The last 2 Tour winners took this typical club out of their bag

Consider that two wins in two weeks for TaylorMade staff players, but it’s also two wins in two weeks for players without a traditional 4-iron in their bag.

Like Collin Morikawa last week, Jacob Bridgeman also relies on an iron head for his 4-iron, with a 12-year-old TaylorMade Tour Preferred UDI with the same Project X 6.5 iron shaft as the rest of his set.

Both Morikawa and Bridgeman use three different models in their iron, with Morikawa running a true split set of TaylorMade P7CBs and then P730 blades in addition to a P-DHY ironwhile Bridgeman replaced his P7CB 5-iron with a P770 version to maintain peak heights throughout the set.

“The 770 5-iron was added to his bag simply to find a 5-iron that launched higher and landed softer on long par 3s and par 5s,” said TaylorMade Senior Tour Rep Nick Springer. “He found the 770 to be a versatile club that he could fly when necessary.”

Using a utility iron in the 4-iron slot is likely done for similar reasons, as many pros are now choosing more forgiving options for both gap and peak height purposes.

That’s exactly why Morikawa, who experimented with a 9-wood last season, is the only player on the PGA Tour who regularly uses TaylorMade’s P-DHY driving iron, the larger of the company’s two utility irons.

“He was looking for a 4-iron that gets airborne easier,” TaylorMade Tour Rep Todd Chew said last week. “With the DHY, he doesn’t have to hit it as hard as he can to get it airborne. It also spins enough that he can cut it, whereas with the previous 4-irons it was difficult to get the right spin to create that ball flight. We also added a little more loft to make it go high and cut and still spin when he takes something off of it.”

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At all levels of golf, we’re seeing more and more players opting to drive iron replacement clubs in the 4-iron slot, and not just 3- and 2-irons anymore. Brian Campbell also won last season with a Ping iDi 4-iron.

At Fully Fit 2026, Sean Zak discovered that his best 4-iron option was also a TaylorMade P-UDI.

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