Winners of the Grant Thornton Invitational When Jason Day and Lydia Ko won over the weekend, they used very different bag setups.
There was one noteworthy resemblance, which illustrates the caliber and level of popularity of the concerned club.
Day and Ko both use PING G430 LST drivers; however, Day employs the 9 degree variant of Ping’s flagship driver, which is an engineering wonder, while Ko uses a flatter loft.
Regarding the remainder of his equipment, Day primarily uses clubs from TaylorMade, his primary gear sponsor.
Day begins his irons at 4 with a single TaylorMade P770 and feels sufficiently at ease with the spaces between his 3-wood and 7-wood. Day switches to the TaylorMade P7MC range from the 5-iron to the pitching wedge.
He used a TaylorMade Ghost Spider Itsy Bitsy special edition putter for the Grant Thornton Invitational.
He departs from TaylorMade once more, opting instead for Titleist Vokey Design wedges, which are a favorite on the PGA Tour.
Ko’s setup demonstrates how the kind of clubs you pack for your bag should be determined by the distance off the tee.
For those longer approach shots, the other half of the Grant Thornton Invitational winning pair uses a hybrid 4, 3-wood, 5-wood, and a driver. These choices are all taken from the PING G430 series.
With the exception of Titleist Vokey Design wedges and a Scotty Cameron TourType SSS TG6 putter, Ko’s bag is primarily supplied by her sponsor, PING.
WITB Jason Day
DRIVER: PING G430 LST with 9° loft, fitted with TPT prototype shaft.
3-WOOD: TaylorMade SIM Max with 15° loft, with Mitsubishi Chemical Kuro Kage 80 X shaft.
7-WOOD: TaylorMade SIM Max with 21° loft, with Mitsubishi Chemical Kuro Kage 80 X shaft.
IRONS: TaylorMade P•770 (4-iron) and TaylorMade P•7MC (5-iron to pitching wedge), with KBS Tour C-Taper 125 S+ shafts.
WEDGES: Titleist Vokey Design SM9 (52°-08° F Grind, 56°-10° S Grind & 60°-08° AD+ Grind), with True Temper Dynamic Gold S400 shafts.
PUTTER: TaylorMade Ghost Spider Itsy Bitsy.
BALL: Bridgestone Tour B X
WITB Lydia Ko
DRIVER: PING G430 LST with 10.5° loft, fitted with Mitsubishi Chemical Diamana GT 50 S shaft.
3-WOOD: PING G430 Max with 15° loft, with Mitsubishi Chemical Diamana PD 60 S shaft.
5-WOOD: PING G430 Max with 18° loft, with Mitsubishi Chemical Diamana PD 60 S shaft.
HYBRID: PING G430 (4) with 22° loft, with Graphite Design Tour AD-HY 65 S shaft.
IRONS: PING i230 (5-iron to 7-iron) and PING Blueprint S (8-iron & 9-iron), with Aerotech SteelFiber fc 70 shafts.
WEDGES: Titleist Vokey Design SM9 (46°-10° F Grind, 48°-10° F Grind, 54°-10° F Grind & 58°-08° F Grind), with Aerotech SteelFiber fc 70 (46) and fc 80 (48, 54 & 58) shafts.
PUTTER: Scotty Cameron TourType SSS TG6.
BALL: Titleist Pro V1x.
