Chris Gotterup’s winning WITB: 2025 Genesis Scottish Open

Chris Gotterup just won the 2025 Genesis Scottish Open for his 2nd professional win. He is an equipment free agent with some TaylorMade, Ping, and Bridgestone clubs in the bag. Here is what he used to secure the championship.

Driver: Ping G440 LST (9 degrees)
Shaft: Project X HZRDUS Smoke Black RDX 70 TX

5-wood: TaylorMade Qi35 (18 degrees)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Diamana WB 83 TX

Utility iron: TaylorMade RSi TP UDI (1)
Shaft: KBS C-Taper 130 X

Irons: Bridgestone Tour B 220 MB (4-9)
Shafts: KBS C-Taper 130 X

Wedges: TaylorMade MG4 (46, 52), TaylorMade MG Proto (56, 60)

Putter: TaylorMade Spider X Tour
Grip: SuperStroke Zenergy Pistol 2.0

Grips: Golf Pride Z Grip Cord

Ball: Bridgestone Tour B X Mindset

Hey, welcome back to Golf the BX’s winning what’s in the bag, where this week we are taking a look at Chris Gotup’s winning bag from the 2025 Genesis Scottish Open. Uh, congratulations to him. He is a second time winner. Uh, had his first win the PJ tour, now win uh at the Scottish, and I know a lot of people were looking forward to yesterday’s round with, you know, Rory in the hunt and all that. Uh but you know uh Chris comes through with a two-stroke lead or two-stroke win for his second professional champion or championship or win. Uh so we’re going to start in his bag now. Uh he is kind of a free agent player. Uh plays a few different clubs in there. We have uh not exactly his like photos of his brand newest what’s in the bag from the Scottish. Uh he changes stuff up just a little bit here and there. Uh so we’re going to go with everything we have. Uh there’s a couple photos that are either stock or other equipment. uh but you know trying to get you as much info as we can. So we’re going to start at the top as we always do and driver is going to be the Ping G440 LST. Uh we’ve talked about this driver a lot this year. This is uh Ping’s low spin low launch uh more neutral ballfly driver. So a little bit more compact, a little bit uh slightly different look to it compared to the Max. Uh since a little bit more square to my eye uh but it is still a very stable head for being low spin, being very neutral, being kind of like the tour head from Ping. It’s still very stable. very forgiving. Uh, and definitely the G440 has moved up the ball speed numbers compared to some of the other previous LST models. Now, his is marked as a 90 degree head. Uh, not exactly sure what the settings are in this one. Uh, we have some photos uh that I posted up here on YouTube that are two drivers from that he was testing at the Valero Texas Open earlier this year. Both of them were nine degree heads, but they had like Sharpie on them. One said eight, one said 7.5. So, it looks like he has lower long lower lofted heads, at least digitally lofted, and Ping will do that. They’ll digitally loft a driver. Uh, so it looks like it was an eight or seven and a half degree head. Uh, and then both of those were set in the small minus setting. Uh, so again, with this driver here, it is a 90 degree head. I’m assuming he’s probably playing something similar to that in that minus uh, you know, small minus setting, but I’m not 100% sure on it. So, it’s probably something lower lofted uh, than 90 degrees. I would say it’s probably somewhere in that 8 to seven realm. uh but not 100% sure. Don’t have exact inhand photos of that driver. So, uh now this one here is shafted up with a Project X hazardous smoke black RDX 70TX. Uh so, this is a shaft that in the Hazardous Smoke line was kind of one of the stiffer profiles. It was kind of a little bit softer uh than the Green Hulk. Uh but it was definitely more uh more firm than the standard Hazardous Smoke Black. So, the RDX, uh, you know, they incorporated some new material in it, made it a little stiffer profile, still low launch, low spin, comes in at 72 g and 2.7° of torque. Now, the next club in his bag is a fivewood, and this is the Tailor- made Qi35. Uh, now this one here, again, same thing. I don’t have any hand photo, so I don’t know if it is the tour issue model that has the bonded hoszle, uh, or the standard kind of retail model that has the adjustable Huzzle. We’ve kind of seen a little bit of both on tour. I feel like majority of people have kind of gone over to the bonded hoszle version. Uh, but this is, you know, stainless steel face and body, carbon fiber crown. And if it does have the bonnet hoszle, typically they take the weight you would use for an adjustable hoszle, shift it elsewhere in the head to make it a little different performance. Uh, they can take some of those grams of weight and shift them around to make the club head perform a little different. But, uh, this is the standard model, not the Tour. So, it is a little bit higher launching, a little bit higher spinning. These have actually become extremely popular on tour. I know everybody was kind of saying, “Oh, Qi35, oh, I don’t But the fairway woods, the Qi35s have started to really make their way into some bags and they are really, really solid. Now, this one here shafted up with a Mitsubishi Diamana WB 83TX. So, this is kind of the newest version of the whiteboard. Uh, it’s got a it’s low launch and low spin, just like the original whiteboard is, but the difference is is a lot of, you know, really low launch, low low uh spin shafts tend to be really stiff and stout and all that. This one’s a little bit softer, got a little bit more feel to it. It’s got a little softer handle. It’s a firm handle, kind of a firm midsection and a mid stiff tip on it. So, little different profile compared to some other low launch and low spin shafts, but it’s got good feel. It’s smooth and still is low launching and low spinning. Now, this one comes in at 84 g and 2.7° of torque. Then, we move on to kind of his irons. I guess you want to call this an iron. We’re going to move into it’s a driving iron. I mean, they’re over in Europe. They’re over in uh uh Scotland playing. So, he’s got a driving iron. And his driving iron is something kind of a little bit unique. This is a tailor-made RSIT TP UDI. Uh, so this is actually something that came out back in 2014 and he has the one iron version of it. So, this is a 16 degree head uh in an iron. The thing honestly looks actually slightly less butter knifeish than I thought it would uh from the photos. The photos here are actually some stocking images from the Golf Direct launch article from 2014. Uh, you know, we don’t have photos of Chris’s actual TP RSI UDI, but this one here, the head is made from 450 carpenter steel. So, it’s got a little bit bit hotter face. And basically, back in the day, it was meant to launch a little bit lower than a hybrid, but a little bit higher than an iron. So, you have that kind of mid uh launch there for players who just didn’t hit hybrids well or hit the hybrid too high, but they wanted a little more uh distance, a little more height compared to a I guess compared to a one iron, but compared to an iron at the top end of their bag. So, it’s got the speed uh slot uh or speed pocket in the sole as well. Uh and this again is a one iron, so 16 degrees. Pretty crazy low launching. And he is shafted up with a KBS Caper 130X. Uh now, we’ll get into C taper uh in just a minute. But then we move into his irons. And his irons kind of uniquely are the Bridgestone TourB 220 MB. Uh he’s playing four through nine iron in these. Now, these are kind of unique. Bridgestone kind of got out of uh clubs in the US market for for quite a bit quite a while. And they just brought uh the 220 here in the MB. There’s a 221 CB. Uh they have like three models now, but they just came back into the US market like last year uh and and announced some new irons and they are now available to uh to us. And you know, they were known for really high-end soft forgings. The rumor is that these are are endo forged. Uh but they’re a beautiful kind of classic muscle back blade. Uh now the ones he had at the Valero actually he was testing a set out that had a leading edge grind on them. So they actually ground part of the leading edge uh right below the face down. And a lot of times a pre-worn leading edge as they call it or a ground leading edge is going to do two things. One it can help with turf interaction and create maybe a slightly shallower divot divot as that angle there will help the club kind of get through the turf a little bit shallower. Won’t want to dig as much. Uh the other thing that that can do is actually bring the leading edge down on the ground and kind of help get under the ball a little easier. raise the strike pattern on the face just a touch uh to maybe get it closer to center. So, two things that that can be kind of used for. Um now, these are also shafted up with KBSC taper 130 X’s. The C taper is KBS is kind of lowest launching, lowest uh spinning shaft. It’s extremely stout. Uh very stiff, very heavy, 130 grams. Uh but it’s that their low launch and low spin option. You see it a lot on tour. It’s got a nice kind of brushed or satin uh satin finish on it. but very popular with the today’s bigger, stronger players who hit it high and hit it far and need to kind of reduce the launch and spin. Now, wedges, we move into these and again, unfortunately, we don’t have photos of of many of these, but uh the first set of wedges, uh they’re going to be tailor-made MG4 mil grind fours. These are the current wedges out. Uh they have the milled sole, and what they can do with that is repeat the same grind all the time. Even with hand ground wedges, the the best craftsman in the world when they hand grind wedges, there can be variances. You know, the amount of bounce, uh, the where the trailing edge like starts or where the bounce comes in, whatever, there’s always variances. When they CNC millet, we’re talking thousands upon thousands of an inch accuracy. So, they are identical every time. Now, he’s going to play a pitching wedge replacement here, which is the 46, and it’s probably the 09 SB. Uh, we don’t have in-hand photos of it, but in retail, I think they only make an 09 SB. For tour, yes, there’s probably something else out there, but I’m going to go ahead and assume that he’s using the SB09, the standard bounce sole. And the standard bounce sole is basically, you know, really good for full shots. You can open it a little bit as it does have some four-way camber and a little bit of heel relief as well. Now, also in the next one there, he plays a gap wedge in the MG4, and this is going to be the 5209 SB. Uh, now this one, same thing. It’s got that milled soul, so you’re always going to get the same one. And with players like, you know, Chris who probably swap these things out a few times a year, you know, you’re getting the exact same wedge. They also have that raw face. Now, Chris’s are totally raw, but they have the raw face, uh, that spins really well and helps with a little bit of moisture management there. And all raw ones like Chris has, of course, are going to look really good because they have a little bit of rust patina to them, and I love that as well. Uh, and again, that SB great for full shots. You can open it up a little bit, put a little wider, fuller sole there, uh, for, you know, better turf interaction on those full shots. Now, both of these I assume are going to be shafted up a true temper dynamic gold uh tour issue uh black onyx100’s. Um now these is what he’s been using previously. He used them all uh in his previous older wedges when we did shoot it at the Blero. Uh and from what I looked at some images online uh from him playing. It looks like he does have the onyx version of these shafts, the black version. Now I’m going to assume they’re X100s because that’s what he’s played before. They could be S400s. They make both uh in those shafts, but they are tourist issue dynamic gold black onx. So uh let’s go ahead and say they’re X100s. Those are going to match up fairly well uh with the KBS Cipper lights. Again, something that probably launches maybe just a little bit higher. Still has a little bit stiffer feel. And those things come in at about 130 g. And they are kind of like I said, lower launch, lower spin. Now, the next wedges in his bag are the new Tailor-Made MG Protos. Now, we saw these released out to public uh in very limited uh kind of quantities, but these are what we’re going to assume is going to be the MG5 or mil grind 5 or whatever the name of the new one is going to be. The next wedge, we’re going to assume it probably looks something like this. Uh but these protos were uh released out there. They’ve been on tour a little bit and it seems like on tour, everybody is switching over to these really, really quickly. So, tour adoption has been really fast. Uh and it looks like Chris has got a couple of these in his bag as well. He’s got a 56 and a 60. Uh, again, not sure on what the details are on these. Uh, excuse me. Uh, Tailorman has not released anything yet. They’re not getting into the details. We will probably get more when the official retail launch happens happens. Uh, but these are the MG Protos. So, I do have to say with the MG Proto, I like the look. It looks pretty good from the photos, the photos we’ve had, uh, uh, from, you know, previous tour events, but they definitely kind of have a little SM7 vibe to me from the step pattern in the back end of on the back of the the club there. So, we’ll learn more about these probably later on. And these things here, he does have true temper dynamic gold uh touriss issue black onyx shaft shafts in them as well. Again, not 100% sure what flex previously uh in other wedges. He did play the X100 uh in these, so it could be definitely the same wedge shaft. I don’t think he would switch, but you never know when there’s a brand new wedge out there. Maybe launch conditions or something like that changes and he moves over. But it is the uh the dynamic gold True Temper Dynam or Dynamic Gold True Temper Tour issue black onx. Just a lot to say there, but there are the black ones uh from the photos I saw. Now, we move to Putter. And Putter is going to be again something a little bit older. Uh it is a Tailor-Made Spyder X Tour. Uh but it is the quote unquote navy. Uh when they came out back in 2019, they came out with a navy and a copper. Two different models. Uh at the same time, some people like the copper, some people like the navy. Uh and at the time, they like they were really big into slant necks. I think slant necks got super hot at that point. Uh, but his is the L neck or plumbers’s neck version, which is also marked as the SX12. Uh, if you look on the bottom soles of tailor-made spider putters, they typically have different things on there with little like X3 or whatever. Uh, the SX12 was the L-neck version, and I don’t believe it was released immediately in 2019 with the other retail uh, Spiders, but the Spider X is, this one’s an L-neck. Now, his does have the true path alignment, which is the white uh, top on there, the big white stripe that goes across. And his is a little bit different because it’s got just a short little black line right into the face. It doesn’t have the full length sight line like a lot of True Path stuff does now, which is white with a full length black line. His just has that small little line for alignment. And then other thing too is that the wings on his as you look at Spyder X little wings, his are the actual removable weights. They got kind of did away with that and the weights are now on the sole. Uh but back in 2019, they actually had the wings as little weights and you could unscrew them and buy different weight kits uh to make the putter heavier, lighter, whatever your preference was. Kind of like that. It was kind of cool that like the wings were actually functional in that sense. Uh and but now they do look a little bit cleaner as they’re just mil into the head. This has a pure roll insert uh which is surin so it’s going to be soft. It’s got the 45 degree 45 degree grooves on it. So it’s going to put great top spin, good forward roll on the ball. And I think they touted back in 2019 that this insert was like a touch thicker than the previous generation. So it made it like a little bit more soft and a little bit s more solid feel. Uh I don’t remember if that’s 100% true. Uh but I feel like I do remember that. At some point around this launch uh they changed that insert just a bit. Now his is gripped up with a superstroke Zenergy pistol 2.0. So the pistol is the grip that has a little more taper on the underside. Uh so it fits into palm pads in your hands very well. It’s got a little flare up near the top end section to fit that top end hand. Kind of a pistol shape, but it’s still very flat on the top. No taper to it. Uh I really like the 1.0 of this shaft. The 2.0 is just slightly bigger. Uh but again, one of these grips that helps kind of take some of the hand pressure out of uh out of your grip. Uh then we move to grips for the rest of his clubs. And he is playing the Golf Pride ZGrip cord. Now, this is the firmst, roughest grip that Bridgestone or that that Golf Pride makes. Uh it has the Z pattern in it. and then a really heavy brush cotton cord that sticks out. These ones have a ton of traction. They’re great for wet weather performance, people who like a firm grip that offers a lot of responsiveness. Uh they’re really good there. Now, with those, uh you remember I talked about with the irons that he had that iron set that he was testing kind of that leading edge grind on those. He had the align version of these. Uh but he does not have the align at the moment. It is just the standard ZGrip cord. Now, for ball, he is playing the Bridgestone TourBX in the mindset. Uh so the TourBX is of course a very popular ball. Tiger’s playing it right now as well. Uh it is a little bit lower spinning, a little bit lower launching compared to the TourB XS, which is their high spin ball uh that they offer, but it has this new reactive cover on it that has great spin. Uh and it has uh a little bit firmer feel than the XS does. Now, the mindset portion is on this ball. It’s got a little kind of three rings and an arrow, and it’s really not made for alignment. It’s actually made to kind of help with your pre-shot routine. It basically means that uh the first ring is to identify your target. uh so identify where you want to hit it. Uh the second one is to visual visualize your shot. And then the third green dot is the dot that you just focus on. So putting off the tee works really well. You can set it up to visually look at it uh when you’re out in the fairway or you know before the green before you can actually pick up the ball. Uh unfortunately you’re just uh you’ve got to just do it in your head because you may not be able to see uh that little pattern on there uh the ball sitting in a certain way uh down in the rough. But a really good ball uh on tour. Jason Day, Tiger, a bunch of guys uh play. Matt Coocher all play a version of the TourB or TourBXS. So, good ball there. And then uh that is it. That is his what’s in the bag from the 2025 Scottish Open. So, congratulations to Chris uh on another win. A big one for him. And uh we’ll jump in next week when we will have the winner of the Open Championship. So, check back next week. We’ll go through that bag.