2024 What is safe in your bag? What's on the chopping block?

[Jakesy35]

I’ve always been a 3-wood-off-the-tee guy despite trying to make the driver happen every few weeks to limited success. But once I put an 11.5* BRNR Mini in the bag (thanks, gift card!) I don’t think I’ll ever take it out. I just absolutely stripe that thing despite it being “less forgiving” than my Sim2 Max. Go figure.

The other club that’s always going to be safe for me is my Apex Pro 4H, which is my safety blanket when i need 180-200 yards. I like the PXG 0211 irons I’ve been gaming but I will eventually get fitted for a full set of something. The most likely clubs to be on the outs for me are any wedge that’s not my 56* Jaws Raw. Can’t seem to find a full wedge setup that I’m comfortable with so I’m constantly tweaking.
 

[kam89]

5 minutes ago, Jakesy35 said:

I’ve always been a 3-wood-off-the-tee guy despite trying to make the driver happen every few weeks to limited success. But once I put an 11.5* BRNR Mini in the bag (thanks, gift card!) I don’t think I’ll ever take it out. I just absolutely stripe that thing despite it being “less forgiving” than my Sim2 Max. Go figure.

The other club that’s always going to be safe for me is my Apex Pro 4H, which is my safety blanket when i need 180-200 yards. I like the PXG 0211 irons I’ve been gaming but I will eventually get fitted for a full set of something. The most likely clubs to be on the outs for me are any wedge that’s not my 56* Jaws Raw. Can’t seem to find a full wedge setup that I’m comfortable with so I’m constantly tweaking.
 

I really want to try out a mini brnr I'm 5w off teebox. Would the brnr work off deck?

[Jakesy35]

3 minutes ago, kam89 said:

I really want to try out a mini brnr I'm 5w off teebox. Would the brnr work off deck?

Honestly I only use it off the tees so I can’t say for myself, but it’s meant to also hit off the deck for sure. I’m just not very good with fairway woods unless they’re teed up. Trying to work on my 5W out of the fairway lately but it’s a work in progress lol

[The Artful Duffer]

I knew I wanted to make some minor changes so I figured I'd reshaft the driver I was pretty well content with my bag overall. Ordered a shaft that never went in and is currently sitting in the corner still in plastic. Came across a deal on a driver head that I was considering using said shaft and building a low spin setup with. Neither of those happened because it all spiraled out of control really damn fast. 

Driver went this year. Mizuno JPX900 to a TSR3.

The 3 wood was next. Tour Edge CB4 I didn't think I'd ever part with to a TSR3. No matter what I've looked at for over the past decade that CB4 was never up for debate until I finished the driver fitting and figured I might as well hit something newer than 2011.

Wedges followed behind went from 2 Mizunos 52&56 to 3 Vokeys 50, 54, 60. To be fair, the wedges were past their groove life expectancy and should've been done a couple years ago. 

Thought that was gonna be the end of it but I figured I'd check out hybrids because I had way too much time at work one afternoon and ended up ordering a TSR3 hybrid to replace the Adams ProA12. I wasn't intending to move to more and more Titleist gear and I don't know that I've ever had the same line in driver, fairway, and hybrid but the gapping and shot shape all fit with what I wanted. It just feels a little weird seeing matching headcovers

Irons are still safe for foreseeable future. 

[Indy_Oz]

On 2/29/2024 at 4:52 PM, BreakfastBall15 said:

I would say only thing on the chopping block are my irons. I love the heads but hate the shafts and it doesn't seem very cost effective to reshaft. 

If you know which shafts and lengths you want, there are some good deals on pulled shafts out there. I upgraded my 2019 P790s to x-stiff KBS Tour Lite shafts that I bought from FB marketplace locally. A local guy fitted them (not a store) and I bought some replacement stickers. After a clean up and installing the new stickers they looked like new. Without the stickers I was about $220/230 all in (6 clubs, 5i-PW).

I then sold the old shafts to offset the cost.

Just mentioning as it's not necessarily as costly as you'd think if you can find the right deal and local guy to do the work (or save more and do it yourself if you have all the tools).

[BreakfastBall15]

23 minutes ago, Indy_Oz said:

If you know which shafts and lengths you want, there are some good deals on pulled shafts out there. I upgraded my 2019 P790s to x-stiff KBS Tour Lite shafts that I bought from FB marketplace locally. A local guy fitted them (not a store) and I bought some replacement stickers. After a clean up and installing the new stickers they looked like new. Without the stickers I was about $220/230 all in (6 clubs, 5i-PW).

I then sold the old shafts to offset the cost.

Just mentioning as it's not necessarily as costly as you'd think if you can find the right deal and local guy to do the work (or save more and do it yourself if you have all the tools).

I ended up finding a set of project x Ls 4-pw a while back. They were labeled as pulls but they were brand new and uncut. And found some wedge shafts on Facebook marketplace. Ended up costing around $320 for the 10 shafts and install. Definitely not as expensive as I thought. Just took a lot of looking around for a good set of shafts. I still have the 4 iron shaft incase I decide to grab a 4 iron and reshaft it later on

[Indy_Oz]

2 minutes ago, BreakfastBall15 said:

I ended up finding a set of project x Ls 4-pw a while back. They were labeled as pulls but they were brand new and uncut. And found some wedge shafts on Facebook marketplace. Ended up costing around $320 for the 10 shafts and install. Definitely not as expensive as I thought. Just took a lot of looking around for a good set of shafts. I still have the 4 iron shaft incase I decide to grab a 4 iron and reshaft it later on

That’s awesome. 
I admit I didn’t notice that your comment was from February. Ha ha. Glad you got the set sorted and didn’t have to spend too much!

[Captwilks67]

Nothing is ever safe!!!! I constantly question all my clubs and wonder if I would get better performance elsewhere. That being said, I did just pick up a set of Miura KM-700s, thus I am trying to sell my CB's. The GT lineup from Titleist is super tempting. So I will check those out. 

 

Edited June 20 by Captwilks67

[Javs]

43 minutes ago, Captwilks67 said:

Nothing is ever safe!!!! I constantly question all my clubs and wonder if I would get better performance elsewhere. That being said, I did just pick up a set of Miura KM-700s, thus I am trying to sell my CB's. The GT lineup from Titleist is super tempting. So I will check those out. 

 

I wonder when the new Titleist GT drivers will come out for sale?

[Captwilks67]

On 6/20/2024 at 12:00 AM, Javs said:

I wonder when the new Titleist GT drivers will come out for sale?

September is the word on the street 

[alexchung]

For me as my bag is pretty new (April) for 2024, nothing is on the chopping block, there will be additions in due course (once I am less poor ) like a 3 wood to match the driver and then another club to fill out the bag (could go Mini Driver (Callaway AI Smoke Mini anyone??? and maybe a 5 wood instead of the 3 wood or maybe a 3 hybrid)

 

[Byrnzee]

I've really been trying to make this 2-iron work in my bag, but I'm getting close to benching it and bringing back the 5-wood instead. When I hit the 2i well, it's absolute money and is a reliable fairway finder. However when I don't, it's a short, knuckley ball that feels awful.

Going to probably give it a couple more attempts and see if I can find a way to get it reliable. I definitely need to slow down my swing with it and let the club do the work vs. trying to smash it. Wish me luck as I would really love to keep it in the bag if I can get it to work...

[cksurfdude]

My very dependable but couple of year old CBXs (54 and 60) have been replaced with an ES21 (54-08) and for LW went back to an old Tour Edge 1-Out to try and get a little more help out of bunkers.

Love the ES21!

[TJ Hall]

As of today, irons (old school TM Tour Preferred CB), wedges (Vokey SM8) and Utilities (Titleist U510 3 and 4) are safe…the rest is up for debate!

[TheRealTaylormade007]

I have a fairly new club setup and very happy with it at the moment, especially the Stealth 2 3&5 woods. My bag itself is definitely going to be getting updated. Current bag is in good shape but found it at a pawn shop for $50. It’s a newer Ogio but the color scheme is a little loud for me. Probably looking at a hybrid bag since I still like to walk quite bit. 

[Big moose]

My putter, driver and hybrids. My fairways are ok, my irons don't seem to be the best for me, I might be better off with graphite shafts. 

[ClarkWGriswoldIII]

My Ping G425 5 and 7 woods are secure, as are my Cleveland CBX Zipcore wedges.

My Cobra Aerojet LS driver is trying to stay in the bag.  Ever since it heard me talking about the recent discounts on the Ping G430 drivers it has been on its best behavior.

[TAGolf13]

I can hear a rattle in my bag and I'm guessing that's my driver quaking . It (and therefore I) is more than a decade old so I imagine it's technologically obsolete. Now that I'm closing in on 65 (age, not score), I can use all the tech help I can get! Gonna head down to Golf Galaxy to see if better tech will do me some good as I prep for the World Amateur Handicap Championship in Myrtle Beach next month.

 

Edited July 23 by TAGolf13