So nathan young has asked if sponsorship deals or pro players didn't exist okay what golf clubs do you think would be the most used from the players on tour from putters wedges irons. And drivers etcetera it's a great question um you know the best way of answering this i think is if you look at when nike stopped making clubs yes. And they said they said to their athletes they said look we'll still pay you the full amount because we've not making clothes that will pay you to wear the apparel still you can use what you want i would then.
Say i saw a trend of mizuno lions yes i saw a trend the taylormade woods yes i saw a trend of titles pro v1 golf balls yes uh wedges were a mixture yeah a bit of oaky bit of whatever yeah i didn't see any real trends there uh putters again probably a bit of a mixture i'd say odyssey. And scotty typically yeah um. And i think that's probably a fair kind of it's almost exactly what brooks capke used yeah when he was when he stopped using nike had a taylormade driver he had mizuno irons which he won all of his majors with um like i said they might still keep a couple of clubs hanging around some of the old ones like i can't believe he's still got that nike is it it's just that's incredible it's still got that in the bag um honestly. And i mentioned it last week on that i was i was really shocked. But then.
The more i thought about it he's also using the stricken ball as well dead star he's using a lot of kind of tricks in his stuff already so basically it's a multi-multi-million pound deal for using a driver and a different golf ball he's using his new young contractor he's already using the irons so um probably more of a smart business move for him more than it's a funny one isn't it because if you think of the big brands now. And i'm talking your ping callaway taylormade titleist mizuno cobra mystical out they don't make bad gear they all make good good stuff and whether they make drivers irons wedgies and a ball every department that said brands make is good. So like for example ping pongs are good the wedges are good ions are good drivers are good etcetera we all numbs you know wedges are great eins are great drivers are good ball etcetera etcetera. So you could sign for any brand and they as even as an amateur i know they don't sign out so let's just say you signed an amateur for a brand and they gave you all the gear they make you'd get good stuff yeah if you then.
Think of that as being a top row not only will they give you all the stuff. And pay you to use it they will also make stuff. For you so if you like you said to them look you couldn't play that you make at mizuno it's nice. But i wish there was a bit more balance. Or upset or ever a less offset less bounce whatever it might be yell a bit more grind here they will do that. For you and even the likes of taylormade now there's so many different irons they have for their tour pros so you do think in one way as a tour pro any brand will make you what you want. But equally on the flip side of that it is quite hard to find just even to your eye that every piece of equipment a brand makes. And how it feels is going to be perfect. For you so i think that these guys that use mixed bags are onto something. But obviously there must be a hell of a lot of money up for grabs for people like rory and tiger and brooks texting how to be signing these deals i think the other thing that that i saw a lot with taylormade as well taylormade used to have a lot of players on their books. And they decided to go down the route of just signing the kind of superstars and they had more of a smaller stable but the biggest of the big names i think sometimes as well some of the big names don't always like to be in the same stable as other big names like nobody is as big as shrixen than bruce kepca right now yeah you've got shane lowry obviously open winner a couple of years ago you got graeme mcdowell obviously major winners in the past. But matsuyama matsuyama um he's probably going in there as top dog oh yeah really where he doesn't do that in taylormade. For example true bryson has gone with cobra because he is top dogger cobra you know. And i think i think part of signing with these brands as well is to be top dog like everybody's gonna jump through hoops to make you as happy as you can as their star tour player it's a bit like when justin rose went to honma it was because he didn't particularly feel maybe as as um what's the right word as loved has loved that taylormade potentially he could go to a new brand. And he is their people they will do anything. For him it didn't quite work out but they would do anything. For him um and i think that's somewhat of an appeal. For some of these tour players that they get literally they would have there and tricks and they're going to be all over brooks kept giving him everything he could ever ever ever ever want um it's a bit like bridgestone with golf balls really they only have tiger. And bryson yeah they'll do everything they if bryson says i don't like the dimple four on this golf ball they'll change it. For him that i think. For i mean even though i don't use a bridgestone ball they've got such a following every time you ever put it on social media people say about bridgestone balls i think in having those two athletes they probably will have more obviously. But the two main ones it's so clever because obviously tiger woods is the greatest of all time. So even though people know he's getting paid schools of pounds use their golf ball it also has to be a good golf ball then.
On the other side of the coin having bryson who's kind of scientist who's looking for perfection looking for distance to have him using your ball you think well again he wouldn't use it it wasn't giving up. So it's kind of like the two they've got are super clever at bridgestone i wonder why they've not they've probably moved up the ladder in golf ball priority. Or or want i wonder why they're not really kind of pushing on like what like more athletes or just becoming more of a popular golf ball or is it really popular i think that's bigger in america because over here they're not that big the amount of comments we get. And stuff people love it i think it would be bigger in america that's true speaking of um these amazing athletes. And what's in their bag they're gonna say talking about big boss we also have big balls.
