard Friday with a second-round 68. He debuted a Qi4D Tour 3-wood equipped with a Project X Titan shaft. 

“Wyndham called me Tuesday night and wanted to fit a 3-wood similar to the driver we fitted,” Adrian Rietveld, senior tour manager at TaylorMade, shared with GolfWRX. “He calls it his draw club. We built a 3-wood in his driver shaft and was able to fit him into a little bit more loft in the titanium Qi4D Tour head. The best thing about that head is that you have all of the weights in the bottom, where you can move the CG around to get it to do what the player desires from a spin and shape bias perspective. 

“We did about 45 minutes of work on the range and eventually ended off in the upright setting 1 towards lower. He likes it upright and open. I found the highest lofted 15-degree head on the truck…it’s about 15.2 degrees. Weight is a little bit more forward to hold the spin. He played it in the practice round on Wednesday and it was good to go.”

Harry Hall goes full Phil Mickelson

Harry Hall made his Masters Tournament debut this week, but it didn’t go as planned. After an opening-round, 5-over 77 on Thursday at Augusta National, Hall had a pretty honest assessment of his game.

“I need to get a lot better,” Hall said. 

After the blunt judgment of his first round out of the way, Hall went on to add he’s going to try some pretty drastic gear changes for Round 2. 

“I’m going to change my driver,” Hall said. He went on to add, “I’m going to put two drivers in play tomorrow, different ones.”

Hall moved into a Ping G440 LST driver at Augusta, after previously playing a TaylorMade Qi4D LS while alternating it with a Titleist GT3 driver this season. It’s a potential combination of big sticks we could see for Friday. 

“I fade the driver that I’ve got in the bag at the moment, and I was driving back to the mini just to draw it off the tee on some of these fairways,” Hall said. “When you give up 30 yards, you’re not really being very aggressive.”

It wouldn’t be the first time someone’s gamed double-drivers at the Masters. Famously, Phil Mickelson played a pair of 9.5-degree Callaway Big Bertha Fusion FT-3 drivers. The difference: one was one inch longer (46 instead of 45 inches) and had different weighting to help Mickelson play a draw. With the two-driver strategy in play, Mickelson captured his second Masters title. 

But back to Hall, he’s also going to make changes to the bottom end of his bag for Friday’s round. Find it all out here.

Justin Rose’s custom Cleveland wedge

Justin Rose returns to Augusta National for his 21st Masters Tournament. He arrives a year after his closest attempt to winning the green jacket, ending last year’s tournament as runner-up after a heartbreaking defeat to Rory McIlroy in a playoff. 

A blast from the past aided Rose’s near success at Augusta National in 2025. He returned to what he knows best, playing a wedge designed off a head that he played for much of his early career. 

“It is basically from the mold of the 588 Wide Sole from back in the day, but just current material and legal grooves,” Robert Waters, Tour manager for Srixon/Cleveland Golf, told GolfWRX. 

The wider sole was perfect for Rose for the added forgiveness needed on the tighter lies around the greens at Augusta. The higher bounce and flatter overall sole of the wedge also helped with versatility, especially in the bunkers, which feature a different sand compared to other courses on the PGA Tour.

Check out more on the club and the project Cleveland has going on here.