Sepp Straka’s winning WITB: 2025 Truist Championship

Sepp Straka won the 2025 Truist Championship and here are the clubs that helped him claim his victory.

Driver: Callaway Paradym Ai Smoke Triple Diamond Max (9 degrees)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus VeloCore+ Blue 6 X

3-wood: Callaway Paradym Ai Smoke Triple Diamond (15 degrees)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Tensei 1K Red 80 TX

7-wood: Callaway Paradym Ai Smoke Triple Diamond (20 degrees)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Tensei 1K Orange 80 TX

Irons: Srixon ZXi5 (4, 5), Srixon ZXi7 (6-9)
Shafts: True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100
+1/4 over standard length
1° upright
D4 swing weight

Wedges: Cleveland RTZ (46-10 MID, 52-10 MID, 56-12 FULL, 60-12 FULL)
Shafts: True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400
+1/4” over standard length
1° upright
D5 swing weight

Putter: Odyssey Tuttle Stroke Lab
Grip: SuperStroke Zenergy Pistol Tour

Grips: Golf Pride Tour Velvet Midsize

Ball: Srixon Z-Star XV

Hey, welcome back to Golf the BRX’s winning what’s in the bag where this week we are taking a look at Sep Straa’s bag from the 2025 Truist Championship. Uh, great win for him. Came out played well in the final round. Uh, I know he uh I think a lot of people expected Shane Lowry to kind of walk away with this one, but Seth played really well and pulled out the win for this championship. So, I know he’s got a couple wins here on the PGA Tour now, but with his bag, uh, he is kind of a Srixon player, so he’s got ball irons, but he does have some different woods in the bag. So, uh, we’ll start from the top as we always do, and he is playing the Callaway Paradigm AI Smoke Triple Diamond Max. So, yes, this is the AI Smoke from last year. Uh, multi material, has kind of the 360, uh, you know, uh, uh, carbon chassis on it, uh, titanium face, and a little bit of weight in the back. Now, this is the Triple Diamond Max version. This one was on tour very quickly. We got it at retail late and it is actually kind of sits in between the retail AI Smoke uh Max and the Triple Diamond. So, kind of took a little bit from both. It has more forgiveness than the Triple Diamond, but it has lower spin than the Aird Paradigm AI Smoke Max. Uh kind of sits in the middle there. Was a really popular head uh at retail when it finally did come out later in the year. Uh but, uh a very good one there. The uh other thing too with this one, it does have a little bit more of a neutral bias compared to Triple Diamond. Triple Diamond was a kind of like more fade bias uh driver. Slightly smaller in terms of CC’s. The max goes to 460 cc’s and is a little more just straight neutral ball flight. Uh but the huzzle on this one is set to NS, which is uh the neutral position and the stated loft. Uh so playing at 9° there. This one is shafted up with a Fujikuro Ventist Vocore Blue or Ventus Blue Voic Plus 6X. Uh I know we’ve been kind of saying VLOOC Plus because the newer 2024 models uh have VOCore Plus. Those are the updated version of the Ventus. This is the brand new one, the lighter blue color. The VOCore Plus is a new kind of multimaterial bias core uh where the old one uh I think was single material. This one’s multi material offers a little bit more stability while maintaining or adding maybe a little ball speed. Uh, so it’s mid-launch, low spin, has kind of a softer handle section. Uh, and then guess has a really stiff tip section on it for control. So it’s mid-launch, low spin. Comes at 66 grams and 3.1 3.1 degrees of torque for the 6x. Number three wood. He is playing a Callaway Paradigm AI smoke triple diamond. Uh, this is the 3-wood, which is 15°. Again, adjustable hoszle on this one. If you look really closely at the sole, uh, there’s a 14.7 that was written in Sharpie at one point. Uh, looks like it’s starting to wear off. So, this head could be a 14.7 degree head. Uh, but this one here is actually set on the hoszle to D/S, which means draw/stated. So, stated loft, which is 15 or 14.7, but the draw portion means it’s a little bit more upright on the lie angle. Uh, and typically more upright clubs are easier to turn over, easier to hit draws. So, that’s why Callaway marks it as a D. Now, this is the smaller, lower spinning head in the 3-wood lineup. Uh, has that kind of uh all steel sole on it. doesn’t have the carbon uh plates or carbon chassis around it like some of the uh the standard Paradigm models there. Uh again, little bit lower ball flight, flat or flatter launch, lower spin, little bit neutral, more neutral ball flight on this one. It is shafted up with a Mitsubishi Tensei 1K Pro Red uh in 70TX. Now, we don’t see a ton of the red. We see a lot of white, a lot of orange, uh a little bit of blue. Uh but red is the mid-igh launch midspin version. Uh now the TX version could launch and spin just a little bit less. Uh Tensei and the TX model has been known to play just slightly different uh than the standard X or stiff models there. But this is uh yeah the highest launching in the Tensei 1K Pro line uh that they have there. It’s got a firmer handle kind of and then like a medium medium uh stiffness in the midsection and the tip. And that like softer, more active tip helps get that ball up in the air. I think it’s the sleeper of the Tensei line personally. Uh offers a really good ball flight while still being really accurate and really consistent. Uh this one comes in at 74 grams and three degrees of torque. He next moves to a 7wood and I bet you’re shocked, but the 7wood is going to match the 3-wood. It is the Callaway Paradigm AI Smoke Triple Diamond. Uh this is the 7wood, which is 20°. I looked all around, didn’t see any Sharpie on the bottom of this one, so don’t know exactly what the uh actual loft is, but it’s probably around 20°. Uh now this is a bonded hoszle so no adjustable there. There’s no uh you know tip to kind of adjust and make more upright or change the loft or anything like that. So it’s just 20°. Now on the tour trucks they can bend them. So it could be something different for him. Uh but yes again little bit more compact, smaller but still a triple diamond. So looks very square if not slightly open at a dress. Uh and a little bit flatter launch than some of the other uh retail paradigm AI smoke models that were out there. This one is shafted up with a Mitsubishi Tensei 1K Pro Orange uh in 80TX. So the 80 g range on paper. The orange is actually the lowest launching and spitting. If you look at uh you know Mitsubishi’s chart, uh it is also counterbalanced, meaning the handle section weighs a little bit more than the tip section. And for builds with counterbalance shafts, uh you’re doing that to either play the club a little bit longer, uh to keep the swing weight right, or you want to add more mass to the head, uh to have better energy transfer. One of those two reasons is typically why you build with a counterbalance shaft. Or the third one, you just want the head to feel lighter. So, uh those three things are kind of why you have a counterbalance shaft, but it means the handle section is a little bit heavier than the tip, so it balances out a little more in favor of the handle section. Uh, now this one here, it kind of has a a medium kind of handle stiffness. Uh, a much firmer midsection and then a fairly firm tip on it. Uh, it comes in at 88 g and 2.4° of torque. Now, moving to his irons, he’s playing a little bit of a combo set. Uh, the four and five iron in his set are the brand new Srixon ZXi5s. So, these are the multi-piece forged irons. Uh, they’re a little bit bigger, slightly thicker top line, but very similar shape to the ZXI7s, which we’re going to talk about in a minute. Uh they still don’t have a ton of offset. Uh they’re really good looking kind of players distance irons. Uh the face there has what they call rebound frame which is a milled channel inside of it. Uh helps increase ball speed and become more consistent and stretch out that sweet spot a little bit more. Uh and that is the big thing with why you would play the ZXI5 in these longer irons. Uh a little added speed probably helps with gapping. Uh they also do launch fairly high. Uh but just like the other irons, I do have the Tour Visil for great turf for interaction, less digging, all that. Now, he does have a three iron that kind of goes in and out. Uh we have photos of the three iron, uh but it doesn’t seem like it was in play this week. Went with the four and five iron. Uh and the shafts on these are true temper dynamic gold tour issue X100s. Uh so again, lower launch, lower spin, kind of the uh standard when it comes to iron shafts out there uh on tour it seems. Now for his 6 through9 iron, he’s going to play the Srixon ZXI7s. So, these are the single piece forge, more kind of cavity back uh for, you know, the lower handicap, better players. They are all over on tour. Uh they are slightly longer blade length, so a little bit more stable. Uh I think they launch a little bit higher compared to some other CBS out there. Fantastic. Really soft feel to it. Uh much like the ZXI5s, you have a Tour Visle on there, which again reduces digging, gets the turf really quickly. Uh but these blades, you know, feel great. They have a little bit of forgiveness, which I know you don’t think about on tour, but these guys do, you know, mishit it slightly. Uh, so these things are still pretty stable on missits. Uh, and they’re easy to launch and get to come into the green really high and land soft. Now, these are shafted up as well with true tempered dynamic gold tours X100s. Uh, these, you know, again, 130 g, uh, you know, lower launching, lower spinning. Now, he does play all of his irons, the four through 9 iron, uh, a quarter inch over standard length, uh, and one degree upright with a D4 swing weight. So, uh, the ZXI5s and the ZXI7s both play to those specs. Now moving to wedges. And wedges he is playing the brand new Cleveland new RTZ wedges. So these have the new Z Alloy in them uh which is to be denser uh better feeling and uh it’s just they are I’ve hit them before and they definitely have a softer feel than the RTX stuff. Uh the first one he’s playing is the pitching wedge replacement which is the 4610 midsole. Uh so this is the 46°ree that the midsole is a pretty standard sole. It’s got a little bit of relief on the back uh but it’s pretty full. great for full shots uh with a with a wedge playing square to the target. Now, the next wedge would be his gap wedge. This is going to be the 5210 midsole. Uh so again, 52. Not 100% sure if it is actually playing 52, if it’s bent in any way. Uh no markings on there to tell. Uh but again, RTZ Z alloy. Uh the grooves on it spin exceptionally well off the tur off the fairway lies, off rough lies. Uh but the midsole, again, really versatile, great for allaround full shots. uh and a 52 you’re probably going to hit a decent amount of you know full shots with that club. Uh again 12 uh 10 degrees of bounce should be pretty sufficient and pretty average for a gap wedge. He then moves on to his sand wedge. It is a 5612 and this is the full sole design. Uh so this is kind of a a very stable sole. Gets through the turf well. Great float in the bunkers when you open the face. Uh but 12 degrees a little bit more bounce and you know it gets through the rough and you know thicker lies with no problem. you can kind of throw it into the turf if you’re a little bit steeper. Not have to worry about a deep divot there. Uh now when you open the face, the the leading edge can come off the ground a little bit. Uh but you know, for players like Sept, they’ve got enough skill where that’s not too big of a deal. Then move on to to his lob wedge. And his lob wedge is a 60 or 60-12 full soul as well. Uh so this one here, uh again, a little bit wider, a little bit fuller sole, great out of the bunker. Uh now you’re on the hardest, firmst, tightest conditions. If you open the face up, you’re going to see that leading edge come up. But playing it square, it’s going to be really good. Get through the turf, you’re going to be able to kind of glide it across uh the turf as well for certain shots. Uh but for those guys, uh they can still pull a lot of versatility out of it. Uh where you or I may have a little bit problem hitting those like wide open flop shots off the tightest fairways like these guys play. Uh but still an overall really great gap wedge there. Spins a ton. Uh I like kind of the slightly compacttor look of the these wedges. uh and the longer hoszle just looks really classic and very Cleveland to me from my eye. Now, all four of these are shafted up with True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400 shafts. Uh again, I bet you’re shocked that we’re talking about this shaft. Uh but slightly softer than the X100, a little bit heavier at 132 g. Uh will still offer kind of a mid a mid-flight, more penetrating uh while having spin on it, but offers a little bit of feel for those partial shots on all four of those wedges. Now, all four of these do match his irons in terms of spec. He’s playing them a quarter inch long or quarter inch over standard uh onederee upright. And these come in with a D5 swing weight, so just slightly heavier uh than the irons. Now, we move to putter and he is using actually an older Odyssey Tuttle uh the Stroke Lab version. So, the Stroke Labs back then they were the black had a lot of yellow accents to them if you remember. Now, his has a white hot insert, the very popular white hot insert uh that we see everywhere uh instead of the micro hinge star. So, there used to be a micro hinge star that had little plastic uh black plastic kind of knobs in there uh that would kind of hope for help forward roll. Uh I want to believe it was just a little bit firmer uh than say standard micro hinge. Uh but uh it had little kind of the the black uh dots in there to kind of help that forward roll and improve feel. Uh but he’s got the white hot insert installed instead. Now, this is a double bench shaft. Should be pretty much close to face balanced uh when you hold it. Uh and it’s got the stroke lab shaft on it. So, this was the uh the retail version was counterbalanced. Had a little uh a plug up at the top. This is the the black with the silver tip. And it even has like a little kind of carbon fiber weave you can see up near the handle section. But this is the original Stroke Lab one that uh they brought out first and then they switched over and I think the like there was a green one and then a red one and whatever. But this one here at retail was counterbalanced. Not sure if his is uh I know that I had a retail one like this and I pulled the counterbalance blade out so that’s definitely possible. Uh but it was uh at retail. The grip but here is a Superstroke Zenergy 1.0 PT. Uh so this is not a super super popular grip from Superstroke. It in terms of retail you don’t see many of them. Uh it’s kind of like a pistol style grip uh but a little bit bigger uh kind of like a midsize pistol grip. Uh, but it’s got a pretty fairly pronounced arc on the back side under the top hand and it is something we do see on tour a little bit more often. Uh, but it hasn’t quite caught on, I don’t think, uh, at retail as much. And that’s white and black. Uh, now grips for the rest of his clubs are all Tour velvet, Golf Ride Tour velvet midsize. Uh, not sure if these got any extra wraps or anything like that, but the Tour Velvet I think we talked about last week. Uh, a traditional classic grip from Golf Ride. uh kind of a brushed uh brushed rubber on the top. Kind of like a hounds tooth type pattern that runs through it. Uh really great uh combination of traction, wet weather control, just all around really solid grip. And then for ball, step is playing the Strixon Zstar XV. So uh there’s three balls in the Zar lineup. This is the one that’s going to have kind of the firmst feel. Uh it’s going to fly higher and spin a little bit less uh compared to the standard Zstar out there. So really good performing ball for someone who’s looking for a little bit more height uh and maybe not looking to add any more spin to their game. So that is Sept Straka’s winning what’s in the bag from the 2025 Truist Championship. Congratulations to him on a big win. I think the payout was huge. I think it was like $3.5 million. So great win for him. That’s kind of life-changing money even for guys on tour who make a lot of money. Uh but congrats to him. So check back next week. We will go through the next winners. What’s in the bag?