The New Gear That Led Yealimi Noh's first LPGA Win

Whether it be the PGA or LPGA Tour, players change clubs all the time - from drivers to putters and everything in between, gear swaps are just part of being a professional golfer when you're searching for an edge on the course.

But swapping out a full set of clubs and going on to win in your first event with them doesn’t happen very often. Yes, we see single pieces help with a victory like Hideki Matsuyama and his putter at the Sentry (he has since switched again), Rory McIlroy switching golf balls from a TaylorMade TP5X to a TP5 before his win at Pebble Beach, or Sepp Straka moving into new Srixon ZXi7 irons before his win at the Amex, but a whole set - rare.

The last well-documented cases of a player making wholesale changes to their gear and going on to win early are Justin Rose when he won in his second tournament after switching to Honma in 2019, and most recently on the LPGA Tour when Brooke Henderson switched to a full bag of TaylorMade gear and won the opening event of the season in 2023.

We can now add Yealimi Noh to the list of first-time winners with new clubs after she recently won the Founders Cup on the LPGA Tour last week. She faced down a charging Jin Young Ko in the final round and put on a ball-striking display which included several iron shots hit to very close range and a rattled flag stick and cup on the 12th.

As for those clubs she changed into, she added 12 new Titleist clubs to her bag after a visit to Titleist’s TPI facility just after Christmas on December 30th, and they include:

Driver - GT2 8-degree, Mitsubishi Tensei 1K Orange 60S

Hybrid - GT2 18-degree, Mitsubishi Tensei 1K Silver 80S

Irons - T200 (4i), T150 (5i), T100 (6-P), KBS Tour Lite R

Wedges - Vokey SM10 50/12 F-grind, 54/12 D-grind, 58 Wedgeworks K-grind, KBS Tour Lite S

As for the gear she didn’t change, they were her Callaway Paradym 3-wood, LAB MEZZ 1 long putter, and her Pro V1 golf ball.

The standout stat from her win was that she hit 67/72 greens in regulation for the event (just over 93%) and considering her greens in regulation percentage was 72.16% in 2024, that's one heck of a jump.

Goes to show that even at the highest levels, some changes can make a big difference.

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