Why is Brooks Koepka still using a nearly decade-old fairway wood on the PGA Tour? In this video I put the TaylorMade M2 High Launch 3wood up against the most POPULAR 3 wood from 2025 – the Ping G430 Max – to find out whether new technology is actually better — or just different.
With help from scratch golfer Ben Campbell, we hit 20 shots with each club and analysed:
• Ball speed
• Spin rates
• Carry distance
• Peak height
• Descent angle
• Real on-course performance
The results explain exactly why some tour players — even after leaving LIV Golf — refuse to change equipment.
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I would like to see much tighter margins in FW numbers associated with loft angles. I have Mizuno 3 wood that's 13 deg, a Yasuda 4 wood at 19 deg, and a Bridgestone 5 wood at 18 deg…. To my mind, the Mizuno is basically a 2 wood, the Yasuda a 5, and the Bridgestone is in fact a 5 (the only one of the 3 that's being "honest" with its numbering. Brookes 16.5 "3" wood is more realistically a 4, which I think you acknowledge in your video. On that note, what happened to the old 2 wood, and does a 6 or an 8 wood even exist (because I also own a 7 wood, at 23 degrees)??
Another consideration is likely that the M2 HL being 16.5° the Ping G430 was at 15* so that will cause flight pattern and total yard differences. I still have a 2017 M1 driver as one of many I use and will not part with it. I think they are better than the previous generations that have come out since. Personal preference
I made the very same switch. The M2 3 wood was in my bag purely for decoration as I really lost confidence in hitting it. The Ping, with a shallower face, gave me a lot more confidence. So much so, I also traded in my M2 5 wood for the Ping. I am not Brooks, I play off 18.
Wouldn't a more apples to apples comparison be if you adjusted the Ping to have the same 16.5* of loft?
Pretty sure its the M2 Tour he uses not the standard one.
I thought Simon was the best golfer you know 😂
I have the Sim 2 max HL 16.5 and it’s great