Matt Fitzpatrick Bag Check: Every Club He Plays in 2026

Matt Fitzpatrick does not build a bag to please a logo. As an equipment free agent he plays whatever earns its place, which is why his 2026 setup reads like a shopping list assembled by a control freak with a very good short game: a Ping driver, Ping irons that are older than some of the players he is beating, Titleist wedges and ball, and a one-off Bettinardi putter with his own name milled into the sole. Nothing in there is an accident, and almost none of it is bought the way you would buy it.

The honest headline for anyone reading this to copy him: there is exactly one club in the bag you can add to your own without a fitting bay, a launch monitor and a tour budget, and that is the ball. He plays the Titleist Pro V1x, the same dozen you can order tonight. Everything else is either a discontinued model, a tour-only build, or a custom that does not exist as a retail product. That is worth knowing before you go chasing a copy.

The one thing you can actually buy

The Pro V1x is the part of Fitzpatrick's bag that translates straight to your own. It is the firmer, higher-flying, lower-spinning-off-the-driver sibling of the standard Pro V1, and it suits a player who wants the ball to hold its line in the wind and stop hard around the green. Fitzpatrick is a precision merchant rather than a bomber, and the V1x gives him the flight window and the greenside bite that his game is built on. If you already play a premium ball and want to know what a genuine tour staple feels like, this is the reference point.

A quick honesty note on the glove. Fitzpatrick wears the FootJoy Pure Touch Limited, a made-in-USA cabretta glove that is genuinely one of the best-feeling gloves on the market. It is also close to £79 for a single glove that, like every glove, will wear out. That is a hard number to recommend to a club golfer with a straight face. If you want the feel without the sting, a standard cabretta leather glove gets you most of the way there for a fraction of the price, which is why we have named it here rather than sent you off to buy one. The feel is real, the price is a professional's indulgence.

The clubs you cannot just add to a bag

The rest of the setup is a lesson in why copying a tour bag is a trap. The Ping S55 irons are the headline: a set first sold in 2013 that Fitzpatrick has never had a good enough reason to replace. You cannot walk into a shop and buy them new, and even if you found a used set, they are his lofts, his lie angles and his shafts, dialled in over more than a decade. The i210 long irons that top the set are a later, more forgiving head spliced in for the longer clubs, again to his numbers.

The putter is the clearest example of all. The Bettinardi BB1 Fitz is a custom prototype milled from a single block of soft carbon steel, built to a shape and a feel that suit one man's stroke. It is not a product with a price tag. You can buy a Bettinardi, and a very good one, but you cannot buy that putter. The driver and fairways are closer to reachable, the Ping G430 LST and TaylorMade Qi35 are both retail models, but they are built with tour-issue shafts and set to lofts and settings that came out of a fitting, not off a peg.

None of that means the brands are off limits. It means the honest way to chase this bag is by category, fitted to you, rather than by copying a spec sheet. If you want to explore the same families, our drivers, irons, wedges and putters are the place to start, ideally alongside a fitting.

The closest setup you can actually buy

If you want to build in Fitzpatrick's spirit rather than clone his gear, the brief is simple: play the ball, get fitted for everything else, and do not be too proud to game an older iron that works. Put a dozen Pro V1x in the bag. Get a modern low-spin driver head like the G430 LST fitted with a shaft that matches your speed, not his. Run a blended iron set, forgiving long irons into more compact mid and short irons, because that is exactly what he does. Carry three Vokey-style wedges in even gaps, something like 52, 56 and 60 degrees. And find a blade or half-mallet putter with a soft milled feel that flatters your eye.

Do that and you have the thinking behind the bag without pretending to have his hands. It is a far better use of money than buying a decade-old iron set off an auction site because a major champion once used one. For more on why the ball is the one no-brainer copy, our guide to golf ball compression and swing speed explains who the Pro V1x actually suits.

FAQs

What ball does Matt Fitzpatrick use?

Matt Fitzpatrick plays the Titleist Pro V1x, the firmer, higher-flying version of Titleist's tour ball. It is the one item in his bag you can buy exactly as he plays it, at around £52.00 a dozen.

What driver does Matt Fitzpatrick use in 2026?

He plays a Ping G430 LST set to 9 degrees, fitted with a Mitsubishi Tensei AV Raw Orange 65 TX shaft. He switched to it around the 2026 Travelers Championship after years with a Titleist driver.

What putter does Matt Fitzpatrick use?

A custom Bettinardi BB1 Fitz prototype, milled from soft carbon steel with his name on the sole. It is a one-off build rather than a retail product, so it is not something you can buy off the shelf.

How old are Matt Fitzpatrick's irons?

His Ping S55 irons, which run from the 5-iron to the pitching wedge, were first released in 2013. He tops the set with newer Ping i210 long irons, but the S55s are one of the oldest iron sets in professional golf.

What shaft is in Matt Fitzpatrick's driver?

A Mitsubishi Tensei AV Raw Orange 65 TX. It is a tour-issue shaft built to his fitting numbers, which is why simply buying the same driver head off the shelf will not give you his exact setup.

Can I buy Matt Fitzpatrick's exact setup?

Only the ball. The Pro V1x is a straight copy, and the FootJoy glove is buyable if you can stomach the price. Everything else is either discontinued, a tour-only build or a custom, so the smart move is to get fitted for the same categories rather than clone the spec sheet.

This is one of our Bag Check series, where we break down what the pros really carry and what is worth copying. Setup as reported September 2026, equipment changes through the season, so treat this as a guide.