Infractions were the talk of multiple tour towns this week in professional golf. Both the Asian and DP World Tours saw outcomes influenced by assessed penalties. The PGA Tour had an odd one, self-assessed, but it might have served more as motivation than impediment. On the one hand, it’s good to know that tour officials are stepping up the enforcement of the rules that define competition. On the other, given the spread-out nature of tournament golf, enforcement will be determined largely by the competitors.

Let’s get to the rest of the shots and the rest of the gear. Tour Tech Rundown is back for its tenth installment of the year. Thanks to you for reading, and thanks to InsideTourGolf, Today’s Golfer, and GolfWRX for the initial equipment research.

PGA Tour Champions @ Regions Tradition: Cink sinks the competition for major #2

Way back in the day, the Ping Man was the mascot for the Phoenix nee Scottsdale company founded by Karsten Solheim. If Ping were to create a redux for 2026, they might consider updating Ping Man’s fit to that of a certain six feet four inch bald dude from Alabama. After not winning a senior major during his first three years on PGA Tour Champions, Cink has finished atop the standings at each of this year’s two majors. Cink won the Senior PGA in April, and now has a Regions Tradition to add to his resume.

This week in Birmingham, Cink put some home cooking on the table for his home-state fans. The eight-time champion on tour vintage jumped out to a two-shot advantage over Charlie Wi, thanks to a pair of 65. Wi followed his twin 66s with a 77, and did well to rebound Sunday with 68 for a T5 finish. Cink tossed 71 and 69 over the weekend, demanding that any competition would necessitate a pair of mid-60s scorecards. None materialized. Scott Hend pitched a 65 of his own on Sunday, and it was enough for him to bypass Colin Montgomerie for solo 2nd place. Monty placed third, and Soren Kjeldsen came fourth.

Stewart’s Equipment Duffle

So what is Ping Man 2.0 gaming these days? Put it this way, if Ping made a tour-quality golf ball, Cink might roll it on the greens. Cink hitched his wagon to these Arizona sticks long ago, and has resisted any and all entreaties from rival equipment companies. His only nod to brands alternate is in the higher-lofted wedges.

• Driver: Ping G440 Max at 10 degrees
• Metal: Ping G440 Max at 15 degrees
• Hybrid: Ping G430 at 19 degrees
• Irons: Ping i210 4 through 9, plus PW and UW
• Wedge: Vokey Design at 56 and 60 degrees
• Putter: Ping Vault 2.0 Ketsch
• Ball: Titleist ProV1x

Back-to-back birdies ??@stewartcink extends the lead to 4 @RegionsTrad with 6 left to play.

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— PGA TOUR Champions (@ChampionsTour) May 3, 2026

LPGA @ Riviera Maya Open: Don’t whoa, Nelly

Shady’s back…Nelly’s back. Nelly Korda is back on her game, back to health, back to competitive fitness. That’s great news for women’s golf, and challenging news for every other LPGA member. When Nelly wins often, the greater sports world pays Caitlin Clark-level attention to gals’ golf. This week along the Mayan Riviera in Mexico, Nelly sped to a four-shot win over Thailand’s Arpichaya Yubol, with China’s Yu Liu in third, another shot distant.

Multiple scores in the 60s were not in plentiful supply this week at Mayakoba’s El Camaleon golf course. Korda presented one each day, the only player in the field to reach that level of achievement. Only on day four did she soar as high as 69, and that came after the outcome was no longer in doubt. Amateur Maria Jose Marin of Colombia, the recent winner of the Augusta National Women’s Amateur, parlayed a sponsor’s invitation into a fifth-place finish, thanks to a 138 tally on the weekend.

Nelly’s Equipment Duffle

• Driver: TaylorMade Qi4D at 10 degrees
• Metals: TaylorMade Stealth 2 at 15 and 21 degrees
• Hybrid: Ping G425 at 26 degrees
• Iron: TaylorMade P770 5 iron
• Irons: TaylorMade P7CB 6 to Pitching Wedge
• Wedges: TaylorMade MG4 at 50, 54, and 58 degrees
• Putter: TaylorMade NK Proto
• Ball: TaylorMade TP5x

PGA Tour @ Cadillac Championship: Cam claims second 2026 title in Florida 

For a New York lad raised and fed on northern bent grass, Cameron Young has found a second home on southern seeds. Wins in North Carolina and twice in Florida, make you wonder how the world’s best figure things out better than the rest of us. Cameron Young collected his third PGA Tour title in eight months, thanks to the completeness of his game.

How complete? Young called a moving-ball penalty on himself on the 56th hole, yet still made par and preserved his sizable advantage. Young’s dominance began on day one, when he made eight birdies (just one on a par-five hole!) and signed for a leading 64. A day-two 67 brought him to twelve-deep, and upped his advantage from one to five shots. Day three saw him grind out a 70. It was a non-moving day, as no one took a run at the leader. Day four saw the penalty avoidance, another spate of birdies, and a 68 for 19-under par.

Young raced to a six-shot win over Scottie Scheffler, with Ben Griffin one shot behind. The victory might elevate him to world number three, swapping places with Matt Fitzpatrick, but at this juncture, Young lacks only a major victory to ascend to the conversation for world’s best.

Cameron’s Equipment Duffle

The team at WRX did a terrific job delineating how Cameron Young built his bag around the Titleist ProV1 double left dot ball. Nothing was broken, mind you, but something needed to be better, to find both distance and consistency. Enjoy that read. For now, have a look at Cameron Young’s equipment duffle.

• Driver: Titleist GT3 set at 11 degrees of loft
• Metal: Titleist GT1 set at 14.5 degrees of loft
• Metal: Titleist GTS3 set at 21 degrees of loft
• Iron: Titleist T200 4 iron
• Iron: Titleist T100 5 iron
• Irons: Titleist 631.CY Prototype 6 through 9 iron
• Wedges: Titleist Vokey Design SM11 at 48, 52, 57, 62 degrees of loft
• Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom 9.5R Tour Prototype
• Ball: Titleist Pro V1x Double Dot

DP World Tour @ Turkish Airlines Open:

Would Gregorio De Leo have made impact on the outcome of the TAO, had he not been assessed a one-shot penalty for pace of play? Known only to the mists of time, De Leo’s T7 finish might have risen had he not been nabbed by the slow-play police. Certainly, Mikael Lindberg likes to think that he was this week’s chosen one, penalty or none. Lindberg posted minus-three on day four, to separate from his third round co-leader, Daniel Rodrigues, and hoist an initial DP World Tour title trophy.

There would be bogeys on Sunday, it was clear. The leaders were all men of little victory experience, at least at this level. The question, then, was which would make enough birdies to compensate for the mistakes. Rodrigues had three birdies on the day, while fellow runner-up Guido Migliozzi another trio of red numbers. It was Lindberg that took risks, Lindberg that tapped birdie in on six occasions. That half-dozen of cherries offset the triumvirate of bogeys that he acquired, and brought him to a two-shot win.

Rodrigues had a late bogey at the 16th, when he needed birdies, while Migliozzi was errant enough to disavow any realistic chance at saving a stroke. Lindberg summoned poise over the stretch run, closing with three pars, after a birdie-birdie-bogey run from 13 to 15.

Lindberg’s Equipment Duffle

Mikael Lindberg rocks Callaway in nearly every category. Metals, irons, even the putter (Callaway subsidiary Odyssey) sport the distinctive chevron. Lindberg’s only departure from the Carlbad company is his cue ball, which comes from Massachusetts and the Acushnet factory.

• Driver: Callaway Quantum
• Three Metal: Callaway Paradym Ai Smoke
• Seven Metal: Callaway Elyte
• Three Iron: Callaway
• Four Iron: Callaway Apex TCB
• Five through Ten (PW) Irons: Callaway
• Wedges: Callaway Opus SP at 52 and 56 degrees
• Wedge: Callaway Opus at 60 degrees
• Putter: Odyssey Ai-One Jailbreak Mini or Odyssey Ai-Dual Jailbreak Mini 1/2 Ball
• Ball: Titleist Pro V1x

Asian Tour @ Maekyung Open: Song defeats Cho in playoff

Five words may be enough for a subheading (Song defeats Cho in playoff) but they scratch just the surface of all the stretch-run intrigue on Sunday in Seongnam-si. First came Inhoi Hur, who electrified the crowd with a 64, reaching 11-under par on the week. Moments after finishing, Hur was informed by tournament officials that a penalty would be retroactively applied to his round-three score, and that his tally would be reduced to nine-under par. None of this mattered at the time.

An hour earlier, the final threesome saw Min-hyuk Song make bogey at the 16th, to fall to the same, minus-eleven figure. Song’s bogey gave Min-gyu Cho a three-shot advantage with two hole remaining. Cho had yet to win on home soil, and the route to the title was clear, but it was not to be. Cho made bogey at the par-three 17th, then missed a three-feet putt for bogey at the 18th, dropping from 14-under to 11-deep within 30 minutes’ time.

Song and Cho went off to extra holes, while Hur was left on the sideline, eerily reminiscent of the Martin Kaymer-Bubba Watson PGA Championship playoff in 2010. On that occasion, Dustin Johnson was relegated from the playoff after a late penalty was assessed. On the extra hole, Cho made another bogey, while Song held steady with par, and the trophy found a home in Minhyuk Song’s hands.

Song’s Equipment Duffle

Min-hyuk is all in on the Titleist gear, judging from the company website. Song wields a bag filled with black, red, and white cudgels, games a Titleist ball, spins Vokey wedges, and slaps a Cameron putter.

• Driver: Titleist GT2 at 10 degrees loft
• Metal: Titleist GT3 at 15 degrees loft
• Hybrid: TSR2 at 18 degrees loft
• Utility Iron: T200 3 and 4 irons
• Irons: T100 5 through PW
• Wedges: Vokey Design SM10 at 50, 54, and 60 degrees
• Putter: Scotty Cameron NPT 1.5
• Ball: Titleist Pro V1x