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How Tiger Woods’ front tooth was knocked out
If you saw photos of Lindsey Vonn’s boyfriend, Tiger Woods from her World Cup triumph in Italy you likely noticed two things.
This fantastic skeleton mask.
And when the mask was removed, a greater horror still
Here’s the explanation for the missing pearly white, per Woods’ agent, Mark Steinberg.
During a crush of photographers at the awards’ podium at the World Cup event in Italy, a media-member with a shoulder-mounted video camera pushed and surged toward the stage, turned and hit Woods in the mouth.
Adding another layer of intrigue: Deadspin suggests that the tooth that was knocked out was in fact a fake tooth, which Woods had been sporting since the events of Thanksgiving, 2009, which may have cost him the chomper.
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Equipment
Did Rory McIlroy inspire Shane Lowry’s putter switch?
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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Equipment
Spotted: Tommy Fleetwood’s TaylorMade Spider Tour X Prototype putter
Tommy Fleetwood has been attached to his Odyssey White Hot Pro #3 putter for years now. However, this week at the Wells Fargo Championship, we did spot him testing a new putter that is very different, yet somewhat similar, to his current gamer.
This new putter is a TaylorMade Spider Tour X head but with a brand new neck we haven’t seen on a Spider before. A flow neck is attached to the Spider head and gives the putter about a 1/2 shaft offset. This style neck will usually increase the toe hang of the putter and we can guess it gets the putter close to his White Hot Pro #3.
Another interesting design is that lack of TaylorMade’s True Path alignment on the top of the putter. Instead of the large white center stripe, Tommy’s Spider just has a very short white site line milled into it. As with his Odyssey, Tommy seems to be a fan of soft inserts and this Spider prototype looks to have the TPU Pure Roll insert with 45° grooves for immediate topspin and less hopping and skidding.
The sole is interesting as well in that the rear weights don’t look to be interchangeable and are recessed deep into the ports. This setup could be used to push the CG forward in the putter for a more blade-like feel during the stroke, like TaylorMade did with the Spider X Proto Scottie Scheffler tested out.
Tommy’s putter is finished off with an older Super Stroke Mid Slim 2.0 grip in blue and white. The Mid Slim was designed to fit in between the Ultra Slim 1.0 and the Slim 3.0 that was a popular grip on tour.
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Equipment
Rickie Fowler’s new putter: Standard-length Odyssey Jailbird 380 in custom orange
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 Jailbird craze hasn’t really slowed down in 2024, either. According to Odyssey rep Joe Toulon, there are about 18-20 Jailbird putter users on the PGA TOUR.
Most recently, Akshay Bhatia won the 2024 Valero Texas Open using a broomstick-style Odyssey Jailbird 380 putter and Webb Simpson is switching into a replica of that putter at the 2024 Wells Fargo Championship.
Now, Fowler, who essentially started the whole Jailbird craze, is making a significant change to his putter setup.
Fowler, who has had a couple weeks off since the 2024 RBC Heritage, started experimenting with a new, custom-orange Jailbird 380 head that’s equipped with a standard 35-inch putter build, rather than his previous 38-inch counter-balanced setup.
According to Fowler, while he still likes the look and forgiveness of his Jailbird putter head, he’s looking to re-incorporate more feel into his hands during the putting stroke.
He told GolfWRX.com on Tuesday at the Wells Fargo Championship that the 38-inch counterbalanced setup “served its purpose” by helping him to neutralize his hands during the stroke, but now it’s time to try the standard-length putter with a standard-size SuperStroke Pistol Tour grip to help with his feel and speed control.
Although Fowler was also spotted testing standard-length mallets from L.A.B. Golf and Axis1 on Tuesday, he confirmed that the custom Odyssey Jailbird 380 is the putter he’ll use this week at the 2024 Wells Fargo Championship.
Head over to PGATour.com for the full article.
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Jan 22, 2015 at 4:39 am
Read the headline, and go straight to the comments. Bigger news would be Tiger making a birdie, finishing a round under par, or finishing a tournament without an injury.
While I completely agree that ‘Weird things happen to people’, any time TW gets so much as an in-grown hair, he makes sure the cameras are on him and milks it for all it is worth. Tiger has never been an ‘oh by the way, I just got my face pummeled by a camera’ kind of guy. Just sayin’…
Timbleking
Jan 22, 2015 at 3:54 am
Hancock 2 – He’s back.
Released in all cinemas in Phoenix, by the end of next week…
BigBoy
Jan 21, 2015 at 5:23 pm
Everyone wants to look like Mike Tyson…WHY?????
ND Hickman
Jan 21, 2015 at 6:04 am
I’m sorry but what is with the “LOL” tag attached to this article? This is a Golf website. Not some trashy gossip rag run by Perez Hilton or TMZ. Lets try and by a little bit more serious.
jgpl001
Jan 20, 2015 at 5:33 pm
Watch out Snoop Dog, Snoop Tiger now on the scene
Rich
Jan 20, 2015 at 5:15 pm
What? No pictures of him covered in blood from having the tooth knocked out by a camera man? Good place to be (in the snow fields) when his pants are on fire!
Double Mocha Man
Jan 20, 2015 at 4:39 pm
Fake tooth. Fake personality.
SS
Jan 20, 2015 at 7:53 pm
Right on, brother, right on!
brian
Jan 20, 2015 at 1:37 pm
polarized
JOTS
Jan 20, 2015 at 1:10 pm
Tiger missing a front tooth and Robert Allenby has a shiner / cut head….hmmmm…..coincidence??
RC
Jan 19, 2015 at 10:56 pm
Tell him to get a gold tooth put in
KCCO
Jan 24, 2015 at 6:53 pm
Should def go with a gold tooth, or a pop in grill????
Yeah
Jan 19, 2015 at 10:15 pm
So a camera knocked out his fake tooth that Elin BEAT out of his lying face? I wonder if Tiger will have a press conference to say the camera man was acting heroically when it happened. HAHA
CR
Jan 19, 2015 at 10:09 pm
I hope this means that he’s done for the season
jojo
Jan 19, 2015 at 9:30 pm
B F D!
……must have been a slow news day!
JonathanBilbo
Jan 19, 2015 at 9:30 pm
Why is he walking around without his “fake tooth” anyway? Regardless of who knocked it out.
CR
Jan 19, 2015 at 10:11 pm
Cos he feels like the gangsta he wishes he was
Nikki
Jan 19, 2015 at 11:15 pm
some people have to use pontic teeth, which is a place holder before an implant. Sometimes the bone isnt ready for an implant or the space isnt needed, a lot of celebrities have fake teeth that are are only attached by bonding them to the adj teeth.
Corrie-Lynn's dad
Jan 19, 2015 at 8:49 pm
Those are nike shades
Ct
Jan 19, 2015 at 5:14 pm
No Nike sunglasses? Somebody get a hold of deadspin! STAT!
brian
Jan 20, 2015 at 1:36 pm
you sure those dont say ” nike max polorized”…. because thats what it looks like to me…..
DatSliceDoe
Jan 19, 2015 at 4:57 pm
He’s had a fake tooth for over 10 years, how is this “news.” Clearly evidenced by every image of him where one of his front teeth is noticeably whither than the other.
Ct
Jan 19, 2015 at 5:11 pm
Your exactly right! Wait… Tiger and Elin are not together anymore? Again, nothing new!
Jason
Jan 19, 2015 at 4:57 pm
Thanks MG! We were all hoping someone could share their sentence structure knowledge with us. Man, you’re so smart. Please tell us more.
MG
Jan 19, 2015 at 5:12 pm
lol why u mad tho?
MG
Jan 19, 2015 at 4:31 pm
“Deadspin suggests that the tooth that was knocked out was in fact a fake tooth, which Woods had been sporting since the events of Thanksgiving, 2009 may have cost him the chomper.”
First off, this sentence structure is just hot garbage. Secondly the content is way off. Deadspin showed pics going back to ’04 where there was evidence he was wearing the fake tooth, well before the Thanksgiving incident.
bradford
Jan 20, 2015 at 7:55 am
But what if his intent was to say that the actual year, 2009, was the culprit?
MG
Jan 20, 2015 at 9:06 am
That would be a perfectly fine claim to make, so long as he provides a source. The problem is he sourced Deadspin as the 2009 date in that sentence. It’s not good when you falsely interpret your source, even if you are a blogger (Don’t tell Jason though, he still mad lol).