{"id":226119,"date":"2025-10-26T08:05:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T08:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/226119\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T08:05:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T08:05:19","slug":"jason-day-follows-bryson-dechambeaus-lead-with-new-irons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/226119\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Day follows Bryson DeChambeau’s lead with new irons"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tIt was Bryson DeChambeau\u2019s preferred irons choice when he won the US Open at Pinehurst \u2013 and now Jason Day is giving them a go\u2026<\/p>\n

As an equipment free agent, Jason Day can put whatever he wants in the bag.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s one major flaw with that plan, though. You have too much choice.<\/p>\n

The former World No.1 has, it seems, tried everything this year. He\u2019s put bladed irons in the bag, he\u2019s had a go with a cavity-back set, and he\u2019s tried a number of the game\u2019s biggest gear manufacturers. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Now it looks like he\u2019s settled on a little-known brand that just so happens to be the preferred iron choice<\/a> of Bryson DeChambeau.<\/p>\n

In his first start since the BMW Championship two months ago, having failed to make it through the second phase of the FedEx Cup Playoffs, Day showed up at Black Desert for the Bank of Utah Championship<\/a> with a bag full of prototype 3D-printed Avoda irons, complete with curved faces. He went on to shot a 3-under 8 in the opening round. <\/p>\n

Explaining his decision, 2016 PGA champion Day said he \u201chadn\u2019t been hitting [his] irons great at all\u201d.<\/p>\n

He continued: \u201cI decided to have a chat to my coach, Colin [Swatton], and say, \u2018Do you reckon we can go out and just maybe have a look?\u2019 I don\u2019t have an OEM sponsor, so I can go out and see what the best of the best is.\u201d<\/p>\n

Day, who said he \u201cstumbled across Avoda\u201d when DeChambeau won the US Open<\/a> with them, asked Swatton to reach out to the boutique brand which is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe got off the phone and called me and he goes, \u2018Man, in all the years I\u2019ve been doing this, I\u2019ve never come across guys [who explain] the way they explained everything.\u2019 So we met in person [and] did a lot of 3D printing of the iron head the way that I wanted to look at it.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously there is a process there, [so] after this week we\u2019re going to get back together and see what needs to be improved,\u201d Day, who hit 14 greens in regulation in the opening round at Black Desert, added. \u201cRight now, I would like to see a tiny bit more offset [to] try and get a little bit more turn [and] elevate the ball a little bit more in the air, which would be nice.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Avoda<\/p>\n

Day has also switched to graphite shafts.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, instead of playing the X7s that I have played in the past, which is 136 gram shaft, I [am playing] a 110 gram shaft, which is nice,\u201d he explained. \u201cDefinitely easier on the body.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe theory [is to] have the same profile shaft from 60-degree all the way up to driver.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then playing the JumboMax grips, as well, so there is just a number of things.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe goal is to be able to have one swing [for] whatever ball flight you want, whether that\u2019s a draw or a fade. For me it\u2019s a draw \u2013 to go up there and hit a draw and pretty much put the same swing on it, and hopefully it produces the same shot over and over again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Day also noted that he\u2019s \u201cmissing a club\u201d \u2013 with 13 in the bag instead of the permitted maximum of 14.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would like to play a 23-degree, and that would fit perfectly between the 21-degree and the 5-iron that I\u2019m playing,\u201d he explained. \u201cIt goes about 230. The 21-degree Callaway Apex goes about 250 in the air, so I need something right smack between it and that should cover the whole thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Day said that he is using the offseason events as a \u201ctesting phase\u201d for 2026.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve still got to get the gappings right, have to get the spins right, so obviously that is going to be more testing coming up for me,\u201d he added. \u201cBut that\u2019s something that we have to mess with the grooves a little bit, try and make sure that like we get a little bit more spin, but also make sure that they\u2019re up to regulation. <\/p>\n

\u201cHopefully that makes things like hitting shots into the greens a lot easier.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was Bryson DeChambeau\u2019s preferred irons choice when he won the US Open at Pinehurst \u2013 and now…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-226119","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}