MY BAG: Keegan Bradley
"The big four-iron is really a three-iron. It's chunkier, almost like a hybrid, and gives me more margin for error."
1. DRIVER
Cleveland
Classic (9°)
clevelandgolf.com
Shaft: Miyazaki
Kusala Indigo
miyazakigolfshafts.com
2. FAIRWAY METAL
Cleveland
Launcher FL (14°)
Shaft: Miyazaki
Kusala Black
3. HYBRID
Cleveland
Launcher DST (19°)
Shaft: Project X
7.0
pxshaft.com
4. IRONS
Cleveland
588 MT (four-iron)
Shaft: True Temper
Dynamic Gold X100
truetemper.com
Cleveland
CG7 TC (four-iron through PW)
Shafts: True Temper
Dynamic Gold X100
5. WEDGES
Cleveland
588 PF RTX (54°, 60°)
Shafts: True Temper
Dynamic Gold S400
6. PUTTER*
Odyssey
White Hot XG Sabertooth Belly
odysseygolf.com
7. BALL
Srixon
Z-Star
srixon.com
GRIPS
Lamkin
Crossline cord
lamkingrips.com
*At press time Bradley switched to the Odyssey Versa Sabertooth
TECH TALK
Moving Back
BOBBY GRACE'S NYC TOUR ASS KICKER HAS A REPOSITIONED SHAFT AND A RADIAL FACE
Bobby Grace burst on the scene some 20 years ago as a small, independent puttermaker. You'll recall that Nick Price used a Bobby Grace Fat Lady Swings mallet to capture multiple majors in the early 1990s. Grace's latest baby, the NYC Tour Ass Kicker, has a back-entry center shaft design that shifts the club's center of gravity more toward the back than the heel-shafted NYC Tour. Putts feel a bit softer and, according to Grace, roll 10% farther. The aluminum-headed Ass Kicker has a radial-shaped face—its farthest protruding groove is higher than the equator of the ball—to get putts rolling with topspin. In addition, the polymer face insert is livelier (more rebound) in the heel and toe, so off-center strikes go about as far as centered hits.
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FRED VUICH FOR SPORTS ILLUSTRATED (BRADLEY)
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DAVID WALBERG FOR SPORTS ILLUSTRATED (BAG, BALL)
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ROB SAUERHAFT (PUTTER)
The "onset" putter places the hands behind the ball, which might require a period of adjustment