WITB Geoff Ogilvy

[Gxgolfer]

Cobra HS9 Proto 9.5*

Titleist 906F 15* & 18*

Cobra Blade MB protos

Vokey 49*, 54*,

Spin Milled 60*

Proto Cameron 009 Newport

[Gxgolfer]

Looks like another Cameron Major Putter???

[tbowles411]

Cobra's new driver gets a win. But man! It was the wedges that saved him!

[kblakeney35]

Confirmed, it is not a 009 putter, merely a newport.

 

 

-Kyle

[JKB]

His real Bag

 

Driver: Cobra X/Speed Proto 9.5 degree with Aldila VS Proto "By You" X-Flex, Tipped one inch

 

3 wood: Titleist 906 F2 Proto 15 degree with a TTDG X-100 and sometimes and 18 degree 5 wood

 

2 iron: Cobra Forged CB with Royal Precision FCM 7.3

Irons: Cobra MB Protos 3-9 iron with Royal Precision FCM 7.3

Wedges: Titleist Vokey 50 bent to 48, 56 and 60 bent to 61

 

Putter: Scotty Cameron Newport (Oil Can Finish)

[Shanky]

i thought that Jeff was playing the HS9 driver

Correct me if i am wrong

[JKB]

i thought that Jeff was playing the HS9 driver

Correct me if i am wrong

 

Yep sorry your wrong

 

 

 

 

[Josey2]

do u guys have any pics of the irons?

[PatScan]

the irons were in golf digest recently. they look to be kind of like the 681s, with a more angular muscle.

[Dyno]

Just a quick note on those Precision FCM shafts.....they are actually Accra Tour Steels cut to 7.3. The True Temper/Royal Precision takeover complicated matters (in a legal sense :cheesy:) so it was decided to call them Precision FCM for public consumption.

 

The Accras are somewhat similar to the old FCM shaft but much smoother feeling with a softer tip. The 5.5 soft stepped is outstanding...I love everything about it. I thought Tour Flighteds would be my shaft forever but the Tour Steels are even better.

[The Gachet]

[The Gachet]

DRIVER: Cobra S9-1 Pro D (10.5°) with Aldila VooDoo XVS8 shaft

FAIRWAY METALS: Cobra S9-1 Pro (15° and 18°) with Fujikura Sapphire shafts

IRONS: (3-9) King Cobra Pro MB; with True Temper Precision FM shafts

PITCHING WEDGE: Titleist Vokey Design (50°)

SAND WEDGE: Titleist Vokey Spin Milled (55°, 60°)

PUTTER: Scotty Cameron by Titleist prototype

BALL: Titleist Pro V1

[Klap]

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJOh8xq8Lf4"]On his driver[/url]

When he starts talking about his kids he doesn't mean the irons unfortunately

[The Gachet]

[The Gachet]

DRIVER: Titleist 909D3 (9.5°) with an Alidila R.I.P 80X shaft

FAIRWAY WOODS: Cobra S9-1 (15°, 18° bent to 20°) with Fujikura Sapphire X shafts

IRONS: Titleist MB Forged (3-9) with Royal Precision FCM Rifle 7.3 shafts

WEDGES: Titleist Vokey Design Spin Milled C-C 250.08 (50° bent to 49°), Titleist Vokey Design Spin Milled C-C (55°), Titleist Vokey Spin Milled C-C Special Grind 60-T (60°) with True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400 shafts

PUTTER: Scotty Cameron Newport Prototype with Black Studio Design Grip - 35" with 4° loft

BALL: Titleist Pro V1

GLOVE: FootJoy StaSof

GRIPS: Golf Pride Tour Velvet (reversed)

BAG: Titleist

APPAREL: Travis Mathew

FOOTWEAR: FootJoy SYNR-G

HEADWEAR: Titleist

 

How Geoff marks his Titleist Pro V1

 

[steeldragon]

No longer with PUMA

[mstrong]

But now wearing a Titleist hat instead of Cobra...

[The Gachet]

 

 

[The Gachet]

[quote name='steeldragon' post='2167229' date='Jan 7 2010, 06:55 PM']No longer with PUMA[/quote][quote name='mstrong' post='2167509' date='Jan 7 2010, 09:22 PM']But now wearing a Titleist hat instead of Cobra...[/quote]
Thanks !

[mturner560]

Watching at SBS yesterday his iron shafts defiantly had steps? IE not rifle? Am i wrong or has he switched to DG or KBS?

[thelamp]

mturner560, I noticed the stepped shafts also. Couldn't be sure, but once or twice I could have sworn he had ap2's in play yesterday?

[The Gachet]

[quote name='mturner560' date='08 January 2010 - 07:58 PM' timestamp='1262980700' post='2169721']
Watching at SBS yesterday his iron shafts defiantly had steps? IE not rifle? Am i wrong or has he switched to DG or KBS?
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[quote name='thelamp' date='09 January 2010 - 12:55 PM' timestamp='1263041719' post='2170586']
mturner560, I noticed the stepped shafts also. Couldn't be sure, but once or twice I could have sworn he had ap2's in play yesterday?
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[b]Matt[/b] wrote on January 8, 2010 at 2:58 pm

What shafts is Geoff playing in his new MB irons?

[b]Titleist Golf Clubs[/b] wrote on January 8, 2010 at 3:07 pm

Matt-
Geoff uses Royal Precision FCM Rifle 7.3 shafts in his irons.

[The Gachet]

He does have stepped shafts in his wedges, Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400's.

 

Not sure how much tape he has under his grips but there appears to be some visible !?

[sharkhark]

loved watching great 5 wood shoot and the tell tale yellow signifying it must be a cobra fairway wood...but the caddy slips titleist headcovers over his 3 and 5 wood that did not match his actual clubs.
Why do they do the silly headcover trick? Why not just show what a pro really uses rather than try to imply he is using the latest line up of titty woods?
Silly to me

[mat562]

[quote name='sharkhark' date='11 January 2010 - 06:09 PM' timestamp='1263233398' post='2174751']
Why do they do the silly headcover trick? [/quote]

I agree with you, but the vast majority of TV-watching golf fans will see a Titleist headcover and assume the club under it is a therefore a Titleist. Only a very few keen-eyed and picky fans will note (or care) that it's actually a Cobra. From a marketing perspective it's a valid tactic.

Years ago, before the advent of big money contracts with required club usage clauses, it was extrememly common to see a big staff bag with a conspicuous logo for Brand X, and upon close inspection find it was stuffed with clubs from every manufacturer but Brand X. The sponsors didn't care as the casual golf fan saw Brand X on the bag and then went out and bought Brand X clubs 'because so-and-so uses them' blissfully unaware that, in fact, he didn't.

[Quam02]

I'm not sure if Titleist is making him use their headcovers. From their site http://www.titleist.com/players/playersequipment.asp?playerid=462 it doesn't list Geoff as even using a Titleist wood. I think he just wanted his bag to match for the lovely winner walk down 18

[The Gachet]

When the USGA's new groove rule changes were first announced, some people assumed that every PGA Tour player would immediately start carrying a 64° wedge. The thinking was that if players were not going to be able to spin the ball as much with the new grooves, they'd need more loft in order to stop the ball with trajectory. Right?

 

Wrong—at least in the mind of defending WGC-Accenture Match Play champion Geoff Ogilvy.

 

"I think the way that things were going, with grooves getting so sharp and company's getting so good at making them, a lot of guys were grabbing a 64° wedge," he told me Tuesday evening. "But when I was younger, the idea of a 64° wedge was laughable. I mean, you just wouldn't use it. But it became usable."

 

But the smaller, duller grooves that players must compete with today have made using a super-high lofted wedge tricky again. In fact, Ogilvy feels that he can't get enough spin out of his 60° any more, so he pulled the club out of his bag this week and is going with a 58° Vokey Spin Milled C-C wedge instead.

 

"If I think back to when I was a kid, I never liked hitting pitch shots with a lob wedge off short grass because the ball seemed to roll up the face and create a loopy flight," he said. "But hitting with my 56 sand wedge, or a stronger wedge, it would grab onto the face and spin."

 

This year, at the season's first event in Hawaii, the ball started rolling up the face of Ogilvy's lob wedge, just as it did when he was a junior player.

 

"I had probably not done enough practicing with it," he admitted. "But you can practice on the range but there is no substitute for being in a tournament. Then, in Abu Dhabi, I was just like, 'This is not right.' I was shying away from playing this club, and you don't want to have a club in the bag that you don't want to hit. And arguably, for a lot of guys out here, it's the most important club in the bag."

 

A loft difference of two is almost impossible to see, but the difference allows the top grooves on the club to grab more of the ball and impart more of the spin that he needs around the greens. And for Ogilvy, who defeated Alexander Noren 7 and 5 on Wednesday, it makes all the difference.

 

 

 

[mat562]

Interesting that Ogilvy's quoting the same line of thinking that Phil Mickelson has recently spoken about; that the top edges of the new grooves are not sufficiently sharp to make the highly lofted wedges work as they should.

Every man and his dog was saying that a 60-degree-plus wedge would be indispensable for the pros from this year. If you believe Mickelson and Ogilvy though, it's almost the opposite.

[CamiloVillegasFan14]

^^ Where did you get those pictures? There sick, is there any of those pictures of Camilo Villegas? The last one doesn't look like it's from Golf Digest. I meant the ones from July 29th and Aug 1st. And the ball pics.

[benclab]

[quote name='mat562' date='17 February 2010 - 02:15 PM' timestamp='1266444949' post='2258465']
Interesting that Ogilvy's quoting the same line of thinking that Phil Mickelson has recently spoken about; that the top edges of the new grooves are not sufficiently sharp to make the highly lofted wedges work as they should.

Every man and his dog was saying that 60-degree-plus wedge would be indispensable for the pros from this year. If you believe Mickelson and Ogilvy though, it's almost the opposite.
[/quote]


Exactly what Peter Kostis talked about earlier this year. Pelz said more would use a 64 (so did a lot of others) but now more great wedge players like Phil and Geoff are saying that the higher loft wedges are now worthless. Only time and testing will see. I personally like a 58 over a 60 or 64. But that's just me.