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We take a look inside the bag of LIV Golfer Henrik Stenson to see which clubs he is employing for the season.
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00:00Right we are here at the Live Golf UK event at JCB Golf Club with Henrik Stenson and we are going
00:06to do a quick what's in the bag. So I've taken all the head covers off and we're going to start from
00:11the very top and I don't know whether this is going to be the world's most interesting what's
00:14in the bag or the world's most boring what's in the bag. Most boring. You've had the same stuff
00:19for so so long. Talk me through that for a start. You're just not a big changer, not a big experiment
00:24with gear? No I think once we've found stuff that we know works then I tend to hang on to it. So
00:31with the with the three wood in particular right? We'll get to that. Yeah yeah okay sorry I'm not
00:35going to run away with it. We'll start from the top. So yeah in the big stick we've got the Callaway Epic
00:40Max LS and yeah that's in your familiar Graffaloid Blue X. Now this is a shaft that was around when
00:46I was in my junior day so we're talking 20 plus years and this is just something you've always
00:50used and always been familiar with. Yeah yeah what once you know you kind of I like the feeling of
00:55it it's a stiff shaft and it's it's done me a lot of good so why change it? Absolutely and we've got
01:02a couple of contradictory settings here so we're down one in loft which is opening the face a little
01:06bit but we've got weight in the heel to encourage draw. Do you shape-wise with this is it pretty
01:12neutral? Are you looking at neutral? It's pretty neutral I think over the years I've I mean I haven't
01:18put a lot of curve on the on the golf ball in general I'm I'm very much hitting it straight
01:24with a possibly a slight draw most of the time so yeah more all the clubs hopefully go straight.
01:32And grips wise you've got another we've got an older grip here as well so the goal to go with the old
01:36shaft so you've got to coordinate all the age ranges have you? Yeah yeah okay beautiful and do you have
01:41any extra layers of tape it feels pretty much straight on this? Yeah no we we put half a one on the
01:46on the right hand. So just to take the taper out a little bit yeah yeah exactly okay well now the
01:51first bit I've been really excited about the iconic three wood so what iteration of the three wood is
01:56this is this this is uh I mean I've gone through a couple of heads but this is the 2009 Diablo Octane
02:03uh I think I got it tested out just before they would have been the first I guess race to the
02:09bye final in 09 down in Dubai and came in the bag and has been in the bag uh most of the week since.
02:16And do you still lean on this an awful lot of the tee? Yeah I mean some courses we would definitely have
02:21more drivers than um than three woods but um yeah I mean it's a trusty trusty club um if you're standing
02:29there on the 72nd holes and you need a fairway finder that has been in general the one that we go to
02:34yeah are you a teal up low guy or do you knock up a bit of turf what do you do a bit of both depends
02:40on the shot yeah depends on but uh I think I've hit hit it off the deck more than most okay I bet you
02:46have and do you know the specs on it in terms of length or do you let other people get on with that
02:50I'd say it's probably about half an inch longer yeah standard as soon as I put it down yeah to me I
02:56was thinking 43 and a half 43 three quarters maybe yeah yeah okay so then blending away from that iconic
03:00number again we've got another very old what are we calling this forward what do you call it yeah
03:06so Callaway X-Hot 17 degrees the X-Hot Pro same shaft throughout again the Grafaloid Grafaloid Blue Tour X
03:12there so assuming this is just I mean we've got a lovely wear mark here you must be proud of that one
03:17yeah we've hit a couple in the center I guess yeah every now and then it looks like you've got a few
03:20there uh interviewing Ian this morning with his what's in the bag um he's artificially done his wear
03:26marks he's he's sharpied out the bits around it to create a centered strike so that's something
03:30you might want to bring up with him who is it trying to fool himself or the people watching
03:34well this yeah this is it remains to be seen so I guess from a yardage point of view this just
03:39fills in the right gap for you yeah I mean the three wood is strong right it's about 12 degrees
03:44so it's more of a two wood so this is stated loft 13 yeah no it's not really bent I think that head is
03:50just a little bit stronger and then this one at 17 degrees so it's just kind of bridged the
03:57reached the gaps and then down into the into the three iron really so I'm looking in your bag here
04:02and we're getting into now the super iconic irons have been in your bag for ages the Callaway legacy
04:06blacks now how many sets of these we had oh I got a whole garage full of them really they normally
04:12last a year year and a half these ones are very new though I just put these in a couple of months ago
04:18uh I got one more brand new set at home then what and then we're retiring then we're done yeah
04:24as soon as the clubs are done with that yeah okay cool really interesting we've got two three irons
04:28here talk me through that yeah so uh coming fresh off the open this set doesn't come with a two iron
04:33so we took uh took a three iron head bent it down and lengthened it obviously so that that's my two
04:38iron that's in for probably about four or five tournaments a year then the forward goes out and
04:43this one there's driving iron it's in the bag instead do we know what we're going in this week
04:47are we driving on or forward or have you not seen the course yet I haven't seen the course yet
04:51I think are we doing two iron or forward this week lordy
04:57okay so two iron is out two iron gone yeah flat out completely gone on that your man polter told me
05:05to uh mention some stuff about the durability of your clubs he said heads tend to last quite a long
05:10time some of the shafts they don't last as long no they're pretty brittle these motors shall find
05:15that's okay yeah yeah they they normally need some assistance though okay that's interesting to see
05:20and you'll say again without wanting to go too far off track he asked to mention the expensive nature of
05:25the front panel of these golf bags yeah how much are they to replace would you know anything about that
05:30at all uh they're not as uh as durable as steel plates no okay understood we'll move on from that
05:38straight away yeah do that so we've got essentially not two iron now that's gone three iron down to
05:43pitch and wedge yeah in the legacy black so why have you stayed in these for so long again it's just
05:47i'm assuming a case of you found something you like what's yeah i really like the uh the look of
05:53them and and um i mean the big reason we came straight off the use open at marion uh that justin won
06:00in 2013 and i was playing pretty good that week but the the irons i had i think it was the racer tours or
06:06something like that and i hit a number of flyers that cost me daily that that weekend uh we came
06:12to munich and we asked the guys like what do we have that's not going to fly as much and they came
06:18up with these ones they got the the multi-groove so there's 19 grooves on the face of these yeah
06:22you know that's a more groove more spin less chance of flyer i'm guessing exactly that was the whole
06:26thing so i mean we're not really catching many flyers but they also uh you know they they go short
06:32rather the first cut in particular and and i'm a high spinner of the golf ball so there's always
06:38that give and take when we're playing into the wind you hit a bit hard and with a high spin and
06:44it's always a tendency to to stall a bit so it's uh but on the other end i've been known to be able to
06:50stop like my mid mid to long irons on on slightly firmer greens than a lot of the other players so it's
06:56it's always going to be a give and take somewhere so just balancing that trade off all the time okay
07:00that's brilliant they're into wedges so less wedges than some of the guys i've seen so we've got kind
07:04of a three wedge setup if we're including your pitching wedge yeah go 52 and 58 in the callaway
07:10jaws wedges here and i see on the 58 we've got i'm not going to say a messy sole but it's had some work
07:15done what specifically yeah we'll just take off a little bit here on the heel when when you need to
07:20lay it open and especially especially on firmer turfs then yeah it can it can bounce a little bit too much
07:28otherwise on the heel so we shave a little bit off that and in terms of i i've tried at times to um
07:36to take take out the three iron i strengthen the forearm a little bit and and try and work in four
07:42wedges but i always felt like i was probably because of the two wood forward it was a big gap down that
07:49end and that's always been a strong part of my game as well with a long iron so i felt like i exposed
07:54myself a bit too much there and not gained enough on that so i've always kind of bounced back to
08:00three wedges so if i would have had a fourth one that would have gone as well okay lovely and are
08:04you a guy who changes his wedges for the venue and the ground conditions or you just have your setup
08:09and you adapt from there because you play a lot of different grasses right yeah i tend to have the
08:13same ones okay i tried a little bit last week at true and have one one of the new callaway wedges
08:19uh that had less bounce on it and it was a bit sharper but then out of the bunker you feel like
08:25it's always always a bit of a bit of give and take so um yeah i i tend to stick with the same ones
08:32okay brilliant and then finally into the putter i've always been intrigued by these grips you use
08:37on the part of the garson grips yeah so what got you in that so for those who don't know we've got a
08:42ridge that sits all the way down the front of the grip here you sort of guide your your wrists into a
08:47more yeah you kind of end up on on the outside of that reminder instead a little bit so it's
08:53yeah i just i tried them out my my putting coach phil kenyon he wanted my left hand to be a bit
08:58weaker and then i kind of matched up well with that grip and then i've tend to use this this model in
09:05in different finishes for for quite some excuse me quite a long time uh over those 10 years so we've
09:10got the number seven here stroke big seven and some nice swedish custom colors there for you yeah
09:14yeah really nice name and there's a little bit on the way a bit of customization throughout the set
09:21there so that's great that's a really good look inside the back you just tell me ball wise what
09:24you play i'll play the uh the regular pro v1 the the 23 version okay great well thank you very much
09:31for your time really appreciate that and great luck this week thank you thanks
09:41you
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