After 20 years with TaylorMade and one year with Honma, Justin Rose has settled on an interesting mix. Paul Miller takes a closer look
A major champion, Olympic gold medalist, and a 13-time PGA Tour winner, there’s no doubt that Justin Rose is one of the greatest British players ever.
After ending a 20-year relationship with TaylorMade, Rose briefly signed with Honma but left after a year.
He now plays a mixed bag. When this happens it makes it all the more interesting what makes it into the bag of an elite golfer when they are not tied to a certain brand.
So, let’s take a closer look, with a few interesting changes ahead of The Masters.
Justin Rose WITB 2026
Rose had switched to Titleist’s latest GT driver range, after previously using their TSR model. But it now seems he trying something completely new – a Callaway Driver, and the older Ai Smoke model at that! This was the driver that took him to his last two victories at the FedEx St Jude Championship in August 2025 and Farmers Insurance Open in February 2026.
He also introduced a Mini Driver last year, selecting the 2025 Taylor Made R7 Quad but for the Masters the Callaway Quantum Mini was in the bag.
He then plays around with his fairway wood setup – with the sightly old TaylorMade M6 model in 15° or 17° of loft. He selects which woods to play depending on the conditions. For example at the St. Jude Championship only the 5 wood was in the bag, to go with the Mini Driver. Whereas at the Farmers Insurance Open 2026 he had the 15° M6 together with TaylorMade Qi4D 21° 7 wood.
For The Masters he has opted for the Mini driver and 7-wood.
The Englishman had returned to full set of Miura irons with the model TC-502 for 4 and 5 iron and the MC-602 for 6-PW. But for the Masters he dropped the 4 iron in favour of the Srixon ZX Mk II U.
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Justin has three wedges in play, two of which are Titleist SM10s, a 52° and 56° and has replaced the Titleist Vokey Design WedgeWorks 60° with the Cleveland RTZ Tour Rack Prototype 60° at The Masters.
He sticks with Titleist for his putter, Scotty Cameron Phantom T-5 Tour Prototype and he now plays a Titleist Pro V1x – having previously played the Titleist Pro V1 Left Dot (not available online)
In March 2025 he made a ball switch to the Titleist 2025 Pro V1x from the Pro V1x plus. Quoting on X ‘Basically the spin profile in the Titleist 2025 Pro V1x is better in my longer irons rather than the X plus.
When it comes to his apparel and shoes he wears Peter Millar apparel and Payntr golf shoes.
Paul has been playing golf for around a fourth of a Century, whilst his time on this Earth is rapidly approaching half a Century!
During that time his handicap, on average, has gone down around half a shot a year and is currently at 8.
His general love of Sport included a time studying the Philosophy and Sociology of Sport.
In 2013 he co-authored a book chapter 'The good and bad of youth sport today'.
His passion for youth sport is equally matched in his role heading up the Buyer's Guides for National Club Golfer.
He wants to inform golfers what gear is the best whilst finding all the best golf deals so you can save money.
Since joining the equipment testing team at NCG he has become a hybrid convert and is ready to tell you to ditch the long irons if you want to hit more greens this season!
Paul uses Titleist GT3 driver, Callaway Ai Smoke hybrids, a SeeMore Giant Putter and a TaylorMade Tour Response golf ball.
