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Joe 'the pro' Ferguson has truly lost his marbles as he decides to enter the PGA Alliance Pro Event with a full bag of Bryson DeChambeau's clubs, including the Krank Formula Fire metalwoods, Avoda irons, SIK Armlock putter and even the Titleist Pro V1x left dash ball. How did he get on? Watch to the end to find out, you won't believe the result!
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00:00What have I let myself in for here?
00:01For some reason, I've decided to build
00:03Bryson DeChambeau's full US Open winning golf bag
00:07and enter a professional event.
00:12I've fatted it into the bunker.
00:14What a lemon, tip.
00:17Oh, Joe.
00:18So here's the deal, I'm here at Saunton Golf Club,
00:20one of the UK's top 100 courses,
00:22and I've entered the Devon PGA Alliance
00:24to test these clubs out.
00:26But before we get on the course,
00:27which we will do in a minute,
00:28I just want to give you some context
00:29about why I'm doing this
00:30and how I've accumulated these clubs.
00:32So I've been watching an awful lot of Bryson DeChambeau
00:34over the past year or so,
00:36from winning the US Open, nearly winning the US PGA,
00:39shooting 58, and of course,
00:41on his incredible YouTube channel.
00:43I've been so impressed with his golf,
00:45and particularly his ball striking.
00:47I just, I've been more and more intrigued by his equipment
00:49and then it just hit me.
00:51I thought, right, why don't you just build his set?
00:53I'm a club maker, I can do that.
00:54Let's build his set.
00:56Let's go and play a professional event
00:57and let's see how they go.
01:01Every time.
01:03Every time.
01:04And somehow, I've managed to get hold of his actual backup set of irons.
01:09Just to give you the top line of what's in the bag here,
01:12I've got his crank driver and three wood with LA golf shafts.
01:15I've got his incredible set of Voda golf irons and wedges,
01:18and the sick arm lock putter.
01:20For those of you who want more information and details on all these specs,
01:23I'm probably going to stop halfway around the round
01:24and do a more detailed what's in the bag,
01:26but I can't put it off any longer.
01:28I'll have to hit a few warm-up shots,
01:30and then we've got to get on the first tee and play this professional event.
01:32I feel very exposed.
01:33Let's do it.
01:37Yeah, that's about what I was expecting.
01:38I feel very excited.
01:39Oh, my God.
01:50Oh, my God.
01:52Oh, my God.
01:55Oh, my God.
01:57Oh, my God.
02:01Oh, my God.
02:14Any ideas, anyone?
02:16Yeah.
02:26A ripper.
02:28A little ripper.
02:29A little ripper.
02:30A little ripper.
02:30A little ripper.
03:02So hard to know what to hit.
03:041.54 out of the rough.
03:05Down and off the left.
03:07But normally to me would be the hard wedge.
03:09Or little nine.
03:12But I don't know.
03:23Oh, you little.
03:27Take a look.
03:57Right.
03:58Well, little.
03:59Not mid round update.
04:00Where are we?
04:00We're on the seventh now.
04:02Going remarkably, remarkably well.
04:05Got off to a serious hot start.
04:07Four birdies on the spin, including some ridiculous putts.
04:11I'm all over this Bryson putting thing.
04:13I'm just having to be quiet because I'm going past the green here.
04:17But yeah.
04:17Sort of settled down.
04:19A few paths.
04:20On some tough holes to be fair.
04:22There's a lot of wind out here.
04:22But yeah.
04:24Going well.
04:24I'm finding, predictably finding the irons extremely hard work.
04:29Just so stiff.
04:31So heavy.
04:32So I'm having to really sort of manage that.
04:34But tell you what.
04:35That left dash Pro V1 in this wind is really, I'm finding that very easy to control.
04:41It's super low spin.
04:42So that's really good.
04:43And as you see, the putt has been behaving itself so far.
04:46So yeah.
04:47Fingers crossed.
04:47Long made it continue.
04:48In the meantime, check out the more detailed what's in the bag of what I'm actually using
04:53today.
04:54And we'll get back to some golf.
04:55So what's in the actual bag?
04:57Full details.
04:57So starting with driver, we've got the Crank Formula Fire.
05:00Five degrees.
05:01I got on the phone to Leslie from Crank, who really hooked me up here.
05:04She got me the driver and three wood.
05:06Fitted with the LA Golf Bryson series shaft and his Jumbo Max.
05:10Grips.
05:11This one, I mean, you've seen probably half of the video so far, but I'm a bit concerned
05:15about the dispersion on this.
05:17This might worry me.
05:18Three wood.
05:18It's got 13 degrees, but it's actually a 12 degree measured loft.
05:21Same Bryson series LA Golf shaft and the same Jumbo Max Grips.
05:27This is quite a powerful three wood.
05:28So it could be a good backup if that driver does start to go awry.
05:32And then in the full what's in the bag of the irons, this is where it got really interesting.
05:36I went for a fitting with Avoda Golf and got fitted in some one length irons.
05:41They're origin series irons, which are absolutely beautiful, by the way.
05:44However, once I'd been fitted and we got discussing what the video was going to look like, a couple
05:48of weeks later, I got a call from Avoda and they said, would you actually like to use his
05:53actual backup set of irons with the progressive face curvature, the grips, the full shamanca.
05:58It is the exact spec that Bryson uses and within about two seconds, obviously I said yes.
06:04Now these things are incredible.
06:05For full details and specs on these, head over to my other video on Golf Monthly,
06:09where I do a full range session.
06:11I'm talking specs.
06:12I'm giving you all the details on how they feel.
06:14That's well worth a watch.
06:15Wedges are slightly different.
06:16Bryson generally has played the Pinglide 4.0, which I couldn't get a hold of, but probably even better.
06:22I got the original Avoda wedges that were designed for this set with the exact same grips, exact
06:27same shafts, the total same specs.
06:29I've got them in 60, 55, 45, 50 before you even get to the pitching wedge.
06:34That's an incredible wedge setup.
06:35We're going to have to work really hard to figure out those yardages.
06:38We already had the sick putter, the arm lock putter at Golf Monthly.
06:42So we just sort of dragged this one out of the cupboard ready to use.
06:45That's going to be an interesting endeavor.
06:46Managed to source the Titleist Pro V1 left dash golf ball that Bryson plays.
06:50So I think I'm fully kitted out.
06:52Let's get back to the golf.
07:20Let's get back to the golf ball.
07:22Let's get back to the golf ball.
07:38Let's get back to the golf ball.
07:39Let's get back to the golf ball.
07:40Let's get back to the golf ball.
07:40Let's get back to the golf ball.
07:41Let's get back to the golf ball.
07:41Let's get back to the golf ball.
07:42Let's get back to the golf ball.
07:42Let's get back to the golf ball.
07:43Let's get back to the golf ball.
07:47Let's get back to the golf ball.
07:49Let's get back to the golf ball.
08:06we back right little update it's going remarkably well like it's taking me by surprise i'm having
08:12to almost adjust my expectations a little bit i'd have i probably snapped your hand off a 75
08:17before starting and now i've got that ridiculously hot spot holding putts all over the place four
08:23under through four plateaued a bit made some really good saves from pretty bad positions and
08:28then just really snuck on there after a bad drive on the par five it's weird it's um the irons
08:35are
08:35so difficult in particular they're beautiful they feel great when you flush and they're so solid but
08:39they're so heavy and so stiff but it's almost good though because i can't miss the ball
08:46left i can't get it to go left i can't physically get the club base working through enough
08:50to miss it left so i've only got one side of the course to play with which is
08:53as difficult as they are it's really reassuring to know that i can't hit the ball one one way so
08:58actually is arguably making things a little bit easier so i got away with them there hold a putt
09:03we're on 14 i think now so got knuckled down for a knuckle down for a big finish
09:18so
09:20so
09:22so
10:10I can't get it to go left. I can't physically get the club base working through enough to miss it
10:15left. I've only got one side of the course to play with.
10:26Come off like an absolute rocket. That's another thing, because you've got so little loft in your hand, what you'd
10:33normally bump with becomes two times stronger.
10:41Come on, man.
10:44That is as wasteful as it comes.
10:50Go, go, go, go.
10:52Go, go, go, go.
10:55Not in there.
10:56All right, last on. When I started, if you'd have offered me 75, I'd have absolutely snapped your hand off.
11:02It's so weird playing with these just incredibly different clubs to what I'm used to.
11:08But then you get it going, and I've hold a lot of putts to do what I'm doing.
11:12And I've just got a little sense of I've wasted a couple here. That par five just then in particular,
11:17I've absolutely launched a drive about 350 down there.
11:21Should have hit nine iron. Couldn't convince myself because I'm so used to the nine iron in this. I had
11:27180 and I just couldn't convince myself nine iron was the right club.
11:31But I've got to get out of the thought that nine iron's a normal nine iron. It's not. It's got
11:35ridiculously strong lofts compared to mine.
11:38So I tried to dolly an eight, pulled it, didn't get up and down as you saw.
11:41So yeah, I stayed at four and I've just hit what I thought was a good tee shot there. It's
11:46gone five foot right at the pin, taken a little hop right, and it's gone in a bunker.
11:51So now I'm scrambling to try and stay at four.
11:56It's so weird with golf how emotions change where even if I don't get up and down and make a
12:01four or three under,
12:02I'd have absolutely laughed at you if you'd have said I could have done that last night and completely snapped
12:08your hand off.
12:08But then that's what golf does. It changes. Your expectations get up because things get going.
12:14But I've got to get my head on, get back in the game and try and get this up and
12:17down.
12:19Oh yeah, that's a good one.
12:22See what I mean? You land it shorter.
12:24Yeah, it goes further.
12:24It goes further.
12:30It's good. It's good.
12:32Yes! Joe!
12:33You didn't get it.
12:35Some finished that mate. Some finished. Well done.
12:38Right, so just to round it off, I'm going to tell you where I finished in a moment.
12:42But my reaction, four under, I am absolutely chuffed with that.
12:46The whole day was so difficult. It was like relearning the game from trying to find strike with clubs this
12:53heavy and this stiff.
12:54Trying to get the right yardages was just an absolute minefield.
12:58I couldn't switch off for a minute. And when I did, I hit a bad shot and that's where I
13:01made my bogeys.
13:02It was just such a tough day. I found it so enjoyable using this stuff.
13:07It was just, yeah, like a voyage of discovery. Really enjoyed it.
13:11And I expect you all probably want to know where I finished.
13:13Well, it turns out that putt on the last for par there after that little bunker site was very important.
13:18There was a few people on three under par, so we've won.
13:21Four under par wins the tournament. I've just won a PGA tournament with Bryson DeChambeau's backup set of golf clubs.
13:28Couldn't be happier. See you next time.
13:30Right, Bryson, if you're watching, love the clubs. Give me a call. Let's have a game sometime.
13:34I'll use yours. You'll use mine. Let's get it on.