Justin Rose WITB April 2026: Inside the bag of the McLaren Golf signee

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 most recently at the Farmers Insurance Open with a dominant victory, is displaying a level of resilience and longevity at very highest levels of the game most pros can only dream of.

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 seven Ryder Cups, winning five of them.

Uniquely for a player of his status, Rose long among golf's most prolific equipment free agents. Formerly a member of Team TaylorMade, in 2018 he left the company to sign 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. In April, however, he raised eyebrows by becoming the first major signee and major investor into car company McLaren's much-anticipated golf project, going so far as to swap out his long-trusted Miura irons with a fresh set of McLaren Golf prototypes.

Here's everything the English legend puts into play as of his latest major equipment move.

Justin Rose WITB

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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 at 9 degrees of loft with Mitsubishi's popular Diamana WB 63 TX shaft.

Mini driver: Callaway Quantum Mini

Plenty of tour players have been seen testing mini drivers since their reintroduction on tour a couple of years back, and the Callaway's latest iteration, the Quantum, has already found a number of fans with Min Woo Lee also putting it into play. Designed to create more distance and a lower launch than a 3-wood while providing more forgiveness, the Quantum Mini has also found its way into Rose's bag for the time being.

7-wood: TaylorMade Qi4D

Rose had a long love affair with TaylorMade's older model M6 Fairway woods, however that came to an end at the start of the season when he moved on from the model and into TaylorMade's new Qi4D. Moving on from the standard 3-wood-5-wood setup he'd long played, the aforementioned mini driver has supplanted his 3-wood while he now has his Qi4D in a 7-wood spec for higher launch and more control when approaching the greens from distance.

Irons: McLaren Series 1

As of the time of writing, the exact make-up of Rose's new McLaren irons set is yet to be fully confirmed. Already, he's indicated that he'll lean heavily on the bladed Series 1 model, and will likely play a combo set incorporating the more forgiving Series 3 cavity back model towards the longer end of the bag.

"I’m just refining that last end of the bag," Rose said in the lead-up to the Cadillac Championship, "like do I put a 5-iron with the blade or the 3s in. So I’m making those final little decisions.”

“Obviously, there’s going to be a refinement process,” he continued. “You can test all you want, you got to get the clubs in play, and there’s going to be little mini situations out there, different lies, all sorts of things, just getting comfortable. But in the long-term, no, I don’t see there being an issue at all.”

McLaren's irons are unique not just for their looks and branding, but how they're made. They're the first high-end irons to be made with metal injection moulding, hiding within a hidden weight system and structural mesh for added stability, forgiveness and feel.

They don't come cheap though: a full set will set you back just over of £2,600.

Wedges: Titleist Vokey, Cleveland RTZ

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.

Rose's 60-degree lob wedge, however comes from the Cleveland RTZ line, custom designed by the company to fit his exact swing and aesthetic preferences. Most notably, it has three large holes bored into the back to save weight.

“It is basically from the mould of the 588 Wide Sole from back in the day, but just current material and legal grooves,” Robert Waters, Tour manager for Srixon/Cleveland Golf, told the website.

Rose's reasoning for adopting a wider, higher-bounce profile was to improve versatility in the unique bunkers and tight lies at Augusta in the lead-up to The Masters, however he's kept the Cleveland in the bag for now.

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. Low spinning off the tee with enhanced control around the greens, the Pro V1x flies higher than the Pro V1, and also boasts a firmer feel that many tour players prefer for its enhanced feedback around the greens.