Kurt Kitayama WITB: Everything in the set of the 2025 3M Open champ
Kurt Kitayama WITB: Check out what clubs the two-time PGA Tour winner uses.
It's been more than two years between dances for Kurt Kitayama, but at long last, the California native is finally back in the winner's circle on the PGA Tour.
Kitayama clinched this weekend's 3M Open in dominant fashion, finding form at just the right time to surge ahead of the field with a record-setting pair of weekend rounds.
The American shot 60 and 65 respectively at TPC Twin Cities to close his account at 23-under and beat out a high-scoring field. Runner-up Samuel Stevens came in just one stroke behind.
Contracted as a Bridgestone team member, Kitayama is one of the growing contingent of players who have come to endorse the Japanese company's balls in recent years.
Formerly a TaylorMade staff player but now equipment free agent outside of his ball, the new world number 39 games a combination of Titleist and TaylorMade clubs, with his trusty Scotty Cameron rounding out the set for good measure.
One of the PGA Tour's most consistent all-rounders, Kitayama ranks in the tour's top 40 players in strokes gained from tee-to-green, and among the top 10 when it comes to his approach play.
Here's everything he uses to dial in that accuracy.
Kurt Kitayama WITB
| Age | 32 |
| Turned pro | 2015 |
| Major wins | 0 |
| PGA Tour wins | 2 |
Titleist GT3 (11 degrees; Graphite Design Tour AD VF 7 TX) | |
Titleist GT1 3-wood (14.5 degrees; Graphite Design Tour AD DI 8 TX), Titleist GT1 7-wood (21 degrees; Graphite Design Tour AD DI 8 TX) | |
TaylorMade P7CB, TaylorMade P7MB (5-PW; True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100) | |
Titleist Vokey SM10 (52-12F, 56-14F), Titleist Vokey Design WedgeWorks 60-K | |
Scotty Cameron Studio Style Newport 2 Tour Prototype | |
Bridgestone Tour B X Mindset | |
PUMA Ignite Elevate 2 Tour |
Driver: Titleist GT3
Titleist's GT3 is by far the brand's most popular driver model on tour—high-level players overwhelmingly favouring it for its perfectly balanced combination of low spin, workability and forgiveness. A devotee of Graphite Designs' cult Tour AD line, Kitayama games his with a Tour AD VF, reinforced with carbon fibre for added stiffness, a low-to-medium launch and ultra low spin off the tee.
Woods: Titleist GT1
Interestingly, Kitayama opts for Titleist's most forgiving model, the game improvement-oriented GT1, in his fairway woods, putting into play both a 3-wood and, as is becoming increasingly popular on tour, a 7 wood from the larger-profiled, easy launching model.
To maintain forgiveness while keeping his spin rates from getting out of control, Kitayama plays Tour AD DI shafts in both, which work to promote a higher launch while maintaining low spin in a range of different scenarios.
Irons: TaylorMade P7
One thing left over from Kitayama's time on Team TaylorMade is his choice of irons, with the UNLV alum still putting in to play the P7 irons he used during his time on staff alongside the likes of Rory, Scottie and Tiger.
Like many tour players, Kitayama has opted to slot a cavity-backed P7CB 4-iron into his bag for added ease of launch and forgiveness, while playing the brand's more workable P7MB muscle-back irons from a 5-iron down to a pitching wedge.
Wedges: Titleist Vokey
Having switched from using TaylorMade's wedges to the Titleist Vokey line at the start of the season, Kitayama games a trio of Vokeys, starting with two from the most recent SM10 range. Lofted at 52 and 56-degree profiles, the American has opted to gear both with the brand's F-grind: an all-purpose grind designed to facilitate fuller, crisper wedge shots.
Like plenty of other tour players, Kitayama's 60-degree lob wedge comes from the Vokey Design range's WedgeWorks line, custom-designed in Bob Vokey's workshop to fit Kitayama's exact swing and aesthetic preferences.
Putter: Scotty Cameron Newport 2
Arguably the most successful Scotty Cameron model to arrive this generation, the Newport 2 remains an enduring favourite on tour, with different finishes of the model gamed by the looks of Brooks Koepka, Rickie Fowler and Thorbjorn Olesson. Kitayama's is finished in the company's clean studio style spec, with a Studio Carbon Steel (SCS) face insert, chain-link face milling technology and customisable tungsten sole weights.
Golf Ball: Bridgestone Tour BX Mindset
Kitayama left TaylorMade's staff team in January, signing a contract to join Team Bridgestone shortly after. And while like lots of the Japanese brand's team he hasn't switched to using the brand's clubs, he's a passionate devotee of its balls.
More precisely, Kitayama games the Tour B X—a model designed to generate tour-level performance for those with elite-level clubhead speeds. One of the brand's two softest, spinniest tour models, it's one of the chief reasons Kitayama is a certified ace around the green, currently ranked 3rd on tour for approaches under 100 yards.
Kitayama is also one of the many Bridgestone players to have taken to the brand's Mindset alignment aid: one designed to clear the mind and aid the visualisation of a shot before the swing.
Brad Nash is Reviews Editor at GolfMagic, having joined the team in June 2025 to look after all things reviews, soft goods testing and equipment alongside Equipment Editor Tom. Primarily a writer, you may see him pop up in videos or on the GolfMagic socials from time to time.
