Equipment
10 revealing photos from the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am
GolfWRX was live this week from the 2016 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, and if you haven’t browsed the galleries yet for this week, I highly suggest you do so now. There’s nothing quite like the beauty of the Monterey Peninsula, and our Tour photographer Greg Moore captured it wonderfully.
But what were the most telling photos from the week? Here are 10 revealing photos from Pebble Beach.
Golf in a nutshell
I wonder how us golfers appear from an outside perspective. We must look certified; using balance beams, T-squares, feet pads and mirrors, all for the sake of improvement. Call us crazy, but we’re certainly resolute.
The lead-tape effect
If I’m reading these notes correctly, this TaylorMade RBZ went from a swing weight of C7.5 to D1 due to the application of lead tape. These photos are my favorite; the ones that offer a look into how Tour players tinker with and refine their equipment.
Ian Poulter still owns Ferarri’s
Poulter had his Ferrari collection stamped on his Titleist SM5 wedges, and he’s back with the stampings on his SM6 wedge this year. If ever you need a reminder that PGA Tour players live the good life, just remember that Ian Poulter has his Ferrari collection stamped on a golf club that he gets paid to use… at Pebble Beach.
Well, that doesn’t seem very fair
Justin Rose recently put the new TaylorMade M2 in his bag. That’s awesome! You can buy the new driver and be just like Justin! Except the fact he’s playing an 8.5 degree head, which isn’t even offered in a retail model. I suppose there are perks to being a former U.S. Open champion.
In jail
Well, at least Kevin Na’s golf ball didn’t end up in the Pacific Ocean. But to get the ball out of this predicament — in jail between a rock wall and a huge bunker lip — he may end up pulling a hamstring and costing himself a few shots in the process.
Overprotective wedges
I can understand wanting to safeguard wedges this raw, but “take at your own risk” is almost daring someone to steal it, no?
Risk reward
How daring would you be with your tee shot on Hole No. 18 at Pebble Beach? Take it over the water and left of the tree and you’re left with an eagle possibility. Or, would you play right of the tree with an iron or hybrid and play for par?
Chillin’
If you hook your ball left into the ocean on the 18th hole and you’re about to snap your driver over your knee, just remember there’s a seal who’s sleeping on the rocks who couldn’t care less.
TaylorMade’s new Mini-Spider
After seeing overwhelming success with its SLDR Mini and AeroBurner Mini drivers, TaylorMade decided to use a similar concept with its putters. Enter: The TaylorMade Mini-Spider.
Glorious
It’s one of the most famous closing holes in golf for good reason. Aside from the entertainment of a risk-reward, closing par 5, it’s simply one of the most beautiful golf holes in the world. Where else can you play golf and have waves crashing in your backswing, with water splashing over your head?
Neal Shipley was the first to admit that he enjoyed his food while in college. But since his days at Ohio State, he’s slimmed down and earned a PGA Tour Card.
That hasn’t stopped him from having fun with his wedge stampings, though it’s led to some misunderstandings.
On the 54 (degree), we have ‘Big Fudge,'” Shipley told GolfWRX. “It was supposed to be ‘Big Fridge,’ so this happened a little while ago. ‘Big Fridge’ was a nickname between my college teammates and I, with ‘fridge’ meaning stomach, a big stomach.
“We told the Ping guys to put … ‘Big Fridge’ on it, and I think maybe some bad cell service or something, and they thought I said ‘fudge,’ so they put fudge on it.”
On Shipley’s 50-degree he also continues the food theme, this time with his go-to order at the “Golden Arches,” and his stamping “DONS 7.”
“The number 7 meal, the two cheeseburger meal, that was my McDonald’s order, back when I would have McDonald’s frequently,” Shipley shared.
At GolfWRX, we are a community of like-minded individuals who all experience and express our enjoyment of the game in many ways.
It’s that sense of community that drives day-to-day interactions in the forums on topics that range from best driver to what marker you use to mark your ball. It even allows us to share another thing we all love – buying and selling equipment.
Currently, in our GolfWRX buy/sell/trade (BST) forum, @raw10628 has a L.A.B. DF3 putter and Masters putter cover up for grabs.
From the listing: “Some great items here today, time to thin out and make room for next set of gear. All prices include shipping.
LAB DF3 Purple 33.5” 68° lie with TPT – $725. LAB Masters release DF3 cover – $150.”
To check out the full listing in our BST forum, head through the link. If you are curious about the rules to participate in the BST Forum, you can learn more here: GolfWRX BST Rules
Driver: Ping G440 LST (9 degrees)
Shaft: Accra TourZ Green 5-M4
3-wood: Ping G440 Max (15 degrees)
Shaft: Accra TourZ Green 6-M4
5-wood: Ping G440 Max (19 degrees @18)
Shaft: Accra TourZ Green 6-M4
Hybrid: Ping G440 (23 degrees)
Shaft: Oban Isawa Red Hybrid Shaft 04 Flex 70 Gms
Irons: Srixon ZXi7 (5-P)
Shafts: Aerotech SteelFiber Private Reserve i80
Wedges: Cleveland RTZ (50-MID, 54-FULL, 58-MID)
Shafts: Aerotech SteelFiber Private Reserve i105
Putter: L.A.B. Golf OZ.1i
Shaft: ACCRA Putter Shaft
Grips: Golf Pride Tour Velvet
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Maria Torres WITB 2026 (June)
Driver: Ping G440 LST (9 degrees) Shaft: Accra TourZ Green 5-M4 3-wood: Ping G440 Max (15 degrees) Shaft: Accra TourZ Green 6-M4 5-wood: Ping G440...
Eric Cole WITB 2026 (June)
Driver: PXG Lightning Tour Max (9 degrees) Shaft: Project X Titan Yellow 70 TX 3-wood: TaylorMade Qi4D (15 degrees) Shaft:...
Si Woo Kim WITB 2026 (May)
Driver: Callaway Quantum Triple Diamond (8.5 degrees) Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Black 6 X Mini driver: Callaway Paradym Ai Smoke Mini...
Wyndham Clark’s winning WITB: 2026 CJ Cup Byron Nelson
Driver: TaylorMade Qi4D (10.5 degrees) Shaft: Project X Titan Yellow 60 TX 3-wood: TaylorMade Qi4D Tour (15 degrees) Shaft: Project...
KK
Feb 17, 2016 at 11:28 pm
Ian Poulter sures tries hard to put people off. I think its great that he collects Ferraris and has the money to buy so many. I understand that professional golfers have a skill that very few people have and use that skill to make the money they make. I never complain about how much money a professional athlete earns or make blanket statements like they aren’t worth what they make. But to stamp your wedge with the model of every one of your Ferraris is just so smug, elitist, and just douche bag status. What’s the point? To remind yourself how good your life is? To be completely honest, 90% of the wedge stampings I have seen on this website make me think to myself….why??
Reeves
Feb 15, 2016 at 6:10 pm
I think moat if not all training aids have there one big ah ha moment then become useless garage clutter…..tip search ebay for used training aids because used ones are just as good as the new one still have that 20 second ah ha moment built in for you…then off to the storage unit…
[email protected]
Feb 14, 2016 at 1:34 am
TaylorMade is a joke. Boycott them
Fahgdat
Feb 15, 2016 at 1:05 am
You’re a joke
JR
Feb 13, 2016 at 5:02 pm
Reference 1st pic. Pros use plenty of training aids. The “popular” instructors who post in the instruction forum will tell you training aids dont work.
Joshuaplaysgolf
Feb 14, 2016 at 3:24 am
I think it depends on what sort of training aid your talking about. Really he’s just checking his alignment and trying to increase the feel in his feet. I don’t really see that as a training aid as much as an effort to make sure he’s square, bottoming the club out in the right place, and feeling his weight centered and shifting through his feet. When I think of ‘training aids’ I think of the wonky infomercials we all see on golf channel and late at night that are filled with straps, bars, hinges, or whatever else these people think of. I saw something for a samurai golf school a few weeks back. Ridiculous. BUT, if we are filing everything from alignment sticks to the robo swing machine under the ‘training aid’ umbrella, then I would be wrong. Personally, I think checking your alignment is highly useful, if not necessary…and if you have to strap a bunch of stuff to you or whatever to make the ‘perfect swing’ (doesn’t exist), it’s junk and we should all stay far, far away.