ASHEVILLE — Jacob Bridgeman geared up for his first Presidents Cup in ideal fashion, earning his second PGA Tour win of the season at the Biltmore Championship in Asheville, N.C. The victory follows his win at the Genesis Invitational in February. His bag remains largely unchanged since Riviera, with key changes at the top.
While he won at Riviera with last year's TaylorMade Qi35 LS driver, Bridgeman switched to the new Qi4D driver at last month's BMW Championship. He also switched shafts to the new Project X Titan Green, becoming the second player to win with the new Titan family after Wyndham Clark won three times with Titan Yellow, and the first with Titan Green. The green is billed as the stiffest profile in the family. Instead of the Qi4D 7-wood he played in February, he now plays a slightly longer 9-wood build bent to 22-degrees, and he changed the shaft in both fairway woods to Mitsubishi Tensei 1K Pro White.
The rest of his bag is completely the same, including the Spider Tour putter he used at Riviera. It marks the 14th victory on the year for the putter family. "Jacob likes to feel a nice arc at release with his putter and does a lot of practice with a blade to feel that," TaylorMade putter rep James Holley said. "The Spider Tour short slant has less toe hang, but with the back CG it feels very similar to him as a blade. The mallet gives him more forgiveness and consistency with launch." The 26-year-old is the No. 1 putter on the PGA Tour but often uses a blade to practice before tournaments.
With his irons, Bridgeman predominantly plays a set of the popular P7CB, but switches to a 2022 P770 at the 5-iron and a 12-year-old Tour Preferred UDI driving iron for his 4-iron. Until the P7CB was released in 2024, he had only played blades for his entire career. "He liked the clean look from address and slightly higher launch with a cavity back iron," Springer said. "The biggest selling point, though, was the soft feel and better turf interaction than his blades." Springer added, "The 770 5-iron was added to his bag simply find a 5-iron that launched higher and landed softer into long par 3's and par 5's. He found the 770 to be a versatile club that he could flight when he needed to."
Bridgeman originally played 1 degree weaker lofts in his 7CBs, but upon switching to the new TP5x golf ball this season, the added spin allowed him to bend his irons back to a more standard loft spec. "Jacob is one of the lowest spin iron players on tour so we spent the offseason working on a ball switch and reworking the iron lofts to start and hit his window," TaylorMade Tour Rep Cory Johnson said. "He noticed in the playoffs that the harder firmer greens were tough for him. This switch to TP5x was made for him to win on the hardest set ups in golf. Additionally, TP5x was 2-3 mph faster with driver."