Sneak into a bag with 6 brands

After 50, no one has won more victories in professional golf than Bernhard Langer, and most of his setup has changed little over the past 17 years.

Langer is one of the weirdest and most elusive bags for Gear Nerds to dig deeper as he starts to scale down the game schedule when he is 70 years old.

At this week’s Dick’s sporting goods open, Golf inside looks at Langer’s bags, which include clubs of Ping, Taylormade, Tour Edge, Cleveland, Cleveland, Titleist and Adams (!), without a lot of tours in over 10 years.

Continue reading below to learn more about why Langer picked each club in his schoolbag.

ball

Titleist Pro V1X

Langer’s preferred pellet is the Titleist Pro V1X golf ball. The 67-year-old and 47-time PGA Tour champion prefer the spin version of golf’s most popular ball, as he, like many professionals, has always valued spin.

For the top players of the game, spinning is the opposite of cooking. In cooking, you can always add ingredients, but when you add too much you can never put the elves back into the bottle. On a golf course, spin is the best thing in the world how players manage and take away when they need it.

A good example is Rory McIlroy’s Taylormade TP5 platform changes that would spin earlier this year, demonstrating his ability to control the extra spin offered by golf balls by hitting 3/4 and knocking shots.

Langer has never been one of the longest players in the PGA Tour title, but he has always been one of the most accurate and best carpooling, many of which have to do with the controls provided by playing a spinning golf. In 2024, he ranked second in driving accuracy (79.74%) and fifth in regulations (73.23%), competing for seventh (65.09%).

Even if he is old and loses speed, hitting a spinning ball can keep him stopping power on the green, making it easy for him to make money with putts.

driver

driver: PING G400 9.0 (small negative)
axis: Graphite Design Journey AD IZ-6 x

Langer tried a lot of drivers over the years, but kept going back to the G400 because he liked to miss it and the spin didn’t fall too far.

But the good thing must end, as Langer has been on his last G400 head after his recent gamer cracked. He is testing the Tour Edge EPROTO and has the same travel AD IZ-6 axis as his gamers.

Fairway wood

3 woods: Taylormade Stealth 2 plus 15˚ (FCT: STD, sliding weight: rear)
axis: Graphite Design Journey AD DI-7 S

Langer carries Miki with him, a QI10 Tour, a Stealth 2 and a Callaway Elyte ti, but this is the Stealth 2 in the back of New York this week.

Notice how Langer goes from the driver’s X flex to the 3 wood. You’ll see this in his irons, too, but Langer sees each club as a separate tool, which means just because something works, it doesn’t mean it works in another tool.

The tips for the graphite design journey in Langer 3 wood AD DI are slightly harder than his driver’s AD IZ, so one possible reason for the Langer to be softer is to maintain peak height and rotate where he wants it.

Hybrid

2 Hybrid & 3 Hybrid: Adams Idea Pro Tour prototypes 18˚ and 22˚
axis: RT technology MIDAS

If it is not bankrupt, don’t fix it. When Langer worked with Adams after his 49th birthday in 2006, he was well suited for the Pro 2 and 3 Hybrids, and he still uses them exactly the same today.

The truth is that Adams has not had a place in Professional Golf for more than 10 years, and RT Technologies has long been out of business, so if either of them breaks, Langer will be forced to go elsewhere because they are his only two.

iron

4-7 Iron: Tour Edge CBX Forged (w/langer Grind and Tungsten plugs)
8-9-iron: Tour Edge Pro 723
PW: Tour Edge BL Proto
axis: Hogan Apex (4), True Temperature Dynamic Gold S300 (5-PW)
Loft progress: 24, 27, 31, 34, 38, 42, 46

Like his axle choice we pointed out in 3 Wood, Langer sees each club as a separate tool, further proof of his mixed Tour Edge Erons set.

The Ben Hogan Apex axis is so popular among his 4 irons that many of the advantages of the early generation are still in stock.

Thanks to the added tungsten weight port, his long and mid-term is the only gap for custom work to get his preferred feel and custom footwear interaction.

There is also a big offset to this set, which is Langer’s need for his iron and wedges, but in most cases, this set is set for high launch, which is why he uses the new dynamic gold shaft.

wedge

54: Cleveland 588 RTX
60: Titleist Vokey Wedgeworks prototype
axis: Real Temperament Dynamic Golden Travel Issues S400

Langer’s wedge is a completely custom job. He likes the larger profile of the Cleveland 588 RTX with two 56-degree wedges with different amounts of lead tape on it. Both bend to 54 to increase the resistance about matching and then re-ground to avoid losing the rebound.

His 60 degrees also has two different Vokey prototypes, and there are also a lot of offsets bent to the club.

Putter

Odyssey White Hot 2 goals
length: 48 inches

Last year, the PGA Tour champion’s best-stat putter continued to dominate, although his age and anchoring ban were largely due to this Odyssey 2-ball long broom.

If Langer is not on the golf course or practice, the putter will remain in the car or locker room. If he goes out for lunch, take it with him. If he could bear it, the Holy Grail would never leave his sight.

The coolest thing about this putter is grip, there is no special broom grip here. It’s a simple golf pride tour of Velvet, while the other hand is the first half of the other hand.

Langer also used a different broom method than most people, the constructed base color is very upright (48 inches) compared to one of his heights (5’8), and he stuffed his left elbow and drove the stroke with his right arm.

Grip

Langer uses the visitor-only Golf Pride V55 ribs (non-cord) grip and places the ribs at 7 o’clock so that the grip alignment assist assist appears at 1 o’clock on the shaft. This may seem strange to most people, but he does this because the ribs then fit the lifeline of his hand.

He was worried about a hook and tended to make his grip stronger, so he moved his ribs into his lifeline and helped him square the club.

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