For PGA Tour rookie Max Greyserman, 2024 was a good year indeed.
With six top-10s in 27 events — including three-runner-up finishes — Greyserman earned nearly $4.3 million on the course and launched himself to No. 35 in the world ranking.
The 29-year-old pro joined Colt Knost and Drew Stoltz for a chat on the latest episode of Subpar, where he discussed his epic season, what it’s like to live among many of his peers in Jupiter, Fla., and his recovery from wrist surgery.
Greyserman also admitted to being a bit of a tinkerer when it comes to his gear setup, and had a ready answer when Knost asked him about the craziest thing he’s ever tried with his equipment.
“Probably just switching driver heads like every day of the week at a tournament,” he said. “I’ve tinkered quite a bit with the driver.”
Knost asked if it was true that Greyserman played an ultra-forgiving driver model, which is usually put in play by higher handicaps.
“Yeah, I’ll take any help I can get, let’s be honest, why wouldn’t you?” he said. “Why do I need to play a blade iron when I can just play a cavity back?”
“No one should play blade irons anymore,” Knost responded.
Greyserman then began to sing the praises of his Callaway Paradym mini driver.
“This mini driver — they’re up to something with this mini driver,” he said. “I go driver, mini driver, 2-iron. I don’t have a traditional wood. What I like the most about the mini driver is, we looked at the stats, and I was kind of leaking off, not having good stats off the tee, and it was my 3-wood wasn’t that accurate.”
Greyserman said he bugged Callaway about making a mini driver for two years before he finally got one in his bag.
“The key is, with the mini driver — it’s obviously not as good to hit off the deck as a 3-wood, but if you’re a higher-speed player, how often are you gonna hit a 3-wood into a green or a par 5, and should you even be hitting a 3-wood into a green or a par 5?” Greyserman said. “So that was kind of the numbers thing, and I hit mini driver, you know, four or five times on average off the tee. So you’re just picking up a little bit of distance and a little bit of accuracy and you’re not really sacrificing anything.
“So I was just kind of like looking at the numbers and understanding my game and knowing that it fits perfectly.”
Greyserman said his mini driver has a loft of 13.3 degrees at a 5-wood length of 42.5 inches.
“It looks like a kid’s club,” he joked.
That kid’s club proved to be a real weapon for Greyserman though. After putting it in the bag at the John Deere this year, Greyserman posted all three of his runner-up finishes.
