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Watch how Jason Day’s TaylorMade prototype putter was made

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Jason Day’s custom-built TaylorMade Itsy Bitsy Spider putter is undoubtedly the hottest putter in golf. He’s won three out of his past four tournaments with the putter, including the 2015 PGA Championship and The Barclays — where he fired a final-round 62 thanks to holing more than 148 feet worth of putts.

Due to the putter’s high demand, TaylorMade released 20 exact replicas in The Vault on Aug. 20 for $750. Sorry, but they’re already sold out. But as a consolation, you can marvel at TaylorMade’s awesome video on how the prototype putters are built.

According to TaylorMade, Day’s putter is an Itsy Bitsy Spider Japan model, but the stock hosel is cut off, then welded with a #3 short slant neck hosel. It’s coated with a custom acrylic to achieve the dark grey finish, and has a face insert made of 80/20 insert — the same one used in TaylorMade’s Ghost Tour putters.

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He played on the Hawaii Pacific University Men's Golf team and earned a Masters degree in Communications. He also played college golf at Rutgers University, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism.

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  1. gunmetal

    Sep 7, 2015 at 2:44 pm

    1) As a clubmaker, there’s a lot of cool information scribbled on that napkin.
    2) Some guys are more particular than others on tour. I don’t think every tour pro has every club tweaked like this. The putter is pretty touchy feely. I don’t see Justin Rose having his iron heads deconstructed to this degree. Shaft them up to his specs (throw a little lead tape here and there), get the right grips on how he likes and make sure loft and lies are tight and he’s probably set. Shouldn’t most of us be doing that anyway?
    3) To the China bashers, Ping’s most exquisite putters to come out in a long time the Anser Milled lineup was all made in China. It’s all about quality control. Geography is irrelevant.

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  2. Fifler

    Sep 5, 2015 at 3:42 pm

    I miss the part where they tjeck and adjust loft, lie and sw.

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  3. Christopher

    Sep 5, 2015 at 11:09 am

    Isn’t the title of this article slightly misleading? This is how TaylorMade’s Jason Day prototype putter was made not how Jason Day’s TaylorMade prototype putter was made, I doubt craftsmen and women in the video made his putter!

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  4. Stu

    Sep 4, 2015 at 8:33 am

    The correlation between your off the shelf TM clubs and most PGA Tour players clubs is about
    the same as my (and most peoples”) golf game and the game they play. LOL

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    • christian

      Sep 4, 2015 at 7:59 pm

      Exactly. How can anybody remotely believe that TM (in this case) sell the same clubs at your local Golf Galaxy as their tour pros use? Especially after seeing this video?

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  5. Josh

    Sep 3, 2015 at 7:02 pm

    I’m a Titleist guy – this is the only non Titleist gamer in my bag the last 10-15 years. It just works for me. I wish they would release the black version.

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  6. Golfraven

    Sep 3, 2015 at 6:50 am

    Not impressed, too much glueing going on there.

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  7. James

    Sep 2, 2015 at 10:01 pm

    Why is the woman standing on her tip toes?

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  8. rymail00

    Sep 2, 2015 at 6:51 pm

    I’ve never been a fan of the spider putters, but the no alignment aid, matte black is nice.

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  9. Robert

    Sep 2, 2015 at 5:28 pm

    That is awesome. That finish is really cool. I’ve seen it on the tour issue DLL putter (It’s used instead of the black). When I first saw it I said, “Wow, why don’t they make all of then with that??”.

    Very cool putter. I hope to see more slant hosel mallets as having the toe hang can bring a new element into mallet putting.

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  10. Retail

    Sep 2, 2015 at 5:18 pm

    Now also please explain to the world this is why it will never come to retail!

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  11. How it was made

    Sep 2, 2015 at 3:30 pm

    In China with cheap plastic

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Daniel Berger WITB 2024 (April)

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  • Daniel Berger what’s in the bag accurate as of the Farmers Insurance Open. More photos from the event here.

Driver: Ping G430 LST (10.5 degrees)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Black 6 X

3-wood: TaylorMade Qi10 (15 degrees)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Black 7 X

6-wood: TaylorMade Qi10 Tour (21 degrees)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Black 8 X

Irons: TaylorMade P770 (3), TaylorMade Tour Preferred MC 2011 (4-PW)
Shafts: Project X Denali Blue 105 TX (3), Project X 6.5 (4-PW)

Wedges: Titleist Vokey Design SM9 (50-12F), Titleist Vokey Design SM10 (56-14F), Callaway Jaws Raw (60-08C)
Shafts: Project X 6.5 (50), True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400 (56, 60)

Putter: Odyssey Ai-One Jailbird Mini DB
Grip: SuperStroke Zenergy PistolLock 1.0

Grips: Golf Pride Tour Wrap

Ball: Titleist Pro V1

Check out more in-hand photos of Daniel Berger’s clubs in the forums.

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Heavy Artillery: A look at drivers in play at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans

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What are the driver and shaft combinations of the best golfers in the world? For gearheads, it’s an endlessly interesting question — even if we can only ever aspire to play LS heads and 7 TX shafts.

At this week’s Zurich Classic of New Orleans, GolfWRX got in-hand looks at the driver setups of a wealth of players.

Check out some of the most interesting combos below, then head to the GolfWRX forums for the rest, as well as the rest of our galleries from New Orleans.

Rory McIlroy

Driver: TaylorMade Qi10 (9 degrees @8.25)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Black 6 X
Grip: Golf Pride MCC

Alex Fitzpatrick

Driver: Ping G430 LST (10.5 degrees)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Black 6 X
Grip: Golf Pride MCC

Daniel Berger

Driver: Ping G430 LST (10.5 degrees @9)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Black 6 X
Grip: Golf Pride Tour Wrap

Rasmus Hojgaard

Driver: Callaway Paradym Ai Smoke Triple Diamond (10.5 degrees)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Tensei 1K Blue 60 TX
Grip: Golf Pride MCC

Alejandro Tosti

Driver: Srixon ZX5 Mk II LS (9.5 degrees @10.5)
Shaft: Project X HZRDUS T1100 75 6.5
Grip: Golf Pride MCC Plus4

James Nicholas

Driver: Titleist TSR3 (8 degrees, A1 SureFit setting)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus TR Blue 7 X
Grip: Golf Pride Tour Velvet

Kevin Streelman

Driver: Titleist TSR3 (10 degrees, D1 SureFit setting)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus TR Black 6 X
Grip: Golf Pride Tour Velvet

Sang-moon Bae

Driver: Callaway Paradym Triple Diamond (9+ @8)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Blue 6 X
Grip: Golf Pride Tour Velvet

Russ Cochran

Driver: Callaway Paradym Ai Smoke (9 degrees)
Shaft: Graphite Design Tour AD TP 6 X
Grip: Golf pride MCC Align 

MJ Daffue

Driver: Callaway Paradym Ai Smoke Max (10.5 degrees @9.5)
Shaft: Project X HZRDUS Smoke Green RDX 65 TX
Grip: Golf Pride ZGrip Cord Align

Check our more photos from the Zurich Classic here.

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Rasmus Højgaard WITB 2024 (April)

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  • Rasmus Højgaard what’s in the bag accurate as of the Zurich Classic.

Driver: Callaway Ai Smoke Triple Diamond (10.5 degrees)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Tensei 1K Blue 60 TX

3-wood: Callaway Ai Smoke Triple Diamond Prototype (16.5 degrees)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Tensei 1K White 80 TX

Utility: Callaway Apex UW (21 degrees)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Tensei AV Raw White 85 TX

Irons: Callaway Apex Pro (3), Callaway X Forged (4-PW)
Shafts: KBS $-Taper 130

Wedges: Callaway Jaws Raw (52-10S, 56-10S, 60-06C)
Shafts: KBS Tour 130 X

Putter: Odyssey Ai One Milled Eight T DB

Grips: Golf Pride MCC

Check out more in-hand photos of Hojgaard in the forums.

 

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