5 old clubs still used on tour

Many of the world's best players play with equipment that is several club generations old, especially when it comes to fairway woods.

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There are plenty of bargains to be had on such clubs in the second-hand marketplace. If you were to walk along the driving range at a tournament, you would see plenty of 'old favourites', whether a trusty 5-wood or one of the very first hybrids. Here are five old clubs that are still being played on tour...

• Ping S55 Irons

Matt Fitzpatrick is unwilling to retire a certain set of Ping favourites. The former US Open champion has experimented with other models in recent years, but it is his Ping S55 irons (5-9), which originated in 2013, to which he keeps coming back.

"They work for me, that's the long and short of it," Fitzpatrick told us last year. "I know what I'm getting with these irons and I think that's the biggest thing. I've had great success with these for ten years out on tour so to change them... looking back you'd be a bit of an idiot!"

For accomplished ball-strikers in search of a decent second-hand set of compact irons, the Ping S55 will tick a lot of boxes. It might be a full decade since we first hit these, but we remember them well for the impressive levels of forgiveness and superb control they offered - plus they looked (still look) very pleasing to the eye.