Tiger and Yang at the US PGA Championships
Tiger Woods has been drawn alongside defending champion YE Yang for the opening two rounds of the US PGA Championship starting this Thursday. They are due to tee off at 8:20am (Thursday) & 1:35pm (Friday); Vijay Singh is also in this grouping. So what will they be playing with…..
Tiger’s Equipment
Driver: Nike Dymo VR Tour
Fairway Woods: Nike SQ II 3 Wood and Nike SQ II 5 Wood
Irons: Nike VR TW Blades (2-PW)
Wedges: Nike 56 degree VR SW and Nike 60 degree VR LW
Putter: Scotty Cameron by Titleist Studio Stainless Newport 2 putter
Ball: Nike One Tour D
Yang’s Equipment
Driver: TaylorMade Burner SuperFast
Fairway Woods: TaylorMade Burner TP 3 Wood and TaylorMade Burner TP 5 Wood
Irons: TaylorMade R9
Wedges: TaylorMade RAC TP
Putter: Alternates between the Odyssey White Hot 2-ball and the TaylorMade Rossa Monza Spider Vicino
Ball: TaylorMade TP Red
This year the competition is going to be high between the two players, last year Yang became the first Asian-born male golfer to win a major when he edged out Woods last year. Tiger hasn’t has the best of years (so far) currently the world number on is outside the automatic qualifications for the Ryder Cup in October. Currently 10th on the Ryder Cup standings (top 8 automatically qualifying) he will have to work hard this week.
Here at Hensol Golf Academy we are looking forward to watching the US PGA Championship (Thursday 12th August – Sunday 15th August) and wish all players the best of look!!



