Collin Morikawa makes surprising equipment change ahead of the Ryder Cup
With the 2025 Ryder Cup just around the corner, you’d think the 24 players who’ll tee it up at Bethpage Black would be locked into their equipment… but that’s not the case for Collin Morikawa, who’s made a drastic change.
Ahead of the 2025 Ryder Cup, Collin Morikawa has made a surprising equipment change at the Procore Championship.
Heading into the PGA Tour event in California, where Morikawa is joined by nine of his USA teammates, the two-time Major champion is trying to rectify the area of his game where he ranks 141st out of 163 players on the PGA Tour in 2025.
The World No.8 has switched to a custom center-shafted TaylorMade Spider Tour V putter in a bid to solve his woes on the greens.
Speaking ahead of the tournament, Morikawa said: “I got straight to work the Monday right after [the Tour Championship].
“I’m really trying to figure out these irons, and it’s crazy to say, the putting as well. I’ve got a new putter in the bag this week, which I did a lot of work with that Monday right after the Tour Championship.”
With only two weeks to go until the players lock horns at Bethpage Black, the 28-year-old will be hoping the switch fixes his issues ahead of his third straight Ryder Cup appearance for the USA.
For most of the season, the captain’s pick has had a TaylorMade TP Soto in his bag. But he has had brief stints with the TaylorMade Spider Tour V, another prototype created especially for him from the TaylorMade Putter Lab, and a Logan Olson 1.0 Round – built by an artisan putter designer that TaylorMade brought into the fold last year.
We’ve seen Morikawa previously use a Spider Tour V, but not a center-shafted model. It’s not quite zero-torque like the Spider ZT, but it’s a lot more stable than his usual blade putter.
While putting has never been the overriding strength in Morikawa’s game, he has spoken regularly about his woes on the greens this season, even describing himself as “putting like a blind man” after the first round of the Rocket Classic earlier in the year.
His position in the Ryder Cup team, where he’s recorded four wins, three losses and a tie across his two appearances, looked in doubt after a host of disappointing results, including no top tens in the majors, but Keegan Bradley has put his faith in the former World Amateur No.2, and Morikawa is keen to repay him and the American fans.
“Obviously, you need to make the putts, but that’s just something I’ve been fighting over the past few years, it’s just there’s a difference of missing it 20 feet left and 20 feet right,” he continued.
“It’s the same number no matter what, you know, strokes gained and stuff, but I want to know where my misses are going.
“That’s what I’ve been working on really, really hard and it’s been really good work, just got to keep getting where I want to be in a couple weeks. But everything’s feeling great so far, heading into this week [Procore Championship] at least.”
It’s been a season of change for the former PGA Champion and Open winner, who’s made four caddie switches as he seeks a first win in almost two years. Were he to win on Sunday, it would end a drought that dates back to the ZOZO Championship in October 2023.
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