Blades Brown just made some epic history.
The 19-year-old erased a seven-shot deficit with a final-round 63 and then went back to the 18th hole twice to finish the job.
On the second playoff hole at El Cardonal, he pitched from 35 yards to about three feet and made birdie to beat Ben James at the World Wide Technology Championship.
Brown became the youngest PGA Tour winner in 95 years; he is nearly six months younger than Jordan Spieth was when he won the 2013 John Deere Classic.
And the youngest winner most of us have ever seen did it with a set of blades from Callaway’s 2021 lineup (yes, five years ago, when he was 13).
And for all the speed Brown has off the tee, a key club in Cabo was a wide-blade putter (man, he really takes this Blades name seriously). He gained about nine strokes on the field on the greens, ranking second for the week.
Here is what stands out about Brown’s bag. I’ve included a few takeaways for amateur golfers.
What’s in Blades Brown’s bag?
| Club | Winning setup |
| Driver | Callaway Quantum Triple Diamond, 9° |
| 3-wood | Callaway Quantum Ti, 15° |
| Utility iron | Callaway X Forged UT Tour, measured at 19.5° |
| 4-iron | Callaway Apex TCB |
| 5-iron through PW | Callaway Apex MB ’21, True Temper Project X 6.5 |
| Wedges | Callaway Opus SP Raw, 50° S, 54° SG and 58° C, True Temper Dynamic Gold S400 |
| Putter | Odyssey Ai-ONE Double Wide CH, 34.5 inches |
| Ball | Callaway Chrome Tour Dot ’24 |
Brown plays five-year-old blades (but he knows the spot where to switch to cavity-back)
Brown has played Callaway’s 2021 Apex MBs since the model came out. Callaway put the irons on sale in October 2020, when Brown was 13. By the time he won in Cabo at 19, he’d been playing that model for about five years.
His reason for sticking with them is pretty simple.
“They feel so good off the face and I think they look great, too,” he said.
Brown also told the PGA Tour at the 2025 American Express that he took inspiration from the wear marks on Tiger Woods’ irons. He wanted to build a mark of his own by finding the center of the face over and over (not relatable … these guys are good).
The heads may be from 2021 but the lofts are his. All six of Brown’s blades are stronger than Callaway’s stock specs. His 7-iron measures 32.9 degrees versus 34 stock and his 8-iron is 36.3 versus 38.
The Apex MB also has a center weight that lets fitters adjust swingweight without moving the center of gravity.
At 4-iron, Brown goes to the Apex TCB cavity-back. One spot higher, he goes to an X Forged UT Tour utility iron. His 4-iron measures 22.7 degrees and his utility measures 19.5.
Those three consecutive slots use three different head designs. You can keep the irons you like and replace the first one you struggle to launch.
Brown says his stock utility shot peaks around 80 feet which is useful off the tee when he wants to keep it under the wind. If he needs a softer landing on a firm course, he can put in a hybrid that peaks closer to 120 feet.
That’s a 40-foot difference in flight for clubs he considers for the same slot.
His Quantum driver is fast (the Max is more forgiving)
Brown plays the standard Quantum Triple Diamond which scored 9.1 overall in our 2026 driver testing. The trade-off was clearest in the high-speed group. The Triple Diamond scored 9.4 for distance but only 7.9 for forgiveness.
The Triple Diamond Max scored 8.9 for distance and 9.2 for forgiveness while giving up only about four yards of average carry. If you’re fitting into a low-spin Callaway head, that’s a good reason to hit both and see what happens when you miss the middle.
The standard carried 278.8 yards to the Max’s 275.2. And if you swing at a more moderate speed, the standard head is still worth a look. It scored 9.3 overall in our mid-speed group.
The 3-wood Brown changed to tame his right miss
Brown put the 15-degree Quantum Ti in play before the Puerto Rico Open this season.
He says his old Triple Diamond 3-wood could turn a shot he normally hit 270 yards into a 200-yard high spinner to the right when he caught it poorly into the wind. Brown says the new head and shaft let him hit a low shot when he needs it and still flight the ball high. He reported more ball speed and spin around 3,500 to 3,600 rpm.
His winning build paired the titanium head with a Fujikura Ventus Red 8X. Our 2026 fairway wood test’s co-leader was the Quantum Max D, a different model in the same family.
The wedges held up when we added moisture
Brown’s raw Opus SP wedges cover 50, 54 and 58 degrees with three different grinds and four-degree loft gaps. His 54 has 12 degrees of listed bounce and his 58 has eight. The extra loft on the 58 comes with less bounce, giving him two different soles to work with around the green.
In our 2025 Most Wanted wedge test, the retail Opus SP scored 8.5 overall and retained 84.8 percent of its dry spin on 50-yard shots in wet conditions. That was 5,579 rpm wet versus 6,578 dry. The numbers come from the retail test head.
If you play in morning dew, that wet number gives you a better idea of how much check you might lose than the dry number alone.
The putter that closed it out
Who said blade putters are dead?
The Odyssey Ai-ONE Double Wide scored 8.7 overall in our 2024 Most Wanted blade putter test. It scored 8.0 from five feet, 8.0 from 10 feet and 7.9 from 20 feet.
He previously played a center-shafted putter and switched after working with his putting coach. He says the short line is easier for him to aim than a line on the back of the head, both from short range and on long putts.
The head keeps the outline of a heel-toe-weighted blade with more depth behind the face and Odyssey designed the Ai-ONE insert to reduce ball-speed loss on off-center strikes.
Brown had the same putter in his hands for birdie on the 18th in regulation and for the two birdies that followed in the playoff.
A note on the ball
Brown’s ball is the 2024 Chrome Tour Dot, a Tour-only ball variant that has been played by the likes of Si Woo Kim and Alex Noren.
The standard retail 2024 Chrome Tour earned an 81 in Ball Lab, seven points above the database average at the time. It measured 87 compression, the same as the 2023 Pro V1 in our lab, and one ball in the sample was flagged for a compression outlier.
In our 2025 robot test, the retail Chrome Tour paired distance with higher iron flight at mid swing speeds. Those results are for the standard retail ball. The Dot is a separate variant.
So those are the notes on Brown’s bag. Does anything stand out? Let me know below in the comments.
Top Photo Caption: Blades Brown hits an approach shot during his first Tour victory. (GETTY IMAGES)
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