Tiger Woods’ golf bag has been discussed, analyzed, selected, photographed and published to death over the years. The organization that attracts the most attention is the Titleist group of 2000, which was involved in perhaps the greatest performance in sports history.
In the year-end episode of GOLF’s Fully Equipped, I went club-by-club with the man responsible for this bag, ex. Title Tour Promotion Representative Larry Bobka.
The conversation was a gear dream. If you haven’t watched it, LOOK AT IT!
Before we dig into the sticks, let’s break down the year by the numbers and the bag.
Start: 20
Wins: 9
Earnings: $9.2 million ($57-59 million in today’s pay structure)
Majors: 3 (US Open, The Open, PGA)
Top 5: 15
Top 10s: 17
AVG Score: 68.11
Rounds Under Par: 60/80
Average finish 4th
Shots Won Total: +3.2
Strokes Gained Tee to Green: +2.6
Driving Distance: 298 Yards
Driving accuracy: 71%
GEAR: 75.2
Tiger Woods 2000 WITB
Driver: Title 975D
Spindle: Dynamic Gold X100
Loft: 7.5˚ @ 7˚
Length: 43.5″
Tip: Curved in length from 46″
Swing weight: D3
3-WOOD: Title 970
Spindle: Dynamic Gold X100
Length: 42.5″
Attic: 15˚
Tip: Curved in length from 46″
Swing weight: D3
lattice: 2-P Titleist 681T (Endo Forged)
Axles: Dynamic Gold X100
Tip: 1/4″
Length: 37.75 (5-iron)
Attic: (2-P) 20/22.5/26/29/32/36/40.5/45/49
Swing Weight: D3+
Wedge: Titleist Vokey 258/08 @56, 260/06
Shafts: Dynamic Gold S400
Shooter: Scotty Cameron GSS Newport 2 Tri-Sole
Throw Length: 35.25 inches
Attic: 3.5-4 degrees
Appearance: Cherry red dot
Shell weight: 326 grams
Swing weight: D7
Head material: German stainless steel
Grip: Ping PP58 “Blackout”
Age: 26 years old
DOB: April/May 1999
Value: priceless
BALL: Nike Precision Tour Precision
Gloves: Golf Pride Tour Velvet Cord “Logo Down”
Gloves: Nike Tour Authentic
Insights from Tiger Woods’ 2000 golf bag
There aren’t many more – if any – superlatives to use on his 2000 performance; it was simply the greatest golf ever played, and probably ever will be played.
YES, Scottie has been doing a nice ride for the past few years, but sorry, it’s not the same. Not even close. Anyone who thinks otherwise is simply delusional.
There are a few tidbits around his sticks that may have been overlooked, but are still fascinating from a gear perspective:
– He played poor loft: I know the ball flew differently then, but my God. He was and it is still easily a weaker club than maybe 85% of the tournament today. Just for context, a standard loft package looks like this:
Typical 4-PW vs TW 4-PW tournament
4: 22 vs 26
5: 25 vs 29
6: 29 vs. 32
7: 33 vs 36
8: 38 vs. 40.5
9:42 vs 45
Q: 46 vs 49
Also, the TW was not a big shaft weaker; he was not Sergio Garcia. From an attacking angle and dynamic loft perspective, it was pretty neutral. So the distances came from 1) Speed, 2) Absolute perfection of the shot. You don’t believe me? Hand his handcuffs to a neutral player these days and they are easily a shorter club.
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– His woods were long spikes, and his irons were also pointed: You don’t often see it on irons, 25 inches of tip is strange to see. Now, it’s not about “extra stiffness” per se, it’s a stability/feel thing. Keep in mind, launch monitors weren’t really a thing back then, so it was all about feel and the ball in the air that told the story.
The wood tip in length is another rarity; it wasn’t uncommon with steel back then, but these days, on a car, you’d turn it back an inch and cut the butt to length. A “length tip layer” X100 in a modern graphite driver setup would be a Ventus Blue 10X @44.5 inches, tipped at least 2….WOW, phone survey stiffness.
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– They threw the attic at his driver: That was something I never thought of, but it makes perfect sense now. During my podcast with Larry Bobka, he mentioned this find the right driver head for Tigerhe had to choose a box of heads and only one type of eyeball. He would find the ones that looked a little open (about 7 degrees finished), build them, take them to Tiger, hit them and go from there.
– The big stick was LIGHT and whippy: By today’s standards, Tiger’s Newport 2 GSS it would be at least 20-30g lighter in weight than any Scotty you’ll see in a store or your local pro shop. The only way to get a modern-day Studio style even in the park is to remove the weight plugs and that will leave you at around 330g. Even the steel shaft it had was unique. Tiger preferred the shaft to feel soft so he could feel his head. It was rumored that in the past, he chased that feeling so much that he took out an old Wilson 8802 with a “beaten” shaft to practice creating that “release” he was looking for.
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It’s funny that even 25 years later, I’m still finding new things to explore with Tiger Woods. I’m either learning something new or something I knew five years ago has a whole new meaning to me now. If you pay close attention, you’ll see that Tiger did what he did in 2000 with a set of clubs built on feel. There is no actual club data or Trackman information to refer to, just his eye, his hands and the scorecard.
My question is always, what would he do today? Like Michael Jordan in the modern NBA, I truly believe Tiger would have dominated even more in what is even possible. I don’t think these kids have a real understanding of what it was like back then. It wasn’t the same game. He’s the greatest to ever do it.
Happy 50th, TW.
For more from Bobka and me, including how Bobka engineered Woods’ Titleist 681T irons and why Butch Harmon kept a bunch of them for his students to hit, listen to the full episode of GOLF’s Fully Equipped hereor see below.
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