Equipment
Adam Scott explains his golf ball and shaft switches for the Masters
Adam Scott — who’s in the chase through two rounds at T20 in the 2023 Masters — revealed that he made a number of big changes to his gear setup prior to the event.
The 2013 Masters champion has never been afraid to test and change equipment from week-to-week, but this was more of a major overhaul, according to Scott himself. He changed his driver shaft, iron shafts, and golf ball heading into The Masters.
“I did some pretty major overhauling of my equipment, actually, that may not be a hundred percent comfortable, but certainly I saw some benefit from doing that, Scott said after his opening round 68. “I changed some shafts in my irons and my driver and my golf ball, so I’m kind of winging it a little bit out there. But it all feels pretty good. I putted very nicely today and that’s always helpful around here.”
Scott changed into a Fujikura Ventus TR Blue 7 X driver shaft in his TaylorMade Stealth 2 Plus driver head, and he switched into Project X LS (Low Spin) 6.5 shafts (125 grams) in his custom Miura AS-1 heads.
He also switched from a 2015 Titleist Pro V1 golf ball into a new 2023 Titleist Pro V1x golf ball.
Here’s why, according to Scott:
“Things change and evolve, and a couple pieces of equipment in my bag have changed over the last year or so, and it’s having some influence as well as me swinging the club maybe slightly differently on my impact conditions,” Scott said, according to Titleist on Saturday. “And with a shaft change and the (2023) Prov V1x, it’s balancing out really nicely and keeping that new ball in the window I like. Whereas before it was a little bit higher window and this is now sitting in a window that I feel much more comfortable with, which is nice. It’s very tight on the iron spin. I’m getting a really tight performance there, which is a good feeling for me. And also I get the added benefit of a higher ceiling with the driver. I’m gaining without doing anything by just using this ball off the tee. So hopefully I can make a few little gains here and there by using the Pro V1x without having to change anything else in my game, just putting it in play.”
Titleist says that Scott made the golf ball change in Austin during the WGC-Dell Match Play.
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The first wedge has made its way to the Three Swing Challenge! This week we have the WedgeWorks A+ grind that was recently released by Vokey. BK is looking for a new 60-degree wedge, and this could be a contender.
Why three swings?
Many years ago, the legendary Barney Adams, founder of Adams Golf told us this:
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- Daniel Brown WITB accurate as of The Open Championship.
Driver: Ping G430 LST (9 degrees)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Blue 6 X
3-wood: Ping G430 Max (15 degrees)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Blue 7 X
(Image courtesy of SMS on Tour)
Irons: Ping i230 (3), Ping Blueprint S (4-9)
Wedges: Ping s159 (50-12S, 54-12S, 58-06T)
Putter: Ping PLD
Grips: Golf Pride MCC
Ball: Titleist Pro V1
Info an images via SMS on Tour.
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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.
Three years later, Morikawa has once again changed his irons to deal with the unique Scottish turf.
Morikawa has been using TaylorMade P730 blade short irons (7-PW), P7MC mid irons (5-6) and a TaylorMade “Proto” 4-iron with a cavity-back construction this year.
However, he switched into a new set of TaylorMade P7CB irons (5-PW) before finishing T4 at last week’s Genesis Scottish Open, to go along with his familiar “Proto” 4-iron. TaylorMade’s P7CB irons are the finalized versions of the “Proto” 4-iron that Morikawa has been using, except they remain unreleased to retail.
According to TaylorMade, Morikawa switched into a full set of the new P7CB irons to aid with turf interaction, just like he did prior to his 2021 Open victory.
Morikawa is honing in on his winning formula overseas.
Morikawa also has switched from his usual TaylorMade Qi10 5-wood to a lower-launching TaylorMade P790 3-iron equipped with a Project X HZRDUS 105 Hybrid shaft. The loft of the club has been bent down to 19 degrees.
TaylorMade says that Morikawa switched into the new driving iron In order to “have an option to hit something lower that will roll out in the fairways.”
Head over to PGATour.com for the full article.
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Aaron
Apr 10, 2023 at 7:10 pm
Ballooning and still too much spin on the irons, Adam. That was hard to watch.
Left dash X. V unless flight is too low.
joe Baker
Apr 10, 2023 at 11:00 am
Those Px LS shafts are STOUT. And in a 125 6.5 that’s even more so. I play X100 and I can’t even get the head onto the back of the ball with the LS. And he came from KBS!
Bob
Apr 9, 2023 at 11:41 am
He has PX LZ shafts in his irons from what it showed yesterday on tv after he hit a 6 iron.
O
Apr 8, 2023 at 2:19 pm
He still can’t hit his irons though lol
He’s yanking everything left
So much for that amount of offset
Alex
Apr 9, 2023 at 1:22 am
Its interesting because he dropped 5 grams in shaft weight in the irons, I wonder how they swingweight. Miura’s are heavier than most so I wonder if they increased his swingweight and what it did to the balance of his irons.