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We take a look inside the bag of Matt Wallace to find out what clubs and ball he uses on tour and why.
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00:00Okay, welcome guys. We are here today at Wentworth on the week of the BMW PGA Championship.
00:06Mr. Matt Wallace. How are you? How are you doing? Good, yeah, thank you. It's a home game for you,
00:09we've just been talking about that off camera, but today we're going to run through your equipment,
00:13what you've got in play this week and kind of what you've been playing throughout the year.
00:17So we'll start at the top end of the bag. What have we got as the big stick? Ping,
00:23the old school Ping, the G430, the LST, 10.8. I always put on the actual degree of loft,
00:35yeah, measured loft. Okay, cool. Whenever I'm using, because I always find I don't like
00:40switching out drivers and or changing too much if I can. So whenever I put something in play,
00:48like this driver, I need to know if I'm going to go to a new one. So like this is a newer one,
00:52I cracked my driver in Denmark a few weeks ago. So I tried to get something that's
00:59kind of identical. As close as possible. As close as possible, yeah. And obviously,
01:02so non-contracted, you've got a complete open base. Yeah, yeah, yeah. How does that work in
01:07terms of like, obviously you've got the world, you know, the world's your oyster, you can test
01:11whatever you like, but you've got an older product here. Is that just because you loved it so much when
01:15you first tested it? I think, yeah, when I first tested, I remember I came back up here,
01:19I was just, I was a year out of contract from Callaway for my last deal. And then I was using
01:26the Titleist driver and then I won with that in Punta Cana. And then I just struggled because I felt
01:31like I was traveling around the world a lot, like you say, and playing different places. My swing
01:36wasn't as tight as it probably needed to be. And I was hitting it around the face and I wasn't getting
01:40as much of the consistency out of the shots that I needed. So I went back to something that I've obviously
01:45always liked as a kid and where I felt like I got the most forgiveness from. And Dom from Ping came
01:52up here to Wentworth and we started hitting this driver and it's not the fastest driver, I don't
01:58believe, but it's the most forgiving for me. Yeah. So I started hitting more fairways, I gained more
02:03confidence and I've stuck with it since. So I've tried the newer model, but the flight and the spin
02:11ratios for me are not as tight as this one. So yeah. Stuck with that then. Yeah. And you've got
02:16the Ventus TR Blue, was it? TR Blue, yeah. So you've kind of got that mid-kickpoint shaft. Is that a
02:21shaft that you've played with for a long time? Always been in a Ventus Blue, but just the, like you say,
02:26the kick point for me was the part that gave me that launch and the spin numbers and stuff are way more
02:33tight than the old one that I was using. So that was straight in the bag, that was quite easy for me.
02:38Awesome. And then we go to Threewood, is it? No. Okay. This is a mini driver. You're a mini driver.
02:45You're probably seeing a lot of these, but do you know what? This has been, I know you're probably
02:50going to have a lot of people say it's been like revelation in their bag and stuff. This genuinely
02:54has been one of the best clubs I've probably ever changed to. Okay. Notoriously not a great Threewood
03:01player. Hit it amazing some weeks and then some weeks it can be, the dispersion would be too big.
03:07I'd hit one 280 and then the next one I'd hit it out of the heel and it would be 240. So it's like too
03:13wide a dispersion rate. Notoriously been a great driver off the deck guy. So I was like, right,
03:20why don't we just try and see the mini driver, you know, because don't have to tee it high off the tee,
03:25always hitting it more towards the bottom, which is on the lower end of the distance rather than
03:29catching it high on the face and it going miles. Yeah. And yeah, I don't know why. I don't know if
03:36it's because core setups now that we play. That 280 number is kind of an awkward number off a tee.
03:43Okay. This is perfect. And this is the first week I've actually played this golf course with
03:48the mini driver and there's three or four holes where I'm 10 yards further up and it's just made the
03:54hold that much easier. Okay. So yeah, each week it's been great. Awesome. And so that's predominantly
04:02off the tee club rather than kind of into greens? Very rarely are we hitting a wood into par fives
04:08or anything like that. We have done and it is great for that, especially if it's a bit windy. And you
04:12said you're a good driver. I prefer to hit this off the deck when I know I'm not going to hit it like
04:20high off the toe or anything that's going to rock it. Yeah. It's always going to be that slightly
04:23spinnier sort of flight if it's off the bottom. So I quite like that idea to it and that concept.
04:28Awesome. Yeah. And you've got the Velocor plus blue in there as well. So similar profile.
04:32Similar profile, obviously the newer shaft, they came to me with this and wanted me to test this. And as
04:37soon as I got it, Adrian at TaylorMade was brilliant. Actually dented at the open in travel,
04:43dented the top of the face just in transit, obviously somehow. So I had to switch it straight
04:48over and Adrian did a brilliant job for that. Yeah. Nice. And then I can see we've got a couple
04:52of driving irons in the bag. Yeah. You've kind of previously, again, we've talked about this,
04:57but you've kind of been a seven-wood player. Yeah. I've done both. I remember putting the seven-wood
05:02in play again, quite a interesting style, make up a bag driver, mini driver, seven-wood. Yeah.
05:10But the seven-wood nowadays I feel is like an old school five-wood. It's that 245, 250 club for me
05:17in America when there's not as much wind, but you're going into the par fives over there where it's
05:23firm greens. It's unbelievable. And the rough is a little bit thicker as well. So major championships,
05:28PGA, out of thick rough, you can cut it up out of there. So I wouldn't be using the long irons,
05:33the two irons. But then when we come back over to Europe, this two-iron and three-iron, the Ping,
05:41again, in the Ventus shaft, like I was using the tight list, the newer tight list model.
05:46The U505. That's it. And it's a smaller head. Yeah. So if you like that sort of like sharper look,
05:55smaller head blends in with the rest of the irons, that's quite nice. I just struggled to look down
06:00at it and go, geez, that ball's looking massive. If I miss this, if I miss this, I'm toast.
06:08So I went to the Ping, slightly larger profile. Yeah. And it's been mega. And that's the new one
06:14as well. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This is brilliant. Quite large, like looking, but really good flight.
06:21And I have the two and three, so I chop and change between the two. I used the two-iron last week in
06:27Cron. The three-iron was just slightly too high for that week. And it was a bit windy and you don't
06:34want the ball to stay in the air too long, but there's a 10-yard gap. So it's a chop and change
06:38between those two. Gotcha. And then we go into, was it the Apex? Yeah, or the X-Forge. X-Forge CVs.
06:45Yeah. So a few years old now? Very, very old. Yeah. I've got the new set. They sent me the new set
06:51to test out. I've got about three sets of these at home. Okay. So interesting. I used the
06:59the model, the next model, the X-Forge, and I started, I was struggling to fade the ball. I like to fade
07:06my irons mostly. And then I found out that there was more weight towards the heel. Okay. So it was
07:15harder to keep the face open as much, and it wasn't curving to the right. I only found that
07:19out maybe six, seven weeks into using them. Not ideal. No, it wasn't ideal, but I really liked the
07:26look of the clubs and they were great. But then as soon as I went back to these, I was able to hold
07:29the face open a little bit longer. And it's just where the CG is in the head. And obviously these
07:36are a few years old, like we just said, and you said you've got a couple of sets. Yeah. Are you one of
07:39those guys who buys the heads off eBay to make sure you've got backups? I will do next time if I need
07:45to, but I will test the new set at some point and they look the same. So hopefully there'll be the
07:52CB ones, the new Callaway CB. So yeah, hopefully they'll be the same. And what shafts are you
07:58playing? This is the Modus. Okay. Are they 130s? I think so. Yeah. Or 125x maybe. Yeah. And that's
08:08a shaft that you've historically played or is that something you've got in that particular head? So,
08:12funny story, we were in Germany 2018 and I was using the KVSC taper all black. Okay. Just purely on
08:21visual. Yeah. Absolutely no point looking at it. Nice. Like every other golfer out there. I was like,
08:26they look sick. I want them. I went and won that week with them. Okay.
08:31It was literally that week I put them in and I won with them that week. And then I realised I was
08:35using like a proper like steel rod and I was given no forgiveness, nothing. And then when the guys came
08:44over to me and started speaking to me about these clubs, these were unbelievable. They're just really
08:48consistent. They're great. Awesome. And then we move. So you go to a Vokey 46 rather than the set
08:55pitching wedge. Yeah. And then you blend that obviously through your wedges. You've got Vokey
08:59the whole way through. Yeah. Talk to me about that reason why you would go for a 46. So,
09:04spin profile. Okay. I found I was getting a few jumpers with my pitching wedges,
09:10especially out of the rough. The Vokeys you just never get a jumper really. I've never had a jumper
09:16with a wedge actually. Just really consistent. And the blend of it as well. These are the scoring
09:22clubs. It's not a smash club. I don't need extra yardage. Nine iron sometimes you need to get it to
09:29160, 165 and I can probably do that step on that. Yeah. And it's a little bit easier. Whereas the
09:34wedge I'd never be really looking at doing that. So, yeah. And four degree increments and then we jump to
09:40obviously six degrees with the lob wedge just to give you a touch more height. Have you been a 58 guy or have you
09:45kind of always predominantly paid a 60? No. That's a 55. Okay. So, yeah. I mean, always been a 60. So,
09:55if it's 55, 58, that's too tight for me. It's just gapping. Yeah, gapping. Nice. And then the
10:00putter, you've got a really cool head cover on here. Yeah. This is the open head cover that we got.
10:05The giant causeway and a bit of fluff. I'm surprised it's held up to be fair. It's done well. Yeah.
10:10But then obviously the jailbird, the cruiser. Okay. With the two thumb grip, longer two thumb grip.
10:18And that's a grip you've played for a while now, right? Yeah.
10:21Ever since I used the big one when I first came out on tour and I was using the prayer grip.
10:25Now I'm a claw guy and conventional at most, most longer putts. Okay. But I mean, it's visually,
10:33it's great. I tried to use less of the, I don't know, horizontal or vertical line, whichever way
10:39you'd use it for my aiming. Okay. And it would be a little bit more flowy and try not to be so perfect.
10:45Yeah. But with the aesthetics and the looks of it all, it's quite easy to aim up. And yeah,
10:51we've always found kind of testing these putters with those horizontal lines as you look down on it,
10:56just so easy to square the face. You don't have to worry about that linear look behind the ball.
11:00So I get like everyone probably out there, I get to trying to be too perfect with my aiming.
11:04Yeah. When actually that's probably the least of your worries, like set up,
11:10try and be as close to your line as you want to, and then put a good move on it. So yeah, that's my bag.
11:16And what about golf ball? We'll end on golf ball. Yeah, golf ball. Well, I'm a little bit of a,
11:22well, I don't like changing my club space at least from week to week. From a sense of,
11:27I need a new driver if it's not spinning as much or anything. So I started talking to tightless and
11:31I was like, well, I'll just, I'll just change the ball per week. So if we're somewhere cold and it's
11:37not spinning, I'll go to a spinnable. If it's hot and my spinnable is spinning too much, I'll go to one
11:42that's slightly less spin. So then I don't have to change anything. Interesting. So I started doing
11:48that maybe two years ago. Um, and it's allowed me to be so like stuck in what I've got, what you're
11:56using. I'll change the clubs from what I know works, um, for set of course set up between seven
12:02wood or the irons. Um, but ball, so like at the PGA this year, it was really hot. Um, and just in our
12:09longer irons, I was getting no spin with the ball I was using. So I went to a spinnable and I was able to
12:15go into the long par fours and the par threes there without going over the back because there's
12:20enough spin on the ball. So just purely on a week to week basis, I can chop and change that way
12:25rather than having to change the bag. Awesome. And then we'll end on apparel, obviously. JL.
12:30J Lindenburg. Sponsor for a few years now. Looking cool on and off the course. What do you like about
12:35the kind of equipment? It's the best company I've ever worked with probably. Uh, we do the,
12:41obviously as golfers, we got to do some golf days and, and the work that I do with J Lindenburg,
12:47it's easy. It's fun. Um, they're always pushing the boundaries. It's never boring. I think it's
12:53the best looking stuff out on tour. Um, and it's great, you know, they look after us
13:00tremendously. Everyone who I work with at J Lindenburg is brilliant. So, uh, long may it continue
13:05and it's been going on for a while now. So hopefully when I'm old and gray, it will still be going.
13:09Awesome. Well, thank you very much, everyone. Matt Wallace. What's in the back?
13:12Cheers, mate. Thanks, Matt. Cheers, bud.
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