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Inbee Park: What Was In Her Bag When She Won the 2017 HSBC Women’s Champions?

By Elizabeth Bethel

Aug 20, 2016; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Silver medalist Lydia Ko (NZL), left, gold medalist Inbee Park (KOR), and bronze medalist Shanshan Feng (CHN) take the podium after competing in the final round of women's golf during the Rio 2016 Summer Olympic Games at Olympic Golf Course. Mandatory Credit: Michael Madrid-USA TODAY Sports
Aug 20, 2016; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Silver medalist Lydia Ko (NZL), left, gold medalist Inbee Park (KOR), and bronze medalist Shanshan Feng (CHN) take the podium after competing in the final round of women's golf during the Rio 2016 Summer Olympic Games at Olympic Golf Course. Mandatory Credit: Michael Madrid-USA TODAY Sports /
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Inbee Park has a conventional bag set-up using Cleveland/Srixon, TaylorMade, and Odyssey equipment.

What was in Inbee Park’s golf bag when she won the 2017 HSBC Women’s Champions?

Inbee Park has struggled for 6 months with a thumb injury. We haven’t seen the former World Number 1 tee it up since the 2016 Rio Olympics. It’s worth nothing that, playing with that thumb injury, Park was the first gold medalist in women’s golf Olympic competition.

Still, Park has been eerily silent during the past six months and there have been endless rumors and whisperings. Would she return to competition, or had she chosen to end her career with her induction into the LPGA Tour Hall of Fame and her Olympic triumph?

Park answered all the questions – spoken and unspoken – with her HSBC Women’s Champions performance. She won, and did so decisively, setting a final round 8-under par 64 course record on the Sentosa Golf Club Tanjong Course.

Park explained to LPGA’s Adam Stanley that this win came more quickly than she’d anticipated:

"“I thought it might take maybe a couple months to get back out on the Tour and to get my rhythm back. I thought I was going to be just a little bit rusty. That’s how I felt last week. This week was totally different. Especially the final round was just what I wanted.”"

Golf Digest’s E. Michael Jackson reports that Park’s bag reflects a multi-year contract extension she recently signed with Cleveland/Srixon. She was playing in Singapore with an XXIO 9 driver – that hit 55 out of 56 fairways over 4 rounds – and a new set of XXIO forged irons that were getting her to greens in regulation 88% of the time.

Those are impressive stats under any circumstance. They’re downright astonishing for a player who’s been out of competition for six months. Yet they pale in comparison to Park’s putting, particularly in her final round. Her Odyssey White Hot 2-Ball putter was red hot. She was rolling in 20 and 30 foot putts like they were 2-footers.

Park explained to Golf Digest:

"“I was just in that zone today. I think I putted good the first and second round, but nothing like today. … Today was just that day, where I stand over the putt so confident that I can draw a line directly to the hole and it just goes exactly to the hole.”"

Park’s Bag Set-Up

Inbee Park has a very convention bag set-up: a driver, 2 fairway woods, a hybrid, standard irons, and 3 wedges.

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Driver: XXIO 9, 10.5 degrees

3-wood: TaylorMade RocketBallz Tour, 14.5 degrees

5-wood: TaylorMade M2, 18 degrees

Hybrid: TaylorMade SLDR (22 degrees)

Irons (5-PW): XXIO Forged

Wedges: Cleveland 588 RTX 2.0 (46, 50, 58 degrees)

Putter: Odyssey White Hot 2-Ball

Let’s see how these clubs do in in the hands of this champion during the run-up to the Tour’s first major, the ANA Inspiration.

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