Building The Ultimate Direct To Consumer Golf Bag

The direct to consumer market in golf equipment has seen significant growth in the past couple

of years, with tons of people taking advantage of the potential value on offer. Now, as a

dedicated gear tester, I've been able to test a lot of this stuff. So stay with me, because

in this video, I'm going to pick out my ultimate direct to consumer bag. Right, so starting from the top with driver, and this one surprised me a little bit. This

is the vice golf vgdo1 plus not the catchiest name i think you'll agree this is the low spin model

and the reason it surprised me is when i first pulled it out there's quite a lot going on with

it in terms of this quite bright colorway in the shaft that came with it there's a busy crown a lot

going on on the crown there in terms of the looks and underneath we've got these ridges it look like

they're straight off the batmobile it's a really it's an interesting look looking golf club there's

There's a lot of visual stimulation going on here. And I don't know whether I had my snobby head on

but when I put it down in behind the ball, I really started to like it

It sits very squarely. It's got quite a neat squat head and it frames the ball beautifully at address

So from a looks point of view, I've really become quite fond of it, although it's quite different

And crucially in terms of the raw performance, that's what really impressed me here

in terms of launch monitor data. So some of the direct and consumer clubs that I've tested in the past

can fall down when you're actually measuring the data. But this excelled. In terms of spin

and this is a low spin driver, it was incredibly consistent, which is key, but also nice and low

So it really does its job as a low spin driver. I couldn't spin it above 2,400 revs throughout

testing. So it gave me a really nice penetrating ball flight. And the ball speed was excellent as

well. Again, that's been leveled at some of these direct to consumer drivers. They aren't quite as

quick as the top manufacturers well this kept up with anything so i was really impressed and that's

why this vice golf driver has made it the first choice in my ultimate direct to consumer bag

okay so now for my choice of fairway wood and i've chosen a tour edge product and it is the

tour edge exotic c725 fairway wood now anyone who saw my driver review of the c725 will probably

know why I've put this in it very nearly made it into the driver's spot but the vice just pipped it

so I wanted to get this model in there somewhere and the fairway wood is quite brilliant when you

put it in behind the ball this is one of the nicest shapes of fairway wood I've think I've

ever seen it's beautifully rounded it's got all the right proportions to give you both a sense of

feel of confidence at address but not too bulky it's just got everything in the right places in

terms of curves and proportions it's exactly what I want to see looking in behind the ball

and I think the sort of carbon effect on the crown gives it a really premium look as well

And then underneath, you've got a bit of tech that can help you. You've got what they call their flight tuning system

So you've got an adjustable weight system here, so we can make it higher or lower spinning

and we got a loft sleeve on here to tune it into the lofts that you want From a feel point of view I got a ball here to demonstrate i hope you can pick this up on the audio it you might have noticed from driver i like sort of a more thudier impact that got a real thuddy thuddy strike a dull thud

this has got that same dull thud but just with a little bit more life it really produces a great

sound impact now it might not be a ball speed monster when i put it up against some of the

major OEMs it came out for me around one and a half two miles an hour slow but that's not what

this is about it's really easy to launch but with no excessive spin so give me a really solid ball

flight both in the 15 degree and the 18 degree five wood that i've tried this is a real favorite

of mine this actually might be making it into my own bag so that's why it's in my ultimate direct

consumer bag now my next choice bridges the gap between the fairway wood and the main iron set

i wasn't sure whether to go for a hybrid but i've picked a utility iron and particularly this one i

really like is the tacomo 101u utility iron now tacomo made a huge splash in this direct-to-consumer

space arguably the biggest disruptors of them all and the driving iron i think is really cool it's

got that real tacomo signature minimalist look not too much going on which i love if you take

the branding away from clubs for me i think they always look a little bit cleaner and this is a

great example of that. One thing I don't love about it, the back edge sticks a little bit out

on the top, that's one of my gripes with some utility irons, but it's nicely mirrored so it

kind of blends in with the background amongst it and another thing that I do love about this

it is hot, it is super quick so a hollow body, it comes really quick off the face

it's a really versatile club. The width of sole is very useful as well, makes it very versatile

from all sorts of turf conditions and when you factor in it's £119 or $119

dollars this is incredible value and that's why it's in the bag right so in the irons i've indulged

myself a little bit here i've picked some blades so i know that's not going to be everyone's cup of tea but these are such a great example of what direct consumer manufacturers can do now

and i picked the hogan fort worth blades these are the mbs and straight away when you look at

them you probably see why i think aesthetically from a shelf appeal point of view in the bag

they're just astonishing all the topography and the shaping of the back looks absolutely beautiful

we've got this blend of old and new as well so we've got that kind of old hogan scripture written

on there the old hogan logos we've got the knurling around the feral there which gives it a kind of

old-fashioned look and the ferrules are super long which again is kind of harking back to the olden

days but the rest of the shaping and everything else that's been done on this head really gives

it a more contemporary looks it's that beautiful blend of old and new when you look in the bag

and in behind the ball it just gets better and better for me I would argue that these are some of the nicest looking blades in terms of profiles

behind the ball that I ever seen some blades are very angular some get a little bit more rounded this he got a nice squat boxy look to them and every club from four iron through to pitch and wedge are bang on the money

That's something I don't see all the time in all sets of irons. Quite often you can like the look of some longer irons, you like the look of the wedges

but the mid irons might quite not do it for you. It could just be one individual club

Literally every single club in this set looks exactly as it should

In terms of performance, they don't let you down either. Sure, there's not much tech packed in because it's a blade, but the feel is exceptional

Their kind of dual-cut sole here makes turf interaction an absolute dream

In terms of blades from a direct-to-consumer, there is not much better than this

This is a great piece, and that's why it's in my bag. Right, I hope you're enjoying this video

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And tell me what you think about my choices so far. Do you agree? Do you disagree? And what have I missed

Get in the comments down below. Okay, now, so for my wedges of this Ultimate Direct to Consumer bag, I've gone a little

bit left field and I've gone with Avoda Golf. Now, some of you may know Avoda from Bryson

DeChambeau who had Avoda Clubs in the bag when he won his US Open, and more recently

Jason Day has been dabbling in kind of the curved face irons. But I wanted to shout out

these wedges because I think they're absolutely brilliant, in particular, the W2 wedge. Now

firstly in terms of the looks, again, right up my street, super minimal, very little branding

clean and neat. So that's a good start for me from a shelf appeal point of view. And then again

when I put them in behind the ball, the profiles are just great. There's very minimal offset

slightly rounded leading edge, and the shaping is just exactly what I would want to see. They're

really, really good from that point of view. But the main reason I put them in is the sole technology

The grind on these wedges, this W2 grind, is really interesting. Now, when you look at it from

sole point of view and i'll pop some b-roll up of it now it will look like there's an awful lot of

bounce so the angle is quite steep but there's a lot of trailing edge relief and there's an awful

lot of leading edge relief so you don't get that sharp leading edge you've got a bit of a buffer

there and i'm not going to say they're duff proof because someone will prove that wrong i'm sure

and send me a video of it but they're very very close this is the most forgiving grind i think

i've ever seen on a wedge and i really really like it and one more thing i do like about these wedges

Now this is a little silly point. Again, I've said I don't like too much stuff going on on the club head in terms of information

So at times I feel like I don't need to know the exact loft. I don't need to know the bounce

I don't need to know the DNA or the blood type of the wedge. We've just got a good old-fashioned G, S and L on these wedges

So it's a gap, sand and a lob. They're standard lofts within that are the gap wedge is 50, the sand wedge is 55 and the lob wedge is 60

You can obviously manipulate that either way, but I just like the simplicity of having that

letter rather than the exact loft stamped on there, just a thing for me

And that another reason why it made it into my ultimate direct bag of 2025 So on to the flat stick Now this is an important choice and I gone with probably a more

little-known brand amongst a lot of people out there. This is a brand called Kevin Burns. So

we got sent some stuff from Kevin Burns at Golf Monthly a little while ago, and Putter Tester

Sam Diaf, just fell in love with this stuff. So, it's super high-end. It is a little bit more

premium in terms of price tag but it's so beautifully crafted i think you'll see from

the b-roll that i'm running here that maybe that price tag is justified in the in the craftsmanship

and workmanship that's gone into this putter now a few of you might not know but kevin burns

actually designed a putter for jose maria o latharbo the 9304 i think it was this is the 9307 model

so 9304 for jose maria o latharbo when he won the 1999 masters so it's a major winning brand

which is really interesting. Now there's a few things about this putter that make it very

interesting we've got a little screw piece on the bottom of the sole so you can actually

interchange different necks if you decide you want to feel a bit more toe flow or you want to get into

a plumber's neck we've got a screw that allows us to change those necks in and out and the transition

from where that goes in and out of the club head you would just never notice it is beautifully

disguised. We've also got a pyramid face here which provides a superb roll and again I'm going to run

some b-roll i don't know if i've ever had a putter but as soon as you hit it the impact ratio is so

small and the ball gets rolling so so quickly so based on that level of performance based on these

incredibly premium looks and craftsmanship i make no apologies for putting this kevin burns 9307

putter in my ultimate bag okay so the final piece of the puzzle is the golf ball and i've brought

with me arguably one of the most spoken about golf products of the last couple of years this

This is the Kirkland Signature Golf Ball, and it's probably most widely known

for its incredible value for money. But behind the value is actually a really good golf ball

We've got a three-piece urethane golf ball. And in my testing, I did some testing of this golf ball

up against a Pro V1. I messed about with different drivers, with the Kirkland driver, with the Titleist driver

That's another video you can watch on the Golf Monthly channel. And it actually really held its own

The only thing you're giving up, in my opinion, is potentially a little bit of the greenside spin

get with a more premium ball but when you talk about ball speed and the consistency of the flight

window and the feel and also the durability for that matter this is a really good option not just

from a value point of view but from a golf ball point of view as a standalone option so that's why

it's in my bag so there you have it those are my choices for my ultimate direct to consumer bag of

2025. What do you think get in the comments down below tell me why I'm wrong tell me what I've

missed out these are my personal favorites I want to hear what you've tried in that direct to consumer market and what you love