Aldrich Potgieter WITB: Everything in the golf bag of the 2025 Rocket Classic winner

If the wider golf world wasn't on notice about the talents of Aldrich Potgieter coming into this weekend's Rocket Classic, it is now.

The 20-year-old secured his first win on the PGA tour in spectacular fashion on Sunday, winning a five-hole playoff over Max Greyserman with a 15-foot birdie putt to become the youngest South African ever to win on tour.

In doing so, Potgieter also becomes the fifth International-born player under the age of 21 to win on the PGA Tour, joining illustrious company such as Seve Ballesteros, Rory McIlroy, Joaquin Niemann and Tom Kim.

But while Potgieter's achievements at such a young age are impressive enough, it was the hard-swinging way in which he rose to the top of the leaderboard that caught attention. Put simply, he crushed everything he hit, cementing himself as one of the PGA Tour's distance kings.

Potgieter produced some mind-blowing stats over the course of the weekend, racking up ball speeds approaching 200mph on a regular basis and hitting some otherwise insane shots.

Over the course of the year Potgieter has emerged has one of the Tour's most prolific scorers with the long clubs. Ranked 123rd in the world going into the weekend, he's placed fourth overall in strokes gained overall and ranks number one in average driving distance.

A Titleist ambassador, Potgieter takes to the course with a full arsenal of the American brand's clubs, each engineered to make the most out of the young gun's incredible power. 

Even more impressively, his first win came the weekend after reworking his irons completely, making a number of tweaks which seem to have helped dial in his mid and short-game accuracy to incredible effect.

Read on as we explore everything gamed right now by one of the hottest prospects in the sport.

Aldrich Potgieter WITB

Driver: Titleist GT2

The PGA tour's most prolific driver of the ball opts, interestingly, a slightly more forgiving model in the Titleist GT2. 

While the majority of tour pros currently game the slightly faster, lower-spinning GT3, Potgieter is one of the 8 who have opted to stick with the GT2, alongside the likes of Adam Scott, Justin Thomas and Ludvig Aberg.

To help keep spin to a minimum and maximise distance on those booming drives, Potgieter games a Fujikura Ventus Black 8 X shaft — not one for the feint of heart.

Irons: Titleist T250, Titleist T150, Titleist T100

After spending the 2025 season so far gaming a combination of past and present iron models, Potgieter this week made a significant change to his iron selection, switching to Titleist's more current T100 and T150 models as well as an updated Titleist T250 utility iron for control off the tee.

Like many pros on tour, including last week's winner Keegan Bradley, Potgieter uses Titleist's slightly more forgiving, easy-launching T150 model to produce more consistent shots with his long irons, while favouring the T100 on the shorter side for their workability on approach shots. 

Already, the South African has shown he can use his irons to incredible effect off the tee.

Wedges: Titleist Vokey SM10

Potgieter is just one of many pros on tour loyal to Titleist's Vokey range, employing the range even in lieu of even his pitching wedge. 

He games the standard Vokey SM10 range from the 46-degree mark upwards, employing the company's premium low-bounce Wedgeworks 6K for maximum spin with his 60-degree lob wedge.

Putter: Scotty Cameron 009M Tour Prototype

Potgieter favours a no-nonsense approach and a traditional look and feel with the short stick. Naturally, he's thus employed one of Scotty Cameron's most traditional putter silhouettes as his choice on the dance floor, opting for the bladed 009M Tour Prototype: a shape based on the ever-popular Newport model.

While Potgieter has not, up until now, traditionally been one of the tour's better approach players, he's largely proven able to make up for it with the Scotty in hand. He ranked among the top 30 players on tour for total putting and strokes gained on the green.

Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1x+

As his stats suggest, Potgieter is the style of player who prefers to conquer the course first and foremost with raw distance. As such, it only checks out that he prefers the tour's number one high-launch tour ball: the Pro V1x. 

A three-piece construction that's proven among the most popular pro choices in the industry for decades, the Pro V1x was in our top 2 longest, lowest-spinning golf balls with the driver in our 2025 Golf Ball test.

Potgieter, however, plays a tour-only ball known as the Titleist Pro V1x+: a higher-spinning variant only available to pros through the brand's Custom Performance Department options (CPO).