PGA Championship Equipment Round-Up | Golf Monthly

PGA Championship Equipment Round-Up

As the 105th PGA Championship gets underway at Oak Hill, many professionals and brands have introduced new gear specifically for the tournament, with new bags, clubs and apparel being seen at the venue in New York. Here’s what you can expect to see at Oak Hill for the second Major of the year.

PGA Championship Bags

Whenever a Major championship comes about, you can be guaranteed that brands are going to create a bag to celebrate the occasion. For the 2023 PGA Championship, it is no different, with TaylorMade, Callaway and Cobra bringing out special editions of their staff bags, as well as unique headcovers.

TaylorMade has gone for a design that features plenty of oak leaves, not surprising given we are playing at Oak Hill. Along with the leaves, they have also incorporated four acorns with the dates of when the course hosted the PGA Championship, as well as Rochester’s ‘garbage plate’. For those unsure what that is, it’s a plate of food that it is quite famous in New York, with it including food like hamburgers, fries, macaroni salad, etc.

Callaway has also introduced a limited edition bag this week, with a tartan print incorporating an Oak Hill symbol on the front with oak leaves on the inside of the pockets. There are also limited edition headcovers with DR stitched into them. We believe the DR stands for Donald Ross, who originally designed the Oak Hill course.

The last manufacturer to release a bag for the PGA Championship is Cobra, with their design taking inspiration from Oak Hill’s Tudor style clubhouse. The bag, therefore, has a brick pattern on the side panel and ivy growing into the Cobra logo. Also, because the city of Rochester used to be known as the “flour city,” there are hints of wheat sprinkled throughout the bag’s design.

Phil Mickelson And Bryson DeChambeau Using TaylorMade BRNR Mini Driver

Phil Mickelson and Bryson DeChambeau are two of the game’s most knowledgeable players when it comes to equipment and, at the PGA Championship, it appears both are putting the TaylorMade BRNR Mini Driver into play.