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Dustin Johnson switches to TaylorMade Spider Tour Mini at The Players Championship

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Dustin Johnson didn’t putt well at the RBC Heritage his last time out, finishing 63rd in strokes gained: putting for the week. Thus, the world No. 1 made a couple of significant changes for this week at The Players: DJ is both using the AimPoint green reading method and putting with a TaylorMade Spider Mini.

If you’ve seen the leaderboard today, you know the changes are working so far. Johnson poured in more than 100 feet of putts, carding a 6-under 66 for his Thursday effort. He was 15th in strokes gained: putting among the morning wave of players.

DJ transitioned from the Spider Tour Black to the Spider Tour Mini we spotted at least week’s Wells Fargo Championship. He looks to be sticking with a SuperStroke Pistol GT 1.0 grip.

TaylorMade’s Global Communications Manager, Jory Mendes, told us Johnson liked the fact that the Mini blends his preferred putter shapes, saying the “forward CG of Mini allows him to feel the putter release in a similar manner to his blade and the mallet shape gives him the stable feeling of the Spider Tour.”

Johnson himself echoed these sentiments after his opening round

“I always liked putting with a blade, I putted with one forever…I’ve been using the Spider for the last year or so and this was kind of in between.”

Johnson told reporters after his round that he has historically struggled with reading TPC Sawgrass’ greens. He and his brother/caddie, Austin, refined the AimPoint technique during a nine-hole practice round with Adam Scott (also an AimPoint user) Wednesday.

“It’s definitely helped,” Johnson said about using AimPoint. “Because I’m a feel putter anyways and so the way you’re doing it really is you’re just feeling it, so it definitely, it works.”

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  1. Ruby Rhod

    May 12, 2018 at 2:40 pm

    OMG… OMG… OMG… 😮 😮 😮

  2. Boyo

    May 11, 2018 at 11:24 am

    AimPoint, or how to make a 6 hour round when you are a +10 golfer….

  3. Johnny Penso

    May 11, 2018 at 9:03 am

    If you’re a feel putter, isn’t that the wrong kind of putter for you?

  4. Mike Hunt

    May 11, 2018 at 8:09 am

    Is that grip sideways?

  5. acew/7iron

    May 11, 2018 at 8:09 am

    Like the back of the Millennium Falcon …

  6. Travis

    May 11, 2018 at 7:40 am

    That putter looks like a Scottish Fold cat…

    • Ruby Rhod

      May 12, 2018 at 2:47 pm

      No… it’s a purrfect penµs putter metaphor…. sooo obvious

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