Here is a look at WITB of the 2020 Rocket Mortgage Classic Winner Bryson DeChambeau.
Driver: Cobra KING SPEEDZONE 7.5 with LA Golf BAD Proto shaft 75TX
FW Woods: Cobra KING LTD 3 and 5 wood with LA Golf Trono BAD Proto shafts 75TX and 85TX
Irons: Cobra KING One Length Utility 4 & 5 and Cobra KING Forged Tour One Length 6-PW with LA Golf Rebar Proto Iron shafts
Wedges: Artisan Prototypes 50, 55 and 60 with LA Golf Rebar Proto Wedge shafts
Putter: SIK Prototype with LA Golf C2L Shaft
Golf Ball: 2020 Bridgestone TOUR B X with REACTIV Cover
Now let’s hear your analysis of his wedge shafts.
This is normally @Jman and he gets the credit. Crazy holiday weekend so we wanted to share it quickly.
Much appreciated too! I’m being drug all over by the family ?
The Public probably couldn’t swing them anyway, I’ll bet those things are like concrete-coated rebar.
Im not sure that is accurate.
He is playing Protos of a new shaft LA Golf is working on.
would buy $2k shafts to win 1.35m this week and over 3m in the last month.
That’s interesting….not available to public….price is ridiculous too….but interesting that only available to pros
Having to explain to people that it doesn’t work like that, is an every time occurrence when Bryson wins.
It’s not? Oops. Back to the drawing board and ebay.
I was just going to post this. I love the name
golfer: I’d like to hit the rebar proto please
fitter:
X100 gives me the chills, so rebar sounds insane to me. But if you have 200 ball speed potential, rebar might be necessary
What’s really scary is how much flex he still has in that driver.
x100? There’s still an x7 between sensibility and Rebar proto lmao
I’m not that that guy. I can’t imagine what those rebar shaft are like. Maybe rebar?
A kraken win at Augusta would set the Bryson brand on fire.
yeah i thought that was interesting too. cobra wedges are really good and ben is very talented at grinding to the tour staff’s specs. going artisan is not expected.
He’s been experimenting with wedges going back to last year, even tried some PXG temporarily. Searching for a setup with less spin than his previous Cobra ones
Artisan is the real deal though. With Mike Taylor doing the wedge work, that’s a legend still very much in the game.
oh for sure. it’s just interesting that someone who is fast becoming the face of a brand is not gaming that brand’s wedges when they offer a great product
I believe he was like that with the LA golf shafts too. Was slow to get them in the bag when he had been brought on by the brand
golfer (with 95 mph driver speed)…
That video is from 2018.
He says a couple of thousand per club.
I thought I heard someone say it was 46 but I could be wrong.
Also very happy to see him get the W. Not the popular opinion but do like the guy and happy to see him having success.
I love seeing Bryson get the win. I like the guys who aren’t cookie cutter conventional. Bryson is def different and he has set himself up for a big year.
I would love to try that Jumbo Max grip on a iron I wonder how much Lead they had to put in those heads to get the SW back to where it is supposed to be.
I have thought about this a lot, since the wedges are the biggest hangup most people have for OL. But I just think how his needs are so wildly different than most golfers, how much is it worth trying to shoehorn them vs having success like this? Considering that to get them to work, they’d literally be fighting against the club’s features, trying to reduce spin so much.
Put that time and energy into optimizing the SZ for him and boom, Cobra’s got a huge boost. I don’t know there’s a good answer out there, but just some of my thoughts.
He’s playing their ultra lite grip which is the same weight class as most grips. He switched to those last year when he was tinkering with shafts and heads searching for the right spin numbers. Fwiw, I’m playing Forged TECs with the JumboMax grips with Cobra Connect that are "normal" jumbo weight (105g) and the swing weight is about 4-5 points lower I believe.
Yup, he could tighten up that wedge game and putting and then he could be out there doing something crazy special.
Very different now. Spoke to the team at LA golf yesterday about these and we will have a lot more coming soon on both the irons and wedge versions.
How crazy is that. Almost makes me wanna try them for myself.
Wedges on the other hand…. honestly, despite being a 10, I think I could’ve hit a majority of his approach shots closer than he did. His "One swing to rule them all" approach to the greens definitely puts a ceiling on his potential.
it will be very interesting to see whether other players pursue extremely tip stiff driver shafts to achieve the same, particularly those with speed. although curvature is not only about gear effect, right? face and path need to be aligned extremely closely at that speed to achieve a straight(ish) ball flight.
i disagre that his swing is an issue for the wedges. bryson still shapes and flights the ball, as do most tour pros. i don’t see how his particular swing model is any different than other pros who spend countless hours honing their own swing?
For the tournament, his proximity from inside 100 yards from fairways was T-18 out of 70, and from rough was T-24 out of 63. Yes it could be improved, but I don’t think any of us can really claim we would do better.
35.5"
He goes back and forth from 45.5 to 45.
That’s what I was thinking, since we always joke about sticking some rebar in a driver head.