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Tour Gear Round Up: Major Champion Using Steel Driver Shaft
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It has been a long three months with no PGA Tour golf and players have had plenty of time to make equipment changes.
We’ve already seen Justin Rose and Honma officially split after another big split earlier this year between Sergio Garcia and Callaway.
So, what is the latest news this week?
Jimmy Walker
The headline story so far from the Charles Schwab Challenge is that 2016 USPGA Champion Jimmy Walker has put a steel shaft in play in his driver.
This is a very rare move for a Tour Pro, or even an amateur for that fact.
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Walker has a True Temper X100 shaft in both his TS3 driver and TS3 3 wood, and said that he put them in after practising with his old steel shafted Titleist 970 fairway wood.
“It all started a couple of months ago,” Walker said.
“We got home and there was nothing to do so I got out my original Titleist 970 fairway metal, starting hitting it, and was blown away by how well it worked.”
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Brooks Koepka
Koepka is still using the Mavrik Sub Zero. (Photo by Tom Pennington/Getty Images)
We reported earlier in the year that, the World No.3 and four-time Major winner, put in a Calaway Mavrik Sub Zero driver. As this image shows of Koepka, with his new moustache, he has kept it in play. It remains to be seen if he has made any changes.
Sergio Garcia
Sergio looks to be using a Ping Glide 2.0 wedge. (Photo by Tom Pennington/Getty Images)
Having split with Callaway earlier in the year, Sergio went to an almost full-bag of Ping clubs. However, a video on social media during lockdown showed him using the Honma TR20 driver so questions began to arise as to whether he was signing with the company after they split with Rose. We haven’t seen many images of Garcia this week, but the one we have seen shows him still using a Ping wedge – there’s one club we know of so far!
Rickie Fowler
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Having gone back to his Cobra King F9 Speedback driver earlier in the year, Fowler has remained using it. His current model has two strips of lead-tape on the sole to add a bit of extra weight.
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He was also wearing a pair of Puma shoes during practice with the words ‘ENJOY GOLF’ on them. Nice.
During the break we also saw Rickie put in a new set of Cobra rev33 blades, which he used during the Driving Relief match.
Rory McIlroy
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The World No.1 doesn’t look to have made any gear changes over this period without golf, and was pictured still using his Spider X putter fitted with a KBS shaft during practice for the Charles Schwab Challenge.
We haven’t seen too images from the Charles Schwab Challenge yet but we’re sure to find out more as the tournament progresses, make sure to check back on this page.
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