Equipment
Bryson DeChambeau is going old school at the RBC Heritage
This week at the RBC Heritage, Bryson DeChambeau and his sponsor Cobra-Puma Golf are taking the word heritage seriously, and golfers can get in on the trend.
Bryson is keeping it old school with a full line of Heritage clothing from Puma (hat, polo, cardigan, chinos, belt and shoes) that golfers can buy.
On April 14, Cobra will also release a limited-edition King F7 driver with a wood grain finish that’s designed to make the titanium-and-carbon-fiber club head look like a modern-day persimmon. The King F7 Wood Grain LE will sell for $349.
Correction: This story originally indicated that DeChambeau would use a Cobra King F7 Wood Grain driver at the RBC Heritage. He will use a Cobra King LTD driver in the tournament.
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Why Rory McIlroy will likely use the new TaylorMade BRNR Mini Driver Copper at the RBC Heritage
Although we spotted Rory McIlroy testing the new TaylorMade BRNR Mini Driver Copper last week during practice rounds at the Masters, he ultimately didn’t decide to use the club in competition.
It seems that will change this week at the 2024 RBC Heritage, played at the short-and-tight Harbour Town Golf Links in Hilton Head.
When asked on Wednesday following his morning Pro-Am if he’d be using the new, nostalgic BRNR Copper this week, McIlroy said, “I think so.”
“I like it,” McIlroy told GolfWRX.com on Tuesday regarding the BRNR. “This would be a good week for it.”
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According to Adrian Rietveld, the Senior Manager of Tour at TaylorMade, the BRNR Mini Driver can help McIlroy position himself properly off the tee at the tight layout.
Here’s what Rietveld told GolfWRX.com on Wednesday:
“For someone like Rory, who’s that long at the top end of the bag, and then you put him on a course like Harbour Town, it’s tough off the tee. It’s tight into the greens, and you have to put yourself in position off the tee to have a shot into the green. It kind of reminds me of Valderrama in Spain, where you can be in the fairway and have no shot into the green.
“I’m caddying for Tommy [Fleetwood] this week, so I was walking the course last night and looking at a few things. There’s just such a small margin for error. You can be standing in the fairway at 300 yards and have a shot, but at 320 you don’t. So if you don’t hit a perfect shot, you could be stuck behind a tree. And then if you’re back at 280, it might be a really tough shot into the small greens.
“So for Rory [with the BRNR], it’s a nice course-specific golf club for him. He’s got both shots with it; he can move it right-to-left or left-to-right. And the main thing about this club has been the accuracy and the dispersion with it. I mean, it’s been amazing for Tommy.
“This was the first event Tommy used a BRNR last year, and I remember talking to him about it, and he said he couldn’t wait to play it at Augusta next year. And he just never took it out of the bag because he’s so comfortable with it, and hitting it off the deck.
“So you look at Rory, and you want to have the tools working to your advantage out here, and the driver could hand-cuff him a bit with all of the shots you’d have to manufacture.”
So, although McIlroy might not be making a permanent switch into the new TaylorMade BRNR Mini Driver Copper, he’s likely to switch into it this week.
His version is lofted at 13.5 degrees, and equipped with a Fujikura Ventus Black 7X shaft.
See more photos of Rory testing the BRNR Mini here
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It seems like the RBC Heritage is full of new gear to be spotted, and you can add TaylorMade’s P-UDI utility irons to that list.
We spotted a 17-degree P-UDI 2-iron in Nick Dunlap’s bag yesterday, and now have some photos of both the 3- and 4-irons. Nick has his P-UDI 2-iron setup with a Project X HZRDUS Black 4th Gen 105g TX shaft.
From what we can tell, this new P-UDI utility iron looks to have some of the usual TaylorMade technology as we can see the Speed Slot on the sole of the club for additional face flexibility. A toe screw is usually used to close off the hollow body design that will probably be filled with a version of TaylorMade’s Speed Foam that is present in the current iron lineup. This hollow body, foam-filled design should offer additional ball speed, soft feel, and sound, as well as an optimized CG for ball flight.
“Forged” is etched into the hosel, so we can assume that either the face, body, or both are forged for a soft and responsive feel. The club looks good from behind and at address, where we can see just a little offset and a topline that I would consider medium thickness. We don’t have the full details on what is under the hood or how many loft options will be available yet.
TaylorMade P-UDI 3-iron – 20°
TaylorMade P-UDI 4-iron – 22°
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- Collin Morikawa what’s in the bag accurate as of the RBC Heritage. More photos from the event here.
Driver: TaylorMade Qi10 LS (9 degrees)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Diamana D+ Limited 60 TX (45 inches)
3-wood: TaylorMade Qi10 (13.5 degrees)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Diamana D+ Limited 80 TX
5-wood: TaylorMade Qi10 (18 degrees)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Diamana D+ Limited 80 TX
Irons: TaylorMade P770 (4), P7MC (5-6), P730 (7-PW)
Shafts: True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue Mid 115 X100 (4-6), True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100 (7-PW)
Wedges: TaylorMade MG4 (50-SB09, 56-LB08), TaylorMade MG4 TW (60-TW11)
Shafts: True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400
Putter: TaylorMade TP Soto
Grip: SuperStroke Zenergy Tour 2.0
Grips: Golf Pride Z-Grip Cord
Ball: TaylorMade TP5x
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Matt
Apr 28, 2017 at 2:37 pm
Just missing the upside down u-shaped knot grain at the toe end – that would be funny. Pretty outstanding winning the US Amateur doing his own thing. Sign of the times unfortunately that he’s been marketed to hell and back already by an agent and sponsor for borrowing a few unorthodox strategies (the old one length irons idea, the mechanics of Moe Norman’s swing and Pelz’s wedge strategy…) Needs a few years to prove himself.
Simon
Apr 18, 2017 at 4:09 pm
Cleveland did a much better job wth the persimmon look with the Classic driver
Mark
Apr 14, 2017 at 9:37 am
More interested in his image than his swing. Golfers get respected for their skills, not number of Instagrams.
Shanks Happen
Apr 13, 2017 at 2:58 pm
If it actually looked like wood grain, than it would great. In its current state, this thing looks terrible.
Daniel
Apr 13, 2017 at 10:05 am
Not persimmon grain. Curly maple maybe. Grain is running all wrong if it were a true wooden headed club anyway.
krikets
Apr 12, 2017 at 9:46 pm
Man, by going old school I thought it was going to be about how he has finally decided to behave like a good boy, a gentleman, and not a total dee.eye.see.kay
The dude
Apr 12, 2017 at 6:01 pm
Whats the over/under on how many of these are sold….??
Bwall
Apr 12, 2017 at 3:22 pm
A lot of bashing on a guy that just finished 2nd in an actual PGA tour event less than 3 weeks ago.
Mr Muira
Apr 12, 2017 at 6:30 pm
….against guys who didn’t get the $224,000 that he did.
Brian
Apr 13, 2017 at 9:53 pm
He is inside the top 125 in both Fed Ex Points and Money List. I’d say, he is well on his way to keeping that PGA tour card.
Jon
Apr 12, 2017 at 1:26 pm
Cobra must have called these guys up for the persimmon skin: http://bigwigzskins.com/bigwigz/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage.tpl&product_id=118&category_id=10&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=1
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Apr 12, 2017 at 9:06 pm
Neither looks much like persimmon but Cobra’s loos better. That other one in the link is HORRENDOUS!
Jon
Apr 13, 2017 at 1:31 pm
I can’t disagree with you, but for $18 delivered to your door it is a helluva lot more affordable if you end up not liking it. Plus they have other designs as well. Personally, I would go to the local hobby shop and buy a Testers airbrush kit and paint my driver the color I wanted it.
mitch
Apr 12, 2017 at 12:18 pm
he is so occupied trying to “change” the game , and how people think.. he is never gonna win
Mike Honcho
Apr 12, 2017 at 11:19 am
Keep it up Bryson, keep experimenting and make it all about show. You’ll be finishing your PHD in Physics at SMU on a full time basis very soon and going to Golfer’s Anonymous meetings with Ty Tryon.
Lester Diamond
Apr 13, 2017 at 9:41 am
PHD? He better work on getting that Bachelor of Science degree first.
joro
Apr 12, 2017 at 9:31 am
Interesting, I worked at Cobra in the late 70s as Wood Maker, real wood, Persimmon and Laminated. I did all the custom work and made clubs for over 200 tour Pros including Jack, Trevino, Player and a ton more. Those were the days when the Baffler was born and the real backbone of the Company. At one time Karsten said at a convention that we made the best Persimmon out there and in those days it was all hand made. And by the way, Laminated Wood was much better than Persimmon, but Persimmon could be beautiful if you picked right piece. I wish they would bring those days back and get rid of these 350 yd. Bombs and bring everybody back in play. But, I guess technology and price has taken over, too bad.
cgasucks
Apr 12, 2017 at 11:54 am
As much as I like wooden clubs too (as I practice with them once every while) can you tell me why laminated is better than persimmon? I always thought it was the opposite.
RI_Redneck
Apr 12, 2017 at 10:02 pm
Laminated maple is denser than persimmon (more gms per cu in). They could actually make the perimeter weighted by hving a cavity in the center under the soleplate. Ping did this with many of their woods.
BT
MiloTheMarauder
Apr 12, 2017 at 12:47 pm
Take your pills Grandpa, you’re talking crazy again.
tlmck
Apr 12, 2017 at 5:15 pm
I believe the insert was more of a factor than the wood as far as strike goes, but laminate was more durable, especially in the neck.
JThunder
Apr 13, 2017 at 1:50 am
Watch the Jack Nicklaus special – he was hitting it 350 with persimmon. If Jack could do it with persimmon, balata and 43.5″ steel, then so can Dustin. You’d actually be penalizing the shorter hitters more, as they’d suffer greater losses in distance and even worse if they were off-line.
You could solve it all very easily; since everyone wants to “dial back” the golf ball and the longer hitters, then just level the playing field entirely and modify all golf courses to Par 3 only. Think of the money saved, the quickness of rounds, 2 golf courses in the footprint of 1…
Then you can have your “one ball to rule them all”, and Pelz will finally be correct that every golfer needs 7 wedges.
Nevin
Apr 12, 2017 at 8:26 am
That looks pretty cool. I’m happy with my driver, but if they came out with a 3 wood that was painted that was, I’d be very interested.
ooffa
Apr 12, 2017 at 8:21 am
This guy is a walking gimmick. One length irons, side saddle non conforming putters. Now a a tricked out driver and some crappy old clothes. He should spend more time practicing then doing this circus clown act to get headlines.
mlecuni
Apr 12, 2017 at 8:36 am
Same story when i saw the sbk2017 thing, i knew why some didn’t perform well at Augusta.
They are less focus on the game.
chip
Apr 12, 2017 at 2:28 pm
You seriously think Rickie, Jordan, JT, and Smylie didnt perform because they were thinking about their Spring Break trip following the tournament? Come on now.
Tyson Rochambeau
Apr 12, 2017 at 10:15 am
Cobra got played by this clown. Bet he doesn’t make the cut.
offa
Apr 12, 2017 at 10:48 am
Small minds have a hard time accepting someone that is different from the norm. It’s OK, it’s not your fault. You were born that way.
iShankEveryArticle
Apr 12, 2017 at 8:02 am
Cool finish on the club. This guy sure gets a lot of pub…meanwhile Jon Rahm is doing great in his rookie year and never gets any articles.
He's right
Apr 12, 2017 at 9:33 am
He is
Dylanr
Apr 12, 2017 at 12:03 pm
Jon Rahm isn’t a rookie as defined by the PGA Tour anymore. Neither is Bryson. http://www.pgatour.com/fantasy/rookie-rankings.html