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10 Revealing photos from the 2016 Memorial Tournament

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GolfWRX was live this week from the 2016 Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village in Dublin, Ohio. If you missed any of the photos this week, make sure to browse the galleries below.

The Memorial Tournament is special for two reasons:

  • It attracts a heavy-hitting field.
  • It’s “Jack’s Place.”

The course itself is beautiful, but it makes it that much more remarkable for a golf fan that Muirfield Village is dreamed up and designed by Jack Nicklaus — either the best or second-best golfer of all-time, depending on who you ask.

We’ll reveal some photos below, but first, a video that honors the Golden Bear, and what he has done for and in the game of golf.

The longest yard

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Next time you head to the practice green to work on your stroke, bring a yardstick. This is one of the simplest, effective and frustrating putting drills around. And if you get too angry, remember to snap the yardstick over your knee, not your putter.

New Srixons on the horizon?

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Based on the irons in Hideki Matsuyama’s bag, showing Z765s, and the photo snapped below, showing Z965s, it appears that Srixon will be unveiling a new line of irons some time in the near future.

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Refreshing simplicity

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Much of Muirfield Village takes after Augusta National, so it’s only right that the course utilizes log-looking stakes as tee markers. Sure, it’s not as entertaining as FedEx trucks or John Deere tractors, but golf isn’t always about extravagance.

Camilo’s customs

4ba70b529adf14195a6447a7dda8d8d1In recent years, Camilo Villegas has had his irons bent to his liking, with a drawn-on reminder of the lofts. But his new PSi irons are unique in the fact that the soles have been ground, and stamped with new numbers, creating an awesome one-of-a-kind look.

A 40.5-degree 8 iron? That’s got to be one of the weakest 8 irons on the PGA Tour. The reason why? Camilo is a very low spin player, and needs the added loft to create optimal launch conditions.

Wedge stampings refuse to die

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So, I proclaimed a stricter criteria for wedge stampings in a recent rendition of revealing photos, saying I had to be blown away to include a stamping due to overabundance on Tour. And I’m already eating my words over this super-creative Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde stamping. Brilliant.

Spieth’s decision

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We’ve seen Jordan Spieth bounce back-and-forth between a Titleist 716 T-MB 3-iron and a 712U 3-iron for most of the 2016 season. After winning with the T-MB at last week’s Dean & DeLuca Invitational, it appears he’s made a long-term decision. He’s not even carrying the 712U during his practice round this week.

See Spieth’s Winning WITB from the Dean & DeLuca Invitational here.

A photograph-off

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This is a photo taken by our photographer Greg Moore of GolfWRX Founder and President Richard Audi. So they’re taking a picture of each other taking a picture of each other. Did GolfWRX just explode in on itself? The guy on the right is mind blown, too.

Taking dead aim

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Fun fact: Jonas Blixt once had dreams of being a hockey star rather than a professional golfer, but said he “never really got big enough or good enough.”

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He seems to have some prowess with the wrist shot, but struggled to keep this shot on goal. Juuuust a bit outside.

Bryson is serious about his shaft testing

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We spotted Bryson DeChambeau testing a few different fairway wood shafts on the practice range — and by a few I mean nearly every Oban, Graphite Design and Mitsubishi Rayon Tensei shaft in existence. It will be interesting what shaft the most-interesting-equipment-geek-in-golf decides on this week, and whether he sticks with it going forward.

Hole No. 1, 470 yards

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Must be nice to pull a fairway wood with no worries, huh Rory?

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Bubba went with a driver, but he was probably going for the green. And who could pull off a pink driver, pink shaft, and non-matching yellow glove like Bubba can? Answer: No one.

He played on the Hawaii Pacific University Men's Golf team and earned a Masters degree in Communications. He also played college golf at Rutgers University, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism.

4 Comments

4 Comments

  1. Brandon

    Jun 4, 2016 at 10:30 pm

    Those Srixon Z9s look incredible!

    • OH

      Jun 6, 2016 at 7:51 am

      I cannot wait for more on those. Absolutely beautiful.

  2. greg Moore

    Jun 4, 2016 at 3:01 pm

    I can’t believe the guy in the camo shirt and shorts didn’t make the top photos.

    • Andrew Tursky

      Jun 4, 2016 at 6:08 pm

      He must have blended in so well that I missed him!

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Neal Shipley, AKA, the “Big Fridge’s,” custom stamping

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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.

Check out Shipley’s full what’s in the bag and the rest of his wedge stampings here on “Inside the Ropes” from Colonial.

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From the GolfWRX Classifieds: L.A.B. Purple DF3 with Masters cover

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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

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Whats in the Bag

Maria Torres WITB 2026 (June)

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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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