We take a look inside the bag of LIV Golfer Henrik Stenson to see which clubs he is employing for the season.
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00:00Right we are here at the Live Golf UK event at JCB Golf Club with Henrik Stenson and we are going
00:06to do a quick what's in the bag. So I've taken all the head covers off and we're going to start from
00:11the very top and I don't know whether this is going to be the world's most interesting what's
00:14in the bag or the world's most boring what's in the bag. Most boring. You've had the same stuff
00:19for so so long. Talk me through that for a start. You're just not a big changer, not a big experiment
00:24with gear? No I think once we've found stuff that we know works then I tend to hang on to it. So
00:31with the with the three wood in particular right? We'll get to that. Yeah yeah okay sorry I'm not
00:35going to run away with it. We'll start from the top. So yeah in the big stick we've got the Callaway Epic
00:40Max LS and yeah that's in your familiar Graffaloid Blue X. Now this is a shaft that was around when
00:46I was in my junior day so we're talking 20 plus years and this is just something you've always
00:50used and always been familiar with. Yeah yeah what once you know you kind of I like the feeling of
00:55it it's a stiff shaft and it's it's done me a lot of good so why change it? Absolutely and we've got
01:02a couple of contradictory settings here so we're down one in loft which is opening the face a little
01:06bit but we've got weight in the heel to encourage draw. Do you shape-wise with this is it pretty
01:12neutral? Are you looking at neutral? It's pretty neutral I think over the years I've I mean I haven't
01:18put a lot of curve on the on the golf ball in general I'm I'm very much hitting it straight
01:24with a possibly a slight draw most of the time so yeah more all the clubs hopefully go straight.
01:32And grips wise you've got another we've got an older grip here as well so the goal to go with the old
01:36shaft so you've got to coordinate all the age ranges have you? Yeah yeah okay beautiful and do you have
01:41any extra layers of tape it feels pretty much straight on this? Yeah no we we put half a one on the
01:46on the right hand. So just to take the taper out a little bit yeah yeah exactly okay well now the
01:51first bit I've been really excited about the iconic three wood so what iteration of the three wood is
01:56this is this this is uh I mean I've gone through a couple of heads but this is the 2009 Diablo Octane
02:03uh I think I got it tested out just before they would have been the first I guess race to the
02:09Dubai final in 09 down in Dubai and came in the bag and has been in the bag uh most of the week since.
02:16And do you still lean on this an awful lot of the tee? Yeah I mean some courses we would definitely have
02:21more drivers than um than three woods but um yeah I mean it's a trusty trusty club um if you're standing
02:29there on the 72nd holes and you need a fairway finder that has been in general the one that we go to
02:34yeah. Are you a teeing up low guy or do you knock up a bit of turf? What do you do? A bit of both
02:39depends on depending on the shot. Yeah depends on but uh I think I've hit hit it off the deck more
02:44than most. Okay I bet you have and do you know the specs on it in terms of length or do you let
02:49other people get on with that stuff? Yeah it's um I'd say it's probably about half an inch longer
02:53yeah standard. As soon as I put it down it went to me I was thinking 43 and a half 43 three quarters maybe.
02:58Yeah yeah. Okay so then blending away from that iconic number again we've got another very old
03:03what are we calling this forward? What do you call this forward? Yeah so Callaway X-Hot 17 degrees
03:07the X-Hot Pro same shaft throughout again the Grafaloid Blue Tour X there so assuming this is
03:14just I mean we've got a lovely wear mark here you must be proud of that one. Yeah we've hit a couple
03:18in the center I guess. Yeah every now and then it looks like you've got a few there uh interviewing
03:22Ian this morning with his what's in the bag um he's artificially done his wear marks he's he's sharpied
03:27out the bits around it to create a centered strike so that's something you might want to bring up with
03:31it when you see who is it trying to fool himself or the people watching? Well yeah this is it remains
03:36to be seen so I guess from a yardage point of view this just fills in the right gap for you. Yeah I
03:40mean the the three wood is strong right it's about 12 degrees so it's more of a two wood. So this is
03:46stated loft 13. Yeah no it's not really bent I think that head is just a little bit stronger and then
03:53this one at 17 degrees so it's just kind of bridged the bridge the gaps and then down into the into the
04:00three iron really. So I'm looking in your bag here and we're getting into now the super iconic irons
04:04that have been in your bag for ages the Callaway Legacy Blacks now how many sets of these have we had?
04:10I got a whole garage full of them. Really? They normally last a year year and a half these ones are very new
04:15though I just put these in a couple of months ago I got one more brand new set at home. Then what?
04:22And then we're retiring. Then we're done? Yeah. As soon as the clubs are done with that? Yeah. Okay cool really
04:27interesting we've got two three irons here talk me through that. Yeah so coming fresh off the open
04:32this set doesn't come with a two iron so we took took a three iron head bent it down and lengthened it
04:37obviously so that that's my two iron that's in for probably about four or five tournaments a year then the
04:42forward goes out and this one this driving iron is in the bag instead. Do we know what we're going
04:47in this week? Are we driving iron or forward? Or have you not seen the course yet? I haven't seen the
04:50course yet I think. Are we doing two iron or forward this week Lordy? Okay so two iron is out. Two iron gone yeah
05:01flat out completely gone. On that your man Poulter told me to mention some stuff about the durability of
05:08your clubs he said heads tend to last quite a long time some of the shafts they don't
05:12last as long no they're pretty brittle these motor shafts. Find that to be the case. Yeah yeah they
05:17they normally need some assistance though. Okay that's interesting to see and you'll say again
05:21without wanting to go too far off track he asked to mention the expensive nature of the front panel
05:26of these golf bags. Yeah. How much are they to replace and would you know anything about that at all?
05:33They're not as durable as steel plates no. Okay understood we'll move on from that straight away.
05:39Yeah do that. So we've got essentially not two iron now that's gone three iron down to pitch and wedge
05:44in the legacy black. So why have you stayed in these for so long? Again it's just I'm assuming a case of
05:48you found something you like. Yeah I really like the the look of them and and I mean the big reason
05:56we came straight off the US Open at Marion that Justin won in 2013 and I was playing pretty good that
06:02week but the the irons I had I think it was the Racer Tours or something like that and I hit a number
06:08of flyers that cost me dearly that that weekend. We came to Munich and we asked the guys like what
06:15do we have that's not going to fly as much and they came up with these ones they got the the multi-groove.
06:20So there's 19 grooves on the face of these. I don't know if you know that's a more grooves more spin less
06:24chance of flyer I'm guessing. Yeah exactly that was the whole thing. So I mean we're not really catching many
06:28flyers but they also you know they they go short rather the first cut in particular and and I'm a
06:35high spinner of the golf ball so there's always that give and take when we're playing into the wind
06:41you hit a bit hard and with the high spin then it's always a tendency to to stall a bit so it's
06:47but on the other end I've been known to be able to stop like my mid mid to long irons on on slightly
06:53firmer greens than a lot of the other players so it's it's always going to be a give and take
06:58somewhere. So just balancing that trade off all the time okay that's brilliant. Now into wedges so
07:02less wedges than some of the guys I've seen so we've got kind of a three wedge setup if we're
07:05including your pitching wedge yeah go 52 and 58 in the Callaway Jaws wedges here and I see on the 58
07:13we've got I'm not going to say a messy sole but it's had some work done what specifically
07:17yeah we'll just take off a little bit here on the heel when when you need to lay it open and especially
07:23especially on firmer turfs then yeah it can it can bounce a little bit too much otherwise on the
07:29heels so we shave a little bit off that and in terms of I've tried at times to um to take take out the
07:38three iron I strengthened the four iron a little bit and and try and work in four wedges but I always felt
07:44like I was probably because of the two wood forward it was a big gap down that end and that's always been a
07:50strong part of my game as well with a long iron so I felt like I exposed myself a bit too much there
07:55and not gained enough on that so I've always kind of bounced back to three wedges so if I would have
08:01had a fourth one that would have gone as well okay lovely and are you a guy who changes his wedges for
08:06the venue and the ground conditions or you just have your setup and you adapt from there because you
08:10play a lot of different grasses right yeah I tend to have the same ones okay I tried a little bit last
08:15week at Troon have one one of the new Callaway wedges uh that had less bounce on it and it was a
08:22bit sharper but then out of the bunker you feel like it's always always a bit of a bit of give and
08:28take so um yeah I tend to stick with the same ones okay brilliant and then finally into the putter
08:35I've always been intrigued by these grips you use on the putter the Garson grips yeah so what got you in
08:40that so for those who don't know we've got a ridge that sits all the way down the front of the grip here
08:45you sort of guide your your wrists into a more yeah you kind of end up on the outside of that
08:50reminder instead a little bit so it's yeah I just I tried them out my my putting coach Phil Kenyon
08:57he wanted my left hand to be a bit weaker and then I kind of matched up well with that grip
09:02uh and then I've tend to use this this model in in different finishes for for quite some excuse me
09:07quite a long time uh over those 10 years so we've got the number seven here stroke lab big seven
09:12and some nice Swedish custom colors there for you yeah yeah really nice name and there's a little
09:18bit on the way a bit of customization throughout the set there so that's great that's a really
09:22good look inside the back you just tell me ball wise what you play I'll play the uh the regular
09:26pro v1 the the 23 version okay great well thank you very much for your time really appreciate that
09:32that and great luck this week thank you thanks