Few hit the ball from the fairway to the green better than Sepp Straka. He’s relied on his laser-like approach play for all four of his PGA Tour victories. Austria’s most successful golfer ranks 13th in Strokes Gained: Approach on Tour, 14th when it comes to inside 100 yards and even more impressively, Straka sits second when the ball is outside that range. 

Sepp Straka is one of the best fairway-to-green players on the PGA Tour. @ACameronWRX caught up with the @ClevelandGolf / @SrixonGolf staffer to discuss his setup. pic.twitter.com/DIuW0SgqiD

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So what makes his iron and wedge play click?

Straka is one of many Srixon staffers out on the circuit to play a combination set of ZXi7 and ZXi5 irons. It’s no surprise, as the Huntington Beach, California-based team designed the clubs to share identical topline widths and common design philosophies to seamlessly blend across any combo set, despite being in different iron categories and having varying performance characteristics. 

“ I got the ZXi7s all the way up to the 6-iron and then with a 4- and 5-iron just to help myself get a little bit of a higher launch, higher apex, I go for the ZXi5s, it’s seamless really,” Straka said on his setup. “You never feel like you have to put a different swing on it. Same swing just produces that little bit of a higher ball flight and that’s huge. When you’re playing big golf courses like this one this week (Quaill Hollow Club) where you’re going to end up hitting a lot of those into the greens.”

The irons have also paired perfectly with Straka’s Srixon Z-Star XV.

“The ball is great and it’s great in the wind,” Straka added. “I feel like it doesn’t really get hit by the wind as much as other balls that I tried.

“Spin numbers are great for me with this setup all the way from 9-iron through 4-iron to feel like they’re hitting exactly the numbers that you want and the consistency is incredible.”

When it comes to the wedges, Straka carries four Cleveland RTZ Tour Rack wedges to help him consistently hit it close to pins from scoring range. 

“I go 60 56, 52, 46 (degrees) on the Cleveland RTZs,” Straka explains. “With the 60 and 56, I’ve got quite a lot of bounce, just kind helps my chipping motion around the greens. The four wedges in the bag, I think it’s pretty important. You hit a lot of wedges and you’re trying to hit wedges close, so you want that gap to be pretty small.

“I’ve always played higher bounce, used to have some issues in college and shifting yips issues, if you will. Since then, I’ve been kind of a high bounce player, just kind of giving myself as much forgiveness as I can get around the greens.”

With Cleveland’s all-new Z-Alloy wedge material, a low-density steel that Cleveland found was 10-percent softer than the brand’s RTX 6 ZipCore wedges, Straka has noticed longevity in the face, which continues to hold the “zip on them,” despite his heavy usage on Tour. 

“I like seeing it pretty low trajectory on the wedges, especially in between shot,” Straka said on his elite pitching and wedge approach play. “I feel like if you can use your body and keep kind of an angle going into the shot, it kind of helps you hit those carry numbers a little bit better. You’re going to end up with plenty of spins, so you don’t really need the height to stop the ball. I’ve always kind of felt that flighting the wedges down kind of helps me a little bit.”

This article was presented in partnership with Cleveland/Srixon.