What's in Hideki Matsuyama’s bag?

Japanese golfer Hideki Matsuyama is one of the current leaders at the 2023 Memorial Tournament. In his 10 seasons as a professional, he has eight victories in the PGA Tour.

In Matsuyama's bag, we can find a total of 12 clubs, in addition to the rest of the equipment a leading golfer has to carry.

Let's take a closer look at the most significant items in Matsuyama's bag:

• Driver: A Srixon ZX5 Mk II (9.5 degrees) with a Graphite Design Tour AD DI 8 TX shaft.
• 3-wood: A TaylorMade SIM2 (15 degrees) with a Graphite Design Tour AD DI 9 TX shaft.
• 5-wood: A Cobra King RadSpeed Tour (17.5 degrees) with a Graphite Design Tour AD DI 10 TX shaft.
• Irons: One Srixon ZX (20 degrees) and one Srixon Z-Forged (4-PW), with a True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue Mid X100 and a True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400 shaft, respectively.
• Wedges: Six Cleveland RTX 4 Forged Prototype (46, 52-10, 56-8, 57-5, 60-08, 62), with True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100 (46-52) and True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400 (56-60) shafts.
• Putter: Scotty Cameron Newport 2 GSS with Scotty Cameron grip.
• Ball: Srixon Z-Star XV
• Grips: Iomic X

Hideki Matsuyama's 2022-23 season

Hideki Matsuyama has participated in 16 PGA Tour tournaments during the 2022-23 season, and has been cut in only two. His best result so far is the fifth place achieved at The Players Championship, where he finished with an excellent 9-under 279.

His other Top 10 of the season was a T9 at the Farmers Insurance Open in January. There, he also had an outstanding performance with a 7-under 281.

Hideki Matsuyama at the 2023 Memorial Tournament presented by Workday (Image via Getty).

As for the two majors held so far this season, Matsuyama was at his best at the Augusta Masters, where he finished T16 with a two-under 286. At the PGA Championship also, he wasn't bad (T29 with +5).

The best of the season for Matsuyama also featured five other Top 25 finishes, the last of them at the AT&T Byron Nelson in May.

In the 2023 Memorial Tournament, Hideki Matsuyama is among the leaders after an excellent second round. After a first day that was not particularly special (72 even), Matsuyama posted a seven-under 65 on Friday that catapulted him (32 spots!) to the top positions.

It was a bogey-free second round for Matsuyama, with seven birdies, some of them spectacular, such as the one he made on hole 8 (17 for him) where he successfully executed a 32-foot, nine-inch putt.

With the second round still to finish, Matsuyama is in second place, one stroke behind Justin Suh, who sensationally snatched the lead by birdieing the 18th hole.