If your livelihood depended on shooting good scores what clubs are you using?

[chouls19]

I’m talking purely functional not aesthetic. The clubs that you would use if you had to make money from golf

[Hawkeye77]

In all seriousness, clubs that would allow me to make money from golf have never been made. 

[B.Easy]

I know what you're trying to ask, but the only answers this group of Gumby's is going to give you are going to be tongue in cheek. I appreciate that.  It's a false choice to choose either function or aesthetic.  There are literal dozens upon dozens that give you both.  That's one of a couple of problems with your question and why you won't get many good responses without clarification.

 

Knowing that, I'll try to answer honestly---  If I HAD to make money in golf, as a professional, on the PGA Tour--- I would choose the manufacturer that paid me the most to play their clubs.  If nobody paid me to play their clubs I imagine I'd be like Bubba Watson and play the same thing I had previous success with. Like @Hawkeye77 said, they currently don't exist. Nor does any other part of this scenario.  I like make believe.  

 

**Disclaimer: I reserve the right to update my make believe answers when new make believe clarifying information becomes available.

[Golly]

The original Callaway BB everything apart from the original ping anser flow neck and Titleist tour balata/ professional/90/100.

I'm certain golf can't and still hasn't got any easier than this.

[Abh159]

Hammar Driver

Spin Doctor Wedges

Bandit Maximum Distance Golf Balls

The putter Rodney Dangerfield uses in Caddyshack

 

Need I go on....

 

*** Since this is a fictitious scenario I'm assuming that the USGA's conforming club/ball rules don't exist.

[Heck2507]

whatever clubs a manufacturer is willing to pay me to use. 

[Loose_Ferrule]

The clubs in my bag that I have now....all PING.

 

Like most WRX'ers I'm 110% into this game and buy the clubs that allow me to play my best and enjoy the game the most. I want to shoot the best scores I can regardless of playing status.

 

Also there have been many Pro's who went for the dough and their scores went up.

Edited December 27, 2021 by Loose_Ferrule

[Flip4000]

Ping S55 irons. Good balance of control and forgiveness 

[rwhitlock]

For me it would be any club that has the most forgiveness that I can still spin.  Currently I game the T100's (not the newest version) and I've shot 66 in a state tourney, and I've also shot 85 in a state tourney.   So, not so sure that a club is going to make the biggest difference.  It will come down to your swing fundamentals and how well you can repeat your swing.  Also, the mental side is way more important that clubs.  If you're mentally strong and could take the pressure of playing for a living, then the irons really don't matter.  just my opinion...

 

Rod

[Radeon962]

I would use the clubs that I have.  They fit me well, I like how they look and feel and if I put a good swing on them and the putter cooperates then I can score OK.  
 

 

[MattM97]

Honestly what I have now cause I don't know anything better, maybe a loft and lie check before to make sure it's all dialed in but what I was fitted for is the best I could play. I'm sure now there are other things better for me now if I went to get fit again but I don't know it as well as I do my current setup.

[lefthack]

If I have a hardware contract, then that's what I'm playing. Otherwise it's the clubs in my bag because they are what I feel good playing. 

[nitram]

Whatever's in the bag.

[BassCatchr77]

For sure would have Taylor made tour preferred MC 2011 irons in the bag 

[lefthack]

And of course if I'm playing for dough...

 

 

[Mookieb10]

Great question, cause I switch my clubs around all the time for pure enjoyment. Since our member/member Championship flight calcuta get up to 5 figures, and the flight I play in gets to 5-7k, I suppose I can state this with some accuracy. 
 

Driver: G400 Max 10.5*
3w:  g425 at 14.5

5w: SIM TI at 18.5

4h: G425 at 22

5-p: TM p760’s

gw: Jaws Forged

SW: Jaws Forged

lW: Jaws Forged

putter: spider x

 

[2bGood]

This made me stop and think a bit. I would ask in this way. If my living depended on how close I was to shooting my handicap- what equipment changes would I make?

 

I would shift to slight more forgiving irons and driver and leave the rest the same. Nothing too dramatic, but I tend to buy something fitting for my good days rather than bad days. On my good days I would lose some ability to shape shots - but that more for fun than to shoot lower scores.

[BallerNate]

Very interesting question. My top choice for signing a contract would be the following:

1) TaylorMade 

2) Srixon 

 

Because those are the manufacturers whose equipment I prefer. But if Callaway, Titleist, PING, or any other OEM was paying me, I could get equipment adjusted to my specs that would absolutely work!

 

I like my current bag a lot…just need more testing on my SIM2 Driver to get it dialed in, will be testing a Driving Iron to knock out one of my Hybrids, and will test a different Iron set over the Winter to see if it can knock out my ZX7’s (doubtful).

[95124hacker]

My sig shows my starting lineup for my club tournaments with some options for driver, putter & ball, which I would finalize the day before. If you’re not playing your current WITB, why aren’t you??!!

[tannyhoban]

I’d have to trial a lot of clubs before committing. So my answer is I don’t know.

 

Functional v aesthetics is a bit of a red herring these days. We can have both.

[braincramp52]

Whatever I was professionally fitted into .

[Itsjustagame]

I see no real world correlation between a particular club brand and a successful pro career. The real world answer is many pros play what they are paid to play- makes sense to me.

[PEI_Golfer]

Square headed woods

Cleveland VAS irons

grooveless wedges

Ping Doc putter

Balata ball of your choice

[Ri_Redneck]

I would play the clubs I'm playing now. Get new wedges every 3 months. Spend 8-9 hours practicing every day I'm not playing and 4-5 hours the days that I do play.

 

BT

[QuigleyDU]

Well, The set of irons that I played my absolute best golf with were Titleist 681T irons. So I guess those. 

 

[jwb10]

Since I’m a WRXer; any unintroduced TM club that won’t ship for 6 months, of course

 

 

Edited December 28, 2021 by jwb10

[Lemonde]

A Ping G whatever MAX driver, likely cut down to 44.5” for accuracy purposes (but probably my 3 wood would go just as far) but it must also come with a set of earplugs. The rest of my set would be just fine.  

[AntLockyer]

Whatever I get fitted into.

[MountainKing]

If I was good enough to make money, I'd play whatever somebody wanted to pay me to play.  

[QuigleyDU]

4 hours ago, AntLockyer said:

Whatever I get fitted into.

I am sorry, this is way to logical of a response. For that I think you need to be banned for like two weeks. Please consider your words more carefully next time. 

 

Edited December 28, 2021 by QuigleyDU