The oldest golf clubs still being used on the PGA Tour

There are plenty of golf clubs that have attained a legendary standing among tour pros, whispered about quietly in clubhouse hallways well out of earshot of equipment sponsors.

Only a few, however, remain in play on tour to this day – years or even decades after they first hit the market.

As such, with new equipment releasing just about every day laden with promises about how new clubs are essential for the modern-day player, we thought we'd honour the oldest clubs still kicking it in the hands of the world's very best players – and in doing so proving that a golfer's ability comes down to so much more than just how new their clubs are.

And of course, it's only right that we start with the oldest, and possibly most valuable, club in professional golf right now.

Tiger Woods' Scotty Cameron Newport 2 GSS Putter

The most exalted club on tour and quite possibly one of the most valuable pieces of golfing memorabilia in the world, Tiger's trusted Scotty Cameron, unofficially nicknamed the 'Elder Wand', has been a faithful companion to the Big Cat since 1999, stroking home the final putt for 14 of his 15 major championship victories.

Woods has only once changed out of the Scotty in the last 25 years, switching briefly into TaylorMade's TP Ardmore 3 for the 2018 Quicken Loans National before picking his Scotty back up again. Outside of that, aside from briefly switching out his putter's custom Ping PP58 pistol grip and then promptly putting it back on, his putting set-up has never changed. And bar an absolutely shocking change of heart, doesn't look likely to for the rest of his career.

Brian Campbell's PING Redwood Anser 2 Putter

Release date: 2006 (We think?)

PING putter players tend to keep them in the bag for years, but Campbell's trusty Anser 2 putter has been in his bag for generations.

Concrete information on the Redwood putter range is a little bit tricky to find given it was released closer to the days of AOL than it was social media, but we believe the Redwood range was released in 2006 – nine full years before Campbell turned pro. Indeed, the California native would have been 13 at the time of the putter's release, which indicates to us that it's probably been in the bag since his youth.

Campbell remains as dialled in with his much-loved putter as he ever has, however, using it to win both this year's Mexico Open and John Deere Classic.

Matt Fitzpatrick's PING S55 Irons

Release date: 2013

Despite having experimented in recent years, Matt Fitzpatrick just can't let his trusty PING irons go.

The S55 irons, which the Englishman and equipment free agent has played since 2015, remain in his bag a decade on from his sophomore year as a pro, even after brief stints playing both PING's newer Blueprint S and Titleist's T100 models.

Robert Macintyre's TaylorMade Aeroburner

Release date: 2015

It's almost unthinkable that a club produced back in 2015 would see the heat of Ryder Cup play in 2025, but here we are.

Scotland and Team Europe's Robert MacIntyre has been on a fantastic run of form in the last couple of years, capturing last year's Genesis Scottish Open, knocking on the door of victory at two majors and returning to the Champion's Lounge once again at this year's Alfred Dunhill links.

Throughout it all he's leant on his trusty Aeroburner 3-wood, and indeed MacIntyre's WITB is full of older models. He still games a TSR2 driver from 2022, Titleist 620CB irons and a TaylorMade Stealth 2 hybrid. Basically, his wedges (Vokey SM10) and putter (Odyssey Ai-ONE) are the only new clubs he has in the bag

Brooks Koepka and Tony Finau's Nike Vapor Fly Pro Iron

Release date: 2016

Beloved for their futuristic looks and performance in the bags of some of the Swoosh's most legendary players (Tiger and Rory among them), basically every high-end Nike club is in its own way a bit of a cult classic. Just one, however, is still getting love at the tour level: the Vapor Fly Pro driving iron released back in 2016. Both Brooks Koepka and Tony Finau have had the Vapor Fly in the bag ever since.

Koepka in particular has spoken in length about his love of the iron, confirming in September that he had switched into a fresh head – his second last – after one failed in the lead-up to this year's Open. 

Finau has also confirmed that he's rationing his remaining Vapor Fly Pro iron heads, telling Golf Digest that the club won't be leaving his bag "anytime soon".

Jason Day's TaylorMade Itsy Bitsy Spider Putter

Release date: 2016

TaylorMade's Spider putter is now about as ubiquitous on tour as any other, routinely trusted by both the brand's staffers and equipment agnostics alike. But while the Spider model has come a long way since the days of the Itsy Bitsy Spider's release, the OG still has one enduring fan in Jason Day, who continues to play the distinctive red model almost a decade after its release. 

Day is no stranger to an equipment switch, having routinely added new models to his bag over the years and recently switched into Avoda's 3D-Printed bulge face irons. However his version of the Itsy Bitsy Spider was custom-made specifically for him, remains in his bag for the time being.

Brooks Koepka's TaylorMade M2 Fairway Wood

Release date: 2017

In another win for older models, Koepka, who himself has said is 'not a tinkerer' when it comes to his clubs, also still plays a TaylorMade M2 Tour HL 3-wood. The M2 is, of course, a truly legendary model in the TaylorMade stable, with TaylorMade staffers past and present declaring it among their favourite ever models.