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With 23-year-old putter, 15-year-old 3-wood, Steve Stricker is ready for 2024 KitchenAide Senior PGA

Stricker is mostly sticking to the old tried and true, and not getting hung up on the latest and greatest.

Steve Stricker withdrew from the PGA Championship last week to focus on this week’s KitchenAide Senior PGA, an event where he will be the defending champion.

He’ll be among the field of 156 golfers at Harbor Shores Resort, Benton Harbor, Michigan, which is hosting for the sixth time since 2012.

Earlier this year, Stricker, who has seven senior majors among his 17 PGA Tour Champions wins, ran into some equipment issues at TPC Sawgrass.

“I broke my driver at the Players Championship, so that’s been a little bit of a bugaboo,” he said Wednesday ahead of the Senior PGA. “Then I said, you know what? Maybe it’s a good time to change some irons, so I tested some irons, but I went back to, at Regions a couple weeks ago, I went back to the ones that I’ve been playing the last four, five years, so that seemed to be a little bit better.”

While he has the older irons in his bag, he’s sticking with the driver.

“Hitting the driver nice. It’s a new Titleist driver that I am hitting,” he said, later adding that he paired it with his older V2 shaft. “That seems to be going pretty good, so I feel like I finally got my equipment figured out.”

So aside from the new driver head, Stricker is sticking to the old tried and true, and not getting hung up on having the latest and greatest.

“I’ve got a putter that’s 23 or 24 years old, 3-wood that’s 15 years old, you know, and utility club, yeah, I just have never really, once I find something I like and I know that it works, I got confidence in, it’s hard for me to change. It’s kind of a process,” he explained.

“I tried to do it with some irons the last month or so. It’s just hard. You have one idea what the ball should do and then when you put a new club in your bag is does something different. It’s about getting used to, and sometimes I just don’t want to even take the time to get used to it just because I know that what I’ve been playing works and I like the look of it and all that kind of stuff. So it’s been hard for me to change over the years.”

Look and feel clearly have a lot to do with it.

“I put some new stuff in there I’m like, that just doesn’t feel right. Then I put my old stuff in there and I’m like, that’s the way it’s supposed to feel.

“I go back and forth, but typically end up with my old stuff back in my hands again.”

Photos: A closer look at some of the golf bags at the 2024 WM Phoenix Open

It’s a sneak peak at the tools that the best players in the world are working with.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — The media center at the WM Phoenix Open is in the basement of the clubhouse at TPC Scottsdale.

Normally the “cart barn”, the underground space is home base for the media and PGA Tour officials but it’s also golf club storage for the pros during the week.

Each day, a variety of golf bags can be seen lined up along the walls, the gear either ready for that day’s tee time or waiting to be put back into storage.

Seeing all the pro’s bags lined up provides a chance to get a sneak peak at the tools – oh, man, I have those Callaway irons! – that the best players in the world are working with.

Best NFL golf gear to celebrate the start the 2023 football season

Support your favorite NFL team while on the course this fall.

The 2023 NFL season is here!

The Patrick Mahomes-led Kansas City Chiefs host the playoff-hopeful Detroit Lions on Thursday, Sept. 7th, to open the year.

So, to celebrate, we’ve compiled a list of some of the best NFL team gear you can buy to add to your golf game. Whether it’s a bag, a towel, a polo or another in between, we have it on this list.

If you’re interested in our other lists, you should check out our best hats for 2023, best golf sunglasses for 2023 and best golf shorts for 2023.

Note: Most of these items are available for most NFL teams, not just the ones listed in the sections below.

One piece of golf gear for every team in the NCAA College Football Coaches Poll

Support your favorite college football team on the golf course this fall.

The wait is over. We finally made it.

College football season is officially here. The sport is not only a bridge that takes us through the winter from the Tour Championship to the Sentry, but a rollercoaster of emotions that millions of us gladly suffer through for 12+ Saturdays a year.

Of course, as golfers, we need to fill that time before kickoff somehow. Why not tee it up? We’ve picked out some of the best golf-related items for each team in the USA TODAY preseason coaches poll to help you showcase your school spirit.

Be sure to check out of lists for more polos, shorts, pants and more to score some extra savings as the summer golf calendar comes to an end.

Best golf rain gear and accessories

A little rain never hurt anybody…

No one prefers to play in bad weather, but most of us are crazy enough to tee it up when it’s extremely hot, windy, and even raining.

If you’re looking to play more golf this year and don’t want the weather to keep you from reaching your goals, you’ve come to the right place. Earlier this week, we featured our favorite rain apparel. Now, we’re moving on to the other side of rain gear, the accessories.

Are you a part of the pushcart mafia? We got you covered. Are you a player that’s ride or die? We have you covered too. No, literally, we have a cart cover on this list.

These accessories are meant to help you play your best golf, even in not the best weather. Is there anything more satisfying than grinding out a low score in adverse conditions?

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Tiger Woods makes equipment change since Masters for 2022 PGA Championship at Southern Hills

The 15-time major champ made a subtle change to his bag.

Equipment lovers are fascinated by Tiger Woods’ gear.

A traditionalist, Tiger has embraced technological advancements in drivers and fairway woods, but he has been very slow to change irons, shafts or grips. In fact, after growing up with a Ping putter, he has used a Ping grip on his Scotty Cameron putter for decades.

At the 2022 Masters, Tiger Woods used a TaylorMade Stealth Plus+ driver, a 15-degree TaylorMade SIM 3-wood and a 19-degree TaylorMade M3 5-wood. That has been Tiger’s standard setup, along with his TaylorMade P·7TW irons (3-PW) since he joined TaylorMade in 2017.

Having played a few practice rounds at Southern Hills in preparation for the PGA Championship, Woods has opted to change that setup, removing two clubs and adding two others.

Tiger Woods' TaylorMade P-770 2-iron
Tiger Woods’ TaylorMade P-770 2-iron at the 2022 PGA Championship. (David Dusek/Golfweek)

The first club that Woods removed from his bag this week is the M3 5-wood, and one of the clubs that he added is a TaylorMade P-770 2-iron. In years past, Woods removed his 5-wood and added a 2-iron on fast, firm courses where the wind is a factor, like links venues that host the British Open.

The other change that Woods made is taking out his P-7TW 3-iron and adding a P-770 3-iron in its place. That move, unlike swapping a 2-iron for a 5-wood, is unusual for Tiger.

Tiger Woods' TaylorMade irons
Tiger Woods’ TaylorMade irons at the 2022 PGA Championship. (David Dusek/Golfweek)

The P-770 is a compact, hollow-bodied club that is designed to be a better-player’s distance iron. It has a forged 4140 stainless steel face attached to a forged 8620 carbon steel body. The inner chamber is filled with a foam material that TaylorMade refers to as Speed Foam. It absorbs excessive vibrations, to improve sound and feel, but does not inhibit the face from flexing or reduce ball speed. There is also an internal tungsten weight inside the head that lowers the center of gravity location to encourage a higher ball flight. Finally, there is a Speed Pocket slot in the sole that allows the lower portion of the hitting area to bend more efficiently on thin shots.

Time will tell whether the addition of the two P-770 irons is going to be permanent or whether they are course-specific clubs that woods is planning to use only at Southern Hills, but given Tiger’s injuries and reduced ability to practice, it makes sense that he might be looking for more ball speed and distance from his long irons.

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Eight things you need to be ready for the spring golf season

Spring golf is about to be in full swing and Golfweek has rounded up 8 things you need to make the most out of your time on the course.

The temperature is rising and the layers are beginning to come off, its time for spring golf. Days are longer, greens get quicker and the urge to get on the golf course is at an all-time high.

After spending the winter watching PGA Tour pros inspire us all, it’s time to hit the links and try to recreate some shots. Whether you are trying to be functional or fashionable, here are the eight best things you need for spring golf.

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