Bryson DeChambeau recently became the 2015 NCAA Individual Men's Champion.  He is a Physics major at Southern Methodist University (SMU) - and he has taken a very interesting approach to the golf clubs he plays with.  Is his approach for you? - who knows, but at the least it is interesting to learn about and understand what he has done.

First - all of his irons are one length  - 37-1/2 inches - and one lie angle - including his long irons and all of his wedges.  Each club head weight is the same - 268 grams - and so the MOI and swingweight of each club is exactly the same.  The clubs where specially built for him by Edel Golf. 

He has decided to do this so that he can use exactly the same golf swing for each club.  The lofts of the clubs vary - standard 4 degree gapping I believe - and this is what gives him different distances with different iron shots.

Typical iron clubs that can be custom fit for you, or that you can buy in a golf club store, will have varying head weights, varying lengths, and varying lie angles.  Typical head weight differences between clubs are about 7 grams, and typical length differences between clubs are 1/2 inch or 0.4 inches.  The lie angles of irons will increase as you go to more lofted clubs.  Club sets can be swingweight matched or MOI matched.

The second interesting thing that he does with his irons - and also his woods - is that he plays with a grip called Jumbo Max.  Because of the way he wants to swing the golf club (single plane swing) and how he wants to hold his clubs in his hands, he uses the Jumbo Max XL grip.  What I would call "standard" grips weigh about 50 grams, and a typical "jumbo" grip will be about 1/8 inch diameter over standard and often weigh 75 grams.  Well - the Jumbo Max XL grip is 3/8 inch over a "standard" size, and weight about 127 grams.  In my view, they act like a "counterweight" in the butt end of the golf club.

The final thing that I find fascinating about Bryson's irons is that they all have a lie angle of 69 degrees.  Most "standard" 6 irons have a lie angle of around 61 degrees, and wedges a lie angle of around 64 degrees.  So the lie angle of his irons does provide a hint about why they work for him - you will see from one of the links below that he uses a single-plane golf swing.  Very interesting!

Is the single-length approach that Bryson using for you?  I cannot judge one way or another, although I do believe that they fit well with Bryson's single-plane golf swing approach.  But since he won this year's individual NCAA championship - I bet a number of folks are going to test his approach out in the future!

Here are three links where Bryson talks about his clubs and why he decided to go the single-length route, and with the specs of his golf clubs....

     Bryson Dechambeau "What's In The Bag"

     Golf Channel Interview with Bryson Dechambeau

     Bryson Dechambeau MORE "What's In The Bag!"