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Tiger Woods wasted no time breaking in the newest version of his Nike Free-inspired golf shoe, the TW ’14.

Woods wore the shoes during all four rounds at The Players Championship in route to his fourth win on the PGA Tour in 2013, and his first win of The Players since 2001.

Like the TW ’13, the new model is designed to mimic the natural motion of the foot. That gives Woods a better connection to the ground, as well as a freedom of movement that he says allows him to release more power in his swings.

“With this shoe, we worked diligently to take every detail to a new level,” said Tobie Hatfield, Athlete Projects Innovator in Nike’s Innovation Kitchen, in a Nike press release.

According to Hatfield, Woods wanted more stability in the new shoe, which was accomplished by instituting Nike’s Dynamic Flywire technology — Nylon fibers that decrease weight and add stability — into the upper portion. The Flywire technology moves with him, but stabilizes his foot when he swings, Hatfield says.

The breathability of the waterproof shoe was also improved by using a full mesh tongue.

Nike TW 14 White FlywireNike TW 14 White Outsole

The TW ’14 will be available on June 7th, and will sell for around $180. The shoes will come in Black (with red and silver accents) and White (with dark grey and red accents)  and will be released in a Grey/Black/Blue/Green colorway on August 1.

They will also be available through Nike’s NikeID store ($225), which allows consumers to choose a wide variety of color and personalization options, as well and two different upper constructions — waterproof or breathable, which is a NikeID exclusive. Through NikeID, consumers can also choose either a spiked or non-spiked outsole.

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Check out more photos and more colorways in the gallery below.

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  2. Oliver

    Jun 19, 2013 at 7:08 pm

    I bought the white TW 14 and walked on one of our difficult course with hills on 18 holes and only slight pain I experienced but not from the shoes, but from just being tired. The shoes stayed balance and was comfortable over all. I’m glad I waited for the TW 14 since I didn’t like the TW 13’s toe area.

  3. Chris

    Jun 4, 2013 at 2:24 pm

    Purchased the black for my boyfriend, hope he loves them.

  4. Troy Vayanos

    May 20, 2013 at 4:28 pm

    I love the new colours, much better than the white they originally started out with.

  5. Brian

    May 15, 2013 at 11:34 am

    I’d buy the Nike ID in a flash – if they take off the silly TW logo. Not a chance I will buy them with that. And I know lots of other golfers that agree. Not sure why Nike hasn’t figured this out.

    • Gtech

      Jun 5, 2013 at 6:48 pm

      Really Brian? On what planet would Nike using the most recognized golfer in the world and putting a small emblem on the tongue is a bad move?
      Somewhere a village is missing its idiot.

    • lloyd duffield

      Jun 19, 2013 at 5:21 pm

      BECAUSE BRIAN THERE MADE FOR TIGER WOODS AND THE TW LOGO IS ON THE BACK AND THE BOTTOM AND IT LOOKS GREAT AND ALOT OF GOLFERS WOULD AGREE

  6. Stephen

    May 14, 2013 at 4:50 pm

    I love the TW 13s, should of kept the simple design. 🙂

  7. Golfsmith7

    May 14, 2013 at 10:37 am

    Really loving the NIke ID option most likely will design my own pair!

  8. Ryan

    May 14, 2013 at 10:14 am

    NIKE ID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  9. JL

    May 13, 2013 at 8:06 pm

    I hope they changed the shape of the toe box where it’s not so big and round. Can’t tell from the pics of course.

    • Lefty

      May 14, 2013 at 1:59 am

      They did in fact change the shape somewhat and the shoe appears slimmer. It´s hot!

  10. Tool Status

    May 13, 2013 at 2:42 pm

    These shoes are awesome. They look sick. Anyone who says different has poor taste.

    • BigKid

      May 15, 2013 at 4:25 pm

      I don’t think they look good. I like more classic looking golf shoes. Last year’s looked good in the white, but these look like you’re gonna go pump some iron after the round.

    • lloyd duffield

      Jun 19, 2013 at 5:17 pm

      I HAVE A PAIR OF THE BLACL TW14 SHOT MY BEST ROUND FIRST TIME WEARING THEM FEELS LIKE TRAINERS WITH SPIKES ON WICKED

  11. danny

    May 13, 2013 at 2:24 pm

    For as good as Nike is at marketing you’d think they would be able to share a couple decent photos of these.

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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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