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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 do it.
03:02So hard to know what to hit.
03:04It's 154 out the rough, down and off the left, but normally to me would be the hard wedge
03:09or little nine, but I don't know.
03:22Oh, you little...
03:28Yeah, good boy.
03:28Yeah, good boy.
03:57Right, well, little, not mid-round update, where 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, but 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
04:40very easy to control because it's super low spin, so that's really good.
04:43And as you see, the putt has been behaving itself so far, so yeah, fingers crossed.
04:47Long may it continue.
04:48In the meantime, check out the more detailed what's in the bag of what I'm actually using
04:53today, and we'll get back to some golf.
04:55So what's in the actual bag, full detail?
04:57So starting with driver, we've got the crank formula fire, five 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
05:09Jumbo Max grips.
05:11This one, I mean, you've seen probably half of the video so far, but I'm a bit concerned
05:15about the dispersion 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 three-wood, so it could be a good backup if that driver does
05:30start to go 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
05:48of weeks later, I got a call from Avoda and they said, would you actually like to use
05:52his actual backup set of irons with the progressive face curvature, the grips, the full shaman
05:58kiddies, 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
06:09I do a full range session.
06:11I'm talking specs.
06:12I'm giving you all the details on how they feel.
06:14That's well worth a watch.
06:15Wedges are slightly different.
06:16Bryson generally has played the Pinglide 4.0, which I couldn't get a hold of, but probably
06:21even better, I got the original Avoda wedges that were designed for this set with the
06:25exact same grips, exact same shafts, the 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, so we've just sort
06:43of 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.
07:20Let's get back to the golf.
07:37Let's go.
08:05We're back.
08:07Right, 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. It's weird. The irons are so difficult in particular. They're beautiful.
08:37They feel great when you flush and they're so solid, but they're so heavy and so stiff, but it's almost
08:43good though because I can't miss the ball left. I can't get it to go left. I can't physically get
08:48the 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. So that actually is arguably making things a
09:00little bit easier.
09:01So I got away with them on there, hold a putt. We're on 14, I think now. So got knuckled
09:08down for a knuckle down for a big finish.
09:37So.
09:43So.
09:46So.
09:52So.
09:53So.
09:53So.
09:54So.
09:57So.
10:10I can't get it to go left. I can't physically get the club base working through enough to miss it
10:15left.
10:15So I'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 your hand, what you'd
10:33normally bump with becomes two times stronger.
10:36Ah!
10:42Come on, man.
10:43Come on!
10:45Ah!
10:45This is a waste as it comes.
10:48Come on.
10:50Go.
10:50Go.
10:52Go!
10:52Go!
10:55Not in there!
10:56Right.
10:57Last 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.
11:10And I've hold a lot of putts to do what I'm doing.
11:12and I've just got a little sense of I've wasted a couple here that par 5 just then in particular
11:17I've absolutely launched a drive about 350 down there should have hit nine iron couldn't convince
11:24myself because I'm so used to like the nine iron in this I had 180 and I just couldn't convince
11:28myself nine iron was was the right club but I've got to get out of the thought that nine iron's
11:34a
11:34normal nine iron it's not it's got ridiculously strong lofts compared to mine so I tried to
11:38dolly and eight pulled it didn't get up and down as you saw so yeah stayed at four and I've
11:44just hit
11:45what I thought was a good tee shot there it's gone five foot right the pin taking a little hop
11:49right
11:49and it's gone in a bunker so now I'm scrambling to try and stay at four and like so weird
11:57with golf
11:57how emotions change where even if I don't get up and down and make a four three under I'd have
12:03absolutely laughed at you if you just said I could have done that last night and completely snapped
12:08your hand off but then that's what golf does it changes get your expectations get up because
12:12things get going but I've got to get my head on get back in the game and try and get
12:16this up and down
12:37right so just to round it off I'm going to tell you where I finished in a moment but my
12:42reaction
12:43four under I am absolutely chuffed with that the whole day was so difficult it was like
12:49relearning the game from trying to find strike with clubs this heavy and this stiff trying to get the
12:54right yardages was just an absolute minefield I couldn't switch off for a minute and when I did I
13:00hit a bad shot and that's where I made my bogeys it was just such a tough day I found
13:04it so enjoyable
13:05using this stuff it was it was just yeah like a voyage of discovery really enjoyed it and I expect
13:12you
13:12all probably want to know where I finished well it turns out that part on the last for par there
13:16after that little bunker site was very important there was a few people on three under par so we've
13:21won four under par wins the tournament I've just won a PGA tournament with Bryson DeChambo's backup set
13:27of golf clubs couldn't be happier see you next time right Bryson if you're watching love the clubs give
13:33me a call let's have a game sometime I'll use yours you'll use mine let's get it on
13:37you
13:37you
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