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LIVE Q&A WITH PROJECT X TUESDAY APRIL 3, 2PM ET!

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True Temper’s Chad Hall, director product marketing and global tour operations and True Temper shaft rep Simon Wilson will be here live fielding all your questions on Project X.  Join us!

CLICK HERE TO ASK QUESTIONS PRIOR TO THE CHAT.

The history and the future.

That’s what True Temper’s Chad Hall, director product marketing and global tour operations, said keeps him excited to go to work every day.

The True Temper brand certainly has plenty of history. The company’s Dynamic Gold line of iron shaft, introduced in 1980, is still the gold standard to which all other iron shafts are compared.

On Tuesday, April 3, at 2 p.m. EDT GolfWRX members will have the chance to discuss True Temper’s legendary lines of iron and wood shafts with Hall and True Temper shaft rep Simon Wilson, as well as several new products that Hall and Wilson are excited about.

One of those new products is the Project X line of wood shafts, which debuted last year at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship at the Old Course at St. Andrews. That week, 72 players decided to put the shafts in play – 61 Project X Blue shafts, and 11 of the lighter weight Project X Black shafts.

Since that time, several players, including PGA Champion Y.E. Yang, 14-time major championship winner Tiger Woods and Jason Dufner have used the Project X PXi iron shaft, a lighter version of the Project X iron shaft that closer mirrors its performance and feel.

“When players try the Dynamic Gold XL [a lighter version of the original Dynamic Gold shaft], they can usually tell the difference right away,” Hall said. “But with the PXi, they don’t immediately notice the difference in feel. But they notice the difference in performance on Trackman.”

Dufner, who finished runner-up at the 2012 PGA Championship, picked up approximately 7 mph in ball speed with the PXi in his 4 iron, a claim Hall said that his company doesn’t advertise but is entirely possible with the PXi.

“In my 11 years at True Temper, I believe it’s the best shaft we’ve ever made,” Hall said. “Pros have told us that they actually hit the shafts too far … In 10 years, I believe that we’ll still be talking about the PXi.”

If the True Temper has a most valuable player on its them, it might be Wilson, who has become a popular figure in the world of golf social media (you can follow him@pgatourshaftrep).

Wilson spends his time before the Masters tournament working with PGA Tour players in the United States, and after that heads to the European Tour, where he has built a stable of players that have come to depend on the performance of Project X shafts – names that include Matteo Manassero and Luke Donald, who won the World Golf Championships-Cadillac Championship with the Project X Black 7.0 shaft in his driver.

The Project X line has already claimed six PGA Tour wins this season, a number that is sure to grow as the season progresses. Please, join us for the chat, where Hall will be fielding product specific questions, and Wilson will handle questions that deal directly with the tours. No question is too specific. Take dead aim, and fire away.

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  1. Cecil Adams

    Mar 28, 2012 at 11:36 pm

    What is the real difference in Project X black and Project X blue. Which would you reccomend for a golfer with a slower speed golf swing.

  2. Cecil Adams

    Mar 28, 2012 at 11:35 pm

    What is the real difference in Project X black and Project X blue. Which would you reccomend for a golfer with a 90 speed golf swing.

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Rasmus Højgaard WITB 2024 (April)

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  • Rasmus Højgaard what’s in the bag accurate as of the Zurich Classic.

Driver: Callaway Ai Smoke Triple Diamond (10.5 degrees)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Tensei 1K Blue 60 TX

3-wood: Callaway Ai Smoke Triple Diamond Prototype (16.5 degrees)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Tensei 1K White 80 TX

Utility: Callaway Apex UW (21 degrees)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Tensei AV Raw White 85 TX

Irons: Callaway Apex Pro (3), Callaway X Forged (4-PW)
Shafts: KBS $-Taper 130

Wedges: Callaway Jaws Raw (52-10S, 56-10S, 60-06C)
Shafts: KBS Tour 130 X

Putter: Odyssey Ai One Milled Eight T DB

Grips: Golf Pride MCC

Check out more in-hand photos of Hojgaard in the forums.

 

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Rory McIlroy WITB 2024 (April)

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  • Rory McIlroy what’s in the bag accurate as of the Zurich Classic. 

Driver: TaylorMade Qi10 (9 degrees)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Black 6 X

3-wood: TaylorMade Qi10 (15 degrees)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Black 8 X

5-wood: TaylorMade Qi10 (18 degrees)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Black 9 X

Irons: TaylorMade Proto (4), TaylorMade Rors Proto (5-9)
Shaft: Project X 7.0 (4-9)

Wedges: TaylorMade MG4 (46-09SB, 50-09SB, 54-11SB), Titleist Vokey Design WedgeWorks (58-K @59)
Shafts: Project X 6.5 (46-54), Project X 6.5 Wedge (60)

Putter: TaylorMade Spider Tour X3
Grip: SuperStroke Zenergy Pistol Tour

Ball: 2024 TaylorMade TP5x

Grips: Golf Pride MCC

Check out more in-hand photos of Rory McIlroy’s WITB in the forums.

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Spotted: Nate Lashley’s Ping PLD “Wolverine” putter

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Ping PLD putters have been a very common site on profesional tours. Pros seem to gravitate toward the PLD line’s custom options and precision milling. We have seen the PLD line expanded over the years, but we haven’t seen too many, if any, large mallets.

This week we spotted a PLD putter in Nate Lashley’s bag that has a similar look to the old Ping Wolverine head shape. This putter is a large mallet with the famous “claws” on the outside and oval center that housed the alignment aid.

Nick’s putter has the PLD logo on the back but also looks like it might have an insert installed on the face. It is hard to tell but at the address picture, it looks like the face is a lighter material than the rest of the putters. The putter is center-shafted and should be face-balanced with a high MOI for stability and forgiveness on mishits. The sole is completely milled and has no markings of name or technologies that might be present in the head. A single white site line is on the top of the putter for alignment.

Nick’s putter is finished off with a chrome steel shaft and a Super Stroke Zenergy Flatso 2.0 grip in black and white.

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