Aaron Rai might be the most unorthodox player in pro golf — and somehow, it’s working.
In this segment, the crew breaks down all the quirks that make him stand out on tour:
• His signature pink castle tee that looks straight out of a beginner set 🩷
• Why he wears two all-weather gloves, even in perfect conditions 🧤
• The story behind how it started — and why one glove “felt wrong” without the other
• Still gaming a 2019 TaylorMade M6 driver, while everyone else swaps gear every season
• The debate: is it superstition, strategy, or a secret branding play? 👀
• The hilarious “iron head cover” tangent — and one too many theories about pool balls 🎱
Whether it’s style, comfort, or a quiet way to stand out, Aaron Rai proves that being different can still win on Tour.
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Can we talk about Aaron Rye? He is um incorporating some rather unique elements into golf that we’re not seeing very regularly. Yeah. No. Um I would say of those, one of my favorites is this golf tea. Yeah. What do we call this thing? It’s a castle tea. A castle tea. I have seen these in every single golf store. I’ve never once considered buying one. And to me, it looks like one of those things where like, oh, you’re kind of a beginner at golf. You’re not sure how high your tea should go. If you get one of these, it’ll be consistent every time. Now, the pros, they like to use a proper tea because sometimes they tee it up, they tee it down. They’re hitting all these different shot shapes, doing all this stuff. Not Adam, not Aaron Ry. Um, he is using the pink castle tea to win legitimate golf tournaments. That thing is stacked. Yeah, that’s a big guy. you uh like you know if you go to like simulator golf and you have the little rubber TE’s. That’s what that kind of reminds me of because you you don’t have to like have it perfectly straight to get that like you have the the bottom of it. It’s going to straighten itself out. Self-leveling. Yeah, exactly. Which the te you don’t have that. Um another wonderful feature that he’s decided to go with that’s a little unorthodox uh gloves on both hands. And uh I was actually reading a little bit about this and he talked about there was um one sort of wintry season where he started playing with two gloves for like moisture and all this other stuff. And when springtime rolled around, he took one of the gloves off and it felt terrible and awkward. So he not only still wears the two gloves, he wears like the all weather gloves. Like those are meant for like rainy conditions. That’s insane. Which is so weird cuz I last time I went went out, I used a weather glove. Yeah. And the I usually only use them when I need weather or if there is like rain falling or if it’s really wet because I feel like you slip out of the the club. Yeah. I mean I will say like I well even I have bought like a lot of times when you buy the all like the the rain gloves it comes like in a two pack. I will still only wear the one. Yeah. I have your other one. Oh that’s right. Yeah. Yeah. I was like here and like righty lefty I don’t need it. You take it. You know we we should deal with more things. You know I got here. This is the half you could use. It’s fine. What’s the disadvantage of wearing two gloves? Um I mean it’s just it’s all about feel. And I mean like look at like you know Fred Couples wears no gloves. Like I’m looking at it now and I’m like maybe it would be nice to have two gloves. Maybe it’s kind of weird that you only have one. I I I guess it’s like wearing one batting glove. Who wears one batting glove? But it’s also like putting with no gloves. Like because it’s a feel thing like it’s it’s because I putt with a glove on. You’re a glove putter? Yeah. I only putt with a glove on if I’m putting from off the green just because it it for no reason really. It doesn’t help my putting at all. Yeah. I just I feel like I didn’t earn taking my glove off yet. I didn’t get the ball on the green yet. It’s almost like the putting grips where it’s like it doesn’t change. It’s not changing like performance. It’s just like a feel. Like there’s a usual and there’s an unusual. There’s not a right and a wrong. I There really isn’t. Like I don’t think it’s wrong for Freddy Couples to wear no gloves. Yeah. It’s weird. And it’s not wrong to wear two. It’s just interesting when 99% of tour players are doing it one way or more. Probably way more. Yeah. I mean, but you know, he won. Yeah. So, so I It’s tough for us to sit here and be like, “Well, I’ll tell you what he should be doing.” Yeah, exactly. Uh, what else is he doing? Oh, I like this one. Dude is rocking an old school tailor made M6 driver released in 2019, which by the way, I have that driver. There you go. Yeah, it’s a great driver. Uh, it was a Father’s Day gift. Um, but the great thing was I got to pick out my father’s because you don’t want somebody like go to the store and just give you a club like hey you know and and I so it was actually like the first like fresh right from the golf store like take the saran wrap off like my first brand new offtheshelf driver was the Tailor Made M6. What’s wild is since then I’ve probably got eight or 10 drivers and the dude is still just rocking it. That’s crazy. Hey, but if it works Yeah. Again, who are we to judge? Exactly. My my thing is how is it unless they’re like new old ones or how is that thing not conforming yet? You know what I mean? Unless they’re made differently. That’s a good point cuz they even say like a conforming driver hit enough times becomes non-conforming because you’ve thinned the face all the impacts on it. So, I wonder like is he unwrapping fresh old drivers? Is it from the vault? Because I’m I’m of course a lesser golfer. Um is when do you know that it’s time to replace a club or a driver or or anything? When do you know it’s time to replace? Well, generally for like non-professional golfers, when it’s time is when you see like a commercial or an ad and you’re convinced it’ll fix your swing. Yeah. Okay. Then you’re like, “Oh, this new one was designed by AI and it’s got this crazy face on it and I’ll gain 15 yards. I need it. I’m going to put my my tinfoil hat on here for a second. All right. This is one too many unusual things for me. I think it’s intentional. I think he’s trying to be different. Like he’s trying to find like his Bryson Dshambo niche. Yes. Where it’s like I want to be known for I think there’s a PR two gloves. I think there’s an agent or a PR team that’s like let’s just try to stand out. Like they go to the golf store and they’re like uh oh these stupid teams. I hope and pink. Like pink is a little bit like you can get those in regular white. like got like a natural grain wood finish. I feel like the only way I will have iron head covers is if they are all like uh pool balls like where like so each club number is that would be cool. Yeah. Yeah. Like it’s the same color as the ball too cuz it only goes up to how many how many uh was there 12 or 16 balls. So I mean you’re only going up to what 10? There’s 15 15. Yeah. one through seven and then the eight ball and then the rest through whatever. Yeah, I just think that would be cool. That’s the only way I know. That would be nice. I I did play with a guy who did use iron uh iron head covers and what he said the reason he likes them is every time he uses a club on course, he takes the cover off and then puts it aside and at the end of the round he can always see what clubs am I not using regularly in a round. That is true too. I one time I was playing alone and I got matched with another guy who had head club covers or iron head covers. Yeah. You know what I did? Grabbed the back of his neck, give him a swirly before we got started. Just bullying him. Get a load of this guy. Uh I’m I’m kind of I’m not fully against this theory. Yeah. I’m just saying like I there could be something there. It is a lot. Yeah, I’m different. Yeah, I’m different. You know what I’m saying, man? It’s like it’s just weird. It’s weird. Well, and also um you know, there’s no like deep historical story for his castle tease. Yes. That and they’re like my grandfather used to hand whittle these and it reminds me of Christmas. Yeah. I Yeah, that that’s the one I think for me that it’s that one’s hard to believe there’s not at least a little bit of an inside joke there. Yeah. But at the same time, does he have multiple of them? Does he has a short one, a super tall one, a medium one? Like we don’t know.
