Welcome to Fully Fit 2026, GOLF’s new platform for providing you with real-golfer insights into what 2026 gear might be best suited for your game. To this end, we assembled six GOLF content creators of varying abilities and ran them through the gauntlet of six full-bag fittings (driver to putter!) at six major club manufacturers in Phoenix and Carlsbad, Calif. Our hope: that you might see shades of your own game in one of our panelists’ and take some learnings and inspiration from their fitting experiences. In this installment (below), GOLF Senior Writer Sean Zak runs you through his new bag. You may browse our other panelists’ 2026 bags here:
Jake Morrow (handicap: 0) | Johnny Wunder (2) |Wadeh Maroun (2) | Jack Hirsh (2.4) | Maddi MacClurg (5.6)
MORE FULLY FIT: Fully Fit hub page | Why we’re ‘testing’ golf clubs differently this year | Inside 6 days of fittings and testing | Browse 2026 drivers | Browse 2026 irons
Panelist: Sean Zak
Role at GOLF: Senior Writer
Age: 33
Handicap: 7.8
Favorite non-golf hobby: Tennis
About my game
I live next to a driving range. In theory, I should be really good at golf. At least better than I am. But between club selection, the wrong fit, and slight technique issues, I’ve really plateaued in recent years at a 7 handicap. I have no shortage of speed — driver swing speed around 110-112 mph — and have recently grooved my long game in a consistent manner. What has held me back in recent years is accuracy with my irons. During my best days, I’m breaking 80. During my worst, we’re making zero birdies and a bunch of bogeys and flirting with 90.
My golf goals for 2026
To finally become a 5-handicap, groove consistent results with my irons, make the most of the speed that I have — at 33 years old — and not let any part of my bag cost me along the way.
My bag before Fully Fit 2026
Ball: Titleist AVX
Driver: Titleist GT2 (Tour AD VF-6 X)
3w: Titleist GT2 13.5° (Project X HZRDUS 6.5, 80g)
Utility Iron: Adams Pro DHY 24° (Aldila R)
Irons: Titleist T100 4-PW (Project X Rifle 6.5)
Wedges: Vokey SM10 (Project X 6.5)
Putter: Odyssey Toulon Chicago
What I learned from 6 fittings in 9 days!
That I really like hard borders, perpendicular lines, squareness, etc. From my putter choice — a very square TM Spider — to the sharp top-line edge of all the irons I was fit into, even to the driver heads — like GT2, which I was already playing before this — everything I was fit for seems to have sharper edges than some of their counterparts. My brain works best during the takeaway and through contact when I’m looking at those sharper lines. Realizing it day after day was fun for me. Turns out, appearance matters!
My other main takeaway was with gapping. Every fitter followed a similar path — 7-iron swings, followed by 5-iron, then 9-iron. But the real work I needed to do was in the 4-iron, utility, 5-wood range. My fitters found a pretty sizable gap between my 3-wood (240 yards-ish) and my 4-iron (200 yards). They also, conveniently, found me using just 13 clubs, so the path forward became obvious. Find (and fit for) two clubs to make long approaches, long par-3s and even lay-up shots off the tee an easier experience. Some fitters pushed me toward hybrids, others toward 5-woods and others toward driving/utility irons. Callaway even fit me for a 7-wood that will serve a role in my game at some point, even if that point isn’t right now. (It was such an easy club to get out there 210 yards. The day I can’t reach that distance with a utility club, we’ll be putting the 7-wood in play.)
I also learned that golf equipment is the epitome of You don’t know what you don’t know. You can dip a toe into those waters and drown for that exposure alone. Anyone hanging around in the deep end is a very skilled swimmer and will be speaking a completely different language if you catch them in their part of the pool. That is really cool! I tip my cap. Right now, I’m in the deep end, but if you read further, you’ll realize I’ve got my floaties on tight. Rest assured, there are some pretty impressive lifeguards watching over me at GOLF.com.
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My Fully Fit 2026 dream bag
Ball: Titleist Pro V1
Driver: Titleist GT2 9° (Tour AD VF-6 X)
3w: Titleist GT2 13.5° (Project X HZRDUS 6.5, 80g)
5w: Titleist GT2 16.5° (HZRDUS 6.5, 80g)
Utility: TaylorMade P-UDI 4-iron (KBS Tour Lite S)
Irons: Titleist T250 5i, T150 6i-PW (Project X Rifle 6.5)
Wedges: Vokey 50.12F, 54.14F, 58.10S (Project X Project X 6.5)
Putter: TaylorMade Spider TourX (L-neck)
Keep scrolling for details on every club.
The 1 club I can’t live without
The middle part of my bag needed the most work, between my woods and irons. I was gaming a 12-year-old Adams driving iron with a regular flex shaft. We made it work! But my various fittings told me that not only should that club be replaced by modern technology, it should also probably be replaced by two clubs: A 5-wood and a better, more advanced driving iron.
One of the best elements within the week’s worth of fittings was that we could really hone in on that specific part of the bag and try to gap my yardages appropriately. The driver flies about 260 yards, the 3-wood, 240, and that Adams driving iron was in the 210-215 range. My various fitters were focused on finding a club that could fly 225 to 230, and back-filling with another one that could go 215 in the air.
What I landed on was a Titleist GT2 16° 5-wood. In some ways, it’s not far off from a 3-wood in terms of loft, but it is so easy to sweep off the ground and into the sky. With my swing, it doesn’t necessarily have that penetrating ball-flight as a 3-wood, but something higher and softer, but still going 225-230 yards reliably. I’ve had days where the 13.5° 3-wood acts up and starts nuking 250-yard hooks. Hopefully, this 5-wood isn’t too much of a downgrade in distance on those days when I’d like to find some fairways and aren’t striping it perfectly.
Now to the rest of my bag!
Golf ball
Titleist 2025 Pro V1
Titleist Pro V1 Golf Balls
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ALSO AVAILABLE AT: PGA Tour Superstore, Titleist
Why it’s in my bag: I love having a lot of spin, particularly around the green, BUT I don’t need maximum spin in the long game. I already create way too much spin with my typical swing’s launch numbers. So the right ball is something that I can spin a lot with the short game, but not too much. Goldilocks-like, really. And that’s the Pro V1.
Driver
Head: Titleist GT2
Shaft: Graphite Design Tour AD VF-6 X
Loft: 9°
SureFit Hosel Setting: A1
Length: 45.5″
Tipping: 0″
Titleist GT2 Custom Driver
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ALSO AVAILABLE AT: PGA Tour Superstore, Titleist
Why it’s in my bag: Because it’s home. The GT2 head shape really agrees with me, being a bit more elongated than some pro-level shapes. My driver fittings were fascinating because most fitters found me hitting low-launch soft cuts with a decent amount of spin. They attacked my spin-rate and tried like hell to get me to launch the ball higher, working in new shafts and hosel settings every few swings. But I fear that the driver swing itself needs to change for me to actually get this thing in the air at tour-preferred trajectory (100 feet off the ground).
1 key data point: My launch angle was always in the single digits, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing; it’s just not ideal. We’ve got some work to do on the driver swing front if we want to start carrying it farther, but I’m quite comfortable with the shot shape. Once we dial in a swing that moves up on the ball a bit more, I could see myself shifting into a GT3 or TaylorMade Qi4D. Luckily, I’ve got those in the holster if necessary.
3-wood
Head: Titleist GT2
Shaft: Project X HZRDUS 6.5, 80g
Loft: 13.5°
SureFit Hosel Setting: A1
Length: 43″
Tipping: 0″
Titleist GT2 Custom Fairway Wood
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ALSO AVAILABLE AT: PGA Tour Superstore, Titleist
Why it’s in my bag: Ball go far. Seriously! I’ve always been very good at sweeping fairway woods off the deck, off tees, and elevating them from hairier lies, too. So much so that I played with a 3-wood as the longest club in my bag for multiple years. The biggest challenge of my fittings was showing up at Titleist with a GT2 3-wood that I already hit really well and saying, “Try and beat it.” We went through those motions at every fitting — me really liking that club and the striking trajectory it takes — and while plenty of the other 3-woods work fine, none could outright beat the one I was already playing.
1 key data point: 13.5 degrees. I used to play a 16-degree 3-wood and was helplessly in love with it, but have been rocking the 13.5-degree for a couple years now. That move made room for the 5-wood gapping to follow, simply getting another club into my bag, which is the whole point of getting fully fit.
5-wood
Head: Titleist GT2
Shaft: Project X HZRDUS 6.5, 80g
Loft: 16.5°
SureFit Hosel Setting: A1
Length: 42″
Tipping: 0″
Titleist GT2 Custom Fairway Wood
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ALSO AVAILABLE AT: PGA Tour Superstore, Titleist
Why it’s in my bag: Because we had space! There was room for me in my yardage gapping — as discussed above — to find a club that will reliably go 225 to 230 yards in the air. Too often, I was trying to muscle up a driving iron to hit that distance, particularly on long par-3s or some lengthy shots into the wind. It was either that or go soft on a 3-wood, which isn’t necessarily an easy thing to do. This club feels just like the 3-woods I’ve long loved hitting, but just flies and lands a bit softer, which is the whole point. There are specific holes I’m already looking forward to using it on where I’ve floundered in the past. That’s the dream.
1 key data point: The 215-yard miss. My bad strikes with this club were going to be high and fading too much to the right. In the past, with a driving iron, that’s just not going to go anywhere. But with the sweeping 5-wood, the misses still flew far enough. I was imagining the difference between the 215-yard miss, which ends up in the greenside trap, and the older, 200-yard miss, which doesn’t make it to the trap and maybe lands in the water.
Utility Iron
Head: TaylorMade P-UDI 4-iron
Shaft: KBS Tour Lite S
Loft: 22°
Lie: Standard
Length: 38.75″
TaylorMade P-UDI Custom Utility Iron
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Why it’s in my bag: I play a lot of golf in Scotland. Have been making the annual (and privileged) Open Championship pilgrimage for the last four years, and I find myself hitting a lot of 4-irons on that trip. It’s such a great exercise — to play firm courses for weeks at a time. It forces you to understand your carry distance, but also to understand how far your shots can run if you just get them started on the right line. So I really enjoy having a club I can hit extra shots with, low and hooking at times, higher and fading at others. This club has a good bit of meat on the bone, if you will. Some real mass that sits behind the clubface and helps me launch it. But I can also get plenty of distance out of that mass simply by pulling it back in my stance a bit and stinging one low and striking. Versatility is what we love.
1 key data point: This may not feel like a data point, but there is something particularly pleasing about just filling in the gap, loft-wise, in my bag. If we were to remove that Adams driving iron, which I really should have done years ago, then there was about a 13-degree gap in my set when it came to modern clubs. The 22-degree 4-iron (and the 16.5-degree 5-wood) work hand-in-hand to make my gapping more sensical. We like that!
Irons
Set composition: Titleist T250 5i, T150 6i-PW
Shafts: Project X Rifle 6.5
Length: Standard (37″ 7-iron)
Lie: Standard (63˚ 7-iron)
Loft progression: 24/28/32/36/40/44
Titleist 2025 T150 Custom Irons
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Why they’re in my bag: They were probably always supposed to be. I got fitted into T100s over the summer and while those blades are beautiful to look at, they’re just not forgiving enough for me, as I found out during my next fitting … and the others I did on our trip. I found a lot of success with TaylorMade’s P770s and Cobra’s 3DP Tour line, but I think the T150s seem to look better to me when I stare down at them. Probably because I’ve been playing Titleist irons already. There’s something to be said for sameness and comfort. (Will I be keeping the others as backups? Absolutely.)
1 key data point: Dispersion distance. Like the longer parts of my bag, my mishits — which are still struck fine — just weren’t flying consistently enough to match my best strikes. If my 7-iron is a 170-yard club, my 7-iron mishits were flying 152 yards, weak and to the right. Getting T150s into the bag just narrowed the gap between my pure strikes and my misses, which now feel like they’re still going 160 yards. As we said above, that could be the difference between a soft lie in the rough and taking a drop from a hazard. That’s everything.
Wedges
Heads: Vokey SM11 Tour Chrome
Lofts/grinds: 50.12F, 54.14F, 58.10S
Shafts: Project X 6.5
Length: 35″ on 60-degree
Lie: 64˚
Titleist Vokey SM11 Tour Chrome Custom Wedge
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Why they’re in my bag: I think they’re in the bag because of the blind wedge test my fitter put me through. He laid all different types of grinds on the turf and wouldn’t let me look at the grind before playing various short game shots. We played to short-sided pins, bump-and-run pins, hop-and-stop pins, and even a few shots from bunkers. The whole point became obvious: some grinds work for me and how my short game mind wants to attack various shots. My short-game instincts, if you will. All my fitter did was try and find the best performing grind for the shots that I feel most comfortable playing. Sounds simple, doesn’t it?
Putter
Head: TaylorMade Spider Tour X
Length: 34″
Loft: 3˚
Lie: 70˚
Hosel: L-neck
Grip: SuperStroke Flatso 2.0
TaylorMade Spider Tour X L-Neck Custom Putter
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Why it’s in my bag: Thanks to an hour-long fitting exclusively spent on the putter, I learned just how natural it is for me to leave the face slightly open, just a hair of a degree. That’s my stroke, though! I needed a putter with a lot more face stability and something with plenty of squareness to it. As discussed above, my eyes, hands and instincts work best with perpendicular lines. It feels comfortable looking down at something with sharper edges.
Extras
Grips: GolfPride MCC, Dark red-White combo, GolfPride.com
Gloves: Bruce Bolt Original, Black, BruceBolt.us
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