Pokemon GO Fest 2026 Global will be a completely free event. Niantic has mentioned that there will be no paywalled content that had been common in previous iterations of the GO Fest event. This is a surprise step from the developers, but one that is likely explained by the big debuts scheduled for GO Fest 2026.
Coinciding with the game’s 10th anniversary, Pokemon GO Fest 2026 Global will take place on June 11 and June 12 between 10 am and 7 pm local time each day. The event will mark the debut of Zeraora and the mega-evolved forms of Mewtwo.
Pokemon GO Fest 2026 will be free for all trainers
Announcing the same, Niantic mentioned:
“Yes, GO Fest: Global is FREE for the first time! Pokemon GO Fest 2026: Global is FREE for all Trainers logged in during the event weekend. That means Special Research, additional bonuses, and an increased chance of encountering Shiny Pokémon are available to all Trainers at no cost!”
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GO Fest 2026 Global Special Research will net trainers an encounter with the Thunderclap Pokemon, Zeraora. Those who have already caught the Pokemon in the in-person events will get Zeraora Candy instead. GO Fest 2026 Timed Research has a chance of giving Mega Mewtwo X or Mega Mewtwo Y Energy.
The following GO Fest 2026: Global bonuses and features will be active:
10 am to 7 pm each day
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“Increased appearances of Pokemon-type featured during each time block of GO Fest: Global!
Lure Modules activated during the event will last for one hour.
Incense (excluding Daily Adventure Incense) will attract special Pokemon.
Party Play will be active for nine hours
Increased chance of encountering Shiny Pokemon
Special Research including an encounter with Zeraora
Branching Timed Research with a choice between Mega Mewtwo X or Mega Mewtwo Y.
Global Challenges to unlock additional bonuses and Ultra Unlock events.
Different Pokemon type–themed Field Research every hour”
12 am to 11.59 pm each day
Up to nine free Raid Passes per day by spinning Photo Discs at Gyms
Up to six Special Trades
1/2 Stardust cost for all trades
Open up to 50 Gifts each day
Mega Mewtwo forms in Pokemon GO Fest 2026 (Image via Niantic)
The decision to make GO Fest 2026: Global free may have been influenced by the Super Mega Raids that trainers need to participate in to battle Mega Mewtwo X/Y and get their respective energies. Given that these unique Mega Raids can host over a thousand trainers, Niantic is hoping for a massive turnout and will surely ensure that the difficulty of these battles will be appropriately greater.
Furthermore, with an increased number of players participating and the massive popularity of Mewtwo, trainers may choose to spend more on Passes and Link Charges to get enough Mega Mewtwo Energy. For those unaware, “every Mega Mewtwo caught from Super Mega Raids will also have at least one Mega Level [or Mega Level 2 or 3 for lucky trainers] already unlocked and can be Mega Evolved without the initial energy cost”.
Former Super Eagles captain John Obi Mikel has revealed why he left Chelsea FC in 2017.
Mikel joined Chelsea in 2006 after a transfer battle involving Manchester United FC. During his 11 years at the club, he won several major trophies and made 372 appearances.
The former Nigerian midfielder left Chelsea in January 2017 after reaching a mutual agreement with the club.
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Speaking on the Vibe with Five podcast, Mikel said former Chelsea manager Antonio Conte played a major role in his exit.
According to Mikel, things changed after Conte arrived at Chelsea in 2016. The club had also signed N’Golo Kanté from Leicester City, increasing competition in midfield.
Mikel and fellow Nigerian player Victor Moses were later invited to represent Nigeria at the 2016 Olympic Games in Brazil. However, the tournament clashed with Chelsea’s pre-season preparations.
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Mikel said Conte warned him that he would not play for Chelsea again if he decided to go for the Olympics.
“Conte told me that if I went to the Olympics, my time at Chelsea would be over,” Mikel said.
Despite the warning, Mikel chose to represent Nigeria at the Olympics, where he captained the team to a bronze medal.
After returning from the tournament, Mikel said he was moved to train with the reserve team and spent months training alone.
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He added that Conte later asked him to return to the first team when Chelsea’s performances dropped, but he had already decided to leave the club.
Mikel also revealed that former Chelsea striker Didier Drogba advised him to move on and start a new chapter in his career.
After leaving Chelsea, Mikel played for clubs including Middlesbrough FC, Trabzonspor and Stoke City FC before retiring from football in 2022.
The Boston Fleet head to the PWHL Playoffs for the first time since the league’s inaugural season. The team attempts to reach the finals once again, this time looking to win it all.
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Boston went from not qualifying for the playoffs last season to becoming one of the best teams in the league this year. That’s thanks to the efforts of Abby Newhook, Alina Muller and Olympic heroes Megan Keller and Aerin Frankel.
After securing one of the top playoff spots, the Fleet will face Ottawa in the semifinals. Boston aims to beat a team that gave them trouble this year and earn its first Walter Cup.
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Boston will play Ottawa in the semifinals. The first two games will be played at the Tsongas Center in Lowell. Tickets for Game 1 start at $28 and can reach up to $171. Ticket prices for Game 2 start at $30 and can reach up to $468.
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The SEC’s reign as the king of the first round of the NFL draft was toppled by the Big Ten.
But the conference that coined the mantra “It Just Means More” for its dominance of college football in the 2010s remained in the top spot for the entire draft after the SEC set a record for the number of players picked over the three days.
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Thanks to recent national champions Indiana and Ohio State, the Big Ten led the way with 10 first-round picks, marking the first time the SEC didn’t have the most players taken in round one since 2015. The SEC only had seven — down from a record 15 last year — and the lowest total for the conference since that 2015 season when the ACC and Pac-12 led the way with nine first-rounders each and the SEC had seven.
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The first player drafted from an SEC school came when LSU cornerback Mansoor Delane went sixth overall to Kansas City, marking the first draft without a top five SEC player since 2018 when Roquan Smith was the first taken at No. 8 overall by the Bears.
But the depth of the SEC shined on the final two days with the conference leading the way with 29 day two picks in rounds two and three and 51 more over the last four rounds on the final day of the draft. The 87 players in total were the most ever and easily beat the total of 67 from the Big Ten.
The SEC has had the most players picked for 20 straight drafts since the ACC took top honors in 2006. Florida won the national title the following season, starting a stretch where the conference won 13 of 17 national championships.
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That run of dominance ended when Michigan won it all in 2023 with fellow Big Ten members Ohio State and Indiana following that up with titles of their own.
The other two power conferences were far behind with the Big 12 and ACC each having six first-rounders and 38 players picked in all.
The recent realignment that added more schools to all four power conferences, along with reduced restrictions on transfers and the advent of NIL payments all have combined to consolidate the talent at the biggest schools.
San Diego State cornerback Chris Johnson was the only player who didn’t finish his college career in the SEC, Big Ten, Big 12, ACC or Notre Dame who was taken in the first round after going 27th to Miami.
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The next Group of Six player off the board was Toledo safety Emmanuel McNeil-Warren at No. 58 to Cleveland and only one other was picked on the first two days with Georgia State receiver Ted Hurst going 84th to Tampa Bay.
In all, just 14 players from the Group of Six were drafted with the American and MAC leading the way with four each. There were 39 others who transferred from a Group of Six school to a Power Four conference.
Seven players came from FBS independents with Notre Dame having six and UConn one.
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There were four players who came from FCS-level schools and one who didn’t play college at all with Philadelphia taking Nigerian native Uar Bernard in the seventh round as part of the NFL’s International Pathway Program.
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Record low draft for running backs
The first round of the draft provided some memorable milestones for running backs with Jeremiyah Love becoming the first top five back in eight years when Arizona took him third overall. His Notre Dame teammate Jadarian Price went with the final pick of the round to Seattle.
That marked the sixth time in the common draft era starting in 1967 when two running backs from the same college were taken in the first round of the same draft with it last happening in 2008 with Arkansas’ Darren McFadden and Felix Jones.
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Running backs mostly were an afterthought after that.
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The next back off the board came near the end of the third round when San Francisco took Indiana’s Kaelon Black 90th overall, marking the fewest running backs taken in the first three rounds of the common draft.
Only 10 more running backs went on the final day with the 13 total the fewest taken in any draft.
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Tight ends had a banner weekend with 22 picked, the most since 2015, according to Sportradar, when there were also 22 selected as the league’s trend of more multi-tight end formations put a premium at the position.
The trenches as usual were dominant with teams drafting 51 defensive linemen and 50 offensive linemen. There also were 46 defensive backs, 36 wide receivers, 26 linebackers, 10 quarterbacks and three specialists.
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Ohio State leads the way
Ohio State was the third fastest school ever to have four players picked in a draft with Carnell Tate, Arvell Reece, Sonny Styles and Caleb Downs all going in the top 11 of the draft.
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The only schools ever to have four players picked that quickly were Michigan State with four of the top eight in 1967 and Notre Dame with four of the top 10 in 1946.
The Buckeyes didn’t slow down from there with seven more players drafted, giving them the most of any school this year with 11. Alabama and Texas A&M each had 10, followed by Clemson, Miami and Texas Tech with nine apiece.
This also marked the 88th straight draft that both Michigan and USC had a player picked for the longest streaks of any school. Notre Dame has missed only one year (1977) of having a player picked in the regular draft since 1938 but did have running back Al Hunter taken in the supplemental draft that year.
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Wisconsin had its streak of at least one player picked each year since 1979 snapped.
Speeding up the draft
The NFL shortened the time between picks in the first round from 10 minutes to eight minutes, cutting the total duration of the round to under three hours.
The league said the first round took 2 hours, 53 minutes, down 36 minutes from last year and 40 minutes less than the average of the previous five drafts.
The duration of the first round has been cut in half since commissioner Roger Goodell’s first draft in 2007. Teams that year had 15 minutes to make their picks in the opening round, leading to a 6 hour, 8 minute round in 2007.
Minnesota Vikings head coach Kevin O’Connell looks on during third-quarter action against the Green Bay Packers at U.S. Bank Stadium, with Sep. 11, 2022 marking the season-opening matchup in Minneapolis. O’Connell observes from the sideline as Minnesota maintains control during a strong divisional performance at home. Mandatory Credit: Jeffrey Becker-Imagn Images.
The Minnesota Vikings are one of the NFL’s very worst teams. Source? Look no further than NFL.com, a site that called Kevin O’Connell and Kyler Murray’s squad the league’s fifth-worst after the draft.
A No. 28 ranking feels detached from Minnesota’s actual roster profile.
Yes, the ranking truly befuddled the masses, as most purple fans are generally excited about the Vikings in 2026.
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Minnesota Has Too Much Talent for a Basement Forecast
This can be considered an offseason low point in the court of public opinion.
Minnesota Vikings wide receiver Justin Jefferson loosens up before kickoff against Green Bay, going through pregame drills at U.S. Bank Stadium on Dec. 31, 2023, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His movements show rhythm and precision as teammates wrap up preparations nearby, capturing a focused snapshot ahead of a late-season divisional clash. Mandatory Credit: Jeffrey Becker-USA TODAY Sports.
NFL.com: Vikings Rank 28th
Fans opened the batch of power rankings this week and scrolled, scrolled, and kept scrolling to the fifth-worst spot on the list.
After the surprise of the Caleb Banks pick wore off, the Vikings settled into a little groove with a few of their selections. Among the value picks I liked: LB Jake Golday, OT Caleb Tiernan, S Jakobe Thomas and CB Charles Demmings. Even a fullback in Round 5 didn’t offend me; if anything, it made me nostalgic.
I certainly understand Vikings fans could feel differently about it, given their personal investment in the team, but if Max Bredeson becomes the next C.J. Ham, it’s a good pick. This was not a year where fifth-round picks needed to be treated like military codes. Most of the same questions about Minnesota that existed last week still remain, although trading Jonathan Greenard both adds a worry and clears up cap space.
I wouldn’t be shocked to see the Vikes make a veteran addition or two in the coming months. They could use a center, a safety and maybe another receiver.
That right there is motivation for the Vikings to beat the odds.
… with the NFL’s 3rd-Best Defense?
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It’s difficult to stomach a ranking this horrid because the league’s fifth-worst football team would likely have to feature a bad offense and a bad defense, or, in this case, a bad offense and a middling defense.
That’s just not the case in Minnesota, not with Brian Flores in charge. Since Flores arrived in the Twin Cities three years ago, the Vikings’ defense ranks second in the NFL per DVOA and EPA/Play and even checked in at No. 3 last year behind the Houston Texans and Seattle Seahawks.
If one assumes that Flores’s defense retains its efficient ways — or even falls to No. 8, for example — teams with Top 10 defenses don’t usually scrape the bottom of the barrel in wins and losses.
In that regard, it seems Edholm’s power ranking fundamentally disregards Flores’s employment in Minnesota.
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… and Kyler Murray?
Furthermore, Minnesota now has Murray in the saddle as the QB1, and some have mistakenly treated him like a poor quarterback who needs O’Connell’s Midas touch.
Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray surveys the field after a win over Atlanta, standing near midfield at State Farm Stadium on Nov. 12, 2023, in Glendale, Arizona. Murray’s calm demeanor reflects control and confidence following the result, offering a clear look at his presence moments after the final whistle. Mandatory Credit: Matt Kartozian-USA TODAY Sports.
Murray isn’t a Sam Darnold or Daniel Jones — down on his luck with poor past performance and teetering on a career-long bust outcome. Murray has played in 74% of his team’s games in his career, a figure that would have approached 80% had the Cardinals not eased his workload late in 2025. He boasts two Pro Bowl selections, 4.38 speed (recorded during his 2019 draft year), a deep ball capable of traveling 70 yards, and accuracy ranked among the top five ever.
At age 28, he maintains a career EPA+CPOE of 0.090, surpassing figures from Baker Mayfield, Trevor Lawrence, Daniel Jones, and C.J. Stroud. This efficiency aligns with Justin Herbert’s performance in 2025. When playing a full 17-game season, Murray typically averages:
3,997 Passing Yards
30 Total Touchdowns
11 Interceptions
67.1% Completion Rate
623 Rushing Yards
That level of production is comparable to Lamar Jackson’s. Murray’s remarkable speed is evident on the field; his 2019 40-yard dash time alone would instantly make him the fastest QB in Vikings history, even surpassing those of current Vikings wide receivers Justin Jefferson and Jordan Addison.
Edholm’s pecking order for the Vikings suggests a) the Flores defense will fall off b) Murray will stink or get hurt.
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Only Thing Left Is to Prove Them Wrong
Of course, this is an April power ranking, 4.5 months before the start of the regular season. Nobody will care about Edholm’s ranking next autumn and winter, especially if the Vikings win several games and reach the postseason. Power rankings are merely a thermometer of public opinion and carry no mandate for anything.
Minnesota Vikings head coach Kevin O’Connell walks the sideline before kickoff against Dallas, taking in the scene at AT&T Stadium on Dec. 14, 2025, in Arlington, Texas. O’Connell’s pregame routine unfolds as players warm up around him, capturing a composed moment ahead of another high-profile matchup. Mandatory Credit: Kevin Jairaj-Imagn Images.
Therefore, the Vikings have a simple mission in 2026: prove that an NFL 28th-place ranking is silly. And based on the fact that they finished 9-8 last year with the league’s fifth-worst quarterback play per Dropback EPA, the sky is the limit with Murray in the house.
Finding a shaft profile for your driver is hard enough. When you find one you love with a driver head that works for your swing, it feels like you’re unstoppable. Finding a perfect fairway wood combination, however, can sometimes feel impossible. I don’t actually have a 3-wood in the bag because I’ve found it so difficult to find the “perfect” one for me. Most of that insecurity is due to the difference in the swings. I can feel invincible with the driver, but as soon as you tell me to hit a fairway wood off the turf, I’ll fall apart.
As I’ve experimented more with trying to find the right 3-wood for my game, my shaft selection has been all over the place. But one thing, particularly in the 5-wood category, that I actually love dearly, is that the profile needs to be different than my driver shaft. With my driver, I hit up on the ball pretty heavily, but with the fairway woods I like to be able to pinch the ball and even take a small divot. The difference in those two swings can be pretty dramatic, and that’s what causes the need for a different shaft profile.
Cam Young opts for a softer handle stiffer tip profile in his driver with the Diamana PD, but a higher launching stiffer handle part in his 7-wood with the 1k Pro Blue
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I’ve made videos on my Instagram before talking about matching up a shaft profile to the player’s unique swing, which also means making sure that they entire build combination of head and shaft needs to work properly as well. However, even the same player can have different swings throughout the bag. The shaft profile in your driver may not end up being the same shaft profile you need to play in other areas of the bag.
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For me, and lots of players on the PGA Tour, it’s easier to pair my driver with a lower launching part and my fairway woods with a higher launching part. For the driver I like to use something like the Mitsubishi Diamana WB or the Tensei 1k Pro White to help keep up with a bit more of an aggressive swing from the top, that I lean back on to hit up on the ball. I want the tip section to be a bit more stable so that it’s not providing any additional kick at impact. Since I am already providing a bit more dynamic loft naturally with my swing, I don’t want the tip of the shaft to increase that even further.
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In a fairway wood, I like something a bit softer. I’ll end up getting my attack angle more neutral, or even slightly down on the ball with the fairway woods, and my swing mechanics will change slightly. Getting closer to an iron swing, where I also have a shaft profile with a slightly stiffer handle section and a slightly softer tip section. Having a slightly softer tip section with something like a Tensei 1k Pro Red or a Diamana RB helps to feel a bit more confident getting down on the ball and pinching it off the turf. This helps to manage a nice launch and spin window, and I’ve also seen it actually increase speed as well in the fairway woods for me compared to a stiffer tip profile.
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Who SHOULD play the same profile in both clubs?
It really all comes down to the fit. Lots of players at the highest level are playing the same shafts in their driver and fairway woods. The LPGA’s Hannah Green is on quite a run this season sitting second on the points list for the LPGA after two wins and a recent top-10 at the first major of the year. She plays a Mitsubishi Diamana RB in both her driver and her fairway wood; increasing weight by one class heavier in her fairway wood compared to the driver.
Hannah Green hits a tee shot on the 13th hole during the final round of the JM Eagle LA Championship.
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Hannah has a more similar swing with both her driver and the 3-wood, so it’s more comfortable to stay in the same timing and the same feel by sticking with the same shaft. Any player at any skill level who is delivering the club in a similar way is probably going to feel very comfortable with the same shaft profile in each club. I’ve also tended to see a trend in players on different ends of the speed spectrum fall into the same profile. Players, like a Xander or a Matt Fitzpatrick, that are more powerful and really need help controlling the club head tend to stick to the stiffer profiles throughout most of the bag. The same can also be said for players that are on the slower side of swing speeds. These players, like Hannah Green, tend to stick to the same swing no matter what part of the bag they are in, and having the same profile helps produce a bit more launch and ball speed at that level of swing speed.
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In the middle are the players at any speed who have a bit more tempo in their swing, and they aren’t linear in their speed. These are players that oftentimes end up in smoother stiff profiles in the driver, like the Diamana WB, but softer profiles in their fairways. They’ll typically rip the driver a bit harder from the top, but stay a little smoother in transition with their fairway woods. These are players who will love to switch to something like a Diamana BB or a Tensei 1k Pro Blue (like Cam Young) in their higher-lofted fairway wood options.
Ramon Cardenas, who managed to drop Naoya Inoue in their 2025 bout, has shared his thoughts on this weekend’s historic showdown with Junto Nakatani.
Inoue has been dropped twice over the course of his outstanding 32-fight career, but rose to win in emphatic fashion on both occasions to remain undefeated. This weekend, he takes on what should be his most difficult challenge yet in a fascinating scrap with fellow Japanese pound-for-pound star, Junto Nakatani.
A three-division champion, Nakatani has been somewhat in the shadows of Inoue, in hot pursuit of a clash with his countryman, which he has now finally secured.
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Speaking to Ring Magazine, Cardenas, who lost to Inoue last year and has sparred a total of 99 rounds with Nakatani, explained that, for the latter to pull off the upset, he must use his range.
“When the going gets tough, Junto still sticks with the game plan, even if it may be difficult. For Junto to win this fight, he needs to use his reach to do what he wants that night. He can’t let Inoue control the pace.
“And with Junto’s length, it could be hard to get into range. Junto is very good at using his range. When I fought Inoue, I said going in that I had to be perfect for 36 minutes. But for Junto, I feel that it could be a 50-50 fight.”
However, the Texan added that Nakatani may have more difficulty landing the overhand that he and Luis Nery did in Inoue’s two career knockdowns, due to the adjustments made by the debatable pound-for-pound king.
“It’s going to be difficult for Junto to drop Inoue with the overhand left the same way Luis Nery and I did because Inoue is expecting it, one hundred percent.
“You can tell that Inoue has worked on neutralising the left hand connecting on him ever since fighting me. I’ll bet you anything they are constantly drilling to keep the right hand tucked to the chin to not let the left hand get through.
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“Whoever makes the first big mistake is going to pay. I don’t know if it will be a knockout or not in this fight, on either side, because they both know how to adjust.
“If Hernandez couldn’t knock out Junto, I don’t think Inoue can necessarily do it either. I see both guys imposing their dominance.”
‘Dinamita’ refused to offer a prediction for the contest, but finished off by giving credit to both men for accepting such a difficult fight and setting an example for their fellow boxing superstars.
“I’ll keep who I actually think will win to myself. The best answer I can give is that boxing will win. This is the kind of fight that boxing needs – the top guys, the best fighting the best. Other people should take note. It’s not about being undefeated; that’s bogus.”
Welcome to Fully Fit 2026, GOLF’s new platform for providing you with real-golfer insights into what 2026 gear might be best suited for your game. To this end, we assembled six GOLF content creators of varying abilities and ran them through the gauntlet of six full-bag fittings (driver to putter!) at six major club manufacturers in Phoenix and Carlsbad, Calif. Our hope: that you might see shades of your own game in one of our panelists’ and take some learnings and inspiration from their fitting experiences. In this installment (below), Wadeh Maroun details the clubs he can’t live without from Fully Fit 2026, his TaylorMade P770 irons. You may browse each of our panelists’ full 2026 dream bags here:
Going into Fully Fit, I thought I knew what kind of equipment was right for my game. Safe to say, I was very wrong, especially when it came to my irons.
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A little backstory: Two years ago, I started on a journey to become a true scratch golfer. I got lessons and completely retooled my swing. Before that, I played a cut and hit down on the ball, which created a lot of early extension and left my hand-eye coordination to dictate ball striking — “sometimes maybe good, sometimes maybe s—.” At the time, I was a 5-handicap. I needed help.
Then came the pivot.
The lesson plan shifted my swing to be much less prone to early extension and more geared toward hitting up on the ball rather than down. It sounded simple enough in theory, but the real-world impact was anything but.
This new approach created a massive issue from 8-iron down. I started noticing a gnarly split in north-south dispersion. The ball wasn’t going where I wanted, and I had lost all the trust I previously had in my irons and wedges. For what it’s worth, I’m a high-launch, high-spin player by nature, and that combination was no bueno.
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Enter the moment of truth: a fitting session at The Kingdom with Matt Simone.
Matt is the kind of fitter who makes you believe in the process again, not just the end result. We started tinkering with lofts, chasing a theoretical fix that would help me cover the ball more consistently and keep it from running up the face. The idea was simple on paper: stronger lofts should tame launch and spin just enough to bring my numbers closer to target.
What happened next felt like a revelation.
The adjustments started to take hold in a way that surprised me. I had a feeling I hadn’t experienced in a while: I trusted my irons to do their job. The result was a real, tangible improvement in how I could control distance and direction, and, crucially, trust the club to do what I asked without fighting my swing. It wasn’t magic, but it changed my relationship with the game in a meaningful way.
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Fast forward to now: I ended up in TaylorMade P770 irons, and the arc of my journey has felt like a straight line toward a better game.
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In just three months, I’ve moved from a 2-handicap to a 1. The swing feels less like a constant battle and more like a collaboration with the gear I’m using. The confidence I’ve gained isn’t about chasing a perfect number; it’s about knowing I can pull any iron, hit my number, get it clos, and walk away from a round without giving away three or four shots to avoidable mistakes.
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Scratch is still on the horizon, but I’m closer than I’ve ever been. And I credit a lot of that progress to being deliberate about my equipment and trusting the process.
When I pull an iron now, I’m not wondering if I’ve got the right model or loft. I’m looking at the shot in front of me, feeling the club respond the way I expect and letting that confidence take over.
If you’re chasing consistency, I’d offer the same advice: start with gear that matches your swing, not the other way around, and give yourself the space to grow into it.
If you thought that would be a dream-come-true for the pre-High School Alex, you thought wrong.
It turns out that the Fitzpatrick parents had to bribe their young son with a shiny new device to convince him to carry Matt’s bag that week, as Alex explained on Tuesday at the 2026 Cadillac Championship.
Alex Fitzpatrick ready to break out of Matt’s shadow after PGA Tour promotion
For most of their lives, Alex Fitzpatrick had to live in the shadow of his big brother. Matt Fitzpatrick showed signs of greatness early on.
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He backed them up with a career-changing victory at the 2022 U.S. Open, at the exact same course, the Country Club in Brookline, where he won the U.S. Amateur with Alex on the bag nine years before.
Matt is currently on the hottest streak of his career, having won three PGA Tour events since late March to rise to World No. 3. But Alex is on a tear of his own.
After capturing his first DP World Tour win in March, he teed it up with Matt at the PGA Tour’s Zurich Classic of New Orleans last week, for what he was expecting to simply be a good opportunity for “spending time with my brother.”
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Alex got the family time he was looking for, but he also walked away with a victory, giving him a PGA Tour card for two years, over $1 million in prize money and spots in the remaining Signature Events.
So while Matt is taking it easy this week following his third win of the year, Alex is in Florida to play the Cadillac Championship.
Alex Fitzpatrick reveals parents’ bribery scheme to get him to caddie for Matt
During his pre-tournament press conference, Fitzpatrick was asked about his original partnership with his brother Matt at the 2013 U.S. Amateur.
For outsiders, it was a fairytale week that harkened back to Francis Ouimet’s U.S. Open win at Brookline one hundred years before, when 10-year-old Eddie Lowery famously carried his bag.
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For Alex, the vibe was very different. In fact, he didn’t want to caddie for Matt that week at all. Their dad, Russell Fitzpatrick, was then forced to take an extreme measure to make it happen: bribery. He promised to buy Alex a new phone if he caddied for Matt in the tournament.
“I only caddied for [Matt] at the U.S. Amateur because my dad promised me a new phone,” Alex revealed in his Tuesday press conference at Trump Doral. “That was only reason why I caddied for him, because it was too expensive to buy a caddie for the week, so I got dragged into that one.”
Alex added that he did indeed get his new phone after Matt won, calling it a “win-win.”
“And then he won and then I got a new phone, so it was a win-win all around,” he joked.
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Alex Fitzpatrick’s parents had to bribe him with a new phone to get him to caddie for Matt at the U.S. Amateur.
It’s been a whirlwind few days since the Zurich triumph, but now Alex is set to chart his own PGA Tour career without his brother by his side beginning at the Cadillac Championship.
While Matt won’t be there in person, he did send Alex a touching note of encouragement for the Cadillac the morning after their Zurich victory.
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“He just said, you know, he said enjoy it. He sent me a really nice text the morning afterwards that was like, you know, as much as this win is both of us, you deserve to be here, you’re playing some great golf, go out there and show them what you have and just try and enjoy it as much as you can really, that was the biggest message from him,” Alex said on Tuesday.
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