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Nike to release Rory’s Method Prototype 006 putter

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Nike announced that it will be releasing the Nike Method Prototype 006 — the same putter that Rory McIlroy uses — to the public starting April 15. It’s the first time this putter will be made available to non-touring professionals.

There have been similar Nike Method putters made for retail in the past, but this is the real deal.

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Nike’s Method 006 prototype putter is currently in the bags of McIlroy, Seung Yul-Noh and Francesco Molinari.

The putter, developed by Nike Master Craftsman David Franklin, uses Polymetal Groove technology in the face, said to enhance feel and a “fast forward roll.”

Each putter purchased will have a laser-engraved Nike Oven logo, and comes with a “tour-packaged box” of RZN Black golf balls and a volt-colored Nike head cover.

The package, which will sell for $450, is available in limited quantities starting April 15 on Nike’s website, and in select retail stores starting April 17.

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He played on the Hawaii Pacific University Men's Golf team and earned a Masters degree in Communications. He also played college golf at Rutgers University, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism.

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  1. Mad-Mex

    Apr 19, 2015 at 11:51 pm

    So by buying the same equipment a pro uses, does it translate into instant ability to play like the pro?

    Just curious,,,,,,,,,,,,

  2. jOHN kRUG

    Apr 16, 2015 at 8:08 pm

    But Rory is not a good putter.

  3. Josh

    Apr 15, 2015 at 8:50 pm

    Dang! Sold out!!!!!

    I was planning to buy two and resell to you WRXerz on the BST and make a nice profit!

  4. Ben

    Apr 15, 2015 at 1:02 pm

    Wow its actually sold out? I bet that is the most putters nike has sold in the last 5 years combined.

  5. Kenny

    Apr 15, 2015 at 3:28 am

    If you read the release properly you will see…Nike announced that it will be releasing the Nike Method Prototype 006.
    It does not say its a Rory replica

  6. Zak

    Apr 14, 2015 at 10:47 pm

    Is there going to be a choice of length?

    I want a 35″, but I think Rory plays a 33″. So are they going to make them all one length (Rors length)?

  7. lsf_21

    Apr 14, 2015 at 10:02 pm

    • Ken

      Apr 15, 2015 at 3:05 am

      I talked to the maker of his putter.
      Tiger has really small grooves for a “clicky” feel.
      Rory has a putter that is soft as hell. Rory told the Nike guy that he couldn’t make a putter soft enough.

      And the face isn’t painted.

  8. JuNiOR

    Apr 14, 2015 at 9:29 pm

    Will it have the same exact Groove depth as Rory???

  9. RG

    Apr 14, 2015 at 9:24 pm

    That may be a copy of Rory MacIlroys putter…. but that is not Rory McIlroys putter. His has painted on face grooves.

    • Rich

      Apr 16, 2015 at 4:05 am

      What a load of crap. You’ve obviously not read the forums where Greg has said he’s seen Rory’s putter up close and flat out refutes that claim.

    • T-MAC

      Apr 20, 2015 at 3:25 pm

      Grooves on Rory’s putter aren’t painted on, but they ARE very shallow. The same with Tiger’s putter. There’s a video of the 2 of them talking about their putters and Tiger asks Rory if he has grooves. Rory says no, no grooves, he has “faux grooves” and Tiger said the same for his.
      Neither one of them are using the Nike “groove technology” as seen on the putters that we buy OTR.

  10. Daniel

    Apr 14, 2015 at 9:13 pm

    I’m looking and I’m a liking

  11. steve

    Apr 14, 2015 at 6:59 pm

    we all know that rory uses putter without the weird grooves on it (only painted it). we’ve seen the photos of his putter! not a real representation of rors putter in that sense.

  12. Reed

    Apr 14, 2015 at 3:34 pm

    If you really look at what putter Rory uses, you will see it is a Scotty C. putter with Nike stuff spray painted on it.

    • tony

      Apr 14, 2015 at 3:56 pm

      If you really look at Scotty C putters you will see they’re really Karsten Solheim Anser’s with expensive upcharge badging.

    • Rich

      Apr 16, 2015 at 4:10 am

      All you Titleist and Scotty Cameron fan boys need to get a life and realise that Titleist is not a golf equipment company. They are a golf ball company that makes golf clubs. Not other OEM has the ball as their main equipment line and Titleist does. No one else focuses on their ball the way Titleist does. They only make clubs because they think they should to stay relevant.

      • T-MAC

        Apr 20, 2015 at 3:28 pm

        Man, Titleist makes some pretty good clubs for it just being their “side business”.

  13. NGG

    Apr 14, 2015 at 3:02 pm

    WRX community in a nutshell…

    Entire site complains about not having access to Rors 006.

    Nike releases Rors 006, entire site complains.

    • Golfraven

      Apr 14, 2015 at 4:57 pm

      love it 🙂

      • Bob

        Apr 14, 2015 at 8:34 pm

        If I’m going to drop $450 I’m going to want an exact copy of Rory’s putter, not halfway between it and their retail offerings.

    • Tom Bowles

      Apr 15, 2015 at 8:43 am

      Hilarious. Because it’s true. If you want “tour issue”, you’re gonna have to pay. If you don’t want to pay $450, pay $200 for a similar putter Nike sells and quit crying.

  14. Alex T

    Apr 14, 2015 at 2:51 pm

    They say they’re making this putter available “to the public”, but what does that mean? It means they will be sold out in seconds to a select few unscrupulous individuals who will then sell them on eBay for thousands and thousands of dollars and in the end the only people who could actually afford to buy one from these resellers will be Rory, not the people who might actually benefit from the performance (no matter how few people that might be). Utterly pointless. Just make it a production model or don’t make it at all.

  15. Sam

    Apr 14, 2015 at 2:29 pm

    Will this be limited time only, or will they be sold for a long period of time?

    • Josepe

      Apr 14, 2015 at 2:33 pm

      Wondering about the same thing

      • steve

        Apr 14, 2015 at 7:00 pm

        only 1000 of them will be released. first come first serve!

  16. Nick

    Apr 14, 2015 at 2:00 pm

    So what is this package gonna set me back? Lol

  17. Ian

    Apr 14, 2015 at 1:48 pm

    Will it come with fake grooves like his? #groovegate

  18. Kenner

    Apr 14, 2015 at 1:40 pm

    No photo’s have shown “RORS” Stamping on the neck. And it also looks like the neck is shorter!?

    His Putter:
    http://www.golfwrx.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/3908d2094b28710ef2c4e65f55dae4ad1.jpg

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Kevin Tway WITB 2024 (May)

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Driver: Ping G430 LST (10.5 degrees)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Black 6 X

3-wood: TaylorMade Stealth 2 (15 degrees)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Diamana D+ 80 TX

5-wood: TaylorMade Stealth 2 (18 degrees)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Diamana D+ 90 TX

Irons: Wilson Staff Utility (2), Titleist T100 (4-9)
Shafts: Mitsubishi MMT 100 TX (2), True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100 (4-9)

Wedges: Titleist Vokey Design SM10 (48-10F @47, 52-12F @51, 56-14F), SM7 (60-10S)
Shafts: True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100 (48-56), True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400 (60)

Putter: Scotty Cameron T-5 Proto
Grip: Scotty Cameron Black Baby T

Grips: Golf Pride Tour Velvet Plus4

More photos of Kevin Tway’s WITB in the forums.

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Did Rory McIlroy inspire Shane Lowry’s putter switch?

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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.

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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Webb Simpson equipment Q&A: Titleist’s new 2-wood, 680 blade irons, and switching to a broomstick Jailbird

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With seven career wins on the PGA Tour, including a U.S. Open victory, Webb Simpson is a certified veteran on the course. But he’s also a certified veteran in the equipment world, too. He’s a gearhead who truly knows his stuff, and he’s even worked closely with Titleist on making his own custom 682.WS irons.

On Wednesday at the 2024 Wells Fargo Championship, I caught up with Simpson to hear about his experience with Titleist’s new prototype 2-wood, how Titleist’s 680 Forged irons from 2003 ended up back in his bag, and why he’s switching into an Odyssey Ai-One Jailbird Cruiser broomstick putter this week for the first time.

Click here to read our full story about Simpson’s putter switch on PGATOUR.com’s Equipment Report, or continue reading below for my full Q&A with Simpson at Quail Hollow Club on Wednesday.

See Webb Simpson’s full WITB from the 2024 Wells Fargo Championship here

GolfWRX: It seems like you’ve been a little all over the place with your irons in the past six months or so, and now going back to the 680’s. Is that just a comfort thing? What’s been going on with the irons?

Webb Simpson: Titleist has been so great at working with me, and R&D, on trying to get an iron that kind of modernizes the 680. And so the 682.WS took the T100 grooves, but kinda took the look and the bulk and the build of the 680’s into one club. They’re beautiful, and awesome looking. I just never hit them that well for a consistent period of time. It was probably me, but then I went to T100’s and loved them. I loved the spin, the trajectory, the yardage, but again, I never went on good runs. Going through the ground, I couldn’t feel the club as well as with the blade. So last week, I’m like, ‘Alright. I’m gonna go back more for…comfort, and see if I can get on a nice little run of ball striking.’

So that’s why I went back.

 

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OK, that makes sense. I know you had done some 2-wood testing recently. Is that in the bag right now?

It’s like day-by-day. I used it at Hilton Head every day. Valero, I used it one round. And this week, me and my caddie will do the book every morning, and if it’s a day where we think we need it, we’ll just put it in and take the 3-wood out. I love it because it’s a super simple swap. Like, it doesn’t really change much.

Yeah, can you tell me about that club? I mean, we don’t really know anything about it yet. You know? I haven’t hit it or anything, obviously.

It has grooves like a 3-wood. Spin is perfect. And it’s honestly, like, everything is in the middle of a 3-wood and driver number. Trajectory, spin, carry, all of it. So, a Hilton Head golf course is almost too easy to talk about because, you know, there, so many holes are driver 3-wood.

Valero, our thinking was we had two par-5’s into the wind, and we knew that it would take two great shots to get there in two. So instead of hitting driver-driver, we just put it in. And I used it on those holes.

Hilton was a little easier because it was off-the-tee kind of questions. But Colonial will be a golf course where, you know, there’s a lot of driver or 3-woods. It’s kind of like a backup putter or driver for me now. I’ll bring it to every tournament.

So it’s, like, in your locker right now, probably?

Well, it would be. It’s in my house [because Webb lives near by Quail Hollow Club, and is a member at the course.] It’s in the garage.

Oh, yeah, that’s right. Do you know what holes you might use it out here if it goes in play? 

Potentially 15, depending on the wind. Second shot on 10. Could be 14 off the tee. The chances here are pretty low (that he’ll use the 2-wood). But, like, Greensboro would be an awesome club all day. I’m trying to think of any other golf courses.

There’s plenty that it’ll be a nice weapon to have.

It’s interesting, the wave of 2-woods and mini drivers. Like, it’s just really taken off on Tour, and all the companies have seemed to embrace it.

Yeah. The thing I had to learn, it took me, like, at least a week to learn about it is you gotta tee it up lower than you think. I kept teeing it up too high. You need it low, like barely higher than a 3-wood. And that was where I got optimal spin and carry. If you tee it up too high, you just don’t get as much spin and lose distance, I don’t know if that’s just a mini driver thing.

And you obviously have a Jailbird putter this week. What spurred that on?

Inconsistent putting. I’m stubborn in a lot of ways when it comes to my equipment, but I have to be open minded – I just hadn’t putted consistently well in a while. And I’m like, ‘Man, I feel my ball-striking coming along. Like I feel better; for real, better.’

If I can just get something in my hands that I’m consistent with. Being on Tour, you see it every year, guys get on little runs. I can put together four to five tournaments where I’m all the sudden back in the majors, or in the FedExCup Playoffs. You can turn things around quick out here. I’m like, ‘Man, whatever’s going to get me there, great.’

My caddie, David Cook, caddied for Akshay at the Houston Open and he putted beautifully. Then, I watched Akshay on TV at Valero, and he putted beautifully. And, I’m like, ‘I’m just going to try it.’

I’ve never tried it for more than a putt or two, and I just ordered what Akshay uses. It was pretty awkward at first, but the more I used it, the more I’m like, ‘Man, it’s pretty easy.’ And a buddy of mine who’s a rep out here, John Tyler Griffin, he helped me with some setup stuff. And he said at Hilton Head, he wasn’t putting well, then tried it, and now he makes everything. He was very confident. So I’m like, ‘Alright, I’ll try it.’”

And you’re going with it this week?

Hundred percent.

Alright, I love it. Thank you, I always love talking gear with you. Play well this week. 

Thanks, man.

See Webb Simpson’s full WITB from the 2024 Wells Fargo Championship here

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