After earning three consecutive top-10 finishes leading up to the Zurich Classic of New Orleans, Billy Horschel finally broke through and won his first PGA Tour event. Here is a complete list of the clubs he used at TPC Louisiana:

DRIVER: Ping G25 (9.5 degree) with a Mitsubishi Fubuki 63 X shaft

FAIRWAY WOODS: Ping G25 (15 and 18 degree) with Oban Kiyoshi 75 X shafts

IRONS: Ping S56 (3-PW) with Ping ZZ65 shafts

WEDGES: Ping Tour with Gorge Grooves (53 and 60 degree) with True Temper Dynamic Gold S400 shafts

PUTTER: Ping Redwood Piper S

BALL: Titleist Pro V1x

GRANITEVILLE, S.C. – With a final round 2-under 70, Carson Young of Pendleton, S.C., birdied the 18th hole to win the Junior Invitational at Sage Valley by two shots over Robby Shelton, Sam Horsfield, Austin Langdale and Greyson Sigg. Young used the following equipment to earn this prestigious title:

Driver: Titleist 910 D3 (8.5 degree) with a Tour AD graphite design shaft

Fairway woods: Ping G20 (15 degree); Ping i15 (17 degree) with KBS shafts

Irons: Japanese hand-made Miura Forged (4-PW) with KBS shafts

Wedges: Titleist Vokey Design (52, 56, 60 degree) with KBS shafts

Putter: Ping Anser

Ball: Titleist Prov1x

Because it's hard to see the technology built into modern driver shafts, exotic terms and odd-sounding phrases often are used to describe what these magic wands do. Anytime "gearheads" start talking about shafts, words such as torque, tipping and kick point are tossed around. But do you really know what they mean?

To help better understand the finer points of these terms, I asked several experts from some of golf's major shaft manufacturers to decipher the mysterious language of shafts.

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1. What is kick point?

"A lot of people will say that a shaft has a low kick point or a high kick point, and then point at the shaft near the tip or up neat the butt section [the handle area]. But in most shafts it's really about a 3- to 4-inch section somewhere in the middle of the shaft where it's bending," says Pat McCoy, director of technical services for Fujikura. "Really it's the difference between a low bend and a high bend."

According to Don Brown, product development manager for True Temper who works on Project X and Grafalloy driver shafts, kick point is a somewhat-dated term that is used a lot ...

There is no way Rife could have planned it this way, but the recent Masters provided something of a springboard for the company in the new golf year.

Ted Potter Jr., playing in his first Masters, used a Rife Iconic putter to win the annual Par 3 Contest that precedes the 72-hole competition.

On Wednesday of Masters week, Potter beat superstars Phil Mickelson and Matt Kuchar in a playoff to win the Par 3 Contest. Unfortunately for Potter, the Masters Par 3 jinx was alive and well as the left-hander battled the demons at Augusta National Golf Club.

On Thursday, Potter shot 76 in the opening round of the Masters. No Par 3 winner has gone on to win the Masters. Most have failed somewhat miserably, and Potter seemed to be upholding that tradition. He added a 73 on Friday, missing the cut by one shot.

Beyond the Par 3 Contest and the jinx, however, Potter's story segues into the re-emergence of putter manufacturer Rife. The company is introducing new putters and new golf balls for 2013.

Potter, who is not paid by Rife, won his first PGA Tour title at the 2012 Greenbrier Classic. At the time, Potter ...

McDowell back in the winner’s circle

Ending nearly a three-year drought on the PGA Tour, Graeme McDowell earned a victory at the RBC Heritage, blending different Cleveland long irons to better manage windy conditions at Hilton Head. He played a Cleveland 588 MT 3-iron and a 588 TT 4-iron.

The rest of McDowell’s bag: Cleveland Classic 290 driver (9 degree, with Miyazaki Kusala Indigo 56 X shaft); Cleveland Launcher FL fairway wood (14 degree, with Miyazaki Kusala Indigo 72 X shaft); Adams Idea a7 hybrid (22 degree, with Miyazaki Kusala Indigo 83 X shaft); Srixon Z-TX irons (5-9, with Project X Flighted 6.5 shafts); Cleveland 588 Precision Forged (48 and 52 degree) and Cleveland 588 RTX (58 degree) wedges with Project X Flighted 6.5 shafts; Odyssey White Hot No. 7 prototype mallet putter. He used a Srixon Z-Star XV ball.

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Not always for the masses

Tour-only golf equipment is becoming more prevalent on the major professional tours.

At the Masters, Phil Mickelson used a Callaway X Hot Phrankenwood driver that Callaway said would not be sold to the public. Webb Simpson, runner-up to Graeme McDowell in the RBC Heritage, played a ball identified as the 2013 ...

If the music bopping in the background of Nike's latest golf ball commercial sounds familiar, that's because it should.

In 1999, the soundtrack played while a young Tiger Woods bounced a ball repeatedly off a wedge before popping the ball high into the air and blasting it down a fairway. The commercial is now considered one of the most famous golf equipment advertisements in history.

To tout the latest Nike RZN golf balls, the company has re-created that trick-shot video, except this time it features Rory McIlroy, Kyle Stanley, Nick Watney, Suzann Pettersen and Paul Casey instead of Woods.

The commercial is shot as a black-and-white video, with the only pop of color coming from the red, resin golf ball core, which the golfers bounce while the familiar music plays.

Take a look inside the winners' bags from the week of April 15-21, 2013, on the PGA Tour, Champions Tour, European Tour and PGA Tour.

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Graeme McDowell (PGA Tour – RBC Heritage)

Driver: Cleveland Classic 290 (9 degree; Miyazaki Kusala Indigo 56x shaft)

Fairway wood: Cleveland Launcher FL 3-wood (14 degree; Miyazaki Kusala Indigo 72x shaft)

Hybrid: Adams Idea a7 (22 degree; Matrix Ozik Altus X shaft)

Irons: Cleveland 588 MT (3), 588 TT (4) and Srixon Z-TX (5-9) – all with Project X 6.5 shafts

Wedges: Cleveland 588 Precision Forged (48 and 52 degree) and 588 RTX (58 degree) all with Project X 6.5 shafts

Putter: Odyssey White Hot #7, prototype mallet

Ball: Srixon Z-Star XV

Footwear: Ecco World Class GTX

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Bernhard Langer (Champions Tour – Greater Gwinnett Championship)

Driver: Adams Speedline Fast 12 LS (8.5 degree)

Fairway wood: Adams Insight 3-wood (12.5 degree; Graphite Design Purple Ice 95 shaft)

Hybrid: Adams Idea Pro (18 degree; RT Tech Midas shaft)

Irons: Hogan Apex Forged (3-5) and Adams Idea MB2 (6-PW)

Wedges: Titleist Vokey Design Spin Milled (56 and 60 degree)

Putter: Odyssey White Hot 2-Ball long

Ball: Titleist Pro V1x

Footwear: Adidas Golf

Glove: Titleist Players

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Raphael Jacquelin ...

Our David Dusek takes you inside Graeme McDowell's winning bag -- mainly consisting of Cleveland/Srixon equipment -- in our weekly installment of "The Toy Box Winner's Circle."

Click the photo above or click here to watch the video.

DRIVER: Cleveland Classic 290 (9 degree) with a Miyazaki Kusala Indigo 56 X shaft

FAIRWAY WOOD: Cleveland Launcher FL (14 degree) with a Miyazaki Kusala Indigo 72 X shaft

HYBRID: Adams Idea a7 (22 degrees) with Matrix OZIK Altus X shafts

IRONS: Cleveland 588 MT (3), 588 TT (4) and Srixon Z-TX (5-9) with Project X Flighted 6.5 shafts

WEDGES: Cleveland 588 Precision Forged (48 and 52 degree) and Cleveland 588 RTX (58 degree) with Project X Flighted 6.5 shafts

PUTTER: Odyssey White Hot #7, prototype mallet

BALL: Srixon Z-Star XV

Callaway wedge guru Roger Cleveland arrived on Hilton Head Island before the start of this week's RBC Heritage with several prototype wedges in tow.

Although the company has not officially announced the name and release date of its next wedge, Golfweek has learned that the dark-finished clubs show a textured pattern between the grooves and feature a "Mack Daddy 2" stamp on the back of the clubs. Callaway has touted the spin-generating ability of Mack Daddy grooves in previous versions of its X Series wedges.

Here's a tweet Cleveland posted:

Callaway already has acknowledged that Phil Mickelson has put the prototype wedge in play. Several other Callaway staff players at Hilton Head discussed the wedges with Golfweek.

"It felt good. I played with it on Sunday in Augusta," said Ernie Els. "Just waiting for Roger (Cleveland) to make the 54-degree version of it. It's got a little different bounce and a nice face."

Jim Furyk received a 60-degree model on the Monday before the start of the Masters, but hadn't tested it. Said Furyk: "The Monday of Augusta doesn't seem to be the time to put it in play."

During his off week, Furyk plans ...

Few equipment manufacturers, if any, are as closely linked to custom fitting as Ping Golf. Founded in 1959 by Karsten Solheim, the father of the company's current president and CEO John Solheim, Ping has espoused since its earliest days the virtues of golf clubs built to match a player's body and swing.

In this exclusive interview, John Solheim discusses how Ping's custom-fitting techniques have evolved, the role technology plays in fitting PGA Tour players, and how information gathered during fittings shapes Ping products.

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Can you explain to me how your father, Karsten Solheim, first developed a fitting system for Ping equipment?

When he started building clubs, he was trying to find out for himself what the standards were so that he'd be able to manufacture a good set. Back then we didn't have the Internet, we didn't have anything. So he felt that the best way was to measure the pros' clubs.

The first thing that he found out was that they were all over the place, within the sets. No one had a set where the lie angles were the same and the lofts were consistent. It was frustrating to him, so he ...

Winner's Circle: April 8-14, 2013

Adam Scott ( The Masters Tournament)

DRIVER: Titleist 913D3 (9.5 degree) with a Graphite Design Tour AD DI-8 shaft

FAIRWAY WOOD: Titleist 910F.d (15 degree) with a Rombax Pro 95 shaft

IRONS: Titleist 712U (2) and 710 MB (3-9) with KBS Tour shafts

WEDGES: Vokey Design SM4 (48 degree), Spin Milled (54 degree) and SM4 TVD (60 degree) wedges – all with KBS Tour 130-gram shafts.

PUTTER: Scotty Cameron for Titleist Futura X prototype

BALL: Titleist Pro V1

FOOTWEAR: FootJoy Sport

GLOVE: FootJoy StaSof

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Alex Aragon (Web.com Tour – WNB Golf Classic)

DRIVER: TaylorMade R1 (Mitsubishi Diamana Blue B. Series 60x shaft)

FAIRWAY WOOD: TaylorMade Burner 3-wood (Graphite Design Tour AD-Q 85 shaft)

HYBRID: Adams Idea Super Series (19 degree; Aldila Tour Blue 85 shaft)

IRONS: TaylorMade CB Forged (3) and TaylorMade MC Forged (4-PW)

WEDGES: TaylorMade TP xFT ZTP (54 degree) and Titleist Vokey Design SM4 (60 degree)

PUTTER: TaylorMade Ghost series

BALL: Titleist Pro V1x (2013)

FOOTWEAR: FootJoy M:Project

GLOVE: FootJoy SciFlex

Adam Scott delivered two pressure-packed putts on Sunday – one that earned him a spot in a playoff, the other a Masters title – courtesy of a new Scotty Cameron putter.

“I’ve worked pretty hard with Scotty Cameron on a putter this year,” said Scott, referring to his 49-inch Scotty Cameron by Titleist Futura X prototype. “I had a kind of backyard garage prototype in my bag for a couple of tournaments, but now it looks more like a production model.”

The Futura is a high-MOI putter designed to be resistant to twisting. It includes eight-way adjustable weights. The geometric head is a mallet style with large metallic circles on the heel and toe.

Scott also used a Titleist 913D3 driver (9.5 degree); the Masters was the first time he had used the club in competition. His driver is 44.75 inches and equipped with a Graphite Design Tour AD Di8 X shaft.

The rest of Scott’s bag: Titleist 910Fd fairway wood (15 degree, with Fujikura Rombax Pro 95 shaft); Titleist 712U (2-iron) and 710 MB (3-9 irons, with KBS Tour X flex 130-gram shafts); Vokey Design SM4 (48 degree), Spin Milled (54 degree) and SM4 TVD (60 degree ...

In a new weekly video called The Toy Box Winner's Circle, our David Dusek breaks down Adam Scott's winning bag at the Masters. From his Titleist 913D3 driver to his Scotty Cameron putter, we tell you how Scott's equipment made an impact on his performance at Augusta National.

Click here or on the photo for the video.

Adam Scott became the first Australian to win at Augusta National by defeating Angel Cabrera in a playoff on Sunday evening. Scott used this Titleist equipment to earn his victory at the 2013 Masters:

DRIVER: Titleist 913D3 (9.5 degree) with a Graphite Design Tour AD DI-8 shaft

FAIRWAY WOOD: Titleist 910F.d (15 degree) with a Rombax Pro 95 shaft

IRONS: Titleist 712U (2) and 710 MB (3-9) with KBS Tour shafts

WEDGES: Vokey Design SM4 (48 degree), Spin Milled (54 degree) and SM4 TVD (60 degree) wedges – all with KBS Tour 130-gram shafts.

PUTTER: Scotty Cameron for Titleist Futura X prototype

BALL: Titleist Pro V1