I BUILT BRYSON'S US OPENWINNING CLUBS AND ENTERED A PRO EVENT

PGA pro and GM gear expert Joe Ferguson let his curiosity get the better of him and entered a pro event playing a full bag of Bryson DeChambeau’s actual clubs. He couldn’t win, could he?

- Joe Ferguson

As a somewhat still competitive PGA pro in my local region, I watch a lot of golf on television in my spare time, and one man has dominated my screen in the past 12 months. Whether in the Majors, on Instagram or on his extremely popular YouTube channel, Bryson DeChambeau was everywhere in 2024.

Furthermore, as an equipment writer, I have always been fascinated by his attitude towards his golf clubs and his willingness to push the boundaries and try something completely different. So much so that I even recently interviewed Tom Bailey, founder of Avoda Golf, the fledgling company that concocted the 3D-printed, curved-faced irons that Bryson rushed into play at The Masters and has stuck with ever since.

For a while, I had just accepted Bryson’s unorthodox approach to golf equipment - be it his 5° driver, the curved face, 5° upright one-length irons with the thickest grips in golf, his upright armlock putter or even his use of Epsom salts to ‘balance’ his golf balls. Then one day, I cracked. I wanted to know what it felt like to play golf with this stuff!

After a conversation with my boss, we started to wonder whether there was some potential video content in this idea and decided to go in at the deep end. Not only would I try to build Bryson’s bag as closely as possible, but I would also commit to playing a professional event on my local PGA circuit and film the whole thing. So, I began to put some feelers out...