Equipment

Spotted: 2025 PGA Championship bags, headcovers, and grips

Published

1 year ago

May 14, 2025

Major championships are the time when manufacturers flex their creative muscle with custom staff bags, headcovers, and accessories. Every year, gear for the four major championships have a theme that expresses the course, community, or history of that chosen location. This year, the PGA Championship is being held at the iconic Quail Hollow Club in North Carolina. As you would expect, with “quail” in the name of the course, there are plenty of bird references!

Here are some of the cool custom gear we have seen down at the club.

Scotty Cameron

This one will hit a soft spot with the older crowd who spent many hours playing Nintendo’s Duck Hunt video game. Quails, Scotty Dogs, and of course the green grass they flew out of are all embroidered onto a sky blue putter grip. I love the 8-bit graphic Circle T on the flap of the mallet and side of the blade covers.

Odyssey

So many quails! Odyssey went a little more subtle with their tribute to the second major championship of the year. A light blue cover is trimmed in navy blue and then covered in quail embroidery on the top and bottom. Odyssey then put its name on the sides of the cover, and it looks like there are two different-sized mallets in order to fit some of the larger models.

L.A.B. Golf

L.A.B. Golf’s “Lab Rat” is featured on their major cover holding the famous Wanamaker trophy. We get feathers, but no birds, as L.A.B. kept it a little simpler. They have 3 sizes of head covers for their Link, OZ, Mezz, and larger DF3 models.

TaylorMade

This combination of staff bag and headcovers has a very royal and noble theme! The navy blue and gold colors go well with the crown and feathers that are integrated into the bag and covers. Even the lining inside the bag has a unique look with the white and gold checkerboard.

Callaway

Paying homage to nearby “Queen City” (Charlotte), Callaway created some very cool queen of hearts, spades, and clubs headcovers. Not sure where the diamond version might be, but the covers are also light blue and navy with plenty of stitching on them.

Super Stroke

It seems like Super Stroke has done more and more custom grips over the past few years. For this year’s PGA Championship they created a blue Tour 2.0 putter grip that features a quail wearing a crown and cape. The sides of the grip have feathers and crowns, while the very top contains the 2025 PGA Championship logo.

Cobra

Cobra decided to focus more on the strong auto racing culture around Charlotte and went with a bright teal and purple theme. The Cobra logo was done in a few different ways to look like sponsor stickers on a car, and the bag looks like a Charlotte Hornets Starter jacket from the 1990’s. The fairway cover has a checkered flag on it, and you have to love the Cobra snake on the bag with a golf ball in its mouth.

Bettinardi

The usually very creative putter company went all out with 3 different headcovers this year! The first pays tribute to the racing history of the city with a NASCAR-inspired cover, including a pin-up girl over a checkered background. The next cover gets you the quails you would expect with the classic Bettinardi Tour logo on the top. Another Charlotte Hornets Starter jacket homage cover has a very cool hornet swinging a golf club and the Bettinardi B with a star attached.

Equipment

Slab city on the Korn Ferry Tour — Lead Tape Report

Published

19 hours ago

Jun 10, 2026

Andrew Von Lossow

This week, we have our Tour Photographer, Greg Moore, on the ground at the OccuNet Classic at Tascosa Golf Club in Amarillo, Texas, for the 14th event of the 2026 Korn Ferry Tour season. With that, we see some great things in the Lead Tape Report as we roll into Amarillo.

Joel Thelen

Monday Qualifier, Joel Thelen is in the field this week. He has played on the Korn Ferry Tour for a full season in 2023, and he is back in action this week. A couple of clubs caught my eye this week in his bag.

First off: His trusted Titleist 816 H2 hybrid. This club came out in October of 2015, and it still remains strong in the bag. Also, take a look at this Odyssey White Hot OG 7, putting a capital S in the 7S model. This custom neck has some impressive lean for an arm-lock-style putter. The bottom of the putter is covered in tape for optimal weighting.

Mitchell Meissner

Taking a look at Mitchell Meissner’s bag this week, we have some great lead tape coverage. Top to bottom working from fairway metals, irons, and wedges. We can see on the short irons and wedges that there is tape at the base of the grip, adding a little counterbalance. Along with that, some tape on the short irons and wedges as well. Moving to his putter, he rolls the Odyssey 7 Bird putter. Meissner putts left-handed and strikes the ball right-handed.

Whats in the Bag

Bud Cauley WITB 2026 (June)

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19 hours ago

Jun 10, 2026

Will Schube

Bud Cauley had >14 clubs in his bag when photographed prior to the Memorial Tournament.

Driver: Titleist GTS2 (8 degrees)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Black 6 X

3-wood: Titleist GTS3 (15 degrees, B1 SureFit setting)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Chemical Tensei 1K Pro Red 70 TX

7-wood: Titleist GTS3 (21 degrees, D1 SureFit setting)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Chemical Tensei 1K Pro Red 80 TX

Irons: Titleist U505 (3), Titleist 620 MB (4-9)
Shafts: Fujikura Ventus Black HB 8 X, True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue

Wedges: Titleist Vokey Design SM11 (48-10F, 52-12F, 56-14F), WedgeWorks (60-K*)
Shafts: True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400

Putters: Scotty Cameron Tour Prototype, Scotty Cameron GOLO 6.3 Prototype

Grips: Golf Pride Tour Velvet Align

Ball: Titleist Pro V1

See more in-hand photos of Bud Cauley’s clubs here.

Equipment

Name every set of irons you’ve owned – GolfWRXers discuss

Published

19 hours ago

Jun 10, 2026

Will Schube

In our forums, one user has offered up a prompt for the true sickos, inviting fellow forum members to share every set of irons they’ve ever owned. As to be expected, this is a lengthy forum topic.

@Lamosteve began:

Can you name every set of irons you’ve owned? Here’s mine

Spalding Dots
Spalding Eclipse
Ram Lazer FX
Lynx Parallax
Mizuno EZ Comp
Ben Hogans
Cleveland CG Red
Taylor Made R9s
PING i20
PING iE1
Taylor Made M6

Our members in the forum have been offering up their own collections. Here are a few posts from the thread, but make sure to check out the entire discussion and have your say at the link below.

macedan: “Started with a hand-me-down Golden Bear set from my brother when I was in high school, never really played more than once a year or got into the game until about summer of 2017. First purchased a set of Cleveland CG4’s (I actually really miss this set sometimes, soft & not terribly large for a GI iron), moved into Nike Vapor Fly’s by the end of the year. Those lasted until spring of 18 when I decided I wanted new, so I traded them in for TM Rbladez. Honestly, although I liked the Rbladez, poor decision on my part, I think this was really about the only time so far that after a week or two I was kicking myself for not staying with what I had. Rbladez stayed with me until late last summer when I switched to P790’s and (knock on wood) I am hoping this will be my longest lasting set.”
JimmyC59: “MacGregor Jack Nicklaus Triple Crown. Palmer The Standard. Still play these.”
jgrzask: “Tommy Armour 845u
Mizuno MP-32
Mizuno MP-33 (2 sets)
Bridgestone J33cb – still own
Srixon i-302 (2 sets) – still own
Tourstage X-Blades – still own
Mizuno Hot Metal – still own
Nike Forged Blades – still own
Titleist 714 AP1 – still own
Cobra Forged SS – still own”

Entire Thread: “Name every set of irons you’ve owned.”