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All-new RTZ Wedges are made with Z-Alloy, a completely new steel formula that enables a zero-compromise design approach for incredible feel, better durability, and more consistency for our best performing tour Wedges yet. Plus, there’s an all-new ADAPT grind featuring full-face grooves, to give RTZ Wedges more versatility than ever before. 
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HydraZip is a unique system of face blasts and laser-milled lines formulated to maximize spin performance under wet conditions. This technology is dynamically configured by loft groupings, which helps balance spin across lofts, while maximizing spin in adverse conditions. 
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This low-density core technology replaces heavier material in the heel and hosel area with a lightweight, low-density, vibration-dampening material. This proprietary core allows us to shift the Center of Gravity closer to where you strike the ball, while simultaneously adding MOI. 
UltiZip
UltiZip’s sharper grooves cut through grass and debris at contact, while deeper grooves help make space for grass, sand, dirt, or water to clear the impact zone, giving RTZ Wedges stronger, more consistent spin from the fairway, rough, or bunker.

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When your ball settles deep in the rough, it’s easy to feel like there’s no good way to make solid contact. You swing harder, but the club still seems to grab and twist in the grass.

According to GOLFTEC’s Josh Troyer, that’s because the problem isn’t a lack of swing speed — it has to do with your angle of attack.

“Players with steeper angles of attack tend to handle the rough better,” Troyer says. “It allows the club to come down on the ball more directly, instead of skimming through the grass too early.”

That concept closely ties to something Troyer (and all GOLFTEC teachers) harp on daily: hip sway. This is the manner in which your hips move toward the target during the downswing. Most skilled players shift their hips about six and a half inches toward the target from the top of the backswing to the finish, which helps control two key things:

1. Low point — where the club meets the ground.
2. Swing direction — the path the club travels through impact.

“Good players move their hips enough toward the target so they can hit the ground in the right spot and on the correct path,” Troyer explains. “Bad golfers either don’t move forward enough, or they stay too far back. That’s when the club path gets out of whack — too far in-to-out or too steep and down.”

Here’s where it gets interesting: golfers who move their hips too far toward the target often produce an in-to-out path that’s too extreme, leading to a shallow angle of attack. That’s the kind of swing that sweeps across the turf rather than driving through it — and it’s a killer in thick grass.

“When you start hitting out of thicker rough, it becomes really hard to get clean contact with a shallow attack angle,” Troyer says. “You see a lot of players who hit big draws really struggle from the rough because their club gets too close to the ground too early — the grass grabs it, and they can’t get through to the ball.”

That’s why Tour players often talk about trying to hit fades or cuts when they’re in gnarly lies. Those shot shapes naturally promote a steeper angle of attack — exactly what you want when you need to chop the ball out cleanly.

“They might not even know why it works,” Troyer says. “But when you hit a fade, your club’s coming down a little steeper. It’s easier to get through the grass and make solid contact.”

So next time your ball buries in the rough, don’t just swing harder. Adjust your setup and your thought process: aim slightly left, feel like you’re hitting a soft cut and let the club descend a bit more steeply. You’ll catch the ball cleaner — and give yourself a much better chance at hitting a pure iron onto the green.

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Welcome to GOLF’s Fully Equipped’s weekly Tour equipment report. Each Friday of PGA Tour weeks (plus other times, if news warrants), GOLF equipment editor Jack Hirsh will run you through some of the biggest news surrounding golf clubs on Tour, including changes, tweaks and launches.

Billy Horschel is back on the PGA Tour this week in Japan for the first time since April after undergoing hip surgery — and he’s coming back with a very different gear setup.

In his first start back at the BMW PGA Championship in England, Horschel switched his irons for the first time in four years, ditching his split set of the ’23 Titleist T100 long irons and 620 MB combo set for a complete set of the new 2025 T100s.

The reason for the change after the layoff? Horschel told Titleist’s team in Japan this week that he was simply looking to mitigate mishits.

“I’m currently playing the Titleist T100s. I literally just put these in the bag. I was playing the 620 MBs,” Horschel said. “And I love my MBs, but like a lot of golfers, we’re looking for when we do mishit it a little bit to get the safety of the ball still going the same distance.”

He hits the nail on the head. Golfers, even the best in the world, who rarely miss the center of the face, are always looking to make their misses better. An eight-time PGA Tour winner like Horschel knows his good shots aren’t going to be any better by changing irons, but his mishits will be, and that could make all the difference.

Horschel, who plays the high-spinning Pro V1x+ prototype golf ball, also said he saw added height for the new irons, which has been a key goal of Titleist iron design.

Titleist 2025 T100 Custom Irons

Unmatched precision meets unrivaled feel with T100 Irons. Fully forged with more aggressive grooves in the mid/short irons, T100 offers pure player’s feel with improved consistency in variable conditions. Now with higher long-iron launch for optimal trajectory control in every club.
Forged Player’s Design  
Masterfully forged into a pure player’s design that offers precision control and buttery feel.
Superior Flight and Stability 
Split High-Density Tungsten produces optimal CG with remarkable stability for precise shotmaking.
Consistent Speed & Spin 
New VFT technology and progressive groove design for consistent spin and speed across the face in variable conditions.
Elevated Long-Iron Launch 
Lower CG and a new muscle channel help improve peak height and carry.

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“The other thing I’ve seen is the height I get on these irons is a lot higher than my 620s,” he said. “To be able to launch it high and land it soft on the greens is something that I wasn’t getting as much in my 620 MBs. And now with the T100, I feel very comfortable, especially with the long irons that I can bring in high and soft on firm, fast greens.”

Horschel’s change is one amateurs should take note for both of those reasons: getting help on mishits and hitting it higher.

We see it more and more each year with PGA Tour pros ditching unforgiving blade irons for more playable cavity-backs and even players’ distance options in the long irons. Who knows, maybe in a few years, the pure blade may even cease to exist, even on the PGA Tour.

That may be a ways off, but it’s still worth taking note of how many players are choosing irons that mitigate misses, rather than blades.

With added height, we see goals of faster green speeds and increased firmness around the country. Titleist believes the higher you can hit your golf ball, the better equipped you are to score in those conditions, and Horschel seems to be buying into that with the iron change and his continued use of the Pro V1x+.

The 2025 T100 from all angles.

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The switch also highlights a unique quirk of Horschel’s setup that he has used for years. For the last decade plus, Horschel has skipped a 4-iron in his set, going 3-iron, then 5-iron through 9-iron. In his previous set, Horschel had a T100 3- and 5-iron before going to the 620 MBs.

According to Titleist Tour Rep Nick Geyer, the 3-, 5-iron setup is done for gapping purposes. Going from 5-iron to 3-iron allows him to hit the ball speeds he needs without moving to a larger chassis. He plays weaker lofts through the bag, and having a touch less offset in a smaller iron chassis (than say a Titleist T150 or T250) suits his eye.

Horschel opened with a 77 at Yokohama Country Club, but rebounded Friday with a bogey-free 66 and has picked up more than 1.5 shots on approach.

Another 2025 UW convert

Perhaps Min Woo Lee’s most identifiable club is out of the bag this week at the Baycurrent Classic.

Lee added Callaway’s new Apex 2025 Utility Wood to the bag this week in Japan, replacing his trusty X Forged Utility iron.

Callaway 2025 Apex Custom Utility Wood

The Apex UW is designed for serious, avid golfers seeking the perfect blend of a fairway wood’s power and a hybrid’s versatility. Engineered with Tour feedback and loaded with performance technologies, it delivers a higher, more neutral ball flight with the control all players demand. 
TUNGSTEN SPEED WAVE
A dynamic, 41g+ tungsten wave structure positions mass low and forward, enhancing ball speed and launch—particularly on low-face strikes where players tend to lose distance.
STEP SOLE DESIGN
A redesigned sole with a stepped geometry reduces turf interaction, helping to maintain swing speed through impact and promoting more consistent contact across different lies.
TRIAXIAL CARBON CROWN
The lightweight carbon construction allows for strategic weight redistribution, creating a more forgiving clubhead while refining launch and spin for greater shot-making control.
TOUR-INSPIRED SHAPING
Designed with input from the world’s best, the compact, refined shape and neutral face angle inspire confidence at address and deliver workability from tee to turf.

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While his previous 2-iron was a 19-degree head bent to 18-degrees, Lee’s new UW is a 21-degree hit with the goal of giving him a consistent 235-240 carry and a steep descent angle.

Lee even tested the club with the Fujikura Ventus Red 9-X shaft in an effort to find more height in order to land the ball softly into long par-3 and par-5 greens, but given that Lee plays both the Ventus Blue in his driver and 3-wood, he decided to stick with that in his new UW.

The new Callaway Apex UW is gaining momentum quickly after its release last month. Alex Noren already won with the unique hybrid of a hybrid and fairway wood and Max Greyserman currently leads the Baycurrent by four shots heading into the weekend with the new model as well.

Lee is T19, eight back of Greyserman through 36 holes after 65 on Friday.

Changes are brewing, but not yet

All in all, this week’s Baycurrent Classic and other worldwide events were fairly quiet on the gear front.

That’s not really a surprise or a coincidence.

For starters, with the Tour all the way in Japan, there was a limited number of Tour reps who made the journey to the other side of the world.

But the bigger factor is that 2026 gear is coming and the OEMs are in final stages of testing new clubs before giving them to their Tour reps to start seeding on the PGA Tour. You do have PXG already out on Tour with their new Lightning metalwoods, but for other companies who typically follow a January release schedule, their newest stuff is still yet to come.

Check this out

This section is dedicated to one cool photo we’ve snapped recently on Tour, but haven’t had a reason to share yet. For this week, check out this Camilo Villegas’ wear mark on his TaylorMade M4 fairway wood from 2018. Villegas is T12 after two rounds this week.

Villegas has hit a few shots out of the middle with this one.

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Odds and Ends

Some other gear changes and notes we’re tracking this week.

Max Greyserman made a big change to his Callaway Elyte Triple Diamond driver this week. He flipped the heavy weight forward in the head and compensated by setting the driver to the N/+1 setting, adding a degree of loft, closing the clubface and making the driver more upright. He’s T3 in distance so far this week … As pointed out by SMS on Tour, Sergio Garcia is using a new Golfyr Maker Tour putter this week. Garcia has used a carbon putter model from the Swiss company before, trying one in February 2024.

3 things you should read/watch

A selection of GOLF content from the past week that may interest you.

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Professional wrestling has seen its fair share of tragedies over the course of its existence, none perhaps more harrowing than when a wrestler dies in the ring. While this has been a rare occurrence, it’s happened enough that each tragedy has been burned into the consciousness of wrestling fans everywhere, from Owen Hart’s death in 1999 due to a stunt gone wrong to Pedro Aguyo Jr.’s passing in 2015 after taking a move incorrectly. In most cases, at least there was an explanation for why it happened; a move gone wrong, a wrestler landing in a way they shouldn’t. It’s of little comfort, but it at least doesn’t leave everyone wondering why.

Then there’s the death of “Iron” Mike DiBiase. The 45 year old DiBiase, stepfather of future WWE Hall of Fame Ted DiBiase, was wrestling in Lubbock, Texas on July 2, 1969 facing off against Man Mountain Mike, when he suffered what’s been described as a massive heart attack. Another future WWE Hall of Famer, Harley Race, was on the scene and did all he could to save DiBiase, including performing CPR on him before medical attention arrived on the scene. It was no use, and DiBiase was pronounced dead upon arriving at the hospital, with Race by his side. And in the wake of DiBiase’s death, many fans and wrestlers couldn’t help but be confused over the loss.

Ted DiBiase Later Revealed Why His Stepfather’s Death Was So Sudden

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The reason for said confusion was due to how great of shape DiBiase was in. In fact, in wrestling circles, DiBiase was well known for keeping himself in peak physical condition, to the point that he once wrestled a Texas Death Match against Terry Funk that lasted four hours and ten minutes. That is not a typo; DiBiase and Funk legit wrestled four hours and ten minutes, and not just in any type of match, but an old school Texas Death match. While not as violent as some of the Texas Death matches seen in AEW today, the match up was still grueling, and under old school Texas Death rules, forced the wrestler to win a match by not only getting a pinfall, but keeping their opponent down for a ten count afterward.

While DiBiase was a few years removed from the match, and in his mid-40s, it still seemed hard to believe that a man who wrestled a four hour match once could succumb to a heart attack. The mystery was later solved years later by his stepson, when Ted gave an interview and revealed that DiBiase had a cholesterol build up in his heart. Because of this, DiBiase was predisposed to both heart disease and potential heart attacks, though it’s unclear whether he was aware of this at the time of his death. Still, despite the new information, it does little to change that Iron Mike DiBiase’s death in the ring was among the most jarring at the time, mainly because no wrestling fan thought it was possible that someone in as good of shape as DiBiase could die in the ring.

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The summer golf season may now be in the rear-view mirror, but club sales remain hotter than ever — especially custom irons.

The leader of the pack? TaylorMade’s new T250 model, which made its debut in July. What are players loving about the clubs? The T250s are a part of Titleist’s fourth generation of T-Series irons and boast a number of game-enhancing specs.

Titleist’s T250s are designed to deliver a combination of speed, stability and consistency in an ultra-clean and sleek steel package. A forged face design encourages ball speed and launch without sacrificing stopping power on the greens, while an optimized CG enhances forgiveness when you need it.

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“There really were three clear design objectives for this next generation of T-Series,” said Marni Ines, Titleist’s director of iron development. “We wanted to increase our long iron launch, tighten our mid- and short-iron spin consistency and improve overall carry distance consistency throughout the bag. Irons are made to hit very specific distances within a specific flight window, and so we’re always trying to make that more repeatable for every iron in your bag.”

Titleist’s T250 long irons are currently in play by some of the PGA Tour’s biggest stars, including Justin Thomas, Wyndham Clark, and Russell Henley. And now you, too, can customize a set of these popular irons for your game. When you order from Fairway Jockey, you can choose your preferred specs, from the shaft material and flex to the length, grip, loft, lie and more. Shop the season’s best-selling iron now by clicking the link below.

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Titleist 2025 T250 Custom Irons

Distance never looked this pure. T250 Irons give golfers the ultimate combination of raw speed, stability, and consistency with an ultra-clean design that players love. It’s a merger of form and function, crafted for powerful performance while satisfying the eye of the most discerning golfers.   
Singular Design 
High-strength steel construction allows powerful performance technologies to be discreetly housed within a sleek, modern design. 
Elevated Speed 
A new forged L-Face Design heightens ball speed and launch for astounding distance across the face. 
Enhanced Consistency
Improved Max Impact Technology and a progressive groove design promote consistent carry, spin, and dispersion from any lie. 
High Flight & Stability 
Split high-density tungsten produces optimal CG with high stability for more forgiving shotmaking. 
Launch Spec Configuration
A brand-new addition to the T-Series lineup, T250 Launch Spec provides the same technology and features the same construction as T250 but with a lighter headweight and added loft, promoting effortless launch, increased carry distance for low-flight players and more stopping power into the greens.

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