Most tour pros play equipment you could walk into a shop and buy tomorrow. Different shafts, custom fitting, maybe a bespoke loft or lie adjustment — but broadly the same clubs you’d find behind the counter at your local pro shop.
Then there’s Bryson DeChambeau.
The two-time US Open champion, fresh off back-to-back LIV Golf wins in Singapore and South Africa in March, arrives at Augusta this week with a bag that looks like it was assembled by a physics professor who also happens to hit it 200mph. A 6-degree driver from a long-drive competition brand. 3D-printed prototype irons made by a company most golfers have never heard of. An armlock putter with four different loft angles built into the face. Oversized grips throughout.
It’s the most unconventional setup on any professional tour. And it works — two US Open titles, five LIV victories, and a record round of 58 on tour in 2023 suggest the science is sound.
Here’s exactly what he’s playing in 2026, and the thinking behind every club.
The Driver: Krank Formula Fire LD (6°)
This is where Bryson’s bag starts and where it most obviously diverges from everyone else.
The Krank Formula Fire LD is not a standard tour driver. It’s a driver designed for long-drive competitions — the kind of events where contestants launch balls 400-plus yards and the winner is decided purely by distance. The “LD” stands for Long Drive. Twenty-six world long-drive champions have used it.
DeChambeau swings at speeds exceeding 175mph. Standard tour drivers aren’t engineered to withstand those forces repeatedly, and they’re also built with forgiveness profiles optimised for slower swings. The Krank is hardened for maximum speed, with a face curvature designed to reduce the gear-effect dispersion that happens when someone hits the ball off-centre at extraordinary velocity.
The loft is 6 degrees — extremely low, even by tour standards where most players play 9-10.5 degrees. At Bryson’s speeds, a lower loft produces optimal launch conditions. At your speed, it would send the ball ten feet off the ground.
The shaft is a Project X Prototype D70 — stiff enough to handle the load, custom-built for his specific transition and tempo.
His fairway woods are also Krank — a 3-wood at 13 degrees and a matching 5-wood — for the same reasons. He wants the same face technology and consistency from his longer clubs throughout.
The Irons: Avoda Golf Bryson DeChambeau Prototype (3-iron to PW)
This is the most fascinating part of the bag — and the part with the most interesting story behind it.
Avoda Golf was a virtually unknown manufacturer before DeChambeau put them on the map. Their signature technology is curved face irons — progressive face curvature built into every iron, similar to the bulge and roll you find on a driver, designed to reduce dispersion on off-centre strikes at high swing speeds.
Bryson’s set is not available off the shelf. It was 3D-printed specifically to his specifications — a process that allows micro-adjustments to the head shape, weight distribution and centre of gravity that traditional manufacturing can’t achieve. Every iron in the set is single-length, meaning from the 3-iron all the way down to the pitching wedge, every shaft is the same length (set to the equivalent of a standard 7-iron, at 37.5 inches).
The single-length philosophy is Bryson’s most famous equipment innovation. The idea is simple: if every iron is the same length, you use the same posture, the same ball position, and the same swing for every iron in the bag. Eliminate the variable of adapting your address position from club to club, and you can build one repeatable motion that works across the whole set.
He had an extended partnership with LA Golf to develop his own full-bag setup, including new irons. That relationship ended in a messy split earlier in 2026. The Avoda prototypes are back in the bag for now — and given how well he performed with them in Singapore and South Africa, they’re unlikely to move any time soon.
His shafts throughout the irons are LA Golf BAD Prototype Rebar — stiff, low-torque, designed for the loads his swing generates.
The Wedges: Bettinardi HLX 5.0 (49° and 54°) + PING Glide 4.0 (60°)
This is the most recent change in the bag — and it happened mid-tournament at LIV Singapore, which is either brave or reckless depending on your perspective.
Bryson switched his gap and sand wedges to Bettinardi HLX 5.0 models shortly before the Singapore event, despite minimal testing time. “I didn’t really get to test the wedges but they feel good,” he said. “In practice they felt great.”
He then won the tournament. Back-to-back wins followed.
Bettinardi is best known for its hand-milled putters — premium, boutique, the kind golfers save up for. The wedges are less well-known but built to the same standard: soft carbon steel, hand-finished, with exceptional feel through the turf. The lofts are bent from their standard positions — the 50° bent to 49°, the 56° bent to 54° — custom-fitted to his specific gapping requirements.
He retains a PING Glide 4.0 at 60 degrees for tight shots around the green. PING’s Glide series has been in his bag for years and survived every other change — a sign that when something genuinely works for him, he keeps it.
His wedge shafts are LA Golf BAD Prototype Rebar, matching the irons — stiff, heavy, consistent throughout the bottom of the bag.
The Putter: SIK Pro C-Series Armlock
The putter is where Bryson’s scientific approach is most visible — and most polarising.
SIK stands for Study In Kinematics. The Pro C-Series is an armlock putter, meaning the extended shaft is pressed against Bryson’s lead forearm when he putts. This physically locks out wrist movement and forces the stroke to be driven by the bigger muscles of the shoulders and arms — the idea being that bigger muscles are more consistent and easier to repeat under pressure than the smaller muscles of the hands and wrists.
The putter is 43 inches long — standard putters run 33-35 inches. The loft is 6 degrees at the top of the face and descends by one degree per section down the face — a technology SIK calls Descending Loft Technology (DLT). Four different loft angles are milled into the face so that regardless of where the ball contacts it, the launch angle remains consistent. More variables eliminated.
The armlock method is entirely legal under the Rules of Golf, as long as the putter doesn’t extend beyond the elbow. It has divided opinion — some see it as a borderline anchor, others see it as smart engineering. What’s hard to argue with is the results. Since switching to arm-lock, DeChambeau’s putting statistics have improved significantly on tour.
His grip is a JumboMax JMX Jumboflat 17 — an oversized flat-sided grip that he uses on every club in the bag, not just the putter. The theory is that a thicker grip reduces hand and wrist tension, promotes a lighter hold, and increases clubhead speed by reducing the tendency for the hands to over-rotate through impact.
The Ball: Titleist Pro V1x (Left Dash)
This is the most conventional thing in Bryson’s bag and still slightly non-standard. He plays the Titleist Pro V1x Left Dash — a version of the Pro V1x built for players with very high swing speeds who need lower spin off the driver without sacrificing performance around the greens.
The Left Dash (the name comes from the dash on the left side of the number on the ball) has a firmer feel and lower driver spin than the standard Pro V1x, while maintaining the same short-game performance. It was designed partly in response to DeChambeau’s feedback.
What His Bag Actually Tells Us
Every club in Bryson’s bag follows one philosophy: eliminate variables, maximise repeatable output.
The single-length irons remove one address position variable. The curved iron faces reduce dispersion from high-speed off-centre strikes. The armlock putter removes wrist movement. The Descending Loft Technology removes inconsistent launch angles. The oversized grips reduce hand tension and face rotation. The Krank driver is designed to survive and optimise speeds that normal equipment wasn’t built for.
You can agree with the approach or you can think he’s overcomplicating everything. What you can’t do is argue with two US Opens, 58 on a tour course, and two back-to-back LIV wins in March.
He’s the most interesting bag in professional golf and he’s been that way for years. At Augusta this week, at +1000 odds, he’s also one of the most dangerous players in the field.
BRYSON’S 2026 BAG AT A GLANCE
| Club | Brand / Model |
|---|---|
| Driver | Krank Formula Fire LD (6°) |
| Fairway Woods | Krank Formula Fire (13°, 13°) |
| Irons | Avoda Golf Bryson Prototype (3-PW) |
| Wedges | Bettinardi HLX 5.0 (49°, 54°), PING Glide 4.0 (60°) |
| Putter | SIK Pro C-Series Armlock (43”) |
| Ball | Titleist Pro V1x Left Dash |
| Grips | JumboMax JMX Jumboflat 17 (all clubs) |
