What Driving Irons Do the Pros Carry? Top 100 PGA Tour Pro Overview

One of the big challenges in golf for all levels of golfer – including the pros – has always been hitting long irons consistently well.

Updated designs of more forgiving ‘driving’ or ‘utility’ irons have helped however to solve that issue to an extent but how many of the top pros are actually using these clubs?

In this video we take an in-depth look to see
– how many of of top 100 PGA Tour are pros are using driving/utility irons
– the brands and models they choose
– how far they hit them and
– the trend amongst even this elite group for choosing more forgiving longer irons!

This is part of our ongoing series at the end of which in the following overall video we analyze the golf bags of the best players on the PGA Tour to see what the most popular 14 clubs are on Tour.

What Clubs Do Pros Use? Most Popular Set on Tour Revealed – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuQ6GTwsWqQ&t=1s

Chapters
0:00 Introduction
0:42 How Many Pros Use Utility Irons
2:13 Most Popular Makes & Models
4:06 How Far Pros Hit Driving Irons
5:29 Long Iron Trends

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One of the big challenges in golf for all levels of golfer including the pros has always been hitting long irons consistently well updated designs and more forgiving driving or utility irons have helped however to solve that issue to an extent and provided increased long shot making options for even the best

Players in the world but how many of the top Pros are actually using these clubs in this video we take an in-depth look to see how many of the top 100 PGA Tour Pros are using driving irons the brands and models they choose how far they hit

Them and the trend amongst even this Elite group for choosing more forgiving longer Irons welcome back to the golfing Focus Channel everybody and it’s part of our ongoing series of videos looking at what’s in the bag of the best Pros on tour we’re going to run through the details of the driving or utility irons they prefer so after this video please

Check out our overall video where we go through the entire bag to reveal what the most popular 14 clubs and set ups are among the best Pros on tour focusing on driving IRS for now though how many of the top Pros in the PG tour are actually using these

Clubs we found 27 of the top 100 Pros using driving irons with three of them using two including world number one Scotty Sheffer tiess models are the most played with 10 Pros choosing them the most used driving iron is a three iron with 16 using one six carry a two iron

Seven use a three iron with only one Pro Brian Harmon using a five driving iron what is also comforting for us amateurs to see when looking at this topic is that the difficulties that come with trying to hit long irons consistently well cly also affect even

The best players in the world and even those Pros that don’t use a utility iron still use more forgiving longer iron models compared to their shorter irons driving irons or utility IRS as they are also known have found favor amongst PG tour Pros who are looking for clubs that

Will fly the ball lower and roll further than hybrids or Fairway Woods of a comparable Loft with their updated designs making them easier to hit than old driving irons these clubs are now used by getting up to a third of the best players in the PGA Tour Srixon said

X utility iron is the most used driving iron amongst the top 100 PGA Tour Pros with six playing it and a further two choosing the updated ZK Mark I model titlist u500 is the next most popular with five Pros playing them and total 15 different models made by seven different

Manufacturers are used by this Elite group a small number of the top 100 including ton Kim carry two iron versions of utility irons however three iron utility clubs are the most widely used with 16 players choosing one a further seven of the top 100 play a four driving iron while we found one

Pro 2023 British Open Champion Brian Harmon using driving irons up to five iron none of the top 100 tour however use a one iron when it comes to the top players in the PGA Tour who are using driving irons it is therefore clear that when they become an option for them it

Is the three iron and four iron which are most often under consideration what is also clear though for these top Pros is that the driving iron sometimes forms part of a wider set of 15 to 17 clubs which can be interchanged with Fairway woods and hybrids of the same Lofts depending on

Where they are playing AI Matsuyama for example regularly changes the setup at the top of his bag in terms of playing Fairway Woods Andor a 20° driving iron and while these utility irons are used throughout the year by many of the top 100 golfers in the PG tour they can

Also find increasing favor in weeks on tour where the wind is a factor and lower laun shots will be preferable to the high flying shots that hybrids and higher lofted fery Woods typically result in by comparison briefly before we move on though please once again hit that like button if you’re finding this

Video helpful thanks for doing that it really is much appreciated and is a great indicator for us that we’re producing content that is helpful to you getting back to driving IRS though one of the reasons pros and better players will choose them over a fairway wood or

Hybrid of our comparable loft is that they’re looking for a low rant launch angle in Flight with the shots they’re hitting with that length of Club but one of the other reasons that driving irons are chosen is that because of the technology the modern utility clubs are

Now packed with they’re easier to hit further than standard two three or four irons and the reason for this is that they fly higher than traditional long IRS although not of course as high as Fairway Woods or hybrids how far exactly Pros hit driving irons is difficult to

Give a precise number on as this data is not made available by the PGA Tour however through trackman’s measuring of the average carry distances for all clubs on tour we can give an estimation of how far Pros hit driving IRS as a general rule we estimate Pros

Hit two driving irons about 249 yards based on trackman’s stated average fivewood carry distance in the PGA Tour three irons carry an average 217 yards four irons 208 yards and five irons 199 yards so again Pros will likely hit comparable driving irons the same distance if not further and if you’re

Interested in how far the top Pros hit each Club on average both in terms of carry and total distance you can check this out in another one of our videos which you can see the link for on the top right of the screen now when studying in detail the driving Irons

Used by the top 100 Pros in the PGA Tour what was interesting to note was that although some of the top Pros don’t do not use specifically call driving irons many use much more forgiving longer irons in conjunction with more blade likee shorter irons Ping’s g425 crossover irons for example bur the line

For many between a driving iron and simply a forgiving long iron while some see them as a driving or utility iron others don’t other examples of similar clubs include titless tmb irons which began life as the ultimate driving irons but now have evolved to be available as

A full set of irons to players looking for the extra forgiveness associated with long driving irons across all their irons right up to the nine finding sets of clubs amongst the top Ros which include much easier to hit three four and even five and six IRS is therefore relatively common on the PGA

Tour Cameron young for example uses a player’s distance tight list t150 50 three iron in addition to his Titus 2 100 and 631 doy prototype shorter irons Shane Lowry meanwhile opts also for player distance stck on zx5 four and five irons before choosing less for giving ZX7 irons for the remainder of his

Set Tony fow and brut kepka for meanwhile both use more forgiving Nik Vapor fly Pro 3 irn before switching to Blade ping blueprint and Srixon zxm K2 clubs respectively for the rest of their irons while these long irons may not all technically be driving irons the trend for using more forgiving long irons

Across even the top players in the PG tour is clearly evident which can give us all hope that it’s not just as lowly amateurs who need a bit of help to hit those long iron clubs well so that’s it for this look at the driving Irons used by the top Pros in

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