What Clubs do LPGA players use? (Part 2) - Top 50 Player Guide 

👍 Many thanks Antoine. Delighted you're finding the videos useful!

Awesome, thank you!

Many thanks James. Very much appreciated and glad you are enjoying the videos! 👍

Many thanks Brandi and delighted you are enjoying the channel!

Many thanks for the feedback and glad you found the video helpful.

Many thanks and Merry Christmas to you also. And will see what we can on the left handed front!

I'm curious to see your bag list

All the best with blades and persimmon driver Craig! You're a very brave man!! I've still got my old Mizuno MP-32's but thinking its time I need to give them up now and join the modern ranks. Will be a sad day though!

Bob's wallet brought them over..🤣

Thanks John and we’re working on some updates of this for sure. Is taking some time though but we’ll get there 👍

Thanks for the comment Alistair. We take a look at the shafts the LPGA players are using in part 1 of this video which you can find here - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9GvpNabM1Rs.html. If there's anything additional to this you think would be good to know just let us know and we'll take a look at including it in our 2023 analysis.

I've got Aerotech 110's on my Titleist 716 CB irons and love them.

We found that interesting also Marybeth and were surprised there wasn't more consistency with the men's side with regard to lob wedges given as you say they are playing on very similar speed greens.

Many thanks for the feedback James and we're certainly taking a look at this.

Not sure what balls are being played on the LET unfortunately. Will certainly take a look if there's interest from the community.

But given that 80% of the top 100 PGA Tour players play cavity backs in all or some part of their iron set it would be interesting to know why they've stuck to the established brands and very few have gone with PXG. The answer is very potentially its been easier for PXG to break in sponsorship wise with the LPGA but would be interesting to know if there's any technical club making reason for it.

@@GolfingFocus A cavity backed forged club is NOT the same as a hollow headed, thin faced, springy head like PXG almost entirely sells. The top 3rd of the PGA Tour in speed will be 95-100mph speed with a 7 iron - that's 190 carry - the same LPGA player with be 80mph = 155 carry. These thin faced heads have been known for random fliers when a ball comes off the face and loses 2000 spin - that 2000 spin could easily add 5% or MORE carry - which is 10+ yards for the men and 5+ yards for the women - furthermore, the men usually play on course conditions with much, much thicker rough around the greens so a flier is more costly. Finally, these hotter faces to begin with are already longer than solid forged heads so they wouldn't be hitting their 7 iron 190 carry, but closer to 200 carry - which they don't need. Finally, there is far more $$$ paid to the top men to sell clubs to men who spend more money on golf than women (this is changing for sure with Covid) - so again it is not surprising that a newer company can't just get top male players to switch equipment with money because they don't need the money as much and changing equipment is often a huge detriment tot heir game in the short term if it is not nearly identical to what they played when they were in college also playing the same equipment and ball and shaft. PXG has built a phenomenal company and now product line and with Direct to Consumer business that is exploding in popularity as they've lowered the price point on older generation of clubs and different models - and it's there product line and Direct to Consumer marketing, is will quickly make them a massive winner because they are bypassing the golf stores who need their on markup. PXG now has a set of blades and now has much more experience making hollow faced heads - so I suspect as younger golfers come through colleges having played clubs like Taylormade P770s, P790s, Mizuno 225s as kids, you might see more PGA players in the future use PXG. By the time these kids are halfway through college, they're not changing their ball, their shaft and they want a head that looks like what they've been playing - which is either a forged blade, forged cavity back - or a cast cavity back from Ping - the young ladies often played PW to 6, and really cared more about those key hybrids in the middle of their bag (6,5,4 hybrids) as their most important clubs for playing 6300-6500 yard courses. For those ladies, those hybrids are like PGA players 3woods, they don't want to change them and they wear them out because they are so critical (PXG makes fantastic hybrids)

2023?

Thanks for sharing all this@@wallstreetoneil and apologies for the slow reply. Think I take an old school view of things when it comes to Cavity Backs vs Blades and don't really consider anything other than a true blade (Apex MB, Pro 221s, Blueprint, 620 MBs), and everything else is a cavity back to some degree. There are clearly variants on the levels of forgiveness though as you say from the hollow head irons all the way through the super game improvement irons and its something we may look to do when we look at the PGA and LPGA irons for videos to come in 2023 and make the breakdown more granular to see the detail how many of the various players are playing irons with different levels of forgiveness. Will be interesting to see then if PXG have made any more inroads into the PGA Tour vs the LPGA and we'll for sure keep an eye out PXG 0211 ST blades to see if there are any pro users out there.

Thanks for sharing Alan. Didn't spot any Volvik's in the top 50 when we looked and dominance of Pro v1s and Pro v1xs was pretty stark. Also this analysis was based on the top 50 of the LPGA last year rather than the world rankings and we're planning to do an updated on the analysis of the same group in the final rankings of this year in time for the new season if of its interest to community. Will be interesting to see if Volvik comes into the picture then.

@@GolfingFocus I went to the latest list of Rolex rankings as of yesterday 12th Dec. I often wonder how much money on the table plays a part in ball/equipment choice? Lexi Thomson is tied to Cobra/Srixon and uses a Bridgestone ball. Would she win more if she was with Ping and played ProV1?

@@alanduncan9204 Would be great to know that for sure and am certain Ping and Titleist would pay a lot to know that also. Would be a marketing dream if they could prove that!

@@GolfingFocus Lydia Ko changed to PXG (Except Driver) and came back from the wilderness. She is now not listed on the PXG site but also has had 9 caddies. Golf is a complex game made worse by advise, instruction and hype - good and bad.

Yup, we did this study a couple of years ago now. Let me know if there's any interest in us doing an updated version. 👍

Stay tuned 👍