Driving for Dough! The Most Played Drivers on the PGA Tour (2024)

The driver is almost always the most talked about golf club in everyone’s bag.

Average golfers often watch with wonder as the best players on the PGA Tour smash the ball over 300 yards, and sometimes over 400 yards, down the middle of the fairway.

So as part of our ongoing yearly series looking at the most used clubs on the PGA Tour we at Golfing Focus wanted to take another in-depth look to uncover what drivers they use to achieve these huge distances.

PING’s G430 LST is the most played driver among the top 100 PGA Tour pros with 19% playing it including Tony Finau, Jason Day and 2025 Ryder Cup Captain Keegan Bradley. Titleist drivers are however the most used brand of driver among this select group with 42% using them.

The GT2 model, the choice of Wyndham Clark, Justin Thomas and Brian Harman among others, is Titleist’s most used driver model alongside the TSR3. Both these drivers are the second most played overall by 11% each of the top 100.

Titleist’s GT3 driver then ranks as the 3rd played driver by 9% of the top 100 including Billy Horschel and Max Homa.

The make and model of the most used drivers on the PGA Tour only tell us so much though.

When we looked at the drivers being used by this elite group it was also fascinating to see the variance in lofts and the multitude of different driver shafts being used.

It was also interesting to note what drivers the ‘free agents’ – in other words the PGA pros with the flexibility to use whatever driver they want – are using compared to those with endorsement deals!

Most Played Drivers on The PGA Tour – Top 100 Breakdown

The amount of equipment available to PGA Tour players is clearly on a different scale to anything that mere mortal amateurs can aspire to.

If a Tour pro wants to test a new driver, driver shaft or set up it’s immediately made available to them. And they can swap out drivers as often as they want from tournament to tournament or even practice session to practice session.

It’s no surprise therefore that we discovered 30 different models of driver being used by the top 100 pros on the PGA Tour but the big brands of Titleist, PING, TaylorMade and Callaway very much dominate accounting for 90% out of the 100 drivers in play.

Titleist’s dominance among the big manufacturers is clear to see however as it cements its place as the most used brand of driver on the PGA Tour.

Golfing Focus has done this in-depth study three times now and over the last three years we have noted Titleist’s share of the driver market among the best pros on the PGA Tour continue to grow.

In 2024 we found 42% of the drivers used by the top 100 pros on the PGA Tour to be Titleist models. PING drivers are the next most used chosen by 22% with Callaway next on 16%. Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy’s driver brand of choice, TaylorMade is used by 9% with Srixon drivers only being put in play by 4 players.

Cobra, Mizuno and PXG drivers then make up the remainder of the eight driver brands represented.

Based on our equally detailed previous studies this means overall an increasing number of the top 100 PGA Tour pros now use Titleist drivers – 42% in 2024 vs. 33% in 2023 vs. 27% in 2021 – therefore further reducing the market share of the other big brands among this elite group.

You will note at this point though that we have not automatically then concluded that Titleist produces the most ‘popular’ drivers on the PGA Tour.

The topic of sponsorship must come into consideration when it comes to pro golfers’ choices as many are paid to play a particular brand of driver.

When we looked at the 15 pros listed as equipment ‘free agents’, and who therefore have the flexibility to use whatever drivers they like, we did find a similar pattern of driver preference. And to an even greater extent.

Titleist driver models are used by 9 out of the 15 (60%) free agents with Titleist’s TSR3 the most used model picked by 5 of them. PING drivers are then used by 5 of these players with the G430 LST again being the most individual PING driver model chosen by 4.

The real outlier among this small subset of pros however is 2024 Wyndham Championship winner Aaron Rai who continues to use his trusty TaylorMade M6 driver which was first produced back in 2019.

So although we must recognise that this is a small sample size of only 15 pros it does appear that the choices of the PGA Tour’s equipment ‘free agents’ do not materially differ from their sponsored colleagues.

[Editor’s note – Can we only really take lessons from the choices of the ‘free agents’ when it comes to equipment choices or is there something to be learned from all the pros? Let us know your thoughts in the comments at the end of this post!]

It is also noticeable that not all the players are in a rush to move immediately to the latest model of their preferred brand of driver and either, like Rai, continue to play with older driver models or carry both the older and newer models around on tour with them.

Akshay Bhatia for example has both Callaway’s latest Paradym Ai Smoke Max D and his old Callaway Rogue ST Max LS in his bag with both set to the same lofts and fitted with the same Ventus Black 7 X shaft.

Others including Tommy Fleetwood, Harry Hall and Adam Scott have been adding ‘mini drivers’ to their setups and we cover this small trend in more detail when we explore the fairway woods the PGA Tour pros use.

But what also becomes apparent when you look in detail at the drivers used by the best PGA Tour pros is the huge number of different setups that exist. Each driver is clearly custom fitted to a very exact extent for each player.

For example even though 19% out of the top 100 use a PING G430 LST driver you can bet your last dollar when you look closely that there will be a unique set up for each player whether that be achieved through an adjustment to the loft, set up or shaft.

So to give the full picture of the drivers being used on Tour let’s now move on to the different lofts and driver shafts the PGA Tour pros use in the varying models of driver they play.

DRIVER BRAND	%. OF TOP 100 PGA PROS (Equipment free agents in italics)	MOST USED DRIVER MODEL
Titleist	42% (including Wyndham Clark, Patrick Cantlay, Justin Thomas, Matt Fitzpatrick, Max Homa, Justin Rose, Jordan Speith, Ludvig Åberg, Brian Harman, Cameron Young, Max Homa, Billy Horschel, Will Zalatoris, Ben Kohles, Robert MacIntyre, Adam Scott, Cam Davis, Davis Thompson, Tom Kim, Denny McCarthy, Patrick Rodgers)	GT2 Titleist TSR3 View at PGA Tour Superstore
PING	22% (inc. Viktor Hovland, Adam Schenk, Keegan Bradley, Tony Finau, Corey Conners, Sahith Theegala, Jason Day, Taylor Moore, Harris English, Stephan Jaeger, Andrew Putnam, Brendon Todd, Mackenzie Hughes, Mark Hubbard, Sam Stevens, Taylor Pendrith)	PING G430 LST Check eBay View at PGA Tour Superstore
Callaway	16% (inc. Xander Schauffele, Sam Burns, Si Woo Kim, Emiliano Grillo, Chris Kirk, Adam Hadwin, J.J.Spaun, Alex Noren, Adam Svensson, Thomas Detry)	Paradym Ai Smoke Triple Diamond Check eBay
TaylorMade	9% (inc. Rory McIlroy, Tommy Fleetwood, Collin Morikawa, Scottie Scheffler, Sepp Straka, Aaron Rai)	Qi10
Srixon	4% (inc. Lucas Glover, Hideki Matsuyama, Shane Lowry)	ZX5 Mk II View at PGA Tour Superstore
Cobra	3% (inc. Rickie Fowler)	Darkspeed X
Mizuno	3% (inc. Ben Griffin, Keith Mitchell)	ST-X 230
PXG	1% (Eric Cole)	0311 Black Ops Tour-1

What Loft Driver Do PGA Pros Use? It Starts With a 9 Most of the Time

Once upon a time a driver used to come with one loft option and players were stuck with it.

Modern golf technology has moved on hugely since then and the loft options available to golfers now, especially at the elite PGA Tour level, are incredible.

The Titleist SureFit Hosel system, for example, features a sleeve and ring setup each with 4 settings. As a result, it enables 16 unique loft and lie angle combinations with a precision of up to 0.75 degrees between different options.

The players on the PGA Tour are among the best in the business and when it comes to the degree of driver they use it seems clear that the exactness with which they approach it and their overall driver set-up is part of the reason they are so successful.

9 degrees is the most used driver loft among the top 100 PGA Tour pros with 39% setting up with it, including Max Homa, Wyndham Clark and Justin Rose. 12% of this group play a 10º lofted driver while the next most played degree of driver, chosen by 10%, is 10.5º. Rickie Fowler’s preferred driver loft of 7º is the lowest in the top 100 with 11º the highest.

It is common also for the top pros to change the loft of their driver occasionally depending on what the course they are playing demands but below is the current breakdown of the 17 different driver lofts played by the top 100 PGA Tour pros.

DRIVER LOFT	% OF TOP 100 PGA TOUR PROS	SELECTED GOLFERS
9 degrees	39%	Wyndham Clark, Patrick Cantlay, Collin Morikawa, Max Homa, Matt Fitzpatrick, Justin Rose, Ludvig Åberg
10 degrees	12%	Sam Burns, Jason Day, Nick Taylor, Denny McCarthy, Adam Scott, Robert MacIntyre
10.5 degrees	10%	Keegan Bradley, Adam Schenk, Sepp Straka, Harris English, Adam Hadwin
9.5 degrees	9%	Hideki Matsuyama, Corey Conners, Adam Svensson, Lucas Glover
8 degrees	7%	Sungjae Im, Billy Horschel, Will Zalatoris
8.5 degrees	5%	Tommy Fleetwood, Mackenzie Hughes, Shane Lowry
7 degrees	3%	Rickie Fowler, Alex Noren, Akshay Bhatia
9.75 degrees	3%	Seamus Power, Dylan Wu
11 degrees	3%	Camilo Villegas, Beau Hossler
8.25 degrees	2%	Scottie Scheffler, Rory McIlroy
9.25 degrees	2%	Jordan Speith
7.25º 7.75º 8.4º 10.1º 10.25º 10.7º	1% each	Tony Finau (7.75º) Viktor Hovland (8.4º) Xander Schauffele (10.1º)

The Most Played Driver Shaft on the PGA Tour? Don’t Forget The Weight!

PGA Tour pros are very precise with the setup of their drivers and nowhere is that more evident than when it comes to the shafts they choose to use with the longest club in their bag. (Assuming of course they’re not carrying a longer broom handle putter!)

Each time Golfing Focus has carried out its’ analysis of the driver shafts used by the top 100 players on the PGA Tour we have found over 70 different models being fitted.

And Fujikura’s Ventus Black 6X remains the most used driver shaft among the top 100 PGA Tour pros with 7% playing it, including Rory McIlroy. The Ventus TR Blue 6X is the next most popular driver shaft chosen by 6 players.

Scottie Scheffler’s choice, Fujikura’s Ventus Black 7X driver shaft, is the third most common with 5% choosing it and overall the Ventus ‘family’ of driver shafts account for 34% of the driver shafts used by this select group.

While this data points to Fujikura shafts being the most used driver shaft brand with 38% of the top 100 PGA Tour pros using one Mitsubishi driver shafts still account for 1 in 4 of the driver shafts used by the top PGA pros.

The difference when it comes to Mitsubishi is that there is no one dominant individual shaft model among those chosen by the top 100 although their Diamana and Tensei driver shaft ranges account for 14% and 10% respectively of all the driver shafts used by these elite golfers.

True Temper’s Project X HZRDUS Gen 4 Black 60 TX is the fourth most used driver shaft among the top 100 and 18% of those PGA Tour pros use a True Temper driver shaft. Graphite Design driver shafts are then played by 10%

That almost every one of the top 100 pros is using a driver shaft that is unique to them however shows how much care the best players in the world take when it comes to making their choice and that attention to detail is again clearly evident when it comes to the driver shaft weights they opt for.

The most popular driver shaft weight used by the top 100 PGA Tour pros is 65g with 22% of players selecting it, including Rory McIlroy arguably the best driver of the ball on the PGA Tour over the last decade or more.

68g is the next most common driver shaft weight used by 8% and over half of this elite group use driver shafts between 60g and 69g.

39%, including Scottie Scheffler and Xander Schauffele, then opt for heavier driver shafts of between 70g to 79g while 5% use driver shafts over 80g. 2023 British Open Champion Brian Harman uses the lightest driver shaft at 56g with Luke List choosing the heaviest at 88g.

Interestingly while our analysis of the most popular shafts on the PGA Tour across all their clubs shows that True Temper is the preferred shaft choice amongst the irons used by the top 100 this is not the case with driver shafts.

Once again, as they did the last two times we carried out this detailed analysis, Fujikura models continue to be the most popular driver shafts among the top 100 PGA Tour pros and their dominance only seems to be increasing going from a 28% share in 2021, to 34% in 2023 and now to 38%.

BRAND OF DRIVER SHAFT	% OF TOP 100 PGA TOUR PROS USING BRAND (Equipment free agents in italics)	BRAND’S MOST USED SHAFT
Fujikura	38% (including Ludvig Åberg, Keegan Bradley, Jordan Speith, Rory McIlroy, Tommy Fleetwood, Scottie Scheffler, Brendon Todd, Si Woo Kim, Harris English, Mark Hubbard, Akshay Bhatia, Adam Schenk, Denny McCarthy, Billy Horschel, Patrick Rodgers, Max Homa, Will Zalatoris, Sam Burns, Viktor Hovland, Ben Kohles)	Ventus Black 6X Check eBay
Mitsubishi	25% (inc. Cameron Young, Collin Morikawa, Adam Scott, Justin Thomas, Luke List, Matt Fitzpatrick, Patrick Cantlay, Shane Lowry, Xander Schauffele, Tony Finau, Davis Thompson, J.T.Potson, Mackenzie Hughes, Adam Hadwin)	Diamana D+ Limited Edition TX Check eBay Diamana DF TX
True Temper	18% (inc. Wyndham Clark, Stephan Jaeger, Sahith Theegala, Rickie Fowler, Justin Rose, Eric Cole, Camilo Villegas, Emiliano Grillo)	Project X HZRDUS Gen 4 Black 60 TX Check eBay
Graphite Design	9% (inc. Brian Harman, Hideki Matsuyama, Robert MacIntyre, Sungjae Im, Michael Kim)	Tour AD DI X Check eBay
UST Mamiya	4% (inc. Corey Conners, Ben Griffin)	LIN-Q M40X White 6F5
Accra	2% (inc. Taylor Pendrith)	TZ6 ST 60 M5 Check eBay
Aldila	2% (inc. Aaron Rai)	Rogue White 130 M.S.I. 60 TX Check eBay
TPT	1% (Jason Day)	Nitro 15 Lo
LA Golf	1% (Greyson Sigg)	Ozik MFS White Tie 60M X

Before you go ….

With driver swingspeeds of 116mph on average on the PGA Tour the driver choices of the top 100 may not feel that relevant to some regular amateurs who have an average driver swingspeed of a much lower 93.4mph.

So check out our similarly detailed in-depth looks at the drivers the best pros on the Champions Tour and LPGA Tour are using with average swingspeeds of 106mph and 96mph respectively according to Trackman.

What Drives the Senior Tour Pros? Most Popular Driver on Champions Tour

Driving Success – The Most Popular Driver On LPGA Tour

Or if you’re more interested in how much the the equipment the best players in the world use explains the huge distances they hit the ball both off the tee read our next article to find out the key reasons why the pros hit the ball as far as they do, including how much of a role their clubs play, and how you can potentially add 20 to 30 yards to your drives!

How Do Pros Hit the Ball So Far?

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