2nd Swing Thoughts19 Feb 2025

How a 2x PGA Tour Winner Chooses His Clubs | 2nd Swing Thoughts E.77

Erik van Rooyen is a Two-Time PGA Tour Winner, with his last win coming at the 2023 World Wide Technology Championship. His other PGA Tour victory came at the 2021 Barracuda Championship. The South Africa native has also racked up 3 other wins internationally in his professional career, capturing both the Eye of Africa PGA Championship and Hainan Open in 2017 and winning the Scandinavian Invitation in 2019. Before playing professionally, van Rooyen was a standout golfer at the University of Minnesota.

00:00 Introduction

01:56 The Turn

03:30 Ludvig Aberg WITB

05:56 Equipment Changes at Genesis Invitational

14:37 Erik van Rooyen

Two-Time PGA Tour Winner Erik van Rooyen joins the 2nd Swing Thoughts Podcast for a deep dive into his equipment decisions. Van Rooyen goes into detail into how he chooses which clubs to play for specific tournaments, his process of deciding whether or not to make an equipment change when new clubs are released, and shares some advice for amateur golfers when it comes to making their own equipment decisions.

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