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Justin Thomas officially signs new apparel deal
Sponsors don’t like controversy, but players tend to recover.
Lately, Phil Mickelson has lost a bucketful of his long-term backers due to comments made surrounding the Saudi Golf League. A year previous, the then world number 3, Justin Thomas, lost lucrative contracts with a few of his own after inappropriate comments at the Tournament of Champions.
Those sponsors included global clothing brand Ralph Lauren, but after much anticipation and a few trials, JT was confirmed on Monday as the new ambassador for Greyson Clothiers.
Those that follow this sort of thing would have been snapping up the ‘even money’ quotes bandied about at this time last year, especially after seeing the eventual Players Championship winner parading around in the company’s apparel for much of his victorious weekend.
JT becomes the 11th PGA player to sign for Greyson and is the biggest name on the books, a file that includes the likes of Luke Donald, Harry Higgs, Carlos Ortiz and Erik van Rooyen.
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Greyson announced the official partnership through their Twitter account, posting: “We are beyond excited and honored to officially welcome @JustinThomas34 to the Pack, knowing with confidence that our shared story is just beginning.”
Thomas is sure to get plenty of exposure from the start of this week’s event at TPC Sawgrass, with his three-ball containing Rory McIlroy and Colin Morikawa bound to carry much of the network television coverage. They tee-off at 12.56PM on Thursday.
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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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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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JTlovesme
Mar 22, 2022 at 9:14 am
Time to come out Dude!
Hunter Biden's Laptop
Mar 22, 2022 at 5:51 am
The founder at Greyson was a designer at Ralph Lauren, how ironic…
Golf Juicy Couture
Mar 20, 2022 at 9:59 pm
Sorry Justin, but the skinny pants look doesn’t cut it.
Shankaroo!
Chuck G Ross
Mar 19, 2022 at 8:36 pm
No Thank you on his girlish pants .
jgpl001
Mar 15, 2022 at 6:24 am
I might give it a miss..
El Culebrón
Mar 13, 2022 at 12:20 pm
The logo reminds me of Chazz Michael Michaels and the Wolf Pack, lol…
AnnaD
Mar 10, 2022 at 12:26 am
Got a woodie in my hoodie would be a great slogan for JT.
Hijo de Culebrón
Mar 9, 2022 at 7:02 pm
It is about bringing’Da Hood’ to the golf course.
Yeahhhhh Boyyyyyyy!
Culebrones
Mar 9, 2022 at 6:59 pm
I guess this is what’s considered to be gentleman’s attire these days.
Hoodia! Culebrón
Mar 9, 2022 at 6:37 pm
Come on guys, is all about ‘inclusion’ and all that other social justice garbage.
Looking goodie in the hoodie!
Jbone
Mar 11, 2022 at 11:19 am
All about inclusion… unless you mess up and then you are excluded
El Culebrón
Mar 11, 2022 at 4:37 pm
Be careful, GWRX is a pretty woke outfit.
Drew
Mar 9, 2022 at 1:29 pm
Looks like a hostage video
They know we know
Mar 9, 2022 at 4:54 pm
It is. Justin is now under globalist rule.
golfmajor
Mar 9, 2022 at 12:00 pm
Unfamiliar with this brand so I visited their website: $115 polos, $150 trousers, $48 t-shirts. Definitely appealing to a different segment of society than the one I live in.
Weave Bin-Had
Mar 11, 2022 at 12:51 pm
Awfully expensive logo they sew on in China these days.
Steve
Mar 9, 2022 at 4:48 am
Is he going to the toilet?
Bob
Mar 8, 2022 at 12:55 pm
Hoodies are for children. Wow.
Phil the thrill
Mar 8, 2022 at 2:06 pm
I’m sure you’re full of other fantastic opinions too, “Bob”…….
GolfWRX Staff
Mar 8, 2022 at 4:11 pm
Aren’t you supposed to be apologizing to the internet “Phil”?
Brandon
Mar 8, 2022 at 8:47 pm
I’m wearing one right now and I’m 65 years old.
Thomas Justin
Mar 8, 2022 at 10:29 am
Yay