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Lee Westwood What’s In the Bag?

The Englishman has been a Ping staffer for his entire career and currently has a full bag of the company’s products.

Lee Westwood What’s In the Bag?

Driver

Ping G425 LST

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Westwood currently plays the Ping G425 LST driver (opens in new tab) and has done for some time. One of the biggest strengths in Westwood’s game is his driving and the G425 allows him to maintain his distance without hindering accuracy. In our review the entire G425 range feels more stable than the previous G410 models, and we got a tighter dispersion as well. 

Fairway

Ping G425 Max

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He also carries a Ping G425 Max 3-wood which has 14.5 degrees of loft. It is a model which made our Editor’s Choice list for 2021 because it is the most forgiving and universally playable fairway wood in the G425 family. It is made with a one-piece face, rather than the steel face insert used in the G410 models, and this has increased ball speeds across the face by up to 1.5mph – a significant amount in an evolutionary model. Ping has also done away with the Turbulators that dominated the crown on last year’s G410 fairway wood and have replaced them with a simple, clean three dot system. This is great for lining up the ball consistently in the centre of the face.

Hybrid

Ping G425

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Westwood also decides to carry a G425 hybrid (opens in new tab) as well which has 19 degrees of loft. We found it to be extremely forgiving, surprisingly long and pulled off successful shots from many different lies. Admittedly it does create quite a loud sound at impact but overall we didn’t think this was a massive issue. 

Irons

Ping i210

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He occasionally carries around a driving iron which is a Ping G Crossover but this comes in and out of the setup regularly. His irons are the Ping i210 model which he has…

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