Bubba Watson

Who pays, and what gets played

Brand share across the bag, weighted by how often each maker is reported rather than by how many products carry its name — one driver named in ninety reports is not the equal of a grip named once.

• Ping69%
• Titleist13%
• Grafalloy11%
• 4 others8%

Concentrated. 69% of Bubba Watson’s cited equipment is Ping, the shape a full equipment contract makes.

The bag

Every line is a claim someone published, kept beside the report it came from. The leading club in each slot is the one Bubba Watson was most recently reported playing, and the date beside it is when that report ran.

in play, most recently reportedin testing — in hand, not committedmoved off

Previously reported

Equipment Bubba Watson has been reported playing and is no longer reported with. The report saying so is quoted beneath each one, and several often come from the same article.

• ShaftsGrafalloy BiMatrix

  “Watson finally replaced his Grafalloy BiMatrix driver shaft with a Project X HZRDUS Smoke RDX at the AT&T Byron Nelson.”View report

• DriversPing G20

  “Bubba would also go onto win the 2012 Masters with that G20 driver, becoming the first and most likely only golfer to win one of the game’s most prestigious events with such a bold looking big stick.”View report

• PuttersPing B60

  “Watson, whose first putter was a Ping B60, has played the company's clubs continuously since receiving a junior set of Ping irons as an 8-year-old.”View report

• HybridsPing i25 hybrid

  “Watson replaced his 3-iron at the Match Play with a Ping i25 hybrid. At TPC Sawgrass, he took out that hybrid as well as his 4-wood”View report

• IronsPing S56

  “Watson flirted with the brand’s S56 irons two years ago but only kept them in the bag for a handful of rounds.”View report