Welcome to Bag Spy, a GOLF series devoted to understanding the crucial equipment choices that define a player’s bag. With the help of players and/or their expert fitters, we dig deep beyond the photos to examine setups, specs and the thinking behind them. In this installment, GOLF associate equipment editor Jack Hirsh takes you inside Cameron Young’s bag and equipment setup for 2026.
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Cameron Young enters his fifth career Masters in a much different position than all of his previous visits. His golf bag is drastically different, too.
Young is making his first start since the biggest win of his young career at the Players Championship. A year ago, he was talked about as the best PGA Tour player without a win. Now he has two.
In that time, Young and Titleist’s Tour team have been meticulous to dial in his golf bag to match one of the fastest and highest-spin players on the PGA Tour. Many of the changes revolve around Young’s prototype Titleist Pro V1x Double Dot over the past eight months, but others have been in the works for years before it was even a thought.
He really doesn’t change technically,” Titleist Vokey rep Aaron Dill told GOLF. “His golf swing, his action, his ball flight. It’s very consistent, right? And so as a, as a club fitter and as an equipment team, you know, the little things that we do to help him manage some of the problems, the problem areas of being a stronger ball flight guy.
“Using the golf ball, putting, putting a wider sole on the wedge, J.J. putting together a driver that creates high launch, low spin, you know, there’s just this perfect symphony of all these things that give him all these freedoms and flexibilities to swing the way he wants to swing. And when you put those together, and he’s putting well — which he does all the time — you start winning championships.”
Keep reading below to dive into Young’s unique bag.
Titleist Pro V1x Double Dot
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The golf ball is the foundation of almost all the bags on the PGA Tour, but Young’s is especially so given his recent changes. During his breakthrough win last summer, Young became one of the first players to game Titleist’s prototype Pro V1x Double Dot golf ball.
He was previously a user of one of Titleist’s other Custom Performance Option (CPO) golf balls, the Pro V1 Left Dot, to help rein in his super-high-spin delivery conditions. But during a research session at the Titleist Performance Center at Manchester Lane, Van Wezenbeeck and the golf ball R&D teams noticed Young had an especially strong flight with one of the prototypes. This testing session was more for Fordie Pitts and the R&D team than it was for Young, but clearly, there was something worth pursuing.
“That was kind of a light bulb moment, I think, for golf ball R&D and Fordie going, ‘Okay, we have a profile here. It needs a little refinement, but it’s kind of doing some things that, um, that they’re asking to do,’” Van Wezenbeeck said.
That ball eventually became the Pro V1x Double Dot prototype that Young first played at the Wyndham Championship, where he would get his first win.
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Specs
Titleist GT3 11.0
SureFit Hosel Setting: D1
SureFit CG Setting: N
Shaft: Mitsubishi Diamana PD 60 TX
The driver Young used for the recorded longest drive ever on the 18th hole at TPC Sawgrass at the Players was one he just started using the week before.
Titleist’s fitting philosophy revolves around fitting the golf ball to the iron set and then fitting the driver and the rest of the bag to the ball.
With Young’s new Double Dot prototype resulting in such a great flight with his irons, Van Wezenbeeck began working with him to further dial in the rest of the bag over the last several months. The last part was switching to the 11-degree lofted GT3, the highest lofted driver of any winner so far this season on the PGA Tour.
The move was actually precipitated after prototype testing of the GTS lineup, where Van Wezenbeeck found that Young was performing best with the GTS3. That led them to re look at Young’s driver as he was currently in GT2.
At Bay Hill, Young put into play the new GT3, set to D1, taking the loft down 3/4 of a degree, which got his launch angle up from 9 degrees to 11 while keeping spin relatively in the same window at 2500 rpm. The goal was to increase peak height and thus carry efficiency, not increase spin.
“if we had just gone to an 11-degree GT2, we’re going to get kind of launch and spin,” Van Wezenbeeck said. “By going from a 10-degree GT2 to an 11-degree GT3, we were able to control the spin in a similar window and get launch, which really helped that ball flight.”
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Specs
Titleist GT1 3Tour
Loft: 14.5˚
SureFit Hosel Setting: A1
SureFit Weights: 15 g front, 7 g back
Shaft: Mitsubishi Diamana PD 80 TX
Young’s fairway wood and hybrid are the same story as his driver. After the golf ball change, he was looking to increase launch without increasing spin to take advantage of the flight characteristics of his Double Dot Prototype.
After winning with the GT3 fairway wood in the bag at Wyndham, and previously using a strong lofted 13.5˚ GT2, Young moved into the GT1 3Tour in the fall to, again, deliver more launch without increasing spin.
The fairway wood has a prototype silver face to allow Young to see the 14.5 degrees of loft easier and it’s something we’ve seen on some of the GTS fairway wood prototypes spotted out on Tour in the last few weeks.
“We went … to the 14.5 with a silver face, and that face really provided that shallow head, let him see a lot of loft and allowed him to keep impacts up the face to keep launch up,” Van Wezenbeeck said.
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Specs
Titleist GT1
Loft: 20˚
SureFit Hosel Setting: A1
SureFit Weights: 13 g front, 5 g back
Shaft: Mitsubishi Diamana PD 80 TX
The GT1 hybrid is probably the most surprising club in Young’s bag since being added at the Farmers Insurance Open earlier this season.
Unlike the GT1 3Tour fairway wood, which has a lower and more forward CG than the standard GT1 3-wood head, the GT1 hybrid is the same as the version in many weekend hackers’ bags.
The larger profile hybrid (between the size of a traditional hybrid and a 7-wood) has the unique ability to accept both fairway wood and hybrid shafts. A fairway wood shaft typically has a softer tip compared to a hybrid shaft because of the smaller tip diameter, and using the same Diamana PD 80 TX as Young’s 3-wood helped them create more launch and higher peak heights.
“We took advantage of GT1 being able to use a fairway shaft here. So we have kind of this small, you know, big-headed hybrid or kind of small-headed fairway,” Van Wezenbeeck said. “In this case, we needed a little speed, we needed a little spin, and a little launch. So when we paired it with a fairway shaft, we got a little bit of everything.”
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Specs
Irons: Titleist ’23 T200 (4), ’23 T100 (5), 631.CY Prototype (6-9)
Shafts: Dynamic Gold X7
Length: Standard (37″ 7-iron)
Lies: “Near standard”
Young is one of a few Titleist staffers playing their own, unique one-off set of irons. How did Van Wezenbeeck and the Tour team decide that Young would benefit from a personal set of irons?
It came out of Young’s high shaft lean delivery, which was causing issues with turf interaction, especially on his short irons. The first solution was to add some bounce to the leading edge of his 620 MBs, but then the team started to go further.
“We work through the process where I kind of interview the player on things that he likes, doesn’t like. I bring that to Marni Ines (Titleist’s director of iron development) and the irons team and say, ‘Okay, here’s kind of our 1st swing,’ Van Wezenbeeck said. “We’ll mill a piece. We’ll take that back out. We’ll get further feedback and refinement and kind of work through that process, until we get something we really like.”
It helped that Young loved the profile and offset of the existing 620 MBs, so they could build off that profile. To enhance the turf interaction, the irons have a progressive bounce, with more on the scoring irons to transition into his wedges. The 6- to 8-irons also have a slightly wider sole to help lower the CG and give Young a touch more launch.
For the first two prototype heads made for him, a 9-iron and a 6-iron, Young requested no changes for either of them.
There was a 631.CY 5-iron made for Young, but his existing T100 5-iron outperformed the custom-made prototype. He’s remained in his ’23 T100 5-iron and T200 4-iron because of the familiarity and trust he has in those clubs.
His larger-profile long irons are becoming somewhat of a theme out on Tour, but that’s all to help him create consistent launch and yardage gappings and pair with his low-launch and high-spin delivery.
This year, as Young was working through some swing changes, Young and Van Wezenbeeck made the lie angles on his short irons more upright to optimize his start lines.
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Specs
Wedges: Titleist Vokey SM11
Lofts/Grinds: 48.10F, 52.12F, 56.14F (@57), WedgeWorks 60K* (@ 62˚)
Shaft: Dynamic Gold X7 (48-57), X100 (62)
Young’s wedge set helped him as much as any part in his bag at the Players, where he led the field in Scrambling at 76 percent and made the crucial final birdie on 17 after knocking a sand wedge to 10 feet.
One of two major changes Young has made to his wedge was switching to the 56.14F (bent weak to 57˚) from an M-Grind sand wedge to optimize his carry yardage gaps and give him another option around the greens.
But the other change was moving to a unique WedgeWorks 60K* lob wedge bent to 62˚ at the PGA Championship at Valahalla in 2024. Then, Young was in a low-bounce and narrow-soled T-Grind lob wedge. That’s the most popular wedge grind on the PGA Tour, but one that was making it difficult for Young to get out of the bunkers.
“I’m just watching him from a distance, just seeing how things are going, and and every time every time he hits a shot out of the practice bunker, it’s coming out low and dead and just releasing a lot,” Dill said. ”And his body, you know, his body language just looked a little frustrated.”
Young was looking to get more and easier height out of the sand, so that led Young to give him a demo head of a 60˚ K*, with the adjustable hosel set to 62˚ to add even more bounce.
“I gave him the 60 K* at 62, and I knew there were two things he’d love — the wide sole creates effortless height, and it helps him in the sand. He’s getting height around the green and consistency through the sand,” Dill said. “He played it that week, and I asked how it went. He said, ‘I was 10 for 10 in bunker saves.’ So I’d say it worked pretty well.”
Given that Young plays such stout Dynamic Gold X7 shafts in his irons, he keeps them through his sand wedge to match the feel and consistency. At the lob wedge, he does go slightly softer, although not much, with an X100.
One of the most popular lob wedge grinds on the PGA TOUR, the K* features a low-bounce sole that originates from the .06K Grind. Instead of the full, smooth sole of the K, the K* features a steeper pre-wear on the leading edge as well as heel, toe and trailing edge relief.
The pre-wear helps resist excessive digging on square-faced shots, while the heel, toe and trailing edge relief adds greenside versatility when the face is opened. Like all K Grind variations, K* has a wide sole that excels out of the bunker.
Justin Thomas, Lottie Woad, Cameron Young and the 2024 Champion Golfer of the Year are among the many players who travel with a K* lob wedge in their bag week in and week out.
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Scotty Cameron Phantom 9.5R Tour Prototype
Grip: SuperStroke
Young has played one of Scotty Cameron’s Phantom mallets for the entirety of his PGA Tour career, but there were multiple different options before the 9.5R Tour prototype he’s in today.
While he was on the Korn Ferry Tour, he used a face-balanced and large Phantom 11. By the time he was on the PGA Tour, he preferred a more compact Phantom 5, but with a long plumber’s neck, so it was still face balanced.
Young has had a relationship with Scotty Cameron’s Brad Cloke since his days on the Korn Ferry Tour and while he was in the long-neck Phantom 5, he told Cloke he wanted to get into a putter with more toe flow.
“Some of it’s a desire for him to play a blade,” Cloke said. “Although he, self-admittedly, says he would never put a blade in play, he’s got one that he’s always teased and tempted to put in play, but it’s kind of that same original feeling of more flow.”
In late 2024, Cloke built him some Phantom options with a high toe flow jet neck, but it wasn’t until early 2025 that Young felt he he was comfortable using one. He made the move to the 9.5R at the Cognizant Classic and hasn’t switched since. He recorded the best putting season of his career in 2025, ranking 7th in SG: Putting after being outside the top 140 the previous two seasons.
The “R” denotes more rounded edges and contours on the No. 9 shape and eventually inspired Cameron to bring the modification to retail with the 2026 Phantom lineup.
“Guys just pick up putters and sometimes they get attached to them right away,” Cloke said. “That’s what happened with the 9.5R—it just appealed to his eye and gave him what he was looking for.”
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