Welcome to Bag Spy, a GOLF collection dedicated to understanding the essential gear decisions that outline a participant’s bag. With the assistance of gamers and/or their professional fitters, we dig deep past the pictures to look at setups, specs and the considering behind them. In this installment, GOLF affiliate gear editor Jack Hirsh takes you inside Cameron Young’s bag and gear setup for 2026.
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Cameron Young enters his fifth profession Masters in a a lot totally different place than all of his earlier visits. His golf bag is drastically totally different, too.
Young is making his first begin because the largest win of his younger profession on the Players Championship. A yr in the past, he was talked about as one of the best PGA Tour participant with no win. Now he has two.
In that point, Young and Titleist’s Tour crew have been meticulous to dial in his golf bag to match one of many quickest and highest-spin gamers on the PGA Tour. Many of the adjustments revolve round Young’s prototype Titleist Pro V1x Double Dot over the previous eight months, however others have been within the works for years earlier than it was even a thought.
He actually doesn’t change technically,” Titleist Vokey rep Aaron Dill instructed GOLF. “His golf swing, his action, his ball flight. It’s very consistent, right? And so as a, as a club fitter and as an equipment team, you know, the little things that we do to help him manage some of the problems, the problem areas of being a stronger ball flight guy.
“Using the golf ball, putting, putting a wider sole on the wedge, J.J. putting together a driver that creates high launch, low spin, you know, there’s just this perfect symphony of all these things that give him all these freedoms and flexibilities to swing the way he wants to swing. And when you put those together, and he’s putting well — which he does all the time — you start winning championships.”
Keep studying under to dive into Young’s distinctive bag.
Breaking down each membership in Cameron Young’s bag
Ball
Titleist Pro V1x Double Dot
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The golf ball is the muse of virtually all the luggage on the PGA Tour, however Young’s is particularly so given his latest adjustments. During his breakthrough win final summer season, Young turned one of many first gamers to recreation Titleist’s prototype Pro V1x Double Dot golf ball.
He was beforehand a consumer of certainly one of Titleist’s different Custom Performance Option (CPO) golf balls, the Pro V1 Left Dot, to assist rein in his super-high-spin supply situations. But throughout a analysis session on the Titleist Performance Center at Manchester Lane, Van Wezenbeeck and the golf ball R&D groups seen Young had an particularly robust flight with one of many prototypes. This testing session was extra for Fordie Pitts and the R&D crew than it was for Young, however clearly, there was one thing price pursuing.
“That was kind of a light bulb moment, I think, for golf ball R&D and Fordie going, ‘Okay, we have a profile here. It needs a little refinement, but it’s kind of doing some things that, um, that they’re asking to do,’” Van Wezenbeeck mentioned.
That ball ultimately turned the Pro V1x Double Dot prototype that Young first performed on the Wyndham Championship, the place he would get his first win.
Titleist Pro V1x Golf Balls
Total Performance With Higher Flight And More Spin
Pro V1x golf balls are the optimum premium efficiency alternative for gamers on the lookout for most distance, greater flight and extra stopping energy.
Why Play Pro V1x?
Pro V1x is really useful to gamers who’re on the lookout for high-trajectory flight, low lengthy recreation spin with most brief recreation spin, and firmer really feel.
Comparison to Pro V1
Due to its distinctive dimple sample, Pro V1x has the next flight than Pro V1. A high-gradient twin core produces barely extra iron and wedge spin than Pro V1.
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Driver
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Specs
Titleist GT3 11.0
SureFit Hosel Setting: D1
SureFit CG Setting: N
Shaft: Mitsubishi Diamana PD 60 TX
The driver Young used for the recorded longest drive ever on the 18th gap at TPC Sawgrass on the Players was one he simply began utilizing the week earlier than.
Titleist’s becoming philosophy revolves round becoming the golf ball to the iron set after which becoming the driving force and the remainder of the bag to the ball.
With Young’s new Double Dot prototype leading to such an ideal flight together with his irons, Van Wezenbeeck started working with him to additional dial in the remainder of the bag over the past a number of months. The final half was switching to the 11-degree lofted GT3, the very best lofted driver of any winner thus far this season on the PGA Tour.
The transfer was truly precipitated after prototype testing of the GTS lineup, the place Van Wezenbeeck discovered that Young was performing finest with the GTS3. That led them to re have a look at Young’s driver as he was at present in GT2.
At Bay Hill, Young put into play the new GT3, set to D1, taking the loft down 3/4 of a level, which got his launch angle up from 9 levels to 11 whereas holding spin comparatively in the identical window at 2500 rpm. The aim was to extend peak top and thus carry effectivity, not enhance spin.
“if we had just gone to an 11-degree GT2, we’re going to get kind of launch and spin,” Van Wezenbeeck mentioned. “By going from a 10-degree GT2 to an 11-degree GT3, we were able to control the spin in a similar window and get launch, which really helped that ball flight.”
Titleist GT3 Custom Driver
GT3 – Speed-Tuned Distance & Control
GT3 gives Titleist’s boldest mixture of energy and personalization. With a speed-tuned design that lets you exactly match efficiency to your most frequent contact location, you can also make your largest drives even larger whereas taking complete management over flight and shaping.
For gamers with a comparatively constant impression location, GT3 gives a exactly adjustable CG Track to max out distance and directional management.
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Split Mass Construction
A breakthrough in inner weighting unlocks longer drives and enhanced directional management in GT3. The Adjustable CG Track now sits nearer to the face for extra dynamic CG management, whereas further discretionary mass is pushed to the again of the membership to take care of optimum stability by way of impression.
Advanced Aerodynamics
GT3 encompasses a new raised tail contour that represents a dramatic shift in driver aerodynamics. Previously unimaginable to execute attributable to design constraints, this superior shaping leads to a driver that swings quicker whereas nonetheless offering optimum CG management.
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3-wood
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Specs
Titleist GT1 3Tour
Loft: 14.5˚
SureFit Hosel Setting: A1
SureFit Weights: 15 g entrance, 7 g again
Shaft: Mitsubishi Diamana PD 80 TX
Young’s fairway wooden and hybrid are the identical story as his driver. After the golf ball change, he was trying to enhance launch with out growing spin to make the most of the flight traits of his Double Dot Prototype.
After profitable with the GT3 fairway wooden within the bag at Wyndham, and beforehand utilizing a powerful lofted 13.5˚ GT2, Young moved into the GT1 3Tour within the fall to, once more, ship extra launch with out growing spin.
The fairway wooden has a prototype silver face to permit Young to see the 14.5 levels of loft simpler and it’s one thing we’ve seen on among the GTS fairway wooden prototypes noticed out on Tour in the previous couple of weeks.
“We went … to the 14.5 with a silver face, and that face really provided that shallow head, let him see a lot of loft and allowed him to keep impacts up the face to keep launch up,” Van Wezenbeeck mentioned.
Titleist GT1 3Tour Custom Fairway Wood
Lift your launch window with GT1 3Tour Fairway. Featuring a Tour-inspired participant profile, shallow face, low CG, and a stronger “Tour Loft,” this fairway is designed to launch greater and fly farther with out over-spinning. New adjustable fore/aft weights allow additional optimization of ball pace, launch, and spin to realize easy fairway efficiency.
Features
High Launch and Exceptional Forgiveness
Stronger Loft
Adjustable Fore-Aft Spin Control
Refined, Tour-Inspired Shaping
Enhanced Sound and Feel
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Hybrid
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Specs
Titleist GT1
Loft: 20˚
SureFit Hosel Setting: A1
SureFit Weights: 13 g entrance, 5 g again
Shaft: Mitsubishi Diamana PD 80 TX
The GT1 hybrid is in all probability essentially the most shocking membership in Young’s bag since being added on the Farmers Insurance Open earlier this season.
Unlike the GT1 3Tour fairway wooden, which has a decrease and extra ahead CG than the usual GT1 3-wood head, the GT1 hybrid is the identical because the model in lots of weekend hackers’ baggage.
The bigger profile hybrid (between the scale of a conventional hybrid and a 7-wood) has the distinctive skill to just accept each fairway wooden and hybrid shafts. A fairway wooden shaft sometimes has a softer tip in comparison with a hybrid shaft due to the smaller tip diameter, and utilizing the identical Diamana PD 80 TX as Young’s 3-wood helped them create extra launch and better peak heights.
“We took advantage of GT1 being able to use a fairway shaft here. So we have kind of this small, you know, big-headed hybrid or kind of small-headed fairway,” Van Wezenbeeck mentioned. “In this case, we needed a little speed, we needed a little spin, and a little launch. So when we paired it with a fairway shaft, we got a little bit of everything.”
Titleist GT1 Custom Hybrid
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Irons
Specs
Irons: Titleist ’23 T200 (4), ’23 T100 (5), 631.CY Prototype (6-9)
Shafts: Dynamic Gold X7
Length: Standard (37″ 7-iron)
Lies: “Near standard”
Young is one of some Titleist staffers taking part in their very own, distinctive one-off set of irons. How did Van Wezenbeeck and the Tour crew determine that Young would profit from a personal set of irons?
It got here out of Young’s excessive shaft lean supply, which was inflicting points with turf interplay, particularly on his brief irons. The first resolution was so as to add some bounce to the forefront of his 620 MBs, however then the crew began to go additional.
“We work through the process where I kind of interview the player on things that he likes, doesn’t like. I bring that to Marni Ines (Titleist’s director of iron development) and the irons team and say, ‘Okay, here’s kind of our 1st swing,’ Van Wezenbeeck said. “We’ll mill a piece. We’ll take that back out. We’ll get further feedback and refinement and kind of work through that process, until we get something we really like.”
It helped that Young liked the profile and offset of the present 620 MBs, so they might construct off that profile. To improve the turf interplay, the irons have a progressive bounce, with extra on the scoring irons to transition into his wedges. The 6- to 8-irons even have a barely wider sole to assist decrease the CG and provides Young a contact extra launch.
For the primary two prototype heads made for him, a 9-iron and a 6-iron, Young requested no adjustments for both of them.
There was a 631.CY 5-iron made for Young, however his present T100 5-iron outperformed the custom-made prototype. He’s remained in his ’23 T100 5-iron and T200 4-iron due to the familiarity and belief he has in these golf equipment.
His larger-profile lengthy irons have gotten somewhat of a theme out on Tour, however that’s all to assist him create constant launch and yardage gappings and pair together with his low-launch and high-spin supply.
This yr, as Young was working by way of some swing adjustments, Young and Van Wezenbeeck made the lie angles on his brief irons extra upright to optimize his begin traces.
Titleist 620 MB Custom Irons
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Designed for low handicaps, the MB is the trendy alternative for these needing a conventional cast blade appear and feel.
The new Titleist 620 MB is the definition of a real cast participant’s blade. The muscle-back design is good for gamers which can be searching for complete shot-making capabilities and an extremely comfortable really feel. Strategically designed CG areas ship responsive suggestions, permitting you to hit any shot you need.
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Wedges
Specs
Wedges: Titleist Vokey SM11
Lofts/Grinds: 48.10F, 52.12F, 56.14F (@57), WedgeWorks 60K* (@ 62˚)
Shaft: Dynamic Gold X7 (48-57), X100 (62)
Young’s wedge set helped him as a lot as any half in his bag on the Players, the place he led the sphere in Scrambling at 76 p.c and made the essential remaining birdie on 17 after knocking a sand wedge to 10 ft.
One of two main adjustments Young has made to his wedge was switching to the 56.14F (bent weak to 57˚) from an M-Grind sand wedge to optimize his carry yardage gaps and provides him another choice across the greens.
But the opposite change was transferring to a singular WedgeWorks 60K* lob wedge bent to 62˚ on the PGA Championship at Valahalla in 2024. Then, Young was in a low-bounce and narrow-soled T-Grind lob wedge. That’s the preferred wedge grind on the PGA Tour, however one which was making it tough for Young to get out of the bunkers.
“I’m just watching him from a distance, just seeing how things are going, and and every time every time he hits a shot out of the practice bunker, it’s coming out low and dead and just releasing a lot,” Dill mentioned. ”And his physique, you realize, his physique language simply regarded just a little annoyed.”
Young was trying to get extra and simpler top out of the sand, in order that led Young to provide him a demo head of a 60˚ Okay*, with the adjustable hosel set to 62˚ so as to add much more bounce.
“I gave him the 60 K* at 62, and I knew there were two things he’d love — the wide sole creates effortless height, and it helps him in the sand. He’s getting height around the green and consistency through the sand,” Dill mentioned. “He played it that week, and I asked how it went. He said, ‘I was 10 for 10 in bunker saves.’ So I’d say it worked pretty well.”
Given that Young performs such stout Dynamic Gold X7 shafts in his irons, he retains them by way of his sand wedge to match the texture and consistency. At the lob wedge, he does go barely softer, though not a lot, with an X100.
Titleist Vokey WedgeWorks SM11 Okay* Grind Custom Wedge
One of the preferred lob wedge grinds on the PGA TOUR, the Okay* encompasses a low-bounce sole that originates from the .06K Grind. Instead of the full, clean sole of the Okay, the Okay* encompasses a steeper pre-wear on the forefront in addition to heel, toe and trailing edge aid.
The pre-wear helps resist extreme digging on square-faced photographs, whereas the heel, toe and trailing edge aid provides greenside versatility when the face is opened. Like all Okay Grind variations, Okay* has a large sole that excels out of the bunker.
Justin Thomas, Lottie Woad, Cameron Young and the 2024 Champion Golfer of the Year are among the many many gamers who journey with a Okay* lob wedge of their bag week in and week out.
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Putter
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Scotty Cameron Phantom 9.5R Tour Prototype
Grip: SuperStroke
Young has performed certainly one of Scotty Cameron’s Phantom mallets for the whole lot of his PGA Tour profession, however there have been a number of totally different choices earlier than the 9.5R Tour prototype he’s in at present.
While he was on the Korn Ferry Tour, he used a face-balanced and enormous Phantom 11. By the time he was on the PGA Tour, he most popular a extra compact Phantom 5, however with an extended plumber’s neck, so it was nonetheless face balanced.
Young has had a relationship with Scotty Cameron’s Brad Cloke since his days on the Korn Ferry Tour and whereas he was within the long-neck Phantom 5, he instructed Cloke he wished to get into a putter with extra toe movement.
“Some of it’s a desire for him to play a blade,” Cloke mentioned. “Although he, self-admittedly, says he would never put a blade in play, he’s got one that he’s always teased and tempted to put in play, but it’s kind of that same original feeling of more flow.”
In late 2024, Cloke constructed him some Phantom choices with a excessive toe movement jet neck, however it wasn’t till early 2025 that Young felt he he was comfy utilizing one. He made the transfer to the 9.5R on the Cognizant Classic and hasn’t switched since. He recorded one of the best placing season of his profession in 2025, rating seventh in SG: Putting after being exterior the highest 140 the earlier two seasons.
The “R” denotes extra rounded edges and contours on the No. 9 form and ultimately impressed Cameron to carry the modification to retail with the 2026 Phantom lineup.
“Guys just pick up putters and sometimes they get attached to them right away,” Cloke mentioned. “That’s what happened with the 9.5R—it just appealed to his eye and gave him what he was looking for.”
Scotty Cameron 2026 Phantom 9.2R Custom Putter
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Grips: Golf Pride MCC Plus4 Align Max
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