The Bag Room & Winner's Bag

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Equipment scoop from the tours

Equipment scoop from the tours

The Bag Room

Old dog, new trick: Loren Roberts added a 60-degree TaylorMade rac wedge at the Senior PGA Championship. Although most players now carry a 60-degree wedge, it marked the first time in Roberts’ career he had put one in play in tournament competition. … Seeking to shake his struggles on the greens, Hale Irwin recently went back to his old handmade T.P. Mills blade putter. Irwin, who first reunited with the putter two weeks ago at the Regions Charity Championship (where he ranked T-2 in putts per GIR en route to a T-6 finish), didn’t fare as well at Kiawah, where he finished T-42. … Equipment companies surveying players whose contracts are up at the end of the year can knock one big name off the list: Sergio Garcia (pictured). The Spaniard has re-upped with TaylorMade to play its clubs and balls and wear its footwear and apparel for “multiple years.†Financial terms were not disclosed. … Ranked T-103 in putting average on the LPGA Tour, Vicki Goetze-Ackerman is looking to turn things around with the Frankly Frog—a green-headed mallet putter that is the brainchild of former USGA technical director Frank Thomas. Goetze-Ackerman averaged 27.25 putts per round (down from 30.35 on the year) at the Corning Classic.

Winners’ Bags

Rory Sabbatini - Crowne Plaza Invitational
Ball: Nike One Platinum
Driver: Nike SQ Sumo, 8.5 degrees
3-wood: Nike SasQuatch 2
Hybrid club: Adams Idea a2 (18 degrees)
Irons (3-PW): Nike Ignite
Wedges: Nike SV (55, 60 degrees)
Putter: Odyssey White Hot XG 9

Young Kim - Corning Classic
Ball: Titleist Pro V1x
Driver: Callaway Fusion FT-3, 9.5 degrees
3-wood: Callaway Big Bertha
5-wood: Callaway Big Bertha
7-wood: Callaway Big Bertha
Irons (4-PW): Callaway X-20
Wedges: Ping Tour (52, 58 degrees)
Putter: Odyssey White Hot 2-Ball Blade

Denis Watson - Senior PGA Championship
Ball: Titleist Pro V1x
Driver: Titleist 905S, 10.5 degrees
3-wood: Adams Redline RPM
Hybrid club: Callaway X (18 degrees)
Irons (4-9): Titleist 695CB; (PW): TaylorMade rac TP
Wedges: Cleveland 588 (53, 56, 60 degrees)
Putter: Guerin Rife Two-Bar Mallet