Tiger Woods’ Winning WITB: 2018 Tour Championship

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6 years ago

Sep 22, 2018

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Driver: TaylorMade M3 460 (9.5 degrees)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Diamana D+ White 70TX

3 Wood: TaylorMade M3 (13 degrees)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Diamana D+ White 80TX

5 Wood: TaylorMade M3 (19 degrees)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Diamana D+ White 80TX

Irons: TaylorMade TW-Phase1 prototype (3-PW)
Shafts: True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100

Wedges: TaylorMade Milled Grind Raw (56 and 60 degrees)
Shafts: True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400

Putter: Scotty Cameron Newport 2 GSS

Golf Ball: Bridgestone TourB XS

Grips: Golf Pride Tour Velvet Cord

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big jones

Oct 10, 2018 at 3:54 pm

I can relate to the LPGA WTIB, but not this one. Wasn’t it Mickelson who said he needed better sticks?

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J.R.

Sep 26, 2018 at 4:38 pm

Can you say Mizuno MP-9s?! I believe the Phase 1 happened back in 1990… lol

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- LJB
  
  Nov 18, 2018 at 12:40 am
  
  Yep
  
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Yogi Bear

Sep 26, 2018 at 4:01 am

oh, I could’a swore his driver was 44.874 and 1/3. 3 wood, 42.23 and 1/8. 5 wood 40.3 and 1/4. Hahahaha!! you guys kill me with this nonsense.

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Lee

Sep 26, 2018 at 12:37 am

I find it interesting that Tiger had a Ping grip on his putter…did anyone else notice this?

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- Tony
  
  Sep 26, 2018 at 10:29 am
  
  This is the grip he’s been using since his amateur days. Despite all of the different grips that have come out over the last decades, he likes this one the best. And he has always blacked out the PING logo with a sharpie to keep it low key for his sponsors.
  
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Bob

Sep 24, 2018 at 10:47 pm

The best players use Taylormade. It’s interesting but no one wins with Callaway on tour. What does that tell you?

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- Thomas A
  
  Oct 3, 2018 at 9:19 am
  
  2017/2018 winners using Callaway: Aaron Wise, Patrick Reed, Brice Garnett, Phil Mickelson.
  
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- WAGs all day
  
  Oct 26, 2018 at 1:39 pm
  
  Tells me you have no idea wtf you are talking about
  
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Curt

Sep 24, 2018 at 7:43 pm

Shouldn’t it be illegal for other golf companies to just copy clubs?

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- John Bennett
  
  Sep 24, 2018 at 8:13 pm
  
  Like everything titleist and Cameron put out?
  
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Rock

Sep 24, 2018 at 5:37 pm

I’m gonna get Tiger’s exact set of clubs… so I can feeeel what he feeeels… booyah!!!

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Ricky J Tomes

Sep 24, 2018 at 4:14 pm

I wonder who really makes those TW proto-type irons? Could it be Miura?

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- namnam
  
  Sep 25, 2018 at 4:34 am
  
  A very interesting article on the topics. Please keep posting more on this. For more info/
  
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JP

Sep 24, 2018 at 2:06 pm

I like how he abuses his putter. The thing has won him a ton and earlier this year I saw him jamming it in the holes on the practice green scooping golf balls out. I’m worried about scratching my $179 putter. He doesn’t GAF. It was great seeing it.

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Steve Cantwell

Sep 24, 2018 at 1:16 pm

Probably a stupid question, but why do people care what shafts Tiger Woods uses? Do they expect the same results if they were to use the same product?

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- MacAttack67
  
  Sep 24, 2018 at 2:41 pm
  
  He uses Dynamic Gold in his irons. The members here love to trash Dynamic Gold for hundreds of reasons yet it is still the #1 shaft on Tour by a mile and is played by the best players. Maybe Phil should switch back?
  
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- Ricky J Tomes
  
  Sep 24, 2018 at 4:10 pm
  
  The funny thing is people do expect the same results from using the same equipment he uses. Along, with the rest of the buying industry. That very thing is what drives the industry. Look how they market clubs and shafts and balls. Funny I Know.
  
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- Benny
  
  Sep 29, 2018 at 11:01 am
  
  Would you also like to know what car he drives? Or maybe what he eats for lunch? Follow them on Twitter? Color of his underwear… wait what?
  
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Andrew Tursky

Sep 24, 2018 at 10:34 am

Many people are questioning Tiger’s wood shafts. We’ve confirmed directly through Mitsubishi and Darrell that he’s playing Mitsubishi’s “Diamana D+ White” 70 gram in his driver and 80 gram in his fairway woods.

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- Jon
  
  Sep 25, 2018 at 7:08 am
  
  Andrew – can you use the power of Golfwrx and the Golfnerdery gods to get the details of the loft/lie of his irons – in fact I think this would be a welcome addition to all WITB. Thanks.
  
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- Tim
  
  Sep 25, 2018 at 4:19 pm
  
  He had Tensei orange or white prior, do we know why he switched?
  
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Andy

Sep 24, 2018 at 6:26 am

What loft is his PW? What’s the gap between it and his 56?

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- JuannyBravo
  
  Sep 24, 2018 at 10:25 am
  
  lol. Tiger doesn’t need a gap wedge
  
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- Karl
  
  Sep 24, 2018 at 11:56 am
  
  I believe it’s 50 degrees for his PW. Old school lifts.
  
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- Jon
  
  Sep 25, 2018 at 7:07 am
  
  Great question. Also, 3-PW means nothing these days, it would be nice if they could list the loft/lie so we could know in much the same way as woods and hybrids are listed.
  
  And then of course change them to his lofts then we will all play like him 🙂
  
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travis

Sep 24, 2018 at 2:59 am

Well, this might be one of those clubs that does not fit for everyone, I might be lucky enough to be in the general targeted audience. Although it may not be the greatest club, but it’s not too bad either

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D Mack

Sep 23, 2018 at 8:07 pm

It’s the D+ LTD, I have one n my diver (S) flex. Smooth feeling shaft that I know. Long too.

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Fred

Sep 23, 2018 at 7:53 pm

It’s the df series not the d+

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Travis

Sep 23, 2018 at 7:32 pm

HE’S BAAAACK!!!

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Ryan Michael

Sep 23, 2018 at 7:20 pm

Wrong shafts he uses the newer line not the old school ones that are 73 and 83 grams.

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dat

Sep 23, 2018 at 12:00 pm

Was the Cameron sent in for refinishing work? How current is that photo?

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Ben

Sep 23, 2018 at 10:09 am

What´s about the length of the wood shafts? He has far less clubhead speed than at the beginning of the season.

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- Kevin
  
  Sep 24, 2018 at 11:39 am
  
  I’m curious about shaft length too, but I don’t think that is why his clubhead speed is down a little. this week he FINALLY brought is ‘range swing’ to the course. Just watch video of his smooth, controlled swing while warming up then he gets to the 1st tee and comes out of his shoes and sprays it all over the place! You would think he’d have figured that out a long time ago but he did this week. Hopefully he keeps it going at the Ryder Cup.
  
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Matt

Sep 23, 2018 at 6:57 am

Driver is Diamana D+ LTD 70 TX
3 wood and 5 wood are Diamana D+ LTD 80 TX

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- Jim
  
  Sep 23, 2018 at 6:43 pm
  
  Yea they kinda really really messed up that one.
  
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Marius Bjone

Sep 23, 2018 at 3:28 am

Are you sure he’s not playing the Diamana DF-series?

/MB

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- Matt
  
  Sep 24, 2018 at 10:37 am
  
  Forsure the Diamana LTD D+ graphics
  
  Typically he has been 44.75″ driver
  roughly 42.5 and 41.5 in the fairways
  
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  - Matt
    
    Sep 24, 2018 at 5:41 pm
    
    Correction: It was 44.875″ for the driver… not 44.75… my bad
    
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A shocking Backstryke putter appearance + 7 interesting gear photos from the Zurich Classic

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Apr 25, 2024

Andrew Tursky

Welcome to New Orleans, where TPC Louisiana plays host to the 2024 Zurich Classic. In between breakfast beignets and nightly Creole feasts, PGA Tour players are also competing in the unique two-man format at the Zurich this week.

Although the vibes in Nawlins are a bit lighter-fare than the recent back-to-back competitions the Masters and the RBC Heritage signature event), the gear news was no less serious this week.

We spotted some recent changes from Rory McIlroy, a very rare Odyssey Backstryke putter, dove into the bag of legendary New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees, and spotted Patrick Cantlay continuing to test new equipment.

Get your beads out and crack your crawfish, because it’s time for an equipment rundown from The Big Easy (meaning New Orleans, of course, not Ernie Els).

See all of our photos from the Zurich Classic here

Rory’s on-and-off lob wedge

Since the end of 2023, Rory McIlroy has had an on-again, off-again relationship with a Titleist Vokey K-Grind lob wedge. In his last start, it was on, and the wedge is back in the bag again this week. We got a great look at the complicated grind that McIlroy uses.

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A full look into McIlroy’s bag above also shows that he switched out of the TaylorMade BRNR Mini Copper that he used at the RBC Heritage, and he’s back into the Qi10 core 3-wood. As we discussed last week, McIlroy will likely keep the BRNR around as a course-specific club, trading it in and out for the 3-wood.

See Rory McIlroy’s full 2024 WITB from the Zurich here

Turning Back the clock

Unless Tommy Gainey is in the field, it’s unlikely you’ll ever see Odyssey’s Backstryke technology make an appearance on the PGA Tour.

But then, when you least expect it, Russ Cochran shows up.

For more than a decade – since the 2013 Sony Open in Hawai’i – Cochran has been stuck on 599 PGA Tour starts. This week will be his 600th.

Cochran is in the field at the Zurich this week playing alongside Eric Cole, whose regular caddie is Reed Cochran, Russ’s son.

The Backstryke putter was first released back in 2010, and its unique design helps shift the axis point of the putter closer to the CG of the head. And, the putter is getting a nod this week at the Zurich Classic, thanks to Cochran’s 600th career PGA Tour start.

The putter is certainly awesome, but don’t forget to check out Cochran’s full WITB from this week.

Drew Brees with a Super Bowl winning Scotty Cameron putter

Drew Brees, a legendary retired quarterback for the hometown New Orleans Saints, made an appearance at the Zurich’s Wednesday Pro-Am, playing alongside Zach Johnson, Ryan Palmer, and current Saints QB Derek Carr.

Brees’ bag included a TaylorMade Stealth2 Plus driver, a BRNR Mini 13.5-degree, a Stealth 5-wood, a mixed set of P-790 and P-760 irons, Milled Grind Hi-Toe wedges, and a custom Scotty Cameron “New Orleans Saints” putter, which Scotty made for Brees following his Super Bowl MVP-winning performance in 2010.

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It should also be noted that Brees has his Venmo QR code as a bag tag.

If you’re gambling with Brees on the course, just know that not having cash won’t work as an excuse.

Brilliant.

See Drew Brees’ full WITB from the Zurich here

Stricker’s unrecognizable putter

Steve Stricker has made numerous upgrades to his bag recently, including a new TSR3 driver and T100 irons, but his longtime Odyssey White Hot No. 2 putter is still going strong. It’s the most recognizable unrecognizable putter ever.

Here’s a better look at Stricker’s flatstick, which he started using back in 2007.

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Patrick Cantlay has opened the equipment-switching floodgates

Over on the PGA Tour’s Equipment Report this week, we covered Cantlay’s recent switch into Ping Blueprint S irons, and a Titleist TSR2 driver.

Cantlay hadn’t switched irons for about seven years, so the iron switch he made at The 2024 Masters came as a shock to the norm. He simply isn’t one to change gear very often, so anytime Cantlay makes a switch, it’s news.

It seems the floodgates of equipment testing have opened up a bit for Cantlay, who was also spotted testing a custom Scotty Cameron blade putter on Tuesday this week. By Wednesday, Cantlay was back practicing with his familiar Scotty Cameron T5 Proto mallet, but it’s certainly something to keep an eye on going forward.

Daniel Berger’s custom Jailbird site lines

Berger, who’s currently using Odyssey’s Ai-One Mini Jailbird mallet putter, has a unique 3-dot, 2-line alignment on the crown of his navy-white-navy-white mallet putter. Looking down at the putter, it’s easy to see why this alignment system would help; it just seems impossible to set up to the ball off-center, or misaligned to the target.

Also, for anyone worried, you can rest easy. Yes, he’s still playing the 2013 TaylorMade TP MC irons, which we highlighted in our recent “Modern Classics: Old vs. New” video testing series.

FitzMagic teams back up

Brothers Matthew and Alex Fitzpatrick are teaming up once again at the Zurich this year, and Bettinardi Golf hooked them up with some festive “FitzMagic” headcovers to match this week.

See what else is in Alex Fitzpatrick’s WITB here

And, with that, we say goodbye to the Zurich Classic in New Orleans. Don’t forget to check out all of our photos from this week, including 30 unique photo galleries full of equipment photos.

We’ll see you next week in Texas for the 2024 CJ Cup Byron Nelson!

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