01최적의 조합을 찾기 위한 81개 클럽의 여정과 제네시스 챔피언십 우승
일본의 카츠라가와 유토가 제네시스 챔피언십에서 치열한 경쟁 끝에 우승을 차지하며 자신의 가치를 다시 한번 입증했다. 이번 우승은 완벽한 퍼포먼스를 내기 위한 그의 철저한 장비 준비 과정이 결실을 맺은 결과다.
카츠라가와는 자신에게 가장 잘 맞는 최적의 피팅을 찾기 위해 총 81개의 클럽을 거치는 대장정을 펼쳤다. 정밀한 장비 테스트 과정을 거치며 샷의 정확도와 거리를 극대화할 수 있는 구성을 끊임없이 다듬어 나갔다.
수많은 시행착오 끝에 완성된 클럽 세팅은 제네시스 챔피언십 대회 내내 안정적인 경기력을 뒷받침했다. 결정적인 순간마다 빛을 발한 최상의 클럽 조합이 그를 정상으로 이끄는 결정적인 역할을 했다.
81개의 클럽을 거쳐 완성된 카츠라가와 유토의 우승 백(Bag) 속 장비 구성은 그의 집념 어린 우승 여정과 함께 골프 팬들의 큰 화제를 모으고 있다.
02Original (English) — DP World Tour
Few can claim to have sought to turn around their fortunes through equipment alterations like Yuto Katsuragawa.
Since his debut appearance this season at the BMW Australian PGA Championship, the Japanese has used six sets of fairway woods, six sets of irons, six putters, four drivers and two balls.
An equipment-free agent, he has used 81 different clubs from a range of manufacturers. The one area of his bag that he has trusted enough not to change when in play is his PING G440 hybrid.
Across his 28 starts so far on the 2026 Race to Dubai, following the completion of the Genesis Championship where he claimed his second DP World Tour title on Sunday, the Japanese made changes to his bag in all but two events he played.
Through his opening nine events, he used 43 different clubs. Of those, he made 12 changes alone in one week ahead of his first top ten of the campaign at the Hainan Classic presented by MAEXTRO.
Before then, he had already undergone his first big overhaul to his club selection, using his second set of irons and first change of wedges and putter at the Investec South African Open Championship.
Across a run of five consecutive starts from South Africa's national open to China's equivalent, Katsuragawa used three putters among a series of other alterations.
After using three different PING drivers in his first 13 starts of the season, he ended that run by using the TaylorMade Qi4D LS for the first time at the Soudal Open.
By the DS Automobiles 83° Open d'Italia, shortly after the halfway point of the season, Katsuragawa had already made the third switch to his golf ball, reverting to the Titleist Pro V1x from the Pro V1 and brought into use his fifth set of wedges, and from a third different manufacturer.
Across the second half of the campaign, the frequency of alterations has slowed down, with the most notable changes being among his irons and reverting to the TaylorMade Spider Tour X with which he started the season.
Depending on course situations, he has used two different utility irons, while also using three and four irons from various sets.
For his victory in South Korea, when the stakes were high as he sought to climb into the top 100 on the Race to Dubai Rankings Delivered by DP World to retain his playing privileges, he brought his driver back into play after opting not to use it a week earlier in India and carried two fairway woods.
Club information supplied by Inside Tour Golf.
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• Balls (2): Titleist Pro V1x, Pro V1
• Drivers (4): Ping G440 SFT, G440 Max, G440 K; TaylorMade Qi4D LS
• Fairway woods (6): TaylorMade M5, M3, Qi35, Qi4D, Qi4D Tour, SIM
• Hybrid (1): Ping G440
• Utility irons (2): Srixon Z U65, TaylorMade P-UDI
• Iron sets (6): Srixon Z-965 (with Z-765 4-iron), Ping i240, Srixon Z-Forged (with ZXi5 4-iron), TaylorMade P-730 (P-760 4-iron), TaylorMade P-7CB (P-770 4-iron), TaylorMade P-7MC (P-770 3- and 4-iron)
• Wedges (5): Jucie VK25-A, Titleist Vokey SM10, SM11, SM11-WW Proto; TaylorMade Milled Grind 5
• Putters (6): TaylorMade Spider Tour X (X74 and T74 necks), Spider Tour-F; Odyssey Ai-Dual #7, Ai-ONE Cruiser 7, White Hot OG Rossie, White Hot OG #7
• Driver: TaylorMade, Qi4D LS
• First Fairway wood: 16.5-degree TaylorMade Qi4D
• Second fairway wood: 21-degree TaylorMade Qi4D
• Five to nine iron: TaylorMade, P-7MC (23)
• 46, 48 and 52 and 60-degree wedges: TaylorMade, Milled Grind 5
• Putter: TaylorMade, Spider Tour X
• Ball: Titleist, Pro V1 (25)
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What's in the bag
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