Equipment
McIlroy to use a TaylorMade driver at The Players?
Rory McIlroy said he’s ready for The Players Championships this week on Twitter, and his swing looks good. Looking a little closer, however, it appears the No. 2-ranked golfer in the Official World Rankings could be making an equipment change at TPC Sawgrass.
Back on the range and ready for next week’s @THEPLAYERSChamp pic.twitter.com/mMHPMggrir
— Rory McIlroy (@McIlroyRory) May 7, 2017
McIlroy has played all of 2017 with Callaway’s GBB Epic Sub Zero driver, but in the video he posted to Twitter he looks to be swinging TaylorMade’s 2017 M2.
At the Masters, McIlroy switched TaylorMade’s 2017 M2 fairway woods, making it seem as though the recently married Northern Irishman is smitten with TaylorMade’s new metal woods line at the moment.
Related: McIlroy’s 2017 WITB
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Titleist launches Pro V1, Pro V1x and Pro V1x Left Dash balls with enhanced alignment
Titleist has today introduced Pro V1, Pro V1x and Pro V1x Left Dash golf balls featuring enhanced alignment.
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Cobra launches 3D-printed LIMIT3D irons
Cobra released its first commercially available 3D-printed steel putter in 2020. Now, the company is bringing its first 3D-printed irons to retail with new LIMIT3D irons, which Cobra’s vice president of product architecture, Jose Miraflor, calls “the most significant technological advancement to happen to the category in the past 20 years” and “a look into the future of golf club design and performance.”
Cobra leveraged the expertise of computational design software firm nTop to create an ambitious design: a compact players blade that offers similar forgiveness as a larger, game-improvement style club and forged iron feel.
Speaking on the partnership, Mike Yagley, Vice President of Innovation & AI, Cobra Golf said, “nTop’s computational design tools integrated with 3D printing, also known as additive manufacturing, allowed us to create an incredible new design that looks and feels like a forged blade but performs like a larger, game-improvement iron. No one has done this before, and we’re excited to introduce these unique irons to the world.”
As Cobra explains, more forgiving irons are traditionally larger and sacrifice feel. Due to the limitations of casting and forging, creating a more compact, better-feeling iron that still delivers forgiveness was only possible with 3D printing. The resulting profile of Cobra’s LIMIT3D irons is smaller than Cobra’s King Tour irons.
LIMIT3D irons are 3D printed for 316L stainless steel with an internal lattice structure, which allowed engineers to position 33 percent of the iron’s overall weight to the exterior for greater MOI. 100 grams of tungsten is positioned in the heel and toe of each clubhead for low CG for ease of launch and high MOI for greater forgiveness.
Additionally, using nTop’s design software and additive manufacturing allowed for a substantially faster prototyping process, which enabled engineers to test more designs and mass placements for a superior finished product.
Cobra LIMIT3D irons: Pricing, specs, availability
- 350 individually numbered sets available in the U.S. and Canada (500 sets total worldwide)
- Available for custom order June 7
- Price: $3,000
- Set: 4-PW, RH only
- Full range of aftermarket shafts, grips
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Coolest thing for sale in the GolfWRX Classifieds (5/14/24): Mizuno Pro 241 Azalea Edition irons
At GolfWRX, we are a community of like-minded individuals that all experience and express our enjoyment of the game in many ways.
It’s that sense of community that drives day-to-day interactions in the forums on topics that range from best driver to what marker you use to mark your ball. It even allows us to share another thing we all love – buying and selling equipment.
Currently, in our GolfWRX buy/sell/trade (BST) forum, there is a listing for a set of Mizuno Pro 241 Azalea Edition irons.
From the seller: (@ayc25): “Brand new in box / plastic. 4-PW. Custom shaft bands, grips, ferrules. Dynamic Gold S200 Tour Issue. NO TRADES. Ships next day UPS Ground from Northern Virginia. $1695 shipped or best offer.”
To check out the full listing in our BST forum, head through the link: Mizuno Pro 241 Azalea Edition irons
This is the most impressive current listing from the GolfWRX BST, and if you are curious about the rules to participate in the BST Forum you can check them out here: GolfWRX BST Rules
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emb
May 8, 2017 at 10:22 pm
2017 M2? really? That thing looks about 500cc’s to me, just so massive. Couldn’t swing it for the life of me. Must be getting some good dough because I thought he was hitting that sub zero pretty well
Golfandpuff
May 8, 2017 at 2:29 pm
He did just drop some serious coin on a wedding!
David Ables
May 8, 2017 at 12:26 pm
My man Rory! We had him talk to Tiger and talk some sense into him.
Jayzen
May 8, 2017 at 11:21 am
Word on twitter is FULL Tmade bag.
chinchbugs
May 8, 2017 at 1:52 pm
Wait people still use twitter… 😛
Benny & The Jets
May 8, 2017 at 10:48 am
Yup smitten alright. Smitten because he just got paid to game it.
Ben R Neal
May 8, 2017 at 10:48 am
Yup smitten alright. Smitten because he just got paid to game it.
Jack Nash
May 8, 2017 at 9:35 am
He should use the Verticle Groove driver. He’ll hit it straighter and further.