Our first ever guest: Alex Dudley-Bateman, Titleist's tour fitter here in Australia.

How a tour fitting actually runs, why the whole bag has to move together, the GTS 300 miniand who it's genuinely for, and where fitting is heading as AI creeps into the process. Alextakes us through his road into the tour department, the fitting that still stands out fromhis first week on the job, and the conversation he reckons every golfer should have beforebooking a fitting.

Also in this one: Alex's what's in the bag, news and notes, MK's first ever hole-in-onea hybrid from 177 yards into the wind — and Dialled In or Out of Bounds to finish.

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(01:49) MK's first ever hole-in-one(07:42) Alex's What's In The Bag(09:58) Scheffler runs away with it(18:48) Alex's road into Titleist's tour department(20:43) Building a fitting plan for a tour player(30:11) Where fitting is heading — and AI(35:23) The GTS 300 mini(40:02) The fitting that still stands out(42:38) The conversation to have before you get fitted(46:19) Dialled In or Out of Bounds

The GTS woods have been sitting in the bag with the plastic still on them for a couple

of weeks. This week they finally saw a golf course - and the first thing Wardy noticed

wasn't a number on a screen, it was the sound off the face.

Then Michael Brennan wins the Wyndham for his second PGA TOUR title in three weeks, on

a split set, with a GT driver paired to a GTS fairway and the biggest Circle T stamp

either of us has seen on a Scotty.

And the argument that runs underneath the whole episode: face angle is the most

important metric in putting, and it's the one almost nobody ever has measured.

In this episode:

- The GTS woods finally get out of the plastic

- GTS4 driver, and why the strike sounded different before anything showed up in the data

- Swapping a lob wedge for lower bounce, and why wet days decide it

- Get clubs in the bag you can actually hit

- Face angle - the number that explains why you pull putts

- Brennan's winning bag, split set and all

- A GT driver with a GTS fairway, and why that pairing keeps showing up

- The biggest Circle T we've seen

- Where indoor fitting is heading

- Dialled In or Out of Bounds

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MK has been having coaching for over a year - short game, irons, woods - and never once

looked at putting. So he's booked a putting lesson. Which opens up the bigger question:

the putter is also the club almost nobody gets fitted for. Work from the green backwards.

We also get into what a toe strike really costs you, why buying off the shelf is how

you end up fighting your own clubs, and how blended iron sets went from niche to normal.

Plus Thorbjornsen's first PGA TOUR win at the last ever Rocket Classic, and Shiho

Kuwaki's playoff major at Royal Lytham.

In this episode:

- The most neglected club in the bag

- A year of coaching that never touched putting

- Fitting and coaching are not the same thing

- Why stroke play breaks a stableford mindset

- Thorbjornsen's first win, and the end of the Rocket Classic

- Kuwaki's playoff major at Royal Lytham

- Dropping the 3-iron - what's actually in the bag

- Muscle back or cavity: the Miura TC-202

- What a toe strike costs you - "it's like flicking a tap"

- $60, $600 or $6,000 - make it worth the investment

- Why blended bags have taken over

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Someone asked MK during the week whether grip size actually matters. It's the cheapest

change in the bag and probably the one you've never thought about - and it quietly

took over half this episode.

We also go through the winner's Titleist setup, why the tour vans will change a

player's wedges every single week, and a full-bag Srixon win that turns into an

argument about marketing spend.

In this episode:

- Grip size, glove size and the two-finger test

- How a heavier grip kills the head feel in your irons

- The Fujikura Speeder you barely see on tour any more

- Why tour vans change wedges weekly

- Two 14-club deals in one week

- Would the average golfer know who Srixon is?

- Why brands want the whole bag now, not just the driver

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Episode 12 of Dialled In — and what a week to be recording. Ryan Fox is the Open Champion, and the boys have plenty to say about it.

Wardy and MK break down Fox's win at Royal Birkdale — the birdie at the last, the two 62s that lit up Friday, and why a champion like Foxy is exactly what golf needed. Then it's into the winning bag: Srixon ZXi RKT LS+ driver with the Ventus Black, the blended ZXi5/ZXi7 iron setup, Cleveland RTZ wedges and that counterbalanced Ping Anser 2D — and what the average golfer can actually take from a combo set like that.

Plus: the Scottie Scheffler 17th-hole drop that has the boys split, purposeful practice swings and pre-shot routines you can steal for your own game, and a rules-integrity edition of Dialled In or Out of Bounds.

Chapters:

0:00 Intro

0:16 Welcome & the week's agenda

1:00 Personal golf — on-course lessons & building a pre-shot routine

10:50 The Open recap — Ryan Fox wins at Royal Birkdale

20:58 The champion's WITB — Srixon ZXi, Cleveland RTZ, Ping Anser 2D

22:17 THAT Scottie drop on 17 — the boys disagree

34:36 Dialled In or Out of Bounds — rules integrity edition

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Ball's sitting down in the rough, 170 to the flag, and you pull six iron. That's the

shot costing you more than anything else in your game — and it's the one thing tour

players never do.

The Open hits Royal Birkdale, so we go through what actually changes in the bag, break

down Tom Kim's winning Scottish Open setup, and MK returns from New Zealand with his

lowest round ever.

In this episode:

- Tom Kim's Scottish Open winning bag

- Why his iron shafts are softer than his driver

- Driving irons for links golf — lofts, lengths and shafts

- Wedge grinds for firm, fast turf

- Te Arai, Tara Iti and Titirangi — is NZ the trip now?

- The rough mistake costing amateurs shots

- Dialled In or Out of Bounds: black irons

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We're back for Episode 10. We recap all the action from the John Deere Classic, break down Chris Gotterup's What's In The Bag, Matt previews his upcoming golf trip to New Zealand, and we start looking ahead to The Open.In this episode:• John Deere Classic recap• Chris Gotterup's What's In The Bag• Matt's upcoming New Zealand golf trip• First look at The Open Championship🎧 New episodes weekly — follow so you never miss one.

Episode 9 of the Dialled In Podcast! Nick opens with big personal news — a new addition to the family — before MK breaks down his best ball-striking round in months: 39 points at Long Island National. We recap Viktor Hovland's dramatic Travelers Championship playoff win over Scottie Scheffler, dig into Viktor's exact bag specs (including that Ping G440 LST running at D5+ swing weight), and challenge the assumption that your clubs need to go lighter to heavier. We also break down the PGA Tour's new Championship and Challenger Series structure, preview Srixon's incoming Z-Xi RKT metalwood lineup, and have an honest conversation about custom club fitting versus buying off the rack — including the real long-term cost most golfers don't think about.

Episode 8 and the boys are fresh off a massive weekend of sport - so it's a full US Open wrap from Shinnecock Hills. Wyndham Clark won it, but we're split on the result, which leads into a cracking debate: does golf actually need villains? Then we get stuck into the gear — Clark's Frankensteined driver, shafts, combo irons and that Ping putter — before turning it into takeaways for your own game: why your driver might be too long, when to swap the 4-iron for a hybrid, and the 5 mph ball-speed gapping rule. We also chat Jackson Koivun and Malbon, the new Scotty Cameron Phantoms, and run it all through Dialled In or Out of Bounds.

We chat about the Australian Open heading to Peninsula Kingswood in 2027. Wardys GTS fitting at Titleist and trusting your fitter. Graphite Design Tour AD FI Shaft review and a little US Open hype