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JJ Spaun credited a change of putter for his opening round of 64 at the BMW Championship – saying he’s put an “old faithful” flat stick back in the bag.<\/p>\n
Spaun tied for the lead at the second FedExCup Playoff event after sinking seven birdies and just one bogey in his first round at Bellerive Country Club in St Louis.<\/p>\n
The 2025 US Open champion says he’s gone back to the L.A.B. putter he used to drain that monster winning putt at Oakmont last year after giving it a “timeout” for not behaving as it should.<\/p>\n
Spaun switched putter brands recently, but after a T34 at the FedEx St Jude Championship on Sunday he went back to the flat stick that brought him his Major championship glory.<\/p>\n
“I putted really nice. Put the old faithful back in, my old L.A.B. putter,” Spaun confirmed after his first round at the BMW Championship.<\/p>\n
“So it was on timeout for about two months and, you know, kind of like kids when they’re not behaving, you put them in timeout for a little bit and then they start listening better and cooperating.<\/p>\n
“So I think it learned its lesson being in timeout.”<\/p>\n
Spaun explained that he “needed a little bit of change” after Memphis following his couple of months with a new putter, saying that work he put in on his stroke leaned more into a return to the L.A.B.<\/p>\n
“I think the things that I worked on on my stroke really helps with the technology of the L.A.B. So I think my stroke’s in a better place. I think that’s kind of what happened to me last year, so proved today that I was rolling it nice.”<\/p>\n
Spaun stars on greens at BMW Championship<\/p>\n
Spaun ranked third in the field in Strokes Gained: Putting with 3.303 after making 132 feet of putts at Bellerive with the very same putter that provided the catalyst for his stunning US Open success.<\/p>\n
“It’s the same one. Same one that I used at Oakmont last year,” he confirmed. “All of last year and most of the year this year.<\/p>\n
“I’ve been through two,” Spaun added about his putters since Oakmont. “I went to like an OZ, the OZHS OZ1 [OZ.1i HS] or something, and that’s the L.A.B. heel-shafted one.<\/p>\n
“And then after that then I went to a completely different brand and had a putter with toe swing. So if you want to feel some toe swing, L.A.B. doesn’t really make those, so I had to go to a completely different brand.<\/p>\n
“I had a really good honeymoon phase with the toe-swing putter and gained a lot of strokes at Travelers and wherever, Scotland and stuff, so I putted well there. But it was nice to feel some comfort and confidence in my old putter today.”<\/p>\n
Spaun says he started “feeling very uncomfortable over three-footers” with his other putter, and was happy to dial back in his old faithful again.<\/p>\n
“I just went back to kind of like my old practice structure and hitting more close range putts. I kind of got wrapped up into other things, aspects of my putting. So I put in a lot more work on short range distances last few days.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. JJ…","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"csco_display_header_overlay":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_volume":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[1598,1596,520,2609,2608],"class_list":["post-7097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-j-j-spaun","tag-bellerive-country-club","tag-bmw-championship","tag-j-j-spaun","tag-putter","tag-spaun","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/vive.im\/@fogolf\/117135208970416662","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/pros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/pros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/pros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/pros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/pros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/pros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/pros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/pros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/pros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fogolf.com\/pros\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}