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3M Open interesting photos: Cashmere Keith’s irons, the anti-Jailbird, Hideki will Hideki

Published

12 months ago

Jul 28, 2023

We’re resurrecting “interesting photos” this week. Perhaps for a one-night-only engagement, perhaps for a multi-week tour, depending on whether you, dear WRXers, arrive for the show in numbers and with gusto to rival the Swifties.

We know all too well, equipment junkies number fewer than fans of Miss Americana, but that does nothing to diminish your passion. It’s in this spirit that we’re packing a plate for you with some of the best photos from this week’s 3M Open.

Related: Spotted: New prototype Scotty Cameron putters for Hideki Matsuyama and Zac Blair

Check ’em out, below.

S.H. Kim: The other tiger

Yonex sighting in the bag of Satoshi Kodaira!

Hideki’s gonna Hideki, Pt. 1,249

Matt Wallace with the Manchester United headcover

It’s not a Jailbird: A bullseye-esque prototype

It is a Jailbird (Mini): Alex Noren experiments

Brian Gay remains undefeated for “boldest bag on Tour”

The “Spider” crawled off Doc Redman’s Spider

The pros: They’re just like us!

A look at Scotty’s Open putter cover

Cashmere Keith’s irons of distinction

Head over to the GolfWRX forums for the rest of our photos from the 3M Open.

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Equipment

Spotted: Putter roundup from the 2024 3M Open

Published

1 day ago

Jul 25, 2024

Brian Knudson

Every week we spot some really cool and custom putters out on the putting green and in tour players’ bags. This week is no slouch with some really interesting and beautiful putters being tested. Let’s take a look at some of the standouts we found.

Tyler Duncan: Scotty Cameron Phantom T-11.5

The Phantom 11 is a pretty wild putter by Scotty’s standards with a multi-material design that boosts MOI for more forgiveness. Duncan’s T-11.5. takes the stock model and moves the shaft to the center of the putter head. We don’t mean a center shafted version, but the shaft is installed in the center, behind the face as well. We don’t have any official details on this T-11.5 but it looks like that setup should create a putter where the face points towards the hole or target, similar to a L.A.B. putter.

Zac Blair: Scotty Cameron 009.M Cameron & Co. “Longneck”

Blair might be in possession of the largest Scotty collection on tour! It seems like every week he has something new, and flat-out gorgeous, that he is trying out. I have seen a lot of 009.M putters over the years, but never one with a long plumbers neck on it. This 009 is a Masterful that utilizes additional CNC machine work to reduce the amount of hand polishing needed to complete the putter. The long, or tall, neck on the putter usually is used to reduce the amount of toe hang and make the putter more face balanced. The face contains a very shallow milling while the sole features a tour truck, tour only, diamonds, and the rare Circle L stamp. The Circle L was made for Scotty’s close friends who lost matches or games and was meant to poke a little fun at their misfortune.

Paul Barjon: PXG Prototype

There are a lot of putters out there that become so widely used and popular that other manufacturers will borrow some of the design cues. The Spider is one of those putters and it looks like PXG has made a prototype putter for Barjon that has some similar features. This proto has a tapered mallet shape with twin wings that come out from either side of the rear. Twin movable weights sit in each wing on the sole and the sole features a plate that is bolted in place at the corners. The top contains a single siteline and the face uses PXG’s advanced pyramid face structure.

Odyssey Ai-One Cruiser Broomstick #7

More and more long, counterbalanced, and alternative putters seem to be showing up recently. The long, or broomstick, putter is making a comeback and more than a few players have joined Adam Scott in using that style. Odyssey has thrown its hat in the broomstick arena with a new Ai-One Cruiser model. The head shape is the very familiar #7 model, but with the shaft going into the center of the club head. An Ai-One face is there to help keep ball speed consistent on off-center hits and three white lines are on top for framing ball and aligning the putter.

TaylorMade Spider Tour S Broomstick

Another option in the long putter is TaylorMade’s Spider Tour S broomstick that we saw around the putting green. The head looks to be a little larger than the standard Tour S and that makes sense with the broomstick-style putters demanding heads near or over 400g. A TPU Pure Roll insert is installed in the face and the shaft is a more traditional double-bend design, just much longer! There isn’t the True Path alignment on top, just a full darker grey finish with a single siteline. Two moveable weights are out in the wings of the putter to dial in the specific weight a player might want.