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    The clubs Russell Henley used to win the 2025 Arnold Palmer Invitational

    By E. Michael Johnson
    March 09, 2025
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    Richard Heathcote

    Russell Henley knows a thing about patience—and the penalty for impatience. He went three years between his second and third win on the PGA Tour then another five before notching his fourth win. However, he noted after the third round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational, “I definitely get impatient. I've blown tournaments and screwed up and it's just hard to get yourself in the correct mindset.”

    Henley found the correct mindset at Bay Hill. Trailing Collin Morikawa most of the day, Henley hung in. A birdie-bogey two-shot swing at the difficult par-4 14th cut Morikawa’s margin to a single shot. Henley then flipped the leaderboard with a hole-out from just off the green at the par-5 16th for eagle while Morikawa could do no better than par giving Henley the lead. Two pars later and Henley had his fifth PGA Tour title.

    “I feel like I'm playing the best I've ever played, and it all feels a little bit like icing,” said Henley. “I'm just very comfortable with what I'm doing, I'm confident. But I'm also don't feel like I'm pressing too hard.”

    It would have been easy to press after bogeying both front-nine par 5s, but Henley regrouped with birdies at Nos. 8, 12 and 14 before the eagle on 16.

    Titleist T100
    $200 per iron | Golf Galaxy
    5.0
    GD SCORE GD HOT LIST SCORE
    Hot List Gold
    $200 per iron
    A forged, dual-cavity design supplies a tour-like look in an iron everyday single-digit handicappers can play. Super-dense D18 tungsten (1.5 times heavier than lead) in the heel and toe foster super-charged stability and improved feel. Coordinating with the company’s wedge designers brought a softened chamfer in the trailing edge of the sole for better turf interaction. Using a CNC face-milling process helps create more control and consistent ball flight, especially from the rough. The stock shafts are slightly lighter in the long irons to help make them easier to swing. Top 5 in Performance, middle-handicaps SPECS: 7-iron: 34 degrees; PW: 46 degrees
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    Henley was T-5 in greens in regulation with his Titleist T100 irons (he also uses a T200 4-iron). Interestingly, Henley employs two different shafts in his irons, using True Temper’s AMT Tour White X100 in his 4- through 6-irons and True Temper’s Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100 in his 7- through 9-iron.

    Titleist Vokey Design SM10
    $190 | Golf Galaxy
    5.0
    GD SCORE GD HOT LIST SCORE
    Hot List Gold
    $190
    To promote a slightly lower, more controllable ball flight, the SM10 line features shorter hosel lengths and a smaller-head profile to create a progressive center of gravity in the 46- through 52-degree lofts. Tour-player feedback resulted in shifting the center of gravity on those lofts slightly closer to the center of the face for a solid feel and to reduce a draw bias. By using longer hosel lengths and thicker toplines in the higher lofts (54 degrees and up), Vokey was able to shift the center of gravity up (for a lower trajectory) and slightly forward, which enables the face to square more easily. Straighter leading edges on the pitching and gap wedges and more rounded leading edges on the sand and lob wedges provide the right amount of flexibility players need to execute a variety of shots. A “spin-milled” cutting process uses a cutter that creates the entire scoreline instead of a partial scoreline. The result is tighter manufacturing tolerances for a more consistent scoreline-edge radius, allowing the grooves to be sharper and closer. Micro-grooves cut between the grooves add spin on partial shots. Top 5 in Performance, all handicaps. 27 options (46-62 degrees), 6 grinds, 3 finishes.
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    The Titleist Vokey SM10 60-degree wedge he used for the eagle pitch has just four degrees of bounce. He also used his wedges to rank first for the week in strokes gained/around the green, picking up more than six shots on the field—which is pretty sporty when you win by one shot.

    What Russell Henley had in the bag at the 2025 Arnold Palmer Invitational

    Ball: Titleist Pro V1x

    Driver: Titleist GT3 (HZRDUS Smoke Black 6.5 TX), 10 degrees

    3-wood: Titleist GT3, 16.5 degrees

    Hybrid: Titleist TSi2, 21 degrees

    Irons (4): Titleist T200; (5-9): Titleist T100

    Wedges: Titleist Vokey SM10 (48, 50, 54, 60 degrees)

    Putter: Scotty Cameron by Titleist Phantom 5

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