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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.
00:05Yeah.
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.
00:27Yeah.
00:27They're probably the most exciting clubs in our bag, because...
00:30BB803 Tacoma Wedges, our collaboration with Tacoma to co-produce a wedge, with Wesley
00:37and I's input, their expertise, and built something really amazing, honestly.
00:42It's helped.
00:43I was like, these wedges, they're not the traditional tireless cleave or whatever, can they do tour
00:50level 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.
00:57And then full face grooves, because I live on the toe.
01:01Yeah.
01:02So it's been cool, because they look good, they perform well, and they're at a price point
01:06where it's very affordable.
01:08Yeah.
01:08I 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, no matter
01:17if they're going to go buy a new wedge, there's no reason for them to go elsewhere because of
01:22price point.
01:23And so we got the name, BB's obviously for Brian Bros.
01:26803 is the area code where we're from in South Carolina.
01:29So that's pretty special.
01:31Yeah.
01:31It must be pretty cool to see your name, or initials, at least, on a wedge that you guys
01:35have helped input, right?
01:36Yeah.
01:37It was probably a two-year process of them saying, hey, how does this look, how does this
01:41look, and 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
01:48really?
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 set up to them, had them in our hands,
01:58and we're like, wow, it actually happened.
02:00So yeah, I showed you guys at Tacomo for making this dream come true.
02:03And in terms of your setups, I can see you both got 58.
02:06Do you both go 54-50 after that, or?
02:09Yep.
02:10Wait, I thought you were 55 and 52.
02:13Well, I was.
02:14Oh, you're taking the 50 now?
02:15Well, I was 58-56.
02:1850.
02:19Oh, then what do you know?
02:20I had no idea you were 59.
02:21And 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, and so just adjusted
02:34my yardages a little bit.
02:35That's cool.
02:35Yeah, I like it.
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...
02:41Some Nippon Modus.
02:43But when you see these next...
02:45Well, I don't know, the Wedge is going to be the same.
02:46Oh, George.
02:47I'm just saying, I'm going to be tinkering.
02:48You're going to tinker, you're going to have them in the bag for, he's trying out these
02:51new graphite shafts that Jason Day is playing.
02:53Yeah, Jason Day was like, not sponsored by him, he was like, graphite shafts of the future,
02:57and I said, say less, I like the way you hit it.
02:58The KBS TGIs?
03:00Is that what you're looking at?
03:01Yeah.
03:02See?
03:03Okay.
03:03I've been there.
03:04I've tested some Avodas, so...
03:06Yeah.
03:06I'm excited.
03:07No, but so, I got the Nippons.
03:09I got a standard S400.
03:11S400.
03:11Had those.
03:12Yep.
03:12Have those in my wedges since I was a kid, basically, so...
03:16Familiar.
03:16Yep.
03:17Awesome.
03:17And then, sticking with Tacomo throughout the irons here.
03:20Yep.
03:21What it looks to be.
03:21Talk us a bit about these, and why you love these so much.
03:23Uh, 301s, uh, throw out the bag for me.
03:27No, they're just a classic, like, they're not too blady, they're not too, like, game improvement,
03:31neither, 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...
03:36I've hit it worse and worse the older I've gotten.
03:38Um, and so, but still, I like looking at blades for, like, you know, a smaller profile,
03:44and these are a good blend of, like, not too big, not too small, um, and they produce
03:48pretty well.
03:49Like, you know, Wesley, when he switched, when he was on the PGA Tour, he was, like,
03:53top five 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.
04:05Um, you know, you guys wouldn't have them in play this week if you didn't believe that,
04:08right?
04:09And, and honestly, I've, I've played all irons, and I've said for years that irons don't
04:14matter.
04:14Um, and, and I still will say that the brand of iron doesn't matter.
04:18I feel like they're all the same.
04:19Um, and 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.
04:31Um, and I've played all of those irons throughout my career, and I, I didn't notice any difference
04:38as soon as I switched to the Tacoma.
04:39And again, for like half, half of the price or a third of the price from some of those
04:43that are on the market, uh, it made it a no brainer for us to go and say, Hey, do
04:47you want
04:47to play what we're playing?
04:48Um, if you're in the market for new irons, this makes the most sense possible.
04:53Awesome.
04:53Yeah.
04:54And so it gets, it gets interesting for me.
04:56That's the first thing I've noticed here.
04:58And so, um, I've got, so I guess I'll start with a Tacoma one.
05:02This is a four iron that's bent to a five iron.
05:05It's wildly oversized.
05:06It'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 a, it's some mid X 100 something or another that I think is lighter than the rest
05:25of them, but this was built up in a Napa a few years ago.
05:30And, uh, probably my favorite club is the Jack of all trades.
05:33I can hit it high, low, left or right.
05:35It goes anywhere from one 90 to two 30, um, depending on how I want to hit it.
05:39And 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 know what you're getting.
05:50If I need it to go two 30 and straight up in the air, I pretty much can do that.
05:53And so these clubs, they go like really close to the same difference distance.
05:58But, uh, the five iron is, is the one that I shot shape and work more.
06:02The four iron is just the standard.
06:03If I got two 25 to two 35 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, you know, 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.
06:21Yeah.
06:22Tori shoe X100.
06:23X100.
06:23I don't know what this mid, so you can tell me you're the, whatever.
06:28We're going to forget about that.
06:28You can tell me what's the difference in that and what the regular X100.
06:31You're a, you're a techie guru.
06:34It would just be from a kick point standpoint.
06:36Oh yeah.
06:36Kick point.
06:37Yeah.
06:37Yeah.
06:38I know all about kick points.
06:39So, so is that why it goes lower?
06:41So what would make it go lower based on the kick point?
06:44So it's slightly stiffer tip section.
06:46Okay.
06:47So interestingly, I'm not sure why this actually goes lower because in all honesty,
06:51you've got a lot of weight in the bottom here.
06:53The CG is lower and therefore it should pop higher.
06:57Oh no.
06:57It makes perfect sense.
06:58So yeah, it makes sense that it goes lower, right?
07:00It makes sense.
07:01So anybody that's built a club for me.
07:03So once we get to the driver, you'll understand any, anytime I get a golf lesson,
07:06if I do what an instructor tells me to do, I hit it terrible.
07:09If I do the complete opposite, I'll hit it good.
07:11Same 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.
07:31And how about you, George?
07:33What shafts have you got in those?
07:35Um, no, I got thinness.
07:37Kind of moving on from Nippon as well.
07:39Yeah.
07:39I've had all those, the, the, the modus, uh, don't know why apparently they were good,
07:43but then club fair said, I don't know how those work for you.
07:45So I'm like, huh?
07:47I don't know.
07:47Do they work?
07:48And so now he's in the market for a shaft.
07:50He's never hit before.
07:52And he's super excited about it.
07:53No, but they do.
07:53I go more on fields and they do feel good.
07:55And like the waiting.
07:56And when I do hit it, well, um, it does what I want it to do.
08:00Yeah.
08:01Um, but I couldn't tell you why.
08:03Just go off the numbers, go off the bull flight.
08:05Yeah.
08:06I think more people should do that to be honest.
08:08I mean, I'm just really old school and like, and I honestly don't, my brain doesn't work in data.
08:12Like I need someone to tell me why.
08:14And I just hit it and kind of like, kind of figure it out.
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 hitting
08:26it.
08:27And so it's, it's more of just like telling your buddies what you got in it and gaining knowledge.
08:32But applying that knowledge is, again, for guys at our level, it's still obsolete at times.
08:38You're a level.
08:39I'm like, no, don't put yourself down, Jordan.
08:41No, we're both Asian tour players this week.
08:43Yeah.
08:43Same event.
08:44Yeah.
08:45So then I can see you've got a hybrid in the bag here.
08:48Yeah, we've got three hybrids.
08:49Cool.
08:50We've got the Cobra DS adapt bit of lead tape on there as well.
08:53I 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 two 50, two 40 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.
09:10It's like a full two.
09:11It has a mind of its own.
09:12Yeah.
09:13Nice.
09:14This one right here.
09:15TSR three.
09:15Nice.
09:16This is a 19 to degree.
09:19And 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.
09:31Probably my doing, but I like it.
09:34It just, it's, it's a higher launch, lower spin.
09:36Okay.
09:37Um, which you would think that would be good off T's.
09:40But when I hit it off T's, I miss fairways.
09:42And when I hit it into greens, I usually hit good shots.
09:44So, uh,
09:45That's what it needs to do.
09:46It's yeah.
09:47It's probably a mental block that I have whenever I plop it down onto a tee box.
09:50So it's interesting because we've talked a lot about hybrids dying out on tour and stuff
09:54recently at 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 or that's a, that's a sore subject.
10:03We're also the older guys in the field.
10:05Now we, we, we've, we're kind of the old school of the bunch.
10:09It's a bunch of young guys out here now that hit two iron 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.
10:17I mean, I hit shot in Bermuda last year.
10:20I was in it.
10:21I was, I was searching.
10:22I didn't know.
10:22I needed like a hybrid or I love the driving iron.
10:24I'd hit this top into a, into a hospitality tent.
10:29Yeah.
10:29Literally 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.
10:38He needs to get the ball airborne.
10:39Yeah.
10:40Back to the basics.
10:41Three wood, no reason to talk about it.
10:43This is the worst club in my bag.
10:44Don't even know why it's in there.
10:46We'll literally never hit it unless I absolutely have to.
10:49Okay.
10:49Um, it has the ability to go all sorts of directions and trajectories, but one out of
10:57two 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.
11:05It's been in the bag.
11:06It's been in the bag for a year.
11:07You just said you were going to not talk 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.
11:15I'm staying in the cover.
11:17No, it's fine.
11:18Which one do you even have?
11:19Is it a Callaway?
11:19Yeah, it's the Rogue.
11:21I got the Elite, by the way.
11:22Old one.
11:23And I thought you might actually move on to Driver because you've played the Rogue for
11:28probably 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.
11:34And the older I've gotten, I've wanted to hit it further for whatever reason.
11:37Yeah.
11:38And so I messed around with the blue board and put it in the Rogue and it knocked a little
11:44spin off.
11:44I was like, man, I want to search.
11:46And so I just tried a bunch of drivers out and this tireless, it took my driver from
11:51the GT3.
11:53Yeah.
11:53Spin numbers.
11:54Let's talk about spin numbers, George.
11:55I mean, the Callaway was 28 to 3,100 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, but I mean, probably 10 to 15 yards
12:10just on, you know, getting that spin.
12:12And have you noticed like the launch is still kind of the same or is it a touch lower?
12:16Again, this one does fade a little more than the other one, but again, my left miss
12:21really-
12:21It's a more powerful fade with this tireless one than the Callaway one was a little weak.
12:27Did you have an eight degree in the Rogue as well or?
12:30I think I did.
12:30It was nine, it was nine turned down to a-
12:33Okay.
12:34Or nine and a half to an eight and a half.
12:35Kind of playing the same-
12:35I mean, yeah.
12:36So it's been fun.
12:37But I'm actually like low key Tacoma just released a new driver that we've been messing
12:42around with and like, probably this off season.
12:44I mean, off season, like I'm a tournament player anymore, but this, this winter like-
12:47Do some experimenting?
12:48But no, this one's been, I mean, it's taken a lot of spin off and like, I think elevated
12:52my driving.
12:54You done talking about it yet?
12:55No, I love my driver.
12:56Loves it.
12:56Loves it.
12:57This right here.
12:58Um, again, this is one of those, uh, for years and years I searched for a driver cause
13:02I was the worst driver on the PGA tour for about five, six straight years.
13:07Okay.
13:07And again, I would, I hit it short, really, really crooked.
13:11Um, and then every, everyone kept telling me go either shorter driver, heavier shaft,
13:18um, lower launch, like the, all the things to try and get you to hit it straight.
13:22Right.
13:23And I ended up going with the lightest stiffest shaft on the market and started to try and hit
13:29it as high as possible.
13:30Okay.
13:30Nice.
13:31Uh, because I had the full blown driver yips.
13:33Uh, because I had the full blown driver yips and I was like, I can't, I can't play golf.
13:36And like, 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.
13:41Right.
13:41If you, if you have to.
13:43Yes.
13:43I said, I said, I want the lightest shaft possible.
13:46Just so at least I can feel like I'm in control of it.
13:49Cause I feel like I was losing the club head, um, 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.
13:58And so I said, give me the lightest stiffest possible.
14:00And let's just try it.
14:01Uh, Jason from 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 like, no way it's going to work.
14:08I said, perfect.
14:09That means it's going to work.
14:11Yeah, exactly.
14:11That means it's going to work.
14:12So then anyway, started launching it at 16, 17 degrees.
14:15And, um, he's a cheat code right now.
14:17And then picked up a lot of, uh, I probably picked up 20, 30 yards, uh, pretty much overnight.
14:22Um, so you've got a 50 TX in there for the guys watching.
14:26It's very light, obviously very stiff as well.
14:29The GT, Diamana GT.
14:31I would say just recently did a 65 gram shaft become popular on tour because mostly it was at
14:3770 grams, like 70 to 72 grams was very standard on tour for, and this one is I think at
14:4351
14:43grams.
14:44So, um, yeah, it's considerably lighter.
14:47And, uh, you've got the triple diamond max.
14:49So you've got that kind of low spin head, but you still got the profile of kind of the
14:53standard head as well.
14:54So, yeah, so we just, uh, the paradigm, uh, a couple models ago, I guess is the one that
15:00got me out of the driver yet phase.
15:02And then they built up, uh, basically a replica of that head, uh, with the AI smoke.
15:07And so this is where we're at now.
15:09But again, the Tacoma driver is, is coming with vengeance.
15:13Yeah.
15:13It'll be fun to mess around with it.
15:14Yeah.
15:14I'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 the putter.
15:20Let's go to putters.
15:21DF3, uh, little Brian bros, uh, lab collab.
15:24Lab collab.
15:25Head cover.
15:26Yeah.
15:27Yeah.
15:28See, it was fun.
15:29You know, this is, uh, looks cool.
15:31Um, so yeah, but anyway, we've got the DF3.
15:33Nice.
15:34We've got the TPT shaft.
15:35Yep.
15:36Forward press grip.
15:37Yep.
15:38Same, same.
15:39Uh, literally the only thing different about ours is his is one degree or two degrees
15:43flatter.
15:44And then, uh, I got the line that goes all the way across.
15:47Awesome.
15:49How did, how did you guys kind of end up in, in the labs?
15:53Were you just intrigued by everyone else using them?
15:57Yeah.
15:57No, just like, again, we're, you know, we're, we're willing to try a lot of things like,
16:02Hey, 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.
16:08I'm like, you know, um, and I think again, the level, the level out here of like, you
16:13know, this pro golfers, is it going to help them that much?
16:16Maybe not.
16:16But what I found is like, I don't have to practice as much.
16:18And I, and I still start my ball in line more often, which again, for me, I don't know.
16:24I 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.
16:30Um, so was it going to help a whole lot?
16:33Probably not.
16:33But would it, again, I don't practice as much as I used to, and I'm still able to like, for
16:37the most part, day in, day out, hit my start lines.
16:39I mean, yeah, and it's cool.
16:40And like, yeah.
16:41It just feels good off the blade.
16:42Like it's the, it's the most solid, consistent feeling.
16:46Yeah.
16:46Even when you miss hit it.
16:47Did you guys experiment with the other lab models?
16:50Or were you kind of just straight into the-
16:51Oh, touched them all.
16:52Touched them all.
16:53But again, I'll be honest.
16:55It 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.
17:02No.
17:02You 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.
17:13And, but again, once I did, I'm like, I can see why, like the sauce in it, because
17:17I just realized, did you do this whole thing with a glove on?
17:20Yeah.
17:21Dedication.
17:22Yeah.
17:22No, it's just what I do.
17:24Well, thank you so much.
17:25No, thank you.
17:26George, thank you for joining us today.
17:28Wes, thank you.
17:29Good luck this week, guys.
17:30You forgot the biggest part.
17:31Look, we got the shoobies on our bag.
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 said, hey, you want to wear-
17:37Everyone, everyone on tour is going to have these soon.
17:39I mean, no, no, no.
17:41Everybody on tour, they have those big, gaudy golf bags.
17:44And so, stand bags.
17:46That's ridiculous.
17:47Got our logos on them.
17:48Yeah, they're very cool.
17:50I'm secretly jealous, so.
17:52They look cool.
17:52They look gorgeous.
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.
17:59See ya.
18:00See ya.
18:01See ya.
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