The two big equipment switches that helped Bud Cauley claim victory in Canada
The Titleist ambassador claimed his long-awaited maiden victory with the help of some new additions to his bag.
While the Canadian Open is generally a quiet tournament in terms of big equipment moves (most brands didn't even have a tour truck on site at RBC Toronto), Titleist's roster of staff players have been making big moves in an effort to find form before the final two majors of the season.
Eventual Canadian Open winner Bud Cauley was chief among them. The 36-year-old American completed a fairytale comeback story on Sunday, claiming his first win on tour after 239 starts and a car crash that led to his near- four year absence from the professional game.
A long-term Titleist ambassador, Cauley provided a further boon for a brand that has already seen incredible success on tour this year.
And to the manufacturer's doubtless delight, the American's win came just as he put two of its biggest recent releases in the bag.
The headline achievement falls to that of the new GTS metalwood range, which in addition to receiving critical acclaim is slowly starting to rack up wins on professional tours across the globe.
Cauley's win, in which he used a GTS2 driver, is the second win in a row for a GTS driver on the PGA Tour – J.T. Poston having claimed the Memorial last week with a GTS3 driver in the bag. Cauley also used a new GTS3 fairway wood.
65 players on Tour now use a GTS driver of some description, with dozens of others also still gaming Titleist drivers from previous generations.
As pointed out by Golf.com equipment insider Jack Hirsh, Cauley is also part of a growing set of players to have switched into Scotty Cameron's new range of centre-shafted GoLo putters.
Designed for low-torque stability and forgiveness, centre-shafted putters are nothing new on tour, but have grown in popularity over the last 18 months or so.
Since brands like L.A.B golf popularised the zero torque movement, even legacy putter brands have taken to introducing centre-shafted putters for professional and public use, Scotty Cameron dropping its debut low-torque line-up, the Onset Centre range, earlier this year.
Gary Woodland and Rickie Fowler are two big names to have made the same move in recent months, while Cauley put a new Scotty Cameron GoLo 7 S1 Tour Prototype in the bag at last month's Truist Championship.
The rest of Cauley's bag was also made up of Titleist products. In addition to the GTS woods, Cauley plays a blended iron set with T250 and 620 MB irons, a U-505 driving iron, Vokey SM11 wedges and a Pro V1x golf ball.
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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 Georgina. Primarily a writer, you may see him pop up in videos or on the GolfMagic socials from time to time.
