Should I use a 7-wood? Scottie Scheffler and the PGA Tour’s latest winner can’t be wrong

Eventually week’s Mexico Open Brian Campbell accomplished a profession and life altering victory.

The person who had by no means earlier than received on both the primary or second tier, the person who by no means even had a high 10 end on the PGA Tour, held off the problem of younger big-hitter Aldrich Potgieter to carry the trophy and win $1.26 million.

He obtained a bit fortunate, although.

Within the playoff he hit his drive into the bushes that have been out of bounds and the ball ricocheted again into the tough.

However he additionally made the essential successful birdie from there.

And he was additionally dynamite all week with one membership: his 7-wood.

Maybe there was no higher instance of its use to him than on the par-3 seventeenth gap within the last spherical when the strain was on.

A 202-yard take a look at throughout water it was rating because the 4th hardest gap on the course. He hit his 7-wood to 23 toes for a stress-free par.

His mannequin is a Ping G430 Max however he’s not alone in utilizing this explicit membership.

Vijay Singh has been utilizing them for years and within the final 12 months the use has exploded.

On the current Genesis Invitational the tough was juicy and deep prompting many so as to add a 7-wood together with the world’s No.1 participant and present Masters champion, Scottie Scheffler.

He used a TaylorMade Qi35 19.75-degree and TaylorMade Tour rep Adrian Rietveld informed GolfWRX.com: “He needed it to go 245, so for him, 5 wooden’s not 245, a 5-wood’s going to go 255-260.

“I recommended we do it within the 7-wood. We simply hit the course with him (for the Wednesday pro-am). Geez, he’s utilizing it far more than I believed.

“On 12, he hit this shot, he had 180 out of the tough (and he hit the inexperienced). Then he hit a 4-iron from the identical spot afterwards and couldn’t get it 50 yards. So he’s getting the launch out of (the 7-wood).

“Then, you have a look at like (gap 11, par 3, 225 yards), (gap 16, 227 yards), he’s hitting it on all these holes. He’s fairly comfy with it out of the tough, and off the golf green and within the par 3s I assume, as effectively.”

It’s positively a flexible membership: good from the tee on brief holes, from the tough, for lengthy approaches and at the same time as a neat choice across the greens too.

It’s not simply the professionals who ought to think about it – the typical golfer can actually profit.

Brian Campbell’s bag:

Driver: Ping G440 LST3-wood: Ping G430 LST (15 levels @13.5)7-wood: Ping G430 MaxIrons: Ping Blueprint S (4-PW)Wedges: Titleist Vokey Design SM10 (52 & 56), WedgeWorks (60 & L)Putter: Ping Redwood Anser 2Ball: Titleist Professional V1x

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