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Joe 'the pro' Ferguson has truly lost his marbles as he decides to enter the PGA Alliance Pro Event with a full bag of Bryson DeChambeau's clubs, including the Krank Formula Fire metalwoods, Avoda irons, SIK Armlock putter and even the Titleist Pro V1x left dash ball. How did he get on? Watch to the end to find out, you won't believe the result!
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00:00What have I let myself in for here?
00:01For some reason, I've decided to build
00:03Bryson DeChambeau's full US Open winning golf bag
00:07and enter a professional event.
00:12I've fatted it into the bunker.
00:14What a lemon, tip.
00:17Oh, Joe.
00:18So here's the deal, I'm here at Saunton Golf Club,
00:20one of the UK's top 100 courses,
00:22and I've entered the Devon PGA Alliance
00:24to test these clubs out.
00:26But before we get on the course,
00:27which we will do in a minute,
00:28I just want to give you some context
00:29about why I'm doing this
00:30and how I've accumulated these clubs.
00:32So I've been watching an awful lot of Bryson DeChambeau
00:34over the past year or so,
00:36from winning the US Open, nearly winning the US PGA,
00:39shooting 58, and of course,
00:41on his incredible YouTube channel.
00:43I've been so impressed with his golf,
00:45and particularly his ball striking.
00:47I just, I've been more and more intrigued by his equipment
00:49and then it just hit me.
00:51I thought, right, why don't you just build his set?
00:53I'm a club maker, I can do that.
00:54Let's build his set.
00:56Let's go and play a professional event
00:57and let's see how they go.
01:01Every time.
01:03Every time.
01:04And somehow, I've managed to get hold of his actual backup set of irons.
01:09Just to give you the top line of what's in the bag here,
01:12I've got his crank driver and three wood with LA golf shafts.
01:15I've got his incredible set of Voda golf irons and wedges,
01:18and the sick arm lock putter.
01:20For those of you who want more information and details on all these specs,
01:23I'm probably going to stop halfway around the round
01:24and do a more detailed what's in the bag,
01:26but I can't put it off any longer.
01:28I'll have to hit a few warm-up shots,
01:30and then we've got to get on the first tee and play this professional event.
01:32I feel very exposed.
01:33Let's do it.
01:37Yeah, that's about what I was expecting.
01:38Let's go.
01:38Yeah.
01:40Yeah.
01:51Yeah.
01:55Yeah.
01:57Yeah.
01:59Yeah.
02:02Yeah.
02:06Yeah.
02:15Any ideas, anyone?
02:16Yeah.
02:26A little ripper.
02:28A little ripper.
02:34A little ripper.
02:35A little ripper.
02:45A little ripper.
03:02So hard to know what to hit.
03:041.54 out of the rough, down and off the left, but normally to me would be the hard wedge
03:09or little nine.
03:12But I don't know.
03:23Oh, you little...
03:28Yeah, good boy.
03:28Oh, my God.
03:33Oh, my God.
03:57Right, well, little... not mid-round update.
04:00Where are we?
04:00We're on the seventh now.
04:02Going remarkably, remarkably well.
04:05Got off to a serious hot start.
04:07Four birdies on the spin, including some ridiculous putts.
04:11I'm all over this Bryson putting thing.
04:13I'm just having to be quiet because I'm going past the green here.
04:17But yeah, sort of settled down a few paths.
04:20I've found some tough holes, to be fair.
04:21There's a lot of wind out here.
04:22But yeah, going well.
04:24I'm finding, predictably finding the irons extremely hard work, just so stiff, so heavy.
04:32So I'm having to really sort of manage that.
04:34But I'll tell you what, that left dash Pro V1 in this wind is really, I'm finding that very easy
04:40to control.
04:41It's super low spin, so that's really good.
04:44And as you see, the putt has been behaving itself so far.
04:46So yeah, fingers crossed.
04:47Long made it continue.
04:48In the meantime, check out the more detailed what's in the bag of what I'm actually using today.
04:54And we'll get back to some golf.
04:55So what's in the actual bag?
04:57Full detail.
04:57So starting with driver, we've got the Crank Formula Fire.
05:00Five degrees.
05:01I got on the phone to Leslie from Crank, who really hooked me up here.
05:04She got me the driver and three wood, fitted with the LA Golf Bryson series shaft and his Jumbo Max
05:10grips.
05:11This one, I mean, you've seen probably half of the video so far, but I'm a bit concerned about the
05:15dispersion on this.
05:17This might worry me.
05:18Three wood, it's got 13 degrees, but it's actually a 12 degree measured loft.
05:21Same Bryson series LA Golf shaft and the same Jumbo Max grips.
05:27This is quite a powerful through wood, so it could be a good backup if that driver does start to
05:31go awry.
05:32And then in the full what's in the bag of the irons, this is where it got really interesting.
05:36I went for a fitting with Avoda Golf and got fitted in some one length irons.
05:41They're Origin series irons, which are absolutely beautiful, by the way.
05:44However, once I'd been fitted and we got discussing what the video was going to look like, a couple of
05:48weeks later,
05:49I got a call from Avoda and they said, would you actually like to use his actual backup set of
05:54irons with the progressive face curvature, the grips, the full shamanca.
05:58These are the exact spec that Bryson uses.
06:01And within about two seconds, obviously I said yes.
06:04Now these things are incredible.
06:05For full details and specs on these, head over to my other video on Golf Monthly, where I do a
06:10full range session.
06:11I'm talking specs, I'm giving you all the details on how they feel.
06:14That's well worth a watch.
06:15Wedges are slightly different.
06:17Bryson generally has played the Pinglide 4.0s, which I couldn't get a hold of, but probably even better.
06:22I got the original Avoda wedges that were designed for this set with the exact same grips, exact same shafts,
06:27the total same specs.
06:29I've got them in 60, 55, 45, 50 before you even get to the pitching wedge.
06:34That's an incredible wedge setup.
06:35We're going to have to work really hard to figure out those yardages.
06:38We already had the sick putter, the arm lock putter at Golf Monthly.
06:42So we just sort of dragged this one out of the cupboard ready to use.
06:45That's going to be an interesting endeavor.
06:46Managed to source the Titleist Pro V1 left dash golf ball that Bryson plays.
06:50So I think I'm fully kitted out.
06:52Let's get back to the golf.
07:14I don't know.
07:16I don't know.
07:19I do have to go.
07:20But I don't know, I'm not good at all.
07:24I don't know.
07:24I don't know.
07:25I don't know.
07:26I don't know.
07:30I need them.
07:34I mean, I have a great ''NBA''
07:35We are a big fan of the ride.
07:35I am a big fan of้ฃๆๅ.
07:35These are the best.
07:35We are to be all for today.
08:06Right, little update. It's going remarkably well, like it's taking me by surprise. I'm having to almost adjust my expectations
08:14a little bit. I'd have probably snapped your hand off a 75 before starting and now I've got off to
08:20that ridiculously hot spot, holding putts all over the place, four under through four, plateaued a bit, made some really
08:26good saves from pretty bad positions and then just really snuck on there after a bad drive on the par
08:31five.
08:31So it's weird. The irons are so difficult in particular. They're beautiful. They feel great when you flush and they're
08:38so solid, but they're so heavy and so stiff.
08:41But it's almost good, though, because I can't miss the ball left. I can't get it to go left. I
08:48can't physically get the club base working through enough to miss it left.
08:51So I've only got one side of the course to play with, which is as difficult as they are. It's
08:55really reassuring to know that I can't hit the ball one way.
08:58So that actually is arguably making things a little bit easier. So I got away with them there, hold a
09:02putt. We're on 14, I think now.
09:07So I've got to knuckle down for a knuckle down for a big finish.
09:36Let's go.
10:10I can't get it to go left, I can't physically get the clubbase working through enough to
10:14miss it left.
10:15I've only got one side of the course to play with.
10:26Come off like an absolute rocket, that's another thing because you've got so little loft in
10:31your hand, what you'd normally bump with becomes two tons stronger.
10:42Come on man, that is as wasteful as it comes.
10:50Go, go, go, go!
10:52Just go left.
10:55Not in there.
10:56Right, last on.
10:58When I started, if you'd have offered me 75 I'd have absolutely snapped your hand off.
11:02It's so weird playing with these just incredibly different clubs to what I'm used to.
11:08But then you get it going and I've hold a lot of putts to do what I'm doing.
11:13And I've just got a little sense of I've wasted a couple here.
11:15That par five just then in particular, I've absolutely launched a drive about 350 down
11:21there.
11:21Should have hit nine iron.
11:23Couldn't convince myself because I'm so used to the nine iron in this.
11:27I had 180 and I just couldn't convince myself nine iron was the right club.
11:31But I've got to get out of the thought that nine iron is a normal nine iron.
11:34It's not.
11:35It's got ridiculously strong lofts compared to mine.
11:38So I tried to dolly an eight, pulled it, didn't get up and down as you saw.
11:41So yeah, I stayed at four and I've just hit what I thought was a good tee shot there.
11:46It's gone five foot right at the pin, taken a little hop right and it's gone in a bunker.
11:51So now I'm scrambling to try and stay at four.
11:56It's so weird with golf how emotions change where even if I don't get up and down and
12:01make a four or three under, I'd have absolutely laughed at you if you'd have said I could have
12:05done that last night and completely snapped your hand off.
12:08But then that's what golf does.
12:10It changes, your expectations get up because things get going.
12:14But I've got to get my head on, get back in the game and try and get this up and
12:17down.
12:35I'm going to tell you where I finished in a moment, but my reaction four under, I am absolutely
12:45chuffed with that. The whole day was so difficult.
12:48It was like relearning the game from trying to find strike with clubs this heavy and this stiff,
12:54trying to get the right yardages was just an absolute minefield.
12:58I couldn't switch off for a minute.
12:59And when I did, I hit a bad shot and that's where I made my bogeys.
13:02It was just such a tough day.
13:04I found it so enjoyable using this stuff.
13:07It was, it was just, yeah, like a voyage of discovery, really enjoyed it.
13:11And I expect you'll probably want to know where I finished.
13:13Well, it turns out that putt on the last for par there after that little bunker site was very important.
13:18There was a few people on three under par.
13:20So we've won.
13:21Four under par wins the tournament.
13:23I've just won a PGA tournament with Bryson DeChambeau's backup set of golf clubs.
13:28Couldn't be happier.
13:29See you next time.
13:30Right, Bryson, if you're watching, love the clubs.
13:33Give me a call.
13:33Let's have a game sometime.
13:34I'll use yours.
13:36You'll use mine.
13:36Let's get it on.
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