As a somewhat still competitive PGA Professional in my local region, I still watch a lot of golf on television in my spare time, and one man has dominated my screen in the past 12 months. Whether in the major championships, on Instagram, or on his extremely popular YouTube channel, Bryson DeChambeau was everywhere in 2024. Furthermore, as an equipment writer, I have always been fascinated by his attitude towards his golf clubs, and his willingness to push the boundaries and try something completely different. So much so that I even recently interviewed Tom Bailey, founder of Avoda Golf, the fledgling company that concocted the 3D-printed, curved-faced irons that Bryson rushed into play at the Masters and has stuck with ever since.
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For a while now, I had just accepted Bryson’s unorthodox approach to golf equipment – be it his 5° driver, the curved face, 5° upright, one-length irons with the thickest grips in golf, his incredibly upright armlock putter, or even his use of Epsom salts to ‘balance’ his golf balls. Then one day, I cracked. I wanted to know what it felt like to play golf with this stuff!
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After a conversation with my boss, we started to wonder whether there was some potential video content in this idea and decided to go in at the deep end. Not only would I try to build Bryson’s bag as closely as possible, but I would also commit to playing a professional event on my local PGA circuit and film the whole thing! So, I began to put some feelers out…
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After a few exchanged messages with the fantastic Leslie Bennett at Krank Golf, Bryson’s Krank Formula Fire driver and three wood heads were en route to my house, and LA Golf kindly supplied the Bryson Series shafts to go in them, so after building them up in my workshop (complete with Jumbo Max grips!), I was all set at the top of the bag. Next, using my connection with Tom at Avoda, I was quickly booked in for a fitting with UK fitter Toby Graves and walked away with a fantastic set of one-length Avoda Origin irons, which are absolutely sensational. However, this is where things started to escalate… A few days after the fitting and knowing the concept of the video, Toby called me and offered to get Bryson’s actual backup set of irons shipped to me for the video. This was getting serious.
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