Tour Chandler Phillips - WITB - 2024 RBC Heritage

[GolfWRX_Spotted]

[slicktry]

S in the driver and TX in everything else?

[trying2scratch]

5 hours ago, slicktry said:

S in the driver and TX in everything else?

He talks about that shaft in his interview on subpar.  Think he got it from a female ping pro.  Said he hit way better than anything else they tried to fit him in. 

[Sean124]

16 minutes ago, trying2scratch said:

He talks about that shaft in his interview on subpar.  Think he got it from a female ping pro.  Said he hit way better than anything else they tried to fit him in. 

IIRC, he said he still practices at the Texas A&M facilities. He was BS’ing with a girl on the golf team and hit her driver as a joke. Then just kept striping it lol

 

Edited April 16 by Sean124

[Valtiel]

1 minute ago, Sean124 said:

IIRC, he said he still practices at the Texas A&M facilities. He was BS’ing with a girl on the golf team and just hit her driver as a joke. Then just kept striping it lol

I mean that is basically how Couples ended up playing both a ladies driver and that square fairway wood for like 20 years. 😅

[Ben B]

Yeah, there is a WITB video that he talks about how he came about using that Alta CB 55S shaft. Personally I think the Ping drivers really shine with a counterbalanced shaft and that may be one of the reasons it works so well for him. When I did a driver fitting back in the fall, the Ping felt really head heavy when compared to all of the other drivers. The Tensei 65X in both the blue and white profile were top of the list with all of the drivers I tried except the Ping. My dispersion with the Ping was all over the place. Then we tried the Alta CB and it completely changed the driver. I actually perfer a heavier driver, but I like to feel the weight across the length of the club and not all in the head...and that's what the shaft did for me even though it's not all that heavy of a shaft.

[03trdblack]

Didn't Louis Oosthuizen also use the CB 55S as his version of an Autoflex for a while?

[Valtiel]

10 minutes ago, 03trdblack said:

Didn't Louis Oosthuizen also use the CB 55S as his version of an Autoflex for a while?

Yeah I think that was the one he notably gave away to someone in the crowd because of how bad he was driving it 😅

Edited April 16 by Valtiel

[eric61]

14 hours ago, trying2scratch said:

He talks about that shaft in his interview on subpar.  Think he got it from a female ping pro.  Said he hit way better than anything else they tried to fit him in. 

 

13 hours ago, Sean124 said:

IIRC, he said he still practices at the Texas A&M facilities. He was BS’ing with a girl on the golf team and hit her driver as a joke. Then just kept striping it lol

 

I went looking for it — discussion about the shaft starts at about 28:30.

 

[Ben Berube]

4 hours ago, Ben B said:

Yeah, there is a WITB video that he talks about how he came about using that Alta CB 55S shaft. Personally I think the Ping drivers really shine with a counterbalanced shaft and that may be one of the reasons it works so well for him. When I did a driver fitting back in the fall, the Ping felt really head heavy when compared to all of the other drivers. The Tensei 65X in both the blue and white profile were top of the list with all of the drivers I tried except the Ping. My dispersion with the Ping was all over the place. Then we tried the Alta CB and it completely changed the driver. I actually perfer a heavier driver, but I like to feel the weight across the length of the club and not all in the head...and that's what the shaft did for me even though it's not all that heavy of a shaft.

I have always said they are awesome shafts.  But I never knew CB stood for Counter Balanced.  (WTF?)

 

Awesome!!

[easylittle5wood]

I think the former designer at LAGP has been at PING for a couple of years now.