In what can only be considered the most disjointed week in men’s professional golf of the year, with tournaments taking place in the Bahamas, Australia, and South Africa, there was still a lot going on when it comes to gear. And, were to break it all down.
Rory Switches Up Irons
Once again, all credit to the boots on the ground SMS On Tour, for being down in Australia for the Australian Open – look, if anyone has a connection and a place to stay, I’ll book my flights now for next years event!
Anyway, they got some amazing insight that Rory was messing around with a full set of TaylorMade P7CB irons down on the Australian sandbelt, but ended up building a combo set for the event, which included his standard Rory Proto blades in the short irons.
As a player who has spent his entire professional career playing mostly blade irons with a few cavity-back long irons mixed in occasionally, this is a very interesting development. My biggest question, though, is whether these new P7CB irons are unique to Rory and feature less offset and the TW2 grooves found on his and the P7TW Irons, or if they are truly a standard set of P7CBs – time for some extra digging!
Scottie Moves Into TaylorMade Qi4D
Just like Rory and Tommy Fleetwood before him, this week at Albany in the Bahamas, Scotty Scheffler switched into the TaylorMade Qi4D driver, and with the switch came a T-4 finish. This now means that the top 3 players in the world are using TaylorMade’s newest driver
The only difference between Scottie’s driver and the others who have already switched is that he is using a blue carbon face instead of the current stock proto blackish grey. This is made possible thanks to the process that allows the faces to be interchanged during the final step of manufacturing, and according to reports, the color choice is solely based on a visual preference, as reported by Golf Digest’s Jonathan Wall.
Callaway’s Quantum Goes Live
On Monday, Callaway’s newest Quantum drivers and fairway woods hit the USGA conforming list, and by Thursday, they were in play at the Hero World Challenge (Sam Burns) and down in South Africa (Tom McKibbon)
Sam went into the Triple Diamond model, while Tom switched into the slightly more forgiving Triple Diamond MAX. No word on what this new driver contains as far as technology is concerned but players must certainly be enjoying the performance.
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