Justin Rose WITB: Everything in the eclectic setup of the English great

It's increasingly feeling like, 10 years from now, we'll be talking about the career of Justin Rose as ranked up there among the all-time greats.

The 45-year-old, who prevailed at this weekend's FedEx St. Jude Championship with a playoff victory over J.J. Spaun, is displaying a level of resilience and longevity at very highest levels of the game most pros can only dream of. Now approaching 25 years playing at a tour level, he once again sits among the top four in this season's FedEx cup rankings.

Rose burst onto the scene in 1998 when he came tied for fourth as an amateur at The Open. The remarkable performance instantly made him a household name in the world of golf and shortly after he turned pro.

Despite high expectations it took Rose four years after turning pro to win his professional event. In 2002 he won both the British Masters and Dunhill Championship, marking his breakout as one of Europe's hottest young talents.

Since then, Rose has added a laundry of historic tournament wins to his name. He scored an incredible gold at the 2016 Rio Olympics and claimed his first and only major championship at the 2013 US Open.

Rose is also a former World No.1, having reached the position on a number of occasions in both 2018 and 2019. A proud European, Rose has represented Team Europe at six Ryder Cups, winning four of them.

And while his win over the weekend was his first since 2023's Pebble Beach Pro-Am, his string of performances over the past few weeks, including a top 6 finish at the Scottish Open and a tie for 16th at the Open Championship, will see him enter the business end of the FedEx Cup season as one of the Tour's most in-form names.

Uniquely for a player of his status, Rose stands among the game's most prolific equipment free agents. Formerly a member of Team TaylorMade, in 2018 he left the company to pursue an ill-fated deal with Japanese brand Honma—a partnership that would end up lasting little more than a year.

Since then, Rose has played a variety of different clubs and brands, recently settling on a mixture of clubs from the likes of Callaway, Titleist, TaylorMade, and fabled Japanese iron manufacturer Miura.

Here's everything the English legend puts into play.

Justin Rose WITB (August 2025)

Driver: Callaway Paradym Ai Smoke Triple Diamond

Rose spent much of the last couple of seasons playing varying generations of Titleist drivers, starting initially with the TSR3 before moving into this year's GT3 model. In recent months, however, he's moved on from the brand's woods altogether, finding favour for now with Callaway's low-spin Ai Smoke Triple Diamond Model.

Preferring a low launch and low spin from his longer clubs, Rose has his set up with Project X's popular HZRDUS Black 60 TX model.

Mini driver: TaylorMade R7 Quad Mini

Plenty of TaylorMade tour players have been seen testing the brand's mini drivers since their debut a couple of years back, and the line's latest iteration, the R7 Quad Mini, features in the setups of players like Angel Ayora. Designed to create more distance and a lower launch than a 3-wood without sacrificing control, the R7 has also found its way into Rose's bag for the time being.

5-wood: TaylorMade M6

The TaylorMade M6, and its predecessor the M2, remain among the most popular metalwoods ever to grace the tour, and indeed Rose loves his M6 so much one of them still remains in his bag. The Englishman previously played two M6 fairway woods, before swapping his three wood for the aforementioned mini driver this season. However his trusty M6 5-wood still remains his go-to when he needs a dependable option on tight fairways.

Irons: Titleist 620 CB, Miura MC-502

Owning one of the more enviable iron collections we've ever seen on tour, Rose games a clean combination of one of Titleist's most successful recent blade irons and a selection of clubs from legendary Japanese iron manufacturer Miura.

Wanting a little more forgiveness and launch from his longer irons, Rose favours the 2019-released 620 CB cavity back model. Miura's MC-502 model, meanwhile, features a muscle-back cavity and a clean, modern bladed profile for the workability and feel that a player like Rose demands. The reputation of Miura irons as perhaps the most desirable on the planet precedes them, with the brand having long been rumoured to have made Tiger Woods's irons during his heyday.

They don't come cheap though: a full set will set you back just shy of £2,500.

Wedges: Titleist Vokey Design

Titleist's Vokey wedges range is by far the most popular on tour, and Rose is one of many to have slotted a trio of wedges from the brand's most recent SM10 range into his bag. 52 and 56-degree profiles, the former World No. 1 has his geared with F and M-grinds respectively: both engineered for versatility on fuller pitch shots and around the greens.

Like plenty of other tour players, Rose's 60-degree lob wedge comes from the Vokey' WedgeWorks line, custom-designed in Bob Vokey's workshop to fit his exact swing and aesthetic preferences. Set in a low-bounce K-grind for maximum workability and forgiveness around the greens, this is the fourth time in four weeks a WedgeWorks K-grind lob wedge has been in the bag of the winner on tour.

Putter: Scotty Cameron Phantom 5 Tour Prototype

Rose is one of many equipment free agents to have gravitated towards Titleist's legendary Scotty Cameron putter range, having played the brand's putters for some time now..

Favouring a mallet-style putter, Young uses the Phantom 5 shape in a Tour Prototype finish. A slightly smaller-profile mallet, the Phantom 5 is made from a 303 stainless steel and 6061 aircraft grade aluminium for an incredibly soft feel on the ball, while the head and neck are engineered to minimise the putter's swing arc as much as possible.

Ball: Titleist Pro V1x

With much of his bag geared towards maximising launch and minimising spin, Rose games Titleist's Pro V1x—a ball engineered for distance above all else. Ultra-low spinning off the tee, the Pro V1x flies slightly higher than the Pro V1, and also boasts a firmer feel that many tour players prefer for its enhanced feedback around the greens.