Thomas Aiken WITB: shot at The Memorial (2014)

[GolfWRX]

[easylittle5wood]

Doesn't/didn't he use dynalite gold (XP) x100s in his irons?

[rbhan12]

Forgive me but who is this guy?

[Stretch]

South African. Top 10 at the PGA at Wentworth last week. Pragmatic guy, hits everything left to right and only really plays events that suit his game. His wife often carries that bag for him -- she's a total honey.

 

[G N R]

South African. Top 10 at the PGA at Wentworth last week. Pragmatic guy, hits everything left to right and only really plays events that suit his game. His wife often carries that bag for him -- she's a total honey.

 

 

She certainly is. When he won in SA early this year, she was wearing the tiniest shorts in the final round.

[bub72ck]

I assume he has a ball/bag deal with Titleist?

It looks like he knows what works and doesn't want to mess with it down to the grips...

[Judge Smails]

I love seeing this bag for so many reasons. First, incredible wife. Well played pal!

As for the bag, I am somewhat partial because it is very similar to my own. I couldn't game that 7.5 Cleveland for my life but love the SQII fairways, all the Vokey's esp. the 60V and those Nike blades are some of the best every. Those are the rare V10 version I can only assume.

I am a little surprised to see the 6B7 shafts in those SQII fairways instead of something slightly stiffer, you know with the 7.5 degree driver and all I assume he'd hit those pretty high[size=4].[/size]

[size=4]Any those grips, damn. I can see using a beat to hell cord grip but that Tour Velvet must be liked a greased up watermelon in his hands. I assume that's on a wedge he doesn't take full swings with![/size]

[troublelove]

i'm a member of the same club as Thomas and confirm his wife is an absolute peach. She has only started playing the game in the last couple of years but is a very welcome addition.

[Lesmond]

I googled "Thomas Aiken wife". Good results.

 

[Erock]

Wow that grip! Looks like he pulled a wedge out of a barrell at a garage sale and put it into play. I understand guys playing older irons, drivers, woods, becasue there is nothing else out there that can perform better for them, but I don't see any benefit in playing a shiny cracked Tour Velvet grip.

[avg_joseph]

Not to be mean spirited, but this dude out kicked his coverage even more than Jim Furyk!!!

[gprointraining]

[quote name='avg_joseph' timestamp='1401401860' post='9392141']
Not to be mean spirited, but this dude out kicked his coverage even more than Jim Furyk!!!
[/quote]
It's not mean spirited when it's true, and it most certainly is in this case!

[easylittle5wood]

310 or a version of the 290 for his driver?

[imakaveli]

He is still the only one I know who uses Nike stuff without getting payed to do so...

[easylittle5wood]

[quote name='imakaveli' timestamp='1401634487' post='9406903']
He is still the only one I know who uses Nike stuff without getting payed to do so...
[/quote]

George McNeil uses a Nike putter and driver. Not sure if Nike still has tee up money for putters though. Jonathan Byrd used their wedges for quite some time, but I believe he since switched. Not a ton of guys.

[Judge Smails]

[quote name='imakaveli' timestamp='1401634487' post='9406903']
He is still the only one I know who uses Nike stuff without getting payed to do so...
[/quote]

Not giving Nike enough credit here...

As a general comment, I am not a Nike fan boy. Far from it, as I am not a fan of their non-golf gear and I'm not TW's biggest fan either. But they make some sick clubs, and there tour issue stuff is particularly great.

The SQII woods showed up in a lot of bags over the years, as did the LTD 3 wood - that was a club you saw non-Nike sponsored PGA guys sneaking into the bag a lot. GMac for one and the recent Julien Brun (TCU) WTB thread featured one as well, and he's a Callaway sponsored kid whose other option is the "new holy grail" BB 2014 Pro 16*! J. Byrd gamed the wedges as the previous poster said. John Daly was hitting both the Covert driver and Nike LTD fairway last year and was not sponsored. There are more . . .

Besides, with the exception of Vokey wedges, Cameron putters and TM fairways what other brand/model do you see players frequently going off their sponsored brand to use?

[Holy Moses]

[quote name='Judge Smails' timestamp='1401738290' post='9415733']Besides, with the exception of Vokey wedges, Cameron putters and TM fairways what other brand/model do you see players frequently going off their sponsored brand to use?
[/quote]

Ping Eye2 wedges, Ping putters, SLDR drivers.

[imakaveli]

[quote name='Judge Smails' timestamp='1401738290' post='9415733']
[quote name='imakaveli' timestamp='1401634487' post='9406903']
He is still the only one I know who uses Nike stuff without getting payed to do so...
[/quote]

Not giving Nike enough credit here...

As a general comment, I am not a Nike fan boy. Far from it, as I am not a fan of their non-golf gear and I'm not TW's biggest fan either. But they make some sick clubs, and there tour issue stuff is particularly great.

The SQII woods showed up in a lot of bags over the years, as did the LTD 3 wood - that was a club you saw non-Nike sponsored PGA guys sneaking into the bag a lot. GMac for one and the recent Julien Brun (TCU) WTB thread featured one as well, and he's a Callaway sponsored kid whose other option is the "new holy grail" BB 2014 Pro 16*! J. Byrd gamed the wedges as the previous poster said. John Daly was hitting both the Covert driver and Nike LTD fairway last year and was not sponsored. There are more . . .

[b]Besides, with the exception of Vokey wedges, Cameron putters and TM fairways what other brand/model do you see players frequently going off their sponsored brand to use?[/b]
[/quote]

What is the point of asking the question if you take off my answer?!?