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Garrigus fixes issue with iron weights, shoots 65

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If you ever think the swing weight of your clubs doesn’t matter, just look at Robert Garrigus.

The former PGA Tour winner has admittedly struggled of late — making just seven of 17 cuts in 2015. But after fixing a weighting issue with his irons, and switching shafts, he fired a 65 in Round 1 at the Travelers Championship on Thursday.

Garrigus has played TaylorMade’s RSi TP irons with KBS Tour (white) shafts since the Humana Challenge in 2015, but after recognizing the weight issue, TaylorMade’s equipment team built him a new set of RSI TP irons, with True Temper Project X 7.0 shafts.

So far, the change has been helpful, for both his scorecard and confidence.

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  1. Joe

    Jun 29, 2015 at 7:46 pm

    People say an individual can’t tell the difference between 2 swingweights. Not true. It’s like walking with a rock in your shoe if one of your irons doesn’t match. It’s a big deal.

  2. TMBob

    Jun 27, 2015 at 11:57 pm

    I think it was just an overall dead weight issue….went to a heavier shaft

  3. Peter Booth

    Jun 27, 2015 at 10:14 pm

    I wonder who made the set that was incorrect…Tmag tour ?

  4. Daniel

    Jun 27, 2015 at 4:02 pm

    I wonder how the weights were wrong in the first place? Doesn’t every tour player have their clubs meticulously checked out before the put them into the bag? I would think that the TM tour van would have his specs saved and when he received the new irons they were built to the proper specs. Sounds like somebody messed up.

  5. David

    Jun 27, 2015 at 5:06 am

    My weights were off as well. My 4 iron was extremely overweight. Put him on a diet, and, along with moderate exercise, he is back to the weight of the other irons. The big lesson here is be careful what you feed your clubs.

  6. HS

    Jun 27, 2015 at 3:05 am

    So, what were his swing weights, old and new, and also what were the flexes measured? And what about the changes in launch and spin? Come now Wrx, get us the numbers, not just hearsay.

  7. Brian

    Jun 26, 2015 at 7:44 pm

    Maybe it was mostly mental? I don’t see Garrigus shooting 65s every round for the rest of the season. Just saying…

  8. Alex T

    Jun 26, 2015 at 6:47 pm

    Others have said it, but I feel the need to reiterate: what exactly has he changed? Both the KBS tour and PX 7.0 are 130g shafts. Changing one for the other isn’t going to affect swing weight. So what’s he changed? Heavier heads? Lighter heads? Heavier grips? Lighter grips? Counterbalanced shafts? This isn’t much of an article without any facts, at the minute it just reads as “pro-golfer mid-slump shoots low round out of nowhere”, which really isn’t much of a story…

  9. Lawrence

    Jun 26, 2015 at 1:07 pm

    Was the issue that the slightly counterbalanced kbs shafts didn’t give consistent swingweights? Is there more to the story?

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Coolest thing for sale in the GolfWRX Classifieds (1/16/24): Cobra Forged One Length irons

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At GolfWRX, we are a community of like-minded individuals that all experience and express our enjoyment of the game in many ways.

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What GolfWRXers are saying about Kevin Kisner’s new Callaway X Forged CB irons

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In our forums, our members have been discussing Kevin Kisner’s new Callaway X Forged CB irons which he has in the bag at this week’s CJ Cup. WRXers have been commenting on the switch and the clubs themselves in our forums.

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As part of a Srixon campaign, four PGA Tour players recently participated in a three-hole challenge, with each hole being a different game; hole No. 1 was blindfolded, hole No. 2 was costumes and distractions, and hole No. 3 was alternate shot with a baseball bat. The teams were Smylie Kaufman and Sam Ryder against Shane Lowry and Grayson Murray.

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