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 Sahith Theegala’s bag and equipment setup for 2026.
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Sahith Theegala is one of the true artists on the PGA Tour and his golf bag allows him to be as creative as he wants.
Now in his fifth season on Tour, Theegala has bounced back from a down 2025 campaign with four top 10s already this season and has played his way back into the Tour’s Signature Events.
He’s done so largely with lots of shot shaping, creativity and deft short game touch.
From last year, his bag is relatively unchanged, aside from a few tweaks at the top end which give him a unique progression after his driver. What’s clear about the man currently using two different 8-irons is he’s not afraid to try anything.
“A lot of players get locked into a certain way of doing things,” said Ping Tour Rep Kenton Oates, his fitter. “He’s always willing to explore, always willing to test something new if he thinks it might give him a different shot.”
He’ll get ideas “out of nowhere” to try things, Oates says, like asking for a 5-hybrid after watching Oates use one, or an “11-iron” because he wants to see something different on his pitching wedge.
But he’s one of the rare players on the PGA Tour who relies purely on feel and doesn’t need to hit 1,000 shots to decide if he likes a club. As you’ll see below, sometimes it takes just three swings.
Keep reading below to dive into Sahith Theegala’s unique golf bag.
Titleist Pro V1
As a high ball hitter, it’s no surprise Theegala plays the Titleist Pro V1 to help bring his ball flight down just a bit.
In an interview with Golf Channel last year he mentioned peak height as the primary reason for his ball choice while still maintaining spin in the top end of his bag.
“I always hit the ball high, so I wanted something that will come off a little bit lower than what my normal ball flight is,” he said. “I feel like the Pro V1 helps me do that. It just lowers the flight a little bit. Same thing with the spin on my short irons. I’ve always been an overspinner; I hit a natural cut, so I wanted to knock some spin off and that’s what the Pro V1 did for me while also maintaining spin on the longer irons.
“I think that’s important. Because it’s the kiss of death if you’re spinning a 5-iron 4200 or whatever. You’re not going to hold any green on the PGA Tour.”
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Specs
Ping G440 K 9.0˚
Actual Loft: 8.0˚
Ping Trajectory 2.0 Setting: Small Minus (-)
CG Shifter: Neutral
Head Weight: 204.5g
Shaft: UST Mamiya LIN-Q Powercore White 6TX
Length: 45″
Tipping: 1″
Swingweight: D4
Theegala loves to work the ball left to right and be creative with his shot selection, but that made using Ping’s previous high MOI driver, the G430 Max 10K, a challenge because his ball would just go straight.
With the new G440 K, that hasn’t been the case and that made it a no-brainer move from his G430 LST.
“He saw the extra stability, no loss in ball speed, he was still able to cut it a little bit,” Oates said. “He’s like, ‘You can’t cut it as much as the LST, but I could cut it enough where I was comfortable,’ and just the extra forgiveness has really been a benefit for him.”
Before the head change, he was also looking for a shaft with a little more feel than the Mitsubishi Diamana BB he played last season or Project X HZRDUS Black before that. He needs something that keeps his spin in check, but the extra feel would allow him to be more creative.
He found it in the new LIN-Q Powercore White.
“He ended up showing up with LIN-Q and hasn’t really made any comments other than he really likes it,” Oates said.
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Specs
Ping G440 Max 17˚
Actual Loft: 15.75˚
Ping Trajectory 2.0 Setting: Small Minus (-)
Head Weight: 215g
Shaft: Graphite Design Tour AD DI-8 TX
Length: 43″
Tipping: 1″
Swingweight: D5
At times throughout his career, Theegala has gone without a 3-wood and instead opted for a 16-degree G425 hybrid nicknamed the Franken-hybrid, or Frank.
But Frank hasn’t made too many appearances in the bag as of late. Still, Theegala doesn’t play a 3-wood in the traditional sense, instead opting for either strong 5-woods or the G440 Max 4-wood he’s using recently.
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Specs
Ping iDi 3
Actual Loft: 19˚
Lie: 59.75˚
Shaft: Graphite Design Tour AD Di-85 Hybrid X
Length: 39.75″
Swingweight: D1
Theegala has used the pictured i210 3-iron off and on throughout his career, but starting at last month’s RBC Heritage, he replaced it with a new iDi driving iron that appears to have a more permanent spot in the bag.
“Get a little more forgiveness, a little more distance…,” Oates said. “It’s going to allow him to hit a higher trajectory, so he’s going to have more versatility out of that club.”
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Specs
Ping G440 Max 24˚
Actual Loft: 22˚
Ping Trajectory 2.0 Setting: Big Minus (—)
Head Weight: 234g
Shaft: Project X HZRDUS Smoke Green 90g 6.5
Length: 40.5″
Tipping: 2″
Swingweight: D2
Oh, you thought we’d get into the rest of the iron set here, didn’t you?
Theegala’s next club in his bag after the 3-iron is a 9-wood, and it’s the addition of his new iDi, which is going to allow for the 9-wood to be a more permanent addition.
“I do think the addition of the iDi is going to open up an opportunity for him to maybe move a 9-wood in and out more,” Oates said. “When he has that, he might feel more comfortable giving up maybe a 4-iron per se and going with the 9-wood.”
The 9-wood was a club that Theegala said he never expected to game, but he ended up using at both the 2024 and 2025 Masters.
The choice is more about giving Theegala more leeway to be a shot-maker rather than gapping his bag.
“Sahith is a very feel-oriented player,” Oates said. “He can hit any shot at any time. So he doesn’t really gap his stuff much.”
He could hit his 9-wood 160, or he could hit his 9-wood 240. So it’s really more comfort, feel, and solidness of strike. ‘Can I hit the window and the shot I’m trying to hit with this club?’ And then piece my bag together off of that.”
So yes, Theegala’s bag goes Driver to 4-wood, to 3-iron, to 9-wood to 5-iron, but then it only gets wackier from here.
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Specs
Ping Blueprint S 5-PW
Shafts: Project X 6.5
Lofts: 27/30.5/34/38/42/46
Lies: 59.75/60.25/60.75/61.75/62.75/63.25
Length: +.25″ (37.25″ 8+ iron)
Swingweight: D3+ to D4+
Theegala switched to the Ping Blueprint S cavity-back irons after playing blades for most of his career, just before his lone PGA Tour victory at the 2023 Fortinet Championship.
As Oates tells it, he was showing Theegala the new Blueprint S and T irons in 2023 at his home, then in Houston, so he could try them out. It didn’t take much convincing for him to switch.
“He hit the Blueprint S pitching wedge three times and goes, ‘Oh, I’ll just play these irons. This thing’s great,’” Oates said. “And literally, from that moment, has played Blueprint S. We obviously went through the rest of the bag that day… but he was legit sold on the entire set of irons because the pitching wedge was really good and he was struggling with the pitching wedge at that time.”
But the most legendary club in Theegala’s bag is his 8-plus-iron, dubbed the “Ocho.” By now, the story is well known that in 2024, Theegala was struggling with his 7-iron to the point where he asked Oates if they could make him a 7-iron that didn’t have a “7” on it.
Ping had no issues cooking one up.
“It’s a 7-iron head that we simply ground the sole just to the point where we got the 7 off,” Oates said. “Then we laser-etch an 8 on it and build it to 7-iron length, loft, lie and everything.”
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Specs
Ping S259, S159
Loft/Grinds: 50/S, 54/2, 62T @ 59˚
Finish: Midnight (50), Chrome (54, 62)
Shafts: Project X 6.5 Black (50), Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400 (54, 62)
Lies: 62/62.25/61.5
Length: 36″/35.75″/35.5″
Swingweight: D5/D6/D7
Theegala’s lob wedge is also a highly custom job from the Ping Tour team. The “59ST” wedge is created from a S159 62T lob wedge that is bent three degrees strong to add the offset Theegala loved in the previous Ping Glide 2.0.
Oates said Theegala possesses incredible hands and really loves to manipulate the face to be creative around the greens. He ranks 11th in SG: Around-the-Green this season.
By bending his wedge strongly, he’s also losing bounce, which Theegala loves. The sole is then heavily ground to reclaim the shape of the T-Grind while also adding some heel relief to allow Theegala to be even more creative. They also need to grind out the “62” on the toe.
“Anyone with really good hands can handle a lot of heel relief,” Oates said. “Sahith has played so many shots from such an aggressively open face.
“On paper, it’s like three degrees of bounce, but when you open that thing up to 85 degrees, it doesn’t matter. You’re adding all the bounce when you open it.”
Lastly, Theegala’s 50-degree gap wedge is a mismatch from the rest of his set, glazed in Midnight finish rather than the chrome of his other two wedges. It also has a black Project X 6.5 shaft to match.
There’s no reason for it. That’s Theegala’s personality to a T.
“It is a strict vibe-only addition to the golf bag,” Oates said. “He holed out with it and I texted him, ‘black wedge for the vibes,’ and he goes, ‘yep, making twos.’”
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Specs
Ping Custom TR 1966 Anser 2
Finish: Satin
Loft: 3˚
Lie: 69˚
Length: 35.5″
Grip: SuperStroke Flatso 1.0
Theegala has used a milled Ping Anser blade going back to his college days. But, that’s not the putter you might see him using on the putting green on Monday, Tuesday or even his Wednesday pro-ams.
“A majority of weeks — over 50%, I’d argue 75% of the time — he uses a practice putter at the beginning of the week,” Oates said.
But the thing is, it’s not even the same putter, nor does he care what kind of putter it is.
“He’ll just say, ‘hey, grab me a putter,’ and you can bring him anything,” Oates said. “Different grips, lengths, lies, lofts. We rarely spec it. He doesn’t want it. He’s just like, yeah, bring it to me, I’ll play with it.”
But come Thursday, his Anser blade is right back in the bag and he shows no signs of switching to a mallet.
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Grips: Golf Pride Tour Velvet 360
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