As someone who has been in numerous events in all tournaments, the place where I find the most nugget for my game is in the Champions Tournament.
Let me explain
I’m out at the Hoag Charity Classic in Newport Beach this week and being here has remembered how much I adore to go out to see these people. For one, there are all the players I grew up in the idol when I was younger: Els, couples, Rocco, Harrington, Monty, Duval and many others. Only from that angle is an intelligent. Not to mention Vibe at a Champions event is no different than meeting your friends for your Saturday game. Lightweight, entertainment, paved; Life with pressure that all these players knew it is behind them.
To be right, competitive juices are still here. Do not make a mistake: these guys are out to destroy one another. But the atmosphere is really fun. Just just golf.
Selfishly, I come to these events for two main reasons. One, I want to see what gear players living in the same speed demonstration as me in the bag. And two, I I want Seeing these players to sail through a golf course. I’ve said in many cases that if you want to study bags and learn how to play this game to see the Tour Champions and LPGA. No matter how exciting you see Rory and Co. hit him 340 on Doglegs and Smash 8-Irons from 190, this is not real life. Most of us have to play golf courses while they are designed. Those boys in PGA Tour can eliminate one -third of a course simply by hitting them all. Fun? No doubt. But very difficult to learn anything from, at least for a 48-year-old 2-handicap.
The champions tour is more chess than everything, anyway. The golf IQs of the players are through the roof and the boys who have bombed it are now surrendering to a golf style that requires relentless accuracy and a level of awareness that I see inspiring. Want to learn more? Just look at their bags.
As I walk the range to the hoag this week I found four main things from a perspective of gears that can help you – and me.
1. Preparations of Champs tour bags are heavy hybrids.
In a range of champions you will see very few long handcuffs and a ton of hybrids, Lofted Fairway forests etc. And no it does not mean just for that after section 3-druit. I mean in sections 4 and 5-time of the bag. Hell, the longest iron of Fred couples is a 7-And !! In accordance, each player has a decrease point. What means there is any point in the group where your swinging velocity plateau (you swing 5-heated as fast as 4, for example) and the gap becomes strange. This is where we all can benefit from modern technology: hybrids, 9-rays, services. Those types of clubs are created to do everything your speed can no longer handle. Presifts, for example, had problems to take its longer handcuffs in the air constantly. Can he still hit those clubs? Yes. But can they hit them when deepening in the round? When is it cold? When do you get tired? This is the question we should all ask. Do the clubs help me in my bag all the time? Or only when my battery is at 100%? I was 46 when I realized that a 4-hybrid was much better for me than a 4-Herkuri. This decision turned into part of my bag that was a kick won on a break. Think about it for a minute: Do you have clubs in your bag you can love in theory but that cost you shots? Something Rocco Mediate mentioned once stuck with me: “I don’t score with 4-6 handcuffs, I just have to make sure they don’t cost me a thing.”
2. The rotation is small.
You have heard me preaching that “rotation is king”. In the Tour Champions Tour Spin is something that is loved. If the rotation goes down for some reason, you would better believe that the player would find clubs that soften him with a starting angle and background, so why do you see more good, hybrid roads, etc. It is not forgiveness to want; Everyone hit him from the middle one tone. But they want to release windows that help them mark. The spin and its small sloping origin corner are primary to control. It is interesting to see that most of these boys have a shot pattern. If they pull it with a club, they probably do with every club.
3. The driver is the only club they want to speed up.
These people simply have a different worldview than those when they were younger. It is more to feel resourceful and long -standing than trying to put 20 pump pounds to hit the 190 speed. So you will see players here taking some other wings to get their equipment to speed them than in PGA Tour. Whether you are going longer, leaving etc. You will see more players in this tournament trying to steal 5-10 yards from the driver than the new tour. But it is usually just a driver. The rest of the bag must fill the gap.
4. These people have no ego.
Take Rocco Media for example, he maximum at about 150 km per hour with a ball speed, but his bag shows very few signs that he is trying to hit him further. His handcuffs are the “old school” standard (48 degrees PW, 4 degrees gaps) and he is hit with 75 years old his entire career. Giving him a club, he carries 10 jars further and he would not know how to play. What is even cooler with Rocco is that he doesn’t care. I saw him play a match yesterday with Doug Baron, Ken and Shane Berstch. The entire Rocco of Round was 15-20 years after its counterparts, but it didn’t matter. Throughout the day Rocco and Caddy Pete Bender were looking to be in the 100-150 yards of the hole. This is where Rocco makes his money and he knows. He continued to shoot 30 on his back, hitting nothing but 7-, 8- and 9-iron.
Golf in its purest form is mental gymnastics. It is a strategy game where the smartest player will usually prevail. What I see with all the professional players and their bags is the goal. Bagsantat are set to help that player score. As you can see, the Champions Tournament is an even more relevant version of this. You get 14 slots in one bag and everyone has a job to do. Your job is to get honest about what you need against what you want and I guarantee your results will fall.
Then why do I say that this is a revenge of gears and life? Well, self-intention is essential to everything in life. The more honest you are with yourself, the better you will be. That is why Golf is such a perfect mirror for life: when you start making less ego decisions about your game and look at everything through a lens of efficiency and performance, things get better.
Funny how this happens.
Now go to fit for some new long replacements.
Johnny Wunder
Golfit.com editor
Johnny currently serves as director of equipment at Golf.comcontributing to platforms like fully equipped golf. Prior to this role, he was the content marketing manager at the Callaway Golf, where he led “The Wunder of Wunder of Callaway Golf”, a platform dedicated to the in -depth content of golf equipment. Before entering Callaway, he was the director of the original content and host of Podcast “The Gear Dive” Golfwrx.com. Beyond his professional efforts, Johnny is a golf player thirsty with a deep passion for the game after playing since his youth in Seattle, Washington.
