--- title: "Minjee Lee's WITB: the broomstick that won a major" url: "https://ifrothgolf.com/witb/minjee-lee" type: "whats-in-the-bag" player: "Minjee Lee" tour: "LPGA Tour" author: "Jordan Hale" published: "2026-07-30T00:00" verified: "2026-04-23" publisher: "ifrothgolf" --- # Minjee Lee's WITB: the broomstick that won a major > Three seasons outside the top 120 in putting, then a 42-inch broomstick and a third major. Plus regular-flex woods, composite iron shafts, and one club she refused to give up when she changed sponsors. **Setup verified:** 2026-04-23 This is essentially the bag Minjee Lee won the **2025 KPMG Women's PGA Championship** with — one club has changed since, a new **Callaway Quantum Max driver** she put in play at her 2026 season opener — and the headline is still the putter: a **42-inch Odyssey Ai-ONE Square 2 Square #7 Cruiser broomstick**. She had finished outside the top 120 on the LPGA in strokes gained putting in 2022, 2023 *and* 2024. Her longtime coach Ritchie Smith suggested the broomstick over the winter. She ranked **8th on tour in putting in 2025** and led the field in putting at the major she won. She joined Callaway in February 2024, so this is a near-full staff build — with one telling exception, and a shaft setup that quietly contradicts what most amateurs believe about flex. Her brother is [Min Woo Lee](https://ifrothgolf.com/witb/min-woo-lee), who plays the same brand and the same ball with almost the opposite philosophy. ## Quick facts - **Tour:** LPGA Tour - **Clubs:** Callaway (near-full staff, since February 2024) - **Driver:** Callaway Quantum Max (10.5°) — new for 2026 - **Ball:** Callaway Chrome Tour X ## The bag | Club | Model | Spec | | --- | --- | --- | | Driver | Callaway Quantum Max | 10.5° | | 3-wood | [Callaway Elyte 3HL](https://ifrothgolf.com/product/callaway-elyte-fairway-wood) | 16.5° · Fujikura Ventus Red 6 R | | 7-wood | [Callaway Elyte](https://ifrothgolf.com/product/callaway-elyte-fairway-wood) | 21° · Fujikura Ventus Red 6 R | | Utility iron | Srixon ZX Mk II Utility | 4-iron · 23° · Fujikura Ventus Blue HB 7 R | | Irons | Callaway X Forged | 5–PW · Aerotech SteelFiber i80 | | Wedges | Callaway Opus | 52-10S, 56-10C, 60° · Nippon N.S. Pro 950 R | | Putter | Odyssey Ai-ONE Square 2 Square broomstick | 42" · navy PVD · White Hot insert | | Golf ball | [Callaway Chrome Tour X](https://ifrothgolf.com/product/callaway-chrome-tour) | | ## Notes **The broomstick is the story, and the numbers are stark.** Outside the top 120 in strokes gained putting for three consecutive seasons, then 8th in 2025. "The roll is way better on the broomstick," she said. She led the field in putting at Fields Ranch East and won the KPMG Women's PGA by three. If you've spent years assuming a long putter is an admission of defeat, a three-time major champion has a different view. **Her shaft setup is the single most useful thing here for club golfers.** She plays **regular flex in her fairway woods** — Fujikura Ventus Red 6 R in both — and played a regular-flex Mitsubishi Diamana WB in the Elyte driver the Quantum replaced, alongside stiff composite **Aerotech SteelFiber i80** shafts in the irons and regular-flex steel in the wedges. A multiple major winner plays R-flex woods. Flex labels aren't transferable between shafts or manufacturers, and "stiff because pros play stiff" is backwards for most amateurs. **She won a major with an iron American golfers couldn't buy.** The Callaway X Forged was a Japan-market and tour-only iron that gained traction on the DP World, Asian, KLPGA and JLPGA tours. It only reached US retail in late July 2025 — about a month *after* she lifted the KPMG trophy with it. **The sibling contrast is genuinely instructive.** Minjee and [Min Woo Lee](https://ifrothgolf.com/witb/min-woo-lee) are both Callaway staffers playing the Chrome Tour X, and both game X Forged iron heads. Then it diverges completely: he's on Ventus Black VeloCore+ 7X and Nippon Modus3 125 X steel; she's on regular-flex Diamana and Ventus Red with SteelFiber composite. Same brand, same ball, opposite philosophies — X-flex steel against R-flex composite. **Honest caveat on recency, updated 2 September 2026.** No editorial outlet has published a full dated 2026 bag check for her — LPGA equipment coverage is thin. What we do have is better than nothing and worse than a bag check: her own on-record comment at the HSBC Women's World Championship in February 2026 confirming a new Quantum driver, and a photo-derived April 2026 check at the Chevron Championship that identifies the head as the Max and leaves every other club as it was in 2025. So the driver row is a genuine 2026 change; the other thirteen slots are still the 2025 KPMG-winning build carried forward. Her 2026 has been difficult — missed cuts at the KPMG she was defending and at Evian, and a withdrawal at the Women's Scottish Open — which is part of why nobody has photographed her bag in detail. ## FAQ ### What driver does Minjee Lee use? A Callaway Quantum Max at 10.5°, new for 2026. She put it in play at February's HSBC Women's World Championship and said so herself: "I also put in the new quantum driver." It replaced the standard Callaway Elyte at the same loft — the driver she averaged over 262 yards per drive with while winning the 2025 KPMG Women's PGA. She named the family rather than the model, so treat the Max head as a photo identification rather than a confirmed spec. ### What putter does Minjee Lee use — and is it a broomstick? Yes. A 42-inch Odyssey Ai-ONE Square 2 Square #7 Cruiser broomstick, switched in over the 2024–25 offseason at coach Ritchie Smith's suggestion. She had finished outside the top 120 in strokes gained putting for three straight seasons; in 2025 she ranked 8th and led the field in putting at the major she won. ### What shafts does Minjee Lee use in her irons? Aerotech SteelFiber i80 graphite-composite shafts, roughly 80g, from 5-iron to pitching wedge — and she has used SteelFiber i80s since at least her 2022 U.S. Women's Open win, through a full change of equipment sponsor. Note her woods are regular flex while the irons are stiff: flex labels don't transfer between shafts. ### Is Minjee Lee related to Min Woo Lee? Yes, he's her younger brother. Both are Australian, both are Callaway staffers and both play the Chrome Tour X ball. They're also the first brother-and-sister pair to have won USGA junior championships — Minjee the 2012 U.S. Girls' Junior, Min Woo the 2016 U.S. Junior Amateur. ### What ball does Minjee Lee play? The Callaway Chrome Tour X, confirmed in Callaway's own winner's-bag release after the 2025 KPMG Women's PGA. Before joining Callaway in February 2024 she played the Srixon Z-Star. ## Sources - [golf.com — Minjee Lee's KPMG Women's PGA winning WITB (Jun 2025)](https://golf.com/gear/minjee-lee-kpmg-womens-pga-witb/) - [golf.com — Inside Minjee Lee's broomstick switch (Jun 2025)](https://golf.com/gear/putters/minjee-lee-broomstick-putter/) - [Callaway / Odyssey — official winner's-bag release (Jun 2025)](https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/minjee-lee-wins-kpmg-womens-pga-championship-with-a-callaway-elyte-driver-callaway-chrome-tour-x-golf-ball-and-an-odyssey-ai-one-square-2-square-putter-302487836.html) - [GolfWRX — Minjee Lee WITB, August 2025](https://www.golfwrx.com/765644/minjee-lee-witb-2025-august/) - [PGATour.com — Callaway's X Forged irons reach the US market (Jul 2025)](https://www.pgatour.com/article/news/equipment-report/2025/07/07/callaway-mysterious-new-x-forged-irons-are-finally-coming-to-the-us-market) - [Callaway — official staff page (checked 24 Aug 2026)](https://www.callawaygolf.com/min-jee-lee) - [Golf Australia Magazine — Lee: "I also put in the new quantum driver" (27 Feb 2026)](https://www.golfaustralia.com.au/news/minjee-lee-runs-hot-at-womens-world-championship-623926) - [WITBhub — Minjee Lee WITB 2026, Chevron Championship photo check (23 Apr 2026)](https://www.witbhub.com/players/minjee-lee) --- Source: [ifrothgolf](https://ifrothgolf.com) — independent golf-gear editorial. 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