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In this video we catch up with Wesley and George Bryan, aka the Bryan Bros, during their appearance on the Asian Tour's International Series in the Philippines to talk through the clubs in their bags!
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00:00Okay, we've got a really exciting video for you here today.
00:03We are in the Philippines.
00:04It is roasting hot.
00:05We're at St. Helena Golf Club, and I'm here with the Brian Bros.
00:21So which way do you want to start?
00:22Do you want to start with the big dogs and work down, or do you want to start with the
00:24wedges and the putters and work up?
00:26Let's start with the wedges.
00:27They're probably the most exciting clubs in our bag, because BB803 Tacoma Wedges, our
00:33collaboration with Tacoma to kind of like co-produce a wedge, like with Wesley and I's input, their
00:39expertise, and yeah, built something really amazing, honestly.
00:42It's helped, like I was like, ah, can these wedges, you know, they're not like the traditional
00:46tireless cleaver, whatever, can they do tour-level wedges?
00:51And they have.
00:52My wedge game actually has gotten better, especially around the greens.
00:55And we've got some custom grinding on there as well.
00:57Yeah, and then full face grooves, because I live on the toe.
01:00Yeah, so it's been cool, because they look good, they perform well, and they're at a price
01:06point where it's like very affordable.
01:07Yeah, I mean, it's the most affordable wedge on the market.
01:11And so we were excited to make something that was very accessible to everybody.
01:16No matter if they're going to go buy a new wedge, there's no reason for them to go elsewhere
01:22because of price point.
01:23And so we got the name, BB's obviously for Brian Bros.
01:25803 is the area code where we're from in South Carolina.
01:28Oh, awesome.
01:29So that's pretty special.
01:31And it must be pretty cool to see your name, you know, or initials at least on a wedge
01:35that you guys have helped input, right?
01:36Yeah, no, it's probably like a two-year process of them saying, hey, how does this look?
01:41How does this look?
01:42And giving feedback back and forth.
01:44Because then you think, oh, you're sure they're going to listen to our input, but are they
01:47really?
01:48Because at the end of the day, it's their decision.
01:49And so it was cool that they took our feedback, and we actually worked together on producing
01:53something that we're proud of.
01:55So yeah, it was a pretty surreal moment when we, like, set up to them, had them in our
01:58hands, and we're like, wow, it actually happened.
02:00So yeah, I showed you guys at Tacoma for making this dream come true.
02:03And in terms of your setups, I can see you both got a 58.
02:06Do you both go 54-50 after that, or?
02:09Yep.
02:10Wait, I thought you were a 55 and a 52.
02:13Well, I was.
02:14Oh, you changed at 50 now?
02:15Well, I was 58-56.
02:1750.
02:18Oh, the more you know.
02:20And then I went to, honestly, I just ended up with a 54.
02:24Don't really know how or why, but that was the first one that was sent to me.
02:27Some trial and error?
02:28No, no, I just, that's the one that came to me.
02:30They had all of them, and this is the one I started messing around with.
02:32And so, just adjusted my yardages a little bit.
02:35That's cool.
02:36And now we're in a 54.
02:37Awesome.
02:38And what shafts are you guys playing in those at the moment?
02:41Currently, some Nippon Modus.
02:43But when you see these next, well, I know the wedge is going to be the same.
02:46Oh, George.
02:47I'm just saying, I'm going to be tinkering.
02:49You're going to tinker.
02:50You're going to have them in the bag for it.
02:51He's trying out these new graphite shafts that Jason Day is playing.
02:53Yeah, Jason Day was like, not sponsored by him.
02:55He was like, graphite shafts of the future.
02:57I said, say less.
02:58I like the way you hit it.
02:59The KBS TGIs?
03:00Is that what you're looking at?
03:01Yeah.
03:02Yeah?
03:02See?
03:03OK, I've been there.
03:04I've tested some Avodas, so, yeah.
03:07I'm excited.
03:07No, but so, I got the Nippons.
03:09I got a standard S400.
03:11S400.
03:12Had those.
03:12Yep, have those in my wedges since I was a kid, basically, so.
03:16Familiar.
03:16Yep.
03:17Awesome.
03:17And then, stick them with Tacomo throughout the irons here.
03:20Yep.
03:21That's what it looks like.
03:22Talk us a bit about these and why you love these so much.
03:24301s throughout the bag for me.
03:27No, they're just a classic, like, they're not too blady.
03:29They're not too, like, game improvement.
03:31They're like a perfect blend of, like.
03:32It's like a muscle cavity, right?
03:33Yeah, I need a lot of help, honestly.
03:35I've gotten, I've hit it worse and worse the older I've gotten.
03:39And so, but it's still, I like looking at blades for, like, you know, a smaller profile
03:43and these are a good blend of, like, not too big, not too small, and they produce pretty
03:49well.
03:50Like, you know, Wesley, when he switched, when he was on a PGA Tour, he was, like, top
03:54five in, like, strokes gained or just proximity to the hole with irons.
03:58And so, that shows you, like, hey, just because they're a direct-to-consumer, like, you can
04:02still, they can still perform at a tour level.
04:04Absolutely.
04:05And then, you know, you guys wouldn't have them in play this week if you didn't believe
04:08that, right?
04:09And honestly, I've played all irons, and I've said for years that irons don't matter.
04:16And I still will say that the brand of iron doesn't matter.
04:18I feel like they're all the same.
04:20And again, Tacoma, they've been an unbelievable brand to work with, and they've produced an
04:24iron that is just as competitive as a Titleist or TaylorMade or Cobra or whatever, Srixon
04:31iron.
04:33And I've played all of those irons throughout my career, and I didn't notice any difference
04:38as soon as I switched to the Tacoma.
04:39And again, for like half of the price or a third of the price from some of those that
04:43are on the market, it made it a no-brainer for us to go and say, hey, do you want to
04:47play what we're playing?
04:49And if you're in the market for new irons, this makes the most sense possible.
04:53Awesome.
04:54Yeah.
04:55And so it gets interesting for me.
04:56Yeah.
04:57That's the first thing I've noticed here.
04:58And so I've got, so I guess I'll start with a Tacoma one.
05:03This is a four iron that's bent to a five iron.
05:05It's wildly oversized.
05:07It's the 101U, and it's got the loft of a five iron, but this is the club that I feel
05:13more comfortable flighting it down.
05:14Makes absolutely no sense.
05:15Don't ask me how or why that ended up.
05:17And it's got a completely different shaft in it.
05:19Don't even know what this is.
05:21It's some mid-X100 something or another that I think is lighter than the rest of them.
05:26This was built up in Napa a few years ago, and probably my favorite club is the Jack
05:32of all trades.
05:33I can hit it high, low, left or right.
05:35It goes anywhere from 190 to 230, depending on how I want to hit it.
05:40And then this four iron has been in the bag for years and years and years and years.
05:43And I haven't found one that goes as high and as far as this one can go.
05:47Just hits your window.
05:48You know what you're getting.
05:50If I need it to go 230 and straight up in the air, I pretty much can do that.
05:54And so these clubs, they go really close to the same distance, but the five iron is the
06:00one that I shot shape and work more.
06:02The four iron is just the standard.
06:03If I got 225 to 235 and got to hit it high and hit it soft.
06:07And so this club is going to be hard to get out of the bag because it's, like I said,
06:11it's a unicorn.
06:12And you said you had a different shaft completely in that kind of utility makeshift five iron.
06:17What shafts are you playing in the rest of your irons at the moment?
06:19Uh, the, the regular, yeah.
06:21Tor issue X100.
06:22X100.
06:23I don't know what this mid, so you can tell me you're the, whatever, we're going to forget
06:28about that.
06:29You can tell me what's the difference in that and what the regular X100, you're a, you're
06:32a techie guru.
06:34It would just be from a kick point standpoint.
06:36Oh yeah.
06:37Kick point.
06:38Yeah.
06:39Yeah.
06:40I know all about kick points.
06:41So, so is that why it goes lower?
06:42So what would make it go lower based on the kick point?
06:44So it's slightly stiffer tip section.
06:47So interestingly, I'm not sure why this actually goes lower because in all honesty, you've
06:51got a lot of weight in the bottom here.
06:53The CG is lower and therefore it should pop higher.
06:57Oh no.
06:58It makes perfect sense.
06:59So yeah.
07:00It makes sense that it goes lower, right?
07:01It makes sense.
07:02So anybody that's built a club for me, so once we get to the driver, you'll understand
07:05any, anytime I get a golf lesson, if I do what an instructor tells me to do, I hit it
07:09terrible.
07:10If I do the complete opposite, I'll hit it good.
07:12Same thing with equipment in my golf bag.
07:13If someone says cause and effect, do this.
07:16It'll produce X.
07:17It'll produce the opposite, the complete opposite of X for me.
07:20So at least you know what you're asking for then.
07:22So you could go in and just go, I need, you know, the highest launching product out there
07:27and you know, yeah, it's perfect for links.
07:30Yeah, exactly.
07:31Exactly.
07:32And how about you, George?
07:33What, what shafts have you got in those?
07:35Um, no, I got thinness kind of moving on from Nippon as well.
07:39I've had all those, the, the, the modus, uh, don't know why apparently they were good, but
07:43then club fair said, I don't know how those work for you.
07:45So I'm like, huh?
07:46I don't know.
07:47Do they work?
07:48And so now he's in the market for a shaft he's never hit before and he's super excited
07:52about it.
07:53I go more on feels and they do feel good and like the waiting and when I do hit it
07:57well, um, it does what I want it to do.
08:00Yeah.
08:01Um, but I couldn't tell you why just go off the numbers, go off the bull flight.
08:06I think more people should do that to be honest.
08:07I mean, I'm just really old school and like, and I honestly don't, my brain doesn't work
08:11in data.
08:12Like I need someone to tell me why and I just hit it and kind of like kind of figured
08:16out.
08:17And to be fair, most people watching this, they can really like and appreciate the technology.
08:22But at the end of the day, there's no substitute for the hours that you actually need to spend
08:26hitting it.
08:27And so it's, it's more of just like telling your buddies what you got in it and gaining
08:32knowledge.
08:33But applying that knowledge is, again, for guys at our level, it's still obsolete at
08:38times.
08:39You're a level.
08:40I'm like, no, don't put yourself down, Jordan.
08:41No, we're both Asian tour players this week.
08:43Yeah.
08:44Same event.
08:45Yeah.
08:46So then I can see you've got a hybrid in the bag here.
08:48Yeah.
08:49We've got three hybrids.
08:50Cool.
08:51Cool.
08:52Yeah.
08:53A bit of lead tape on there as well.
08:54I don't know if it's the right spot, but I needed it.
08:55It was a little too light.
08:56So I just put a little to make it, but no, it's like a 250, 240 club.
09:00Okay.
09:01And definitely just a one, one, one trick pony.
09:06Like it really just does what it does, what it needs to do.
09:09It's the same every time.
09:10Yeah.
09:11It's like a full two.
09:12It has a mind of its own.
09:13Yeah.
09:14Yeah.
09:15Nice.
09:16Nice.
09:17This is a 19 degree and this club has had some really, really good days and good shots,
09:23and it's also got some really bad ones.
09:25Okay.
09:26I would say as of late, it has a real tendency to go left, probably my doing, but I like it
09:34just, it's a higher launch, lower spin, which you would think that would be good off tees.
09:40But when I hit it off tees, I miss fairways.
09:42And when I hit it into greens, I usually hit good shots.
09:44Nice.
09:45It does what it needs to do.
09:46Yeah.
09:47It's probably a mental block that I have whenever I plop it down onto a tee box.
09:50It's interesting because we've talked a lot about hybrids dying out on tour and stuff recently
09:55at work.
09:56And to see both of you guys with hybrids in the bag, have you experimented much with driving
10:00irons or lofted fairway woods?
10:02That's a sore subject.
10:03We're also the older guys in the field now.
10:06We're kind of the old school of the bunch.
10:09It's a bunch of young guys out here now that hit two irons straight up in the air.
10:12And then they've all gone to seven woods for some reason.
10:14Yeah.
10:15And I can't quite figure that one out.
10:17Yeah.
10:18I mean, I hit shot in Bermuda last year.
10:20I was in, I was, I was searching.
10:22I didn't know.
10:23I needed like a hybrid or I love the driving iron.
10:25I'd hit this top into a, into a hospitality tent.
10:29Yeah.
10:30Literally into a coffee stand.
10:32And from that moment, I said never again.
10:34That was enough scarring.
10:35Oh yeah.
10:36No more driving irons for George.
10:37No, I like that.
10:38It needs to get the ball airborne.
10:39Yeah.
10:40Back to the basics.
10:41Yeah.
10:42Three wood.
10:43No reason to talk about it.
10:44This is the worst club in my bag.
10:45Don't even know why it's in there.
10:46We'll literally never hit it unless I absolutely have to.
10:49Okay.
10:50It has the ability to go all sorts of directions and trajectories.
10:55But one out of two or one out of three.
10:58No reason to talk about it.
11:00No, one out of two or one out of three is unbelievable.
11:02But this thing, this thing, there's a reason it looks brand new.
11:05Okay.
11:06It's been in the bag.
11:07It's been in the bag for a year.
11:08You just said you were not talking about it.
11:09You just talked a minute about it.
11:10Let's go to the driver.
11:11Wait, talk about your three wood.
11:12You've got the tops and skies with it.
11:14We're leaving it under there.
11:15That's staying in the cover?
11:16No, it's fine.
11:17Which one do you even have?
11:18Is it a Callaway?
11:19Yeah, it's the Rogue.
11:20I got the Elite, by the way.
11:22Old one up.
11:23And I thought you might actually move on to Driver.
11:25Because you've played the Rogue for probably three years.
11:29And it was great.
11:30Johnny Wonder fit me into a great, hit a lot of fairways.
11:33Just had a little too much spin of late.
11:35And the older I've gotten, I've wanted to hit it further for whatever reason.
11:38And so, messing around with the Blueboard and put it in the Rogue.
11:43And it knocked a little spin off.
11:44I was sitting good.
11:45I was like, man, I want to search.
11:47And so, like, just tried a bunch of drivers out.
11:49And this Tiles, it took my driver from the GT3.
11:53Spin numbers.
11:54Let's talk about spin numbers, George.
11:55I mean, like, the Callaway was 28 to 3100, like, consistently.
11:59Like, on a good one was 28.
12:01And now this one is, like, the high end spin is 25, 26 and down to, like, 23.
12:05So, I mean, I've picked up a little bit of ball speed.
12:08But, I mean, probably 10 to 15 yards just on, you know, getting that spin.
12:12And have you noticed, like, the launch is still kind of the same?
12:15Or is it a touch lower?
12:16Again, this one does fade a little more than the other one.
12:18But, again, my left miss really.
12:21It's more of a, it's a more powerful fade with this Tiles one than the Galloway one was a little weak.
12:27Did you have an eight degree in the Rogue as well?
12:29Or?
12:30I think I did.
12:31It was nine.
12:32It was nine turned down to a, or nine and a half to an eight and a half.
12:35Kind of playing the same.
12:36I mean, yeah.
12:37So, it's been fun.
12:38But, I'm actually, like, low key Tacoma just released their new driver that we've been messing around with.
12:42But then, like, probably this off season.
12:44I mean, off season, like, I'm a tournament player anymore.
12:46But this winter, like.
12:47Do some experimenting.
12:48But, no, this one's been, I mean, it's taken a lot of spin off.
12:51And, like, I think elevated my driving.
12:53You done talking about it yet?
12:54No, I love my driver.
12:55Loves it.
12:56Loves it.
12:57This right here.
12:58Again, this is one of those, for years and years, I searched for a driver.
13:02Because I was the worst driver on the PGA Tour for about five, six straight years.
13:06Okay.
13:07And, again, I hit it short, really, really crooked.
13:11And then, everyone kept telling me, go either shorter driver, heavier shaft, lower launch.
13:19Like, all the things to try and get you to hit it straight.
13:22And I ended up going with the lightest, stiffest shaft on the market.
13:27And started to try and hit it as high as possible.
13:29Okay.
13:30Nice.
13:31I like it.
13:32Because I had the full blown driver yips.
13:33And I was like, I can't, I can't play golf anymore.
13:36Like, if I keep playing golf like this, I'm going to quit.
13:38Like, there's just, it wasn't fun.
13:40It gets you committing though, right?
13:41If you, if you have to.
13:42Yes.
13:43I said, I want the lightest shaft possible, just so at least I can feel like I'm in control of it.
13:48Because I feel like I was losing the club head and just not really feeling anything.
13:53And I'd make what felt like decent swings and look up and it would be in all sorts of windows.
13:57Yeah.
13:58And so I said, give me the lightest, stiffest possible and let's just try it.
14:01Jason, our Mitsubishi guy, he goes, there's no way this is going to work.
14:05And same thing with the guys at Calway.
14:07There's no way it's going to work.
14:08I said, perfect.
14:09That means it's going to work.
14:10Yeah, exactly.
14:11That means it's going to work.
14:12So then anyway, started launching it at 16, 17 degrees.
14:15Same.
14:16He's a cheat code right now.
14:17And then picked up a lot of, I probably picked up 20, 30 yards.
14:21Wow.
14:22Pretty much overnight.
14:23So you've got a 50 TX in there for the guys watching.
14:25Yeah.
14:2650 TX.
14:27Very light, obviously very stiff as well.
14:29The GT, Diamonder GT.
14:31I would say just recently did a 65 gram shaft become popular on tour because mostly it was at 70 grams.
14:38Like 70 to 72 grams was very standard on tour for, and this one is I think at 51 grams.
14:44So.
14:45Yeah.
14:46It's considerably lighter.
14:47And you've got the triple Diamond Max.
14:49Yeah.
14:50So you've got that kind of low spin head, but you still got the profile of kind of the standard head as well.
14:55Yeah.
14:56So we just, the Paradigm a couple models ago, I guess, is the one that got me out of the driver-yip phase.
15:02And then they built up basically a replica of that head with the AI Smoke.
15:07And so this is where we're at now.
15:09But again, the Tacoma driver is coming with vengeance.
15:12Yeah.
15:13It'll be fun to mess around with.
15:14Yeah.
15:15I'm looking forward to seeing your guys testing.
15:16I'm going to have to try and get my hands on one as well just to do my own testing.
15:19So.
15:20The putter.
15:21Let's go to putters.
15:22DF3.
15:23A little Brian Bros.
15:24Lab collab.
15:25Lab collab.
15:26Head cover.
15:27Yeah.
15:28Yeah.
15:29It was fun.
15:30You know, this is, it looks cool.
15:32So yeah.
15:33But anyway, we've got the DF3.
15:34Nice.
15:35DPT shaft.
15:36Yep.
15:37Forward press grip.
15:38Yep.
15:39Same, same.
15:40Literally the only thing different about ours is his is one degree or two degrees flatter.
15:44And then I got the line that goes all the way across.
15:48Awesome.
15:49Yeah.
15:50And how did, how did you guys kind of end up in, in the labs?
15:53Were you just intrigued by everyone else using them?
15:56Yeah, no, just like, again, we're, you know, we're, we're willing to try a lot of things.
16:01Like, Hey, what?
16:02Like we've heard a lot about it.
16:03Let's try it.
16:04We were like, let's like, if the, if the hype is real, like if I don't, it improves my putter.
16:08Like why not?
16:09That's the main thing, right?
16:10You know?
16:11And I think again, the level, the level out here of like, you know, this pro golfers,
16:14is it going to help them that much?
16:15Maybe not.
16:16But what I've found is like, I don't have to practice as much.
16:18And I still start my ball in line more often, which again, for me, I don't know.
16:23I like that.
16:24That was big.
16:25And so I feel like it has improved that.
16:28But again, I was always a decent putter.
16:30So was it going to help a whole lot?
16:32Probably not.
16:33But would it, again, I don't practice as much as I used to.
16:35I'm still able to like, for the most part day in, day out, hit my start lines.
16:39I mean, it's cool.
16:40And like, yeah, it just feels good off the blade.
16:42Like it's the, it's the most solid, consistent feeling, even when you miss hit it.
16:47Did you guys experiment with the other lab models?
16:49Or were you kind of just straight into the-
16:51Touched them all.
16:52Touched them all.
16:53But again, I'll be honest, it took me a while to get used to it.
16:56And that's what like, Sam was like, stop trying to like, conform to the putter.
17:00Like, let it conform to you.
17:02Yeah.
17:03No, you just, you got that backwards.
17:04Yeah.
17:05You conformed to the putter.
17:06Yeah.
17:07But no, it was cool.
17:08Because again, it wasn't an overnight thing.
17:10You know, I was a blade, like, yeah.
17:13But again, once I did, I'm like, I can see why, like the sauce in it.
17:16Because I just realized, did you do this whole thing with a glove on?
17:19Yeah.
17:20Dedication.
17:21Yeah.
17:22No, it's just what I do.
17:24Well, thank you so much.
17:25George, thank you for joining us today.
17:28Wes, thank you.
17:29Good luck this week, guys.
17:30You forgot the biggest, the biggest part.
17:31Look, we got the shoobies on our bag.
17:32Yeah.
17:33I mean, I spoke about these off camera, how much I love them.
17:35I don't even know what they are.
17:36Some guy just say, hey, you don't wear-
17:37Everyone, everyone on tour is going to have these soon.
17:39And they're the boys, bro.
17:40No, no, no.
17:41Everybody on tour, they have those big, gaudy golf bags.
17:44And so, stand bags.
17:46That's ridiculous.
17:47We've got our logos on them.
17:48Yeah, they're very cool.
17:50I'm secretly jealous, so.
17:51They're local.
17:52I'm a George.
17:53Yeah.
17:54Awesome.
17:55Cool.
17:56Thank you very much, guys.
17:57Thank you, thank you.
17:58We'll see you next time.
17:59See ya.
18:00Bye.
18:01Bye.
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