Professional golfers get access to the newest and best technology every season, but not every pro chooses to add the new, shiny toys to the bag.
Some, such as Brooks Koepka, have found the club that fits their swing and their play, and they will touch them until they have to make a change.
For Koepka, the five-fold big champion still plays a Nike Vaporfly 3 iron, which is no longer in production, and a Taylormade M2 HL 3-wood, which came on the market about ten years ago.
In an interview with Today’s golfer On the Dunhill Links Championship last week, Koepka explained why he keeps those two clubs in the bag instead of opting for newer technology.
Koepkas Nike 3-Iron
Although some players may opt for a 5-wood for more length, Koepka has been held at the Nike Vaporfly 3-Iron because of his confidence in his ball flight and the negligible difference between it and the 5-wood.
Although the Daporfly is no longer in production, Koepka has some spare parts in its garage. He recently added a new Vaporfly after the face of his old one is recorded during the Open Championship in Royal Portush.
“I am not a craftsman,” said Koepka Today’s golfer. “I don’t play with different options. I tried to throw in a 5 -wood, but the ball flight just doesn’t look good. I don’t know why. I am not at the age where I need a little extra help with extra forest, what is lucky, but perhaps in probably five or six years I will definitely do all the help of the Portrush. I didn’t have to go around a few months, but it was a bit crazy, I have been a bit crazy, I have been a bit crazy, I have been a bit crazy, I have been crazy about it, I have been crazy about it. End was and it just happened with the front of the bag. “
Brooks’ 3-wood
Regarding Koepka’s Taylormade M2 HL 3-wood, it has become a bag-not because he was unable to recreate the feeling with other 3-wood. For Koepka, the 3-wood is the most difficult club in the bag to get fit. Once you do that, you will not continue unless it is necessary.
“I think the 3-wood is the most difficult club to even fit,” said Koepka. “I have never really found anything where things are going well in the fairway or from the tee. The flight I see with this, I have not just found everything where it is better. I think this maybe 10, 11, maybe 12 years now, but it’s crazy, as I said, I don’t know, so if I think something that works, keep going with it.
“You occasionally put a new axle in. I don’t change it, I think I’ve had every shaft in this bag for a long time and occasionally only the wear of the small wear lines on the bag when the bag gets a bit ready, so you have to change shafts but not the heads.”
“If something works, I will continue.”
As my colleague Jack Hirsch noted, this is an approach that the recent winner of Sanderson Farms Steven Fisk also uses.
All clubs in Fisk’s bag, apart from his Mizuno St-Z 230 driver and his Vokey SM10 Lob Wedge, come from the early 2020s, including his Mizuno MP-20 irons and T-22-Wiggen and his Odyssey White Hot Og Rossie Putter.
We have seen Rory Mcilroy pay almost $ 1000 for a Uber to bring him his old forest, his Taylormade Qi10s, for the final round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational. McIlroy played the first three rounds with the new driver and Fairway Woods, from the QI35 line, but wanted to go back to the clubs that he felt more comfortable with.
Even if it is not the newest or most shiny club, you will stay there if you find something that fits your game. It is not necessary to tinker if you don’t have to.
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