Most Used Drivers, Driver Lofts and Driver Shafts On The Champions Tour

With the average 106 mph driver swingspeed on the Champions Tour being closer to the driver swingspeeds of regular amateurs is there more to be learned from the driver choices of the top Senior Tour players?

In this video, we take an in-depth look at the details of the drivers used by the best Champions Tour pros, the lofts they are playing and the specs of the driver shafts they use to find out!

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 Champions Tour to see what the most popular 14 clubs are on the Senior Tour.

What Clubs Do Pros Use? Most Popular Set on Tour Revealed – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZZ-4_WqEZc&t=1s

Chapters
0:00 Introduction
0:45 Most ‘Popular’ Driver Models
4:15 Driver Lofts
5:33 Driver Shafts
7:10 Impact of Sponsorships

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we have looked in the past at the drivers the top PGA Tour Pros use but given the distances they hit the ball are in a different scale to regular amateurs we wanted to see whether more can be learned from the most popular drivers used by Champions Tour Pros although the average driver swing speed in the senior tour is still over 106 M hour and therefore well above the average M amateurs at 93.4 M hour it is still closer than the 115 mph average on the main PGA Tour so in this video we take a in-depth look at the details of the drivers used by the best Champions Tour Pros The Lofts they are playing together with the specs of the driver shafts they use welcome back to the golfing Focus Channel everybody and as part of our ongoing series of videos looking at what’s in the bag of the best players in the champions tour we’re now going to take a run through what driver is the most used what degree of driver is the most common and what driver shafts 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 setups are among the best senior Pros but focusing our immediate attention on the most talked about Golf Club in everyone’s bag the driver we discovered 30 different models of driver being used among 51 of the best senior Pros in the champions tour Callaway drivers are the most used among this group with 33% of the champions tour players analyzed using them ping models are the next most popular picked by 27% tailor made and tiess drivers are each chosen by 133% with two rged used by close to 10% Japanese brand zexo is used Only By Ernie else although driver data for the champions tour is not as readily available as on the PGA tour it was interesting to note that while titless models of the dominant Force among the drivers used in the main tour they’re much less popular choice among the top senior Pros in the champions tour further while the dominant driver makes and models among the best senior Pros may be different to those found in the main tour what is clear however is that they go into just as much detail when it comes to the exactness of their driver setup even though for example Ping’s g430 LST driver is the most popular individual driver model or in-depth research uncovered among the champions tour Pros alongside tailor made stealth plus you can be sure that there’ll be a unique setup for each of the five Pros using them not only that but golfing Focus also found that certain players carry more than one driver around the champions tour with them switching between two or even three different models Dicky Pride for example carries a ping g410 plus around with them in addition to the callway Rogue St he typically puts into play while briang also has a cobra ldx low spin driver in his bag together with a tailor made stealth plus Steve flesh by comparison carries not too two but three different models of the caway Rogue St driver family allowing him to alternate between the standard Rogue St Max and the draw biased maxd and low spin options it is also noticeable that not all the champions tour Pros we found data for are immediately moving to the latest model of their preferred brand of driver and continue to play with older driver models Doug Baron for example continues to use his old trusty tailor made stealth driver because he says he hits it 15 yards longer than anything else he tried and that search for distance also causes us to notice another couple of quirks among the top senior Pros Podrick Harrington for example topped the driver distance charts in the champions tour in 2023 with an average total distance of 302.4 mil hour incredibly to do this Harrington has increased his driver swing speed to measurements of 120 miles hour and above when the champions tour up from the 116 mph speeds he was recording when he was winning both the 2008 British open and uspga at the peak of his golfing Powers but not only that he also employs a baseball style grip only when using his driver in an effort to release a little extra energy into the driver Club head for more overall power and when it comes to the Lofts of driver the best Pros in the champions tour put in play our analysis showed 9° is the most used driver Loft among the senior Pros with 24% of those we found data on setting up with it including Podrick Harrington 10.5° is the next most popular Loft with a fifth choosing it while 6° is the lowest driver Loft used by Brian Gay it is common of course for top Pros in all the major tours to change the loft of their driver on occasion depending on the course setup they are playing in any particular week and this is again noticeable on the champions tour Kirk triplet for example has a 9° and 10.5 degree ping g425 Max driver in his golf bag but for other senior Pros changes extend to carrying more than one driver of both different Lofts and models Brian Gabe by comparison while typically putting the lowest lofted driver on the senior tour in play with a 6 Dee tailor maid stealth plus also carries a 7.5 degree Cobra LTD X model in his bag to use on different occasions interestingly however we found no difference in the Varian and Driver Lofts used by the different age groups of the top 100 on the champions tour and as such their LOF choices did not appear to be affected by this Factor turning next to driver shafts we discovered 29 different shafts being used among the 51 Champions Tour Pros WEA data for fujiura Ventus red 6X and black 6X driver shafts are the most popular with nearly a quarter of senior Pros using one the Venus Blue 6X is the next most popular alongside Ping’s 265 stiff shaft chosen by 60% graphic designs t d Di I and Iz 6X shafts are the third most common with close to 5% picking them these results of our detailed driver study therefore show the driver shaft choices of the top Champions Tour Pros map almost identically to those in the main tour with the fujiura Ventus black 6X topping the charts among the top 100 on both these tours we did find more variety of driver shafts in the main tour compared to the champions tour however given the number of shaft choices we found in this research theor Pros are clearly just as exacting when it comes to making their driver shaft Choice Kevin southernland interestingly for example carries two models of his 10.5° ping g425 LST driver with two different shafts in them one is fitted with an extra stiff Flex Ventus red 6X while the other has a stronger True Temper Project X hazardous smoke red RDX 60 TX flex shaft in it St flesh meanwhile takes things even further choosing three different shafts from three different manufacturers True Temper graphic design and fujiura in the three different models of the Callaway Rogue St driver family he alternates between a key question also of course when it comes to driver choices by all the pros however is how much it is influenced by sponsorship deals once again the data available in Champions Tour Pros is not nearly as abundant as on the PGA tour but our analysis found 45% of the 51 senior Pros we researched playing the same driver model as one of their sponsors in all likelihood this number is potentially higher however there were clear examples including the great Bernard Langer who carries seven different brands of Club in his bag that sponsorship is not always the overriding factor when it comes to the driver choices the senior pros make so that’s it for this video If you enjoyed it please do hit that like button and click on one of those boxes on the screen to join us in another one and as ever and most importantly we hope you’re enjoying your golf [Music]