Stewart Cink What’s In The Bag? – 2009 Open Champion

Stewart Cink What’s In The Bag?

Stewart Cink is an eight-time winner on the PGA Tour, two of which came in 2020 and 2021 after a gap of 11 years since his 2009 Open Championship victory. What clubs does the American put in his bag each week? Let’s take a look. Previously a Nike staff player, Cink became an equipment free agent after the brand stopped making clubs in 2016. Over the next couple of years he would continue to play without an equipment contract but that changed at the beginning of 2019 as he signed a multi-year contract with Ping. He had been playing their clubs for a while but in January it became an official relationship.

Stewart Cink What’s In The Bag?

Driver

Ping G425 Max

The deal sees Cink play at least 11 Ping clubs but right now it appears, excluding his wedges, all of his clubs are made by the brand. He starts out with the G425 Max driver (opens in new tab) and it has 10.5 degrees of loft and a Graphite Design shaft. It is with this driver, and some minor swing adjustments, that he has seen a big increase in distance as last season he went from 113th to 27th in driving distance. One of these changes was to move his ball position so that he could use a lower-lofted driver than usual. 

Fairways

Ping G425 Max, Ping G410

Cink then uses a Ping G425 Max three-wood (opens in new tab) along with a Ping G410 seven-wood. They have 15.5 and 19.75 degrees of loft and interestingly have completely different shafts. The three-wood has a Project X HZRDUS Smoke Green shaft whilst the higher lofted model has a Accra FX 2.0 360 M5 shaft. We usually see professionals have differently weighted shafts in their fairway woods but seeing a completely different model is not as common as you would think. 

Irons

Ping i200, Ping Prototype

He has an interesting iron setup at the moment. He carries a Ping i200 three-iron before transitioning into a set of Ping prototype irons. He had been using a set of…