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TaylorMade unveils 2020 PGA Championship staff bag and headcovers (and we’re giving a set away!)

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TaylorMade has launched its commemorative staff bag, as well as headcovers, to celebrate the opening major of 2020 at TPC Harding Park.

For the first time in its 102-year history, the PGA Championship will be hosted in the Bay Area. To honor the occasion, the staff bag from TaylorMade is accented by the San Francisco Giants’ traditional cream, orange, and black colorway.

GIVEAWAY: TaylorMade PGA Championship Staff Bag and Headcovers! Super Limited!

The commemorative bag also features the TaylorMade logo in the same font used by the MLB franchise and is decorated by eight stars on the bag’s upper with each representing a Giants’ World Series victory.

The three stars in orange signals wins captured in San Francisco, while the five stars in white represent wins in New York before the club’s 1957 relocation.

The interior lining of the bag shows the San Francisco Chronicle headlines that followed each of the team’s most recent championships.

Additional nods to the city include stitching of Lombard Street on the handle, an outline of the city’s skyline on the lower paneling, and an image of the iconic Golden Gate and Bay Bridges across the base.

A WGH insignia acknowledges the 29th President of the United States, and the venue’s namesake, Warren G. Harding.

Reply with your favorite major moment in the forum thread below for a chance to win a staff bag and headcovers. These are not coming to retail!

GIVEAWAY: TaylorMade PGA Championship Staff Bag and Headcovers! Super Limited!

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Gianni is the Managing Editor at GolfWRX. He can be contacted at [email protected].

29 Comments

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  1. Ryan Smith

    Aug 9, 2020 at 11:48 pm

    Jean van de Velde at the 1999 Open at Carnoustie. Go Giants!

  2. Matthew Maddox

    Aug 9, 2020 at 8:32 pm

    Tigers most recent masters! Giants fan in GA…

  3. Robert Pace

    Aug 7, 2020 at 9:20 pm

    2019 Tiger winning

  4. James Moore

    Aug 7, 2020 at 1:54 pm

    Has to be tigers chip in at the back of 16th at Augusta think you could hit over a 1000 balls and never do that again.

  5. Erik LG

    Aug 6, 2020 at 9:41 pm

    Mr. Reed slipping on the green jacket in 2018!!!

  6. Duhwan Eum

    Aug 5, 2020 at 1:33 am

    Y.E. Yang beating Tiger at 2009 PGA Championship. Can’t forget the image of Yang lifting his TM Bag after the win.

  7. John Rally

    Aug 5, 2020 at 12:41 am

    1987 US Open. Held June 18-21 in San Francisco (Olympic Club). I was born June 19, 1987 – my Dad still made it to the course to witness Scott Simpson’s win on Sunday.

  8. TheManBones

    Aug 4, 2020 at 10:22 pm

    Tiger 2019 Masters, Redemption

  9. Kaven

    Aug 4, 2020 at 8:26 pm

    Rory rush to beat the dark and Phil Mickelson to win the 2014 PGA major

  10. jeff

    Aug 4, 2020 at 8:09 pm

    2009 Yang beats Woods

  11. Karl

    Aug 4, 2020 at 7:30 pm

    DJ overcoming the rules violation to win the US Open in 2016.

  12. Steve B

    Aug 4, 2020 at 7:17 pm

    Mike Weir winning the 2003 Masters, as a young man I can remember the immense pride I felt watching a Canadian win a major golf tournament. To this day i’ve yet to have that much of a rooting interest for any golf tournament.

  13. HENRY BROOKE

    Aug 4, 2020 at 5:00 pm

    Tigers chip in at 16 in 2005

  14. Chris R

    Aug 4, 2020 at 4:42 pm

    Phil’s 6 iron from the pine straw between the trees. One of the best shots in history!

  15. Michael Min

    Aug 4, 2020 at 4:07 pm

    Tiger vs Rocco in US open @ Torrey Pine.

  16. Derek Mulcahy

    Aug 4, 2020 at 2:41 pm

    Phil finishing second to Payne Stewart, and then years later he finally gets one of his own majors to win.

  17. Rasmus Aabye Kronstam

    Aug 4, 2020 at 2:01 pm

    Tiger winning in 2019, what a story.

  18. Matthew Wheeler

    Aug 4, 2020 at 1:24 pm

    Tiger hitting the putt at the 2000 pga championship to force the playoff with bob may.

  19. Kurtis Lee

    Aug 4, 2020 at 1:12 pm

    Tiger chip in on 16 at Augusta

  20. Dodger Fan

    Aug 4, 2020 at 12:58 pm

    bag looks great. Giants suck!

  21. Jared Brant

    Aug 4, 2020 at 12:54 pm

    Sergio Garcia vs Justin Rose playoff in 2017 at the Masters!!

  22. Robert K

    Aug 4, 2020 at 12:51 pm

    Daly in 91 at the PGA. A 9th alternate! Grip it and rip it!!!

  23. Spencer R

    Aug 4, 2020 at 12:43 pm

    2017 British Open, when Spieth when Birdie, Eagle, Birdie, Birdie on 14-17.

  24. Derek V Peterson

    Aug 4, 2020 at 12:23 pm

    Tiger vs Rocco US Open

  25. Patrick

    Aug 4, 2020 at 12:08 pm

    Tiger winning the Masters in 2019. What a comeback.

  26. Mike Witzmann

    Aug 4, 2020 at 12:07 pm

    Tiger 2008 !

  27. Max W

    Aug 4, 2020 at 12:05 pm

    Tiger vs Rocco in the 2008 US Open

  28. James Ernst

    Aug 4, 2020 at 12:03 pm

    Phil finally winning the Masters

  29. Bob Sullivan

    Aug 4, 2020 at 11:49 am

    Sweating profusely at Southern Hills to watch the GOAT in 2007

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Whats in the Bag

Kevin Tway WITB 2024 (May)

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

3-wood: TaylorMade Stealth 2 (15 degrees)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Diamana D+ 80 TX

5-wood: TaylorMade Stealth 2 (18 degrees)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Diamana D+ 90 TX

Irons: Wilson Staff Utility (2), Titleist T100 (4-9)
Shafts: Mitsubishi MMT 100 TX (2), True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100 (4-9)

Wedges: Titleist Vokey Design SM10 (48-10F @47, 52-12F @51, 56-14F), SM7 (60-10S)
Shafts: True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100 (48-56), True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400 (60)

Putter: Scotty Cameron T-5 Proto
Grip: Scotty Cameron Black Baby T

Grips: Golf Pride Tour Velvet Plus4

More photos of Kevin Tway’s WITB in the forums.

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Did Rory McIlroy inspire Shane Lowry’s putter switch?

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Editor’s note: This is an excerpt from a piece our Andrew Tursky originally wrote for PGATour.com’s Equipment Report. Head over there for the full article.

The timing of Lowry’s putter changeup was curious: Was he just using a Spider putter because he was paired with McIlroy, who’s been using a Spider Tour X head throughout 2024? Was Lowry just being festive because it’s the Zurich Classic, and he wanted to match his teammate? Did McIlroy let Lowry try his putter, and he liked it so much he actually switched into it?

Well, as it turns out, McIlroy’s only influence was inspiring Lowry to make more putts.

When asked if McIlroy had an influence on the putter switch, Lowry had this to say: “No, it’s actually a different putter than what he uses. Maybe there was more pressure there because I needed to hole some more putts if we wanted to win,” he said with a laugh.

To Lowry’s point, McIlroy plays the Tour X model, whereas Lowry switched into the Tour Z model, which has a sleeker shape in comparison, and the two sole weights of the club are more towards the face.

Lowry’s Spider Tour Z has a white True Path Alignment channel on the crown of his putter, which is reminiscent of Lowry’s former 2-ball designs, thus helping to provide a comfort factor despite the departure from his norm. Instead of a double-bend hosel, which Lowry used in his 2-ball putters, his new Spider Tour Z is designed with a short slant neck.

“I’ve been struggling on the greens, and I just needed something with a fresh look,” Lowry told GolfWRX.com on Wednesday at the 2024 Wells Fargo Championship. “It has a different neck on it, as well, so it moves a bit differently, but it’s similar. It has a white line on the back of it [like my 2-ball], and it’s a mallet style. So it’s not too drastic of a change.

“I just picked it up on the putting green and I liked the look of it, so I was like, ‘Let’s give it a go.’”

Read the rest of the piece over at PGATour.com.

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Webb Simpson equipment Q&A: Titleist’s new 2-wood, 680 blade irons, and switching to a broomstick Jailbird

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With seven career wins on the PGA Tour, including a U.S. Open victory, Webb Simpson is a certified veteran on the course. But he’s also a certified veteran in the equipment world, too. He’s a gearhead who truly knows his stuff, and he’s even worked closely with Titleist on making his own custom 682.WS irons.

On Wednesday at the 2024 Wells Fargo Championship, I caught up with Simpson to hear about his experience with Titleist’s new prototype 2-wood, how Titleist’s 680 Forged irons from 2003 ended up back in his bag, and why he’s switching into an Odyssey Ai-One Jailbird Cruiser broomstick putter this week for the first time.

Click here to read our full story about Simpson’s putter switch on PGATOUR.com’s Equipment Report, or continue reading below for my full Q&A with Simpson at Quail Hollow Club on Wednesday.

See Webb Simpson’s full WITB from the 2024 Wells Fargo Championship here

GolfWRX: It seems like you’ve been a little all over the place with your irons in the past six months or so, and now going back to the 680’s. Is that just a comfort thing? What’s been going on with the irons?

Webb Simpson: Titleist has been so great at working with me, and R&D, on trying to get an iron that kind of modernizes the 680. And so the 682.WS took the T100 grooves, but kinda took the look and the bulk and the build of the 680’s into one club. They’re beautiful, and awesome looking. I just never hit them that well for a consistent period of time. It was probably me, but then I went to T100’s and loved them. I loved the spin, the trajectory, the yardage, but again, I never went on good runs. Going through the ground, I couldn’t feel the club as well as with the blade. So last week, I’m like, ‘Alright. I’m gonna go back more for…comfort, and see if I can get on a nice little run of ball striking.’

So that’s why I went back.

 

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OK, that makes sense. I know you had done some 2-wood testing recently. Is that in the bag right now?

It’s like day-by-day. I used it at Hilton Head every day. Valero, I used it one round. And this week, me and my caddie will do the book every morning, and if it’s a day where we think we need it, we’ll just put it in and take the 3-wood out. I love it because it’s a super simple swap. Like, it doesn’t really change much.

Yeah, can you tell me about that club? I mean, we don’t really know anything about it yet. You know? I haven’t hit it or anything, obviously.

It has grooves like a 3-wood. Spin is perfect. And it’s honestly, like, everything is in the middle of a 3-wood and driver number. Trajectory, spin, carry, all of it. So, a Hilton Head golf course is almost too easy to talk about because, you know, there, so many holes are driver 3-wood.

Valero, our thinking was we had two par-5’s into the wind, and we knew that it would take two great shots to get there in two. So instead of hitting driver-driver, we just put it in. And I used it on those holes.

Hilton was a little easier because it was off-the-tee kind of questions. But Colonial will be a golf course where, you know, there’s a lot of driver or 3-woods. It’s kind of like a backup putter or driver for me now. I’ll bring it to every tournament.

So it’s, like, in your locker right now, probably?

Well, it would be. It’s in my house [because Webb lives near by Quail Hollow Club, and is a member at the course.] It’s in the garage.

Oh, yeah, that’s right. Do you know what holes you might use it out here if it goes in play? 

Potentially 15, depending on the wind. Second shot on 10. Could be 14 off the tee. The chances here are pretty low (that he’ll use the 2-wood). But, like, Greensboro would be an awesome club all day. I’m trying to think of any other golf courses.

There’s plenty that it’ll be a nice weapon to have.

It’s interesting, the wave of 2-woods and mini drivers. Like, it’s just really taken off on Tour, and all the companies have seemed to embrace it.

Yeah. The thing I had to learn, it took me, like, at least a week to learn about it is you gotta tee it up lower than you think. I kept teeing it up too high. You need it low, like barely higher than a 3-wood. And that was where I got optimal spin and carry. If you tee it up too high, you just don’t get as much spin and lose distance, I don’t know if that’s just a mini driver thing.

And you obviously have a Jailbird putter this week. What spurred that on?

Inconsistent putting. I’m stubborn in a lot of ways when it comes to my equipment, but I have to be open minded – I just hadn’t putted consistently well in a while. And I’m like, ‘Man, I feel my ball-striking coming along. Like I feel better; for real, better.’

If I can just get something in my hands that I’m consistent with. Being on Tour, you see it every year, guys get on little runs. I can put together four to five tournaments where I’m all the sudden back in the majors, or in the FedExCup Playoffs. You can turn things around quick out here. I’m like, ‘Man, whatever’s going to get me there, great.’

My caddie, David Cook, caddied for Akshay at the Houston Open and he putted beautifully. Then, I watched Akshay on TV at Valero, and he putted beautifully. And, I’m like, ‘I’m just going to try it.’

I’ve never tried it for more than a putt or two, and I just ordered what Akshay uses. It was pretty awkward at first, but the more I used it, the more I’m like, ‘Man, it’s pretty easy.’ And a buddy of mine who’s a rep out here, John Tyler Griffin, he helped me with some setup stuff. And he said at Hilton Head, he wasn’t putting well, then tried it, and now he makes everything. He was very confident. So I’m like, ‘Alright, I’ll try it.’”

And you’re going with it this week?

Hundred percent.

Alright, I love it. Thank you, I always love talking gear with you. Play well this week. 

Thanks, man.

See Webb Simpson’s full WITB from the 2024 Wells Fargo Championship here

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