Why Tiger Woods’ 2000 golf bag still feels untouchable, even today

Tiger Woods’ golf bag has been discussed, analyzed, taken apart, photographed and podcasted over the years. The lineup drawing the most attention is the 2000 Titleist set, which was involved in perhaps the greatest feat in sports history.

During the year-end episode of GOLF’s Fully Equipped, I went club after club with the man responsible for this bag, former Titleist Tour Promotion Rep Larry Bobka.

The conversation was every gearhead’s dream. If you haven’t watched yet, CHECK IT OUT!

Before we dive into the sticks, let’s lay out the year by the numbers and the bag.

Start: 20
Win: 9
Profit: $9.2 million ($57-59 million under current payout structure)
Majors: 3 (US Open, The Open, PGA)
Top 5: 15
Top 10: 17
Scoring AVG: 68.11
Rounds under par: 60/80
Average finish of 4th
Number of strokes achieved: +3.2
Strokes gained from tee to green: +2.6
Driving distance: 298 meters
Driving accuracy: 71%
ACCELERATION: 75.2

Tiger Woods 2000 WITB

Director: Titleist 975D
Shaft: Dynamic Gold X100
Attic: 7.5˚ @ 7˚
Length: 43.5″
Tips: Tipped to lengths from 46″
Swing weight: D3

3-WOOD: Titleist 970
Shaft: Dynamic Gold X100
Length: 42.5″
Attic: 15˚
Tips: Tipped to lengths from 46″
Swing weight: D3

IRONS: 2-P Titleist 681T (Endo forged)
Axles: Dynamic Gold X100
Tips: 1/4″
Length: 37.75 (5 iron)
Lofts: (2-P) 20/22.5/26/29/32/36/40.5/45/49
Swing weight: D3+

Wedges: Title list Vokey 258/08 @56, 260/06
Axles: Dynamic Gold S400

Goldfinch: Scotty Cameron GSS Newport 2 Tri-Sole
Putter Length: 35.25 inches
Attic: 3.5-4 degrees
Sight: Cherry red dot
Putter weight: 326 grams
Swing weight: D7
Head material: German stainless steel
Handle: Ping PP58 “Blackout”
Age: 26 years old
Date of birth: April/May 1999
Value: priceless

Ball: Nike Precision Tour accuracy

Handles: Golf Pride Tour Velvet Cord “Logo Down”

Glove: Nike Tour Authentic

Observations from Tiger Woods’ 2000 Golf Bag

There aren’t many more – if any – superlatives you can use for his performance in 2000; it was simply the best golf ever played, and probably ever will be played.

YES, Scottie has had a nice run over the years, but I’m sorry, it’s not the same. Not even close. Anyone who thinks otherwise is simply delusional.

There are a few little nuggets around his sticks that may have been overlooked, but are still fascinating from a gearhead’s perspective:

– He played WEAK boxes: I know the ball flew differently back then, but MY GOD. He was and still is easily a club weaker than probably 85% of today’s Tour. Just for context, a standard loft package looks like this:

Typical Tour 4-PW vs. TW 4-PW
4:22 to 26
5:25 to 29
6:29 to 32
7:33 to 36
8:38 vs. 40.5
9:42 vs. 45
P: 46 versus 49

Moreover, TW was not a huge shaft poorer; he wasn’t Sergio Garcia. From an attack angle and dynamic loft perspective, he was pretty neutral. So the distances came from 1) Speed, 2) Absolute perfection of the stroke. Don’t you believe me? Give his irons to a neutral player these days and they are easily a club shorter.

– His wood was tipped to length, and his irons were also tipped: You don’t see it often on irons, .25 inch tipping is strange to see. It’s not necessarily about “extra stiffness”, it’s a matter of stability/feel. Keep in mind that launch monitors didn’t really exist back then, so it was all the feel and the ball in the air that told the story.

Tilting the wood to length is also rare; that wasn’t uncommon with steel back then, but nowadays you could tilt it an inch during a ride and trim the butt to length. An X100 “tipped trim to length” in a modern graphite driver assembly would be a Ventus Blue 10X @44.5 inches, with a tip of at least 2… WOW, stiffness on phone surveys.

– They looked into the loft for his driver: This was something I never really thought about, but it makes perfect sense now. During my podcast with Larry Bobka, he said that in order to find the right driver head for Tiger, he had to look through a box of heads and do a little looking at them. He would find the ones that looked a little open (about 7 degrees finished), build them up, take them to Tiger, hit them, and go from there.

– The older wand was LIGHT and swishing: By today’s standards, Tiger’s Newport 2 GSS would be at least 20-30 grams lighter in weight than any Scotty you’d see in a store or at your local pro shop. The only way to get a contemporary studio style even in the venue is to take out the weight plugs, and that gets you to about 330 grams. Even the steel shaft it had in it was unique. Tiger preferred the shaft to feel soft so he could feel the head. Rumor has it that in the past he chased that feeling so much that he brought out an old Wilson 8802 with a “fluted” shaft to practice with to create that “release” he was looking for.

It’s funny that even 25 years later I still find new things to explore with Tiger Woods. I learn something new, or something I knew five years ago now has a whole new meaning to me. If you pay close attention, you’ll see that Tiger did what he did in 2000 with a series of clubs built on feeling. No real club details or Trackman information to refer to, just his eyeballs, his hands and the scorecard.

My question is always: what would he do today? Like Michael Jordan in the modern NBA, I truly believe Tiger would have dominated even more if that was even possible. I don’t think these kids have a good idea of ​​what it was like back then. It wasn’t the same game. He’s the best to ever do it.

Happy 50th, TW.

For more information from myself and Bobka, including how Bobka made Woods’ Titleist 681T irons and why Butch Harmon kept a set of them for his students to hit: listen to the full episode of GOLF’s Fully Rested hereor watch it below.

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