Team TaylorMade is ready to roll at Augusta for the year's first major. Let's take a look at the biggest gear storylines heading into the first round starting with 5-time Masters Champion Tiger Woods.
Tiger put a Qi10 LS 10.5° driver and Qi10 Tour 15.0° 3-wood in play at The Genesis Invitational and has the same top of bag set up at The Masters. Here's what Tiger had to say about the 3-wood:
"I feel very comfortable with the 3-wood," Tiger said. "I had to find the right shaft for it and decided to switch the shafts and go with what I have on my driver. I wanted to find something I could draw a little bit better and this one is definitely that."
- Qi10 LS 10.5° driver (Graphite Design Tour AD VF 6 X)
- Qi10 Tour 15.0° 3-wood (Graphite Design Tour AD VF 7 X)
- M3 19.0° 5-wood (Diamana D+ Limited 80 TX)
- P·770 3-iron (Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100)
- P·7TW 4-PW (Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100)
- Milled Grind 3 56° TW (Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400)
- Milled Grind 4 60° TW (Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400)
SCOTTIE LOOKS FOR SECOND GREEN JACKET
Scottie Scheffler is one of the most consistent players on TOUR in almost every way possible, including with his equipment. The World No. 1 and 2022 Masters champ rarely makes changes and rolls into Augusta with the same bag set up that won him two starts in a row at the Arnold Palmer Invitational and THE PLAYERS.
Scottie's latest gear change came before API, his Spider Tour X Putter, which was a huge factor in his historic two-start stretch and will be crucial in his chase for a second green jacket. Here's Scottie's bag set up for the week:
- Qi10 8.0° driver (Ventus Black 7 X)
- Qi10 15.0° 3-wood (Ventus Black 8 X)
- P·7TW 5-PW (Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100)
- Spider Tour X (L-Neck)
- Hosel: L-Neck
- Length: 35.5’’
- Sight Line: True Path with Full Line
- Loft: 3°
- Lie: 72°
- Insert: Surlyn Pure Roll
- Grip: Golf Pride Pistol
COLLIN'S POTENTIAL PUTTER CHANGE
Collin Morikawa has tested putters this week and will switch into Spider Tour X with an L-neck hosel and "T" sight line. Collin will pair his new flat stick with three different Milled Grind 4 wedges: 50° SB, 56° LB and a new 60° LB.
The two-time major champ will also game a Qi10 LS 9.0° driver and Qi10 13.5° 3-wood.
A DETAILED LOOK THROUGH RORY'S BAG
Rory McIlroy's bag is one gear head will drool over. His Qi10 9.0° driver, 15.0° 3-wood and 18.0° 5-wood lead the way at the top of the bag before going into a now blended set of prototype irons. After visiting The Kingdom leading up to The Masters, Rory added a P·Series prototype 4-iron to his Rors Proto iron set. Rory said in a press conference at last week's Valero Texas Open that it launches higher than his P·760 and feels closer to what he feels in his Rors Proto 5-iron.
Take a dive through Rory's driver spec and full bag set up:
- Head: Qi10 9.0°
- Measured Loft: 8.25°
- Loft Sleeve: 1.5° sleeve set to one click lower
- Lie: 57.5°
- Shaft: Ventus Black 6X
- Length: 45''
- Tipping: 1’’
- Swingweight: D4
- Qi10 9.0° driver (Ventus Black 6X)
- Qi10 15.0° 3-wood (Ventus Black 8X)
- Qi10 18.0° 5-wood (Ventus Black 9X)
- P·Series Proto 4-iron (Project X 7.0)
- Rors Proto Irons 5-9 (Project X 7.0)
- Milled Grind 4 46° SB, 50° SB, 54° SB (Project X 6.5)
- Milled Grind 4 60° LB (Project X 6.5 Wedge)
- Spider Tour X Putter (SuperStroke Pistol Tour)
- 2024 TP5x Golf Ball (No. 1)
9-WOOD SEASON FOR TOMMY FLEETWOOD
Tommy Fleetwood has notoriously put a 9-wood in play in the past, including this year at the Dubai Desert Classic, and it returns to the bag at The Masters pending changing wind conditions. He will also play the Season Opener TP5x pix golf ball.
"You get a lot of courses where there's thick rough, firm greens and firm fairways and there's always a balance between having something that you can drive down the fairway but also something that you can hit into greens or out of the rough. I went higher up in loft in woods to find something that could do that. I don't like hitting hybrids and 7-wood numbers are too close to what my 5-wood produces so we found the 9-wood to fill that gap between my 5-wood at 250-yards and my 4-iron at 225-yards."Tommy Fleetwood
- Qi10 9.0° driver (Ventus TR Blue 6 X)
- BRNR Mini 13.5° (Ventus TR Blue 6 X)
- Qi10 18.0° 5-wood (Mitsubishi Kuro Kage 80 TX)
- Qi10 24.0° 9-wood
- P·7TW 4-PW (Project X 6.5)
- Hi Toe 3 52° (Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400)
- TP5x pix Season Opener
- Qi10 10.5° driver
- Qi10 16.5° 4-wood
- Stealth 21.0° 7-wood
- Stealth 24.0° 9-wood
- DJ Proto 4-PW
- Milled Grind 4 52°
- Milled Grind 4 60° LB
- Spider Tour V
- TP5x
- Qi10 LS 10.5° driver
- Qi10 16.5° HL 3-wood
- Qi10 21.0° 7-wood
- P·7MC 4-6
- P·7MB 7-PW
- Milled Grind 4 52° SB
- Milled Grind 4 56° LB
- Spider Tour X
- TP5x
- Qi10 LS 10.5° driver
- Qi10 16.5° HL 3-wood
- Qi10 18.0° 5-wood
- P·790 3-iron
- P·7MC 4-6
- P·7MB 7-PW
- Hi Toe 3 Chrome 56°, 60°
- TP Reserve B11
- TP5x
- Qi10 LS 10.5° driver
- Qi10 Tour 16.5° 4-wood
- Qi10 21.0° 7-wood
- P·7MC 4-PW
- Milled Grind 4 52°
- Milled Grind 4 56°
- Milled Grind 4 60°
- TP5x
- P·7MC 4-9
- Milled Grind 3 48°
- Milled Grind 4 52°
- Milled Grind 4 56°
- Milled Grind 4 60°
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