Equipment
Watch how Jason Day’s TaylorMade prototype putter was made
Jason Day’s custom-built TaylorMade Itsy Bitsy Spider putter is undoubtedly the hottest putter in golf. He’s won three out of his past four tournaments with the putter, including the 2015 PGA Championship and The Barclays — where he fired a final-round 62 thanks to holing more than 148 feet worth of putts.
Due to the putter’s high demand, TaylorMade released 20 exact replicas in The Vault on Aug. 20 for $750. Sorry, but they’re already sold out. But as a consolation, you can marvel at TaylorMade’s awesome video on how the prototype putters are built.
According to TaylorMade, Day’s putter is an Itsy Bitsy Spider Japan model, but the stock hosel is cut off, then welded with a #3 short slant neck hosel. It’s coated with a custom acrylic to achieve the dark grey finish, and has a face insert made of 80/20 insert — the same one used in TaylorMade’s Ghost Tour putters.
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Whats in the Bag
Kevin Streelman WITB 2024 (April)
- Kevin Streelman what’s in the bag accurate as of the Zurich Classic.
Driver: Titleist TSR3 (10 degrees, D1 SureFit setting)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus TR Black 6 X
3-wood: Titleist TSR3 (15 degrees, A1 SureFit setting)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Blue 8 X
5-wood: Ping G (17.5 degrees)
Shaft: Graphite Design Tour AD DI 10 X
Irons: Wilson Staff Model CB (4-9)
Shafts: Project X 6.5
Wedges: Wilson Staff Model (48-08, 54-08), Titleist Vokey Design WedgeWorks (58-L @59)
Shafts: Project X 6.5 (48), True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400 (54, 58)
Putter: Scotty Cameron TourType SSS TG6
Grips: Golf Pride Tour Velvet
Ball: Titleist Pro V1x
Check out more in-hand photos of Kevin Streelman’s clubs here.
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Equipment
Choose Your Driver: Which 2012 driver was your favorite?
The year was 2012. Gangnam Style ruled supreme, its infectious beats and ludicrous horse-riding dance moves hypnotizing us with their stupidity. Everyone was talking about the Mayan calendar, convinced that the end of days was near. Superheroes soared on the silver screen, with the Avengers assembling in epic fashion. Katniss Everdeen survived The Hunger Games. And the memes! The memes abounded. Grumpy Cat triumphed. We kept calm and carried on.
In much the same way that automotive enthusiasts love classic cars, we at GolfWRX love taking a backward glance at some of the iconic designs of years past. Heck, we love taking iconic designs to the tee box in the present!
In that spirit, GolfWRX has been running a series inspired by arguably the greatest fighting game franchise of all time: Mortal Kombat. It’s not “choose your fighter” but rather “choose your driver.”
Check out some of the standout combatants of 2012 below.
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Nike VRS
Often harshly critiqued during its years releasing golf equipment (right, Phil Mickelson?), Nike’s tenure in the club-and-ball business gets a gloss of nostalgic varnish, with many of its iron and putter designs continuing to attract admirers. Among the company’s driver offerings, the 2012 VRS — or VR_S, if you will — drew high marks for its shaping and toned-down appearance. The multi-thickness, NexCOR face was no joke either.
Check out our coverage from 2012 here.
Callaway RAZR Fit
Callaway’s first foray into moveable weight technology (married with its OptiFit hosel) did not disappoint. With a carbon fiber crown, aerodynamic attention to detail, and variable and hyperbolic face technologies, this club foreshadowed the tech-loaded, “story in every surface” Callaway drivers of the present, AI-informed design age.
Check out our coverage from 2012 here.
Cleveland Classic 310
Truly a design that came out of left field. Cleveland said, “Give me a persimmon driver, but make it titanium…in 460cc.” Our 2012 reviewer, JokerUsn wrote, “I don’t need to elaborate on all the aesthetics of this club. You’ve seen tons of pics. You’ve all probably seen a bunch in the store and held them up close and gotten drool on them. From a playing perspective, the color is not distracting. It’s dark enough to stay unobtrusive in bright sunlight…Even my playing partners, who aren’t into clubs at all…commented on it saying it looks cool.” Long live!
Check out our coverage from 2012 here.
Titleist 910
While there’s no disputing Titleist’s “Titleist Speed” era of drivers perform better than its 2010s offerings, sentimentality abounds, and there was something classically Titleist about these clubs, right down to the alignment aid, and the look is somewhere between 983 times and the present TS age. Representing a resurgence after a disappointing stretch of offerings (907, 909), The 910D2 was a fairly broadly appealing driver with its classic look at address and classic Titleist face shape.
Check out our coverage from 2012 here.
TaylorMade RocketBallz
The white crown. The name. You either loved ‘em or you hated ‘em. TaylorMade’s 2012 offering from its RocketBallz Period boasted speed-enhancing aerodynamics and an Inverted Cone Technology in the club’s titanium face. Technology aside, it’s impossible to overstate what a departure from the norm a white-headed driver was in the world of golf equipment.
Check out our coverage from 2012 here.
Ping i20
Long a quietly assertive player in the driver space, Ping’s i20 was more broadly appealing than the G20, despite being a lower-launch, lower-spin club. Ping drivers didn’t always have looks that golfer’s considered traditional or classic, but the i20 driver bucked that trend. Combining the classic look with Ping’s engineering created a driver that better players really gravitated toward. The i20 offered players lower launch and lower spin for more penetrating ball flight while the rear 20g tungsten weights kept the head stable. Sound and feel were great also, being one of the more muted driver sounds Ping had created up to that time.
Check out our coverage from 2012 here.
GolfWRXers, let us know in the comments who “your fighter” is and why!
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Coolest thing for sale in the GolfWRX Classifieds (4/29/24): Krank Formula Fire driver with AutoFlex SF505 shaft
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 Krank Formula fire driver with AutoFlex SF505 shaft.
From the seller: (@well01): “Krank formula fire 10.5 degree with AUtoflex SF505. $560 shipped.”
To check out the full listing in our BST forum, head through the link: Krank Formula Fire driver with AutoFlex SF505 shaft
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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gunmetal
Sep 7, 2015 at 2:44 pm
1) As a clubmaker, there’s a lot of cool information scribbled on that napkin.
2) Some guys are more particular than others on tour. I don’t think every tour pro has every club tweaked like this. The putter is pretty touchy feely. I don’t see Justin Rose having his iron heads deconstructed to this degree. Shaft them up to his specs (throw a little lead tape here and there), get the right grips on how he likes and make sure loft and lies are tight and he’s probably set. Shouldn’t most of us be doing that anyway?
3) To the China bashers, Ping’s most exquisite putters to come out in a long time the Anser Milled lineup was all made in China. It’s all about quality control. Geography is irrelevant.
Fifler
Sep 5, 2015 at 3:42 pm
I miss the part where they tjeck and adjust loft, lie and sw.
Christopher
Sep 5, 2015 at 11:09 am
Isn’t the title of this article slightly misleading? This is how TaylorMade’s Jason Day prototype putter was made not how Jason Day’s TaylorMade prototype putter was made, I doubt craftsmen and women in the video made his putter!
Stu
Sep 4, 2015 at 8:33 am
The correlation between your off the shelf TM clubs and most PGA Tour players clubs is about
the same as my (and most peoples”) golf game and the game they play. LOL
christian
Sep 4, 2015 at 7:59 pm
Exactly. How can anybody remotely believe that TM (in this case) sell the same clubs at your local Golf Galaxy as their tour pros use? Especially after seeing this video?
Josh
Sep 3, 2015 at 7:02 pm
I’m a Titleist guy – this is the only non Titleist gamer in my bag the last 10-15 years. It just works for me. I wish they would release the black version.
Golfraven
Sep 3, 2015 at 6:50 am
Not impressed, too much glueing going on there.
James
Sep 2, 2015 at 10:01 pm
Why is the woman standing on her tip toes?
rymail00
Sep 2, 2015 at 6:51 pm
I’ve never been a fan of the spider putters, but the no alignment aid, matte black is nice.
Robert
Sep 2, 2015 at 5:28 pm
That is awesome. That finish is really cool. I’ve seen it on the tour issue DLL putter (It’s used instead of the black). When I first saw it I said, “Wow, why don’t they make all of then with that??”.
Very cool putter. I hope to see more slant hosel mallets as having the toe hang can bring a new element into mallet putting.
Retail
Sep 2, 2015 at 5:18 pm
Now also please explain to the world this is why it will never come to retail!
How it was made
Sep 2, 2015 at 3:30 pm
In China with cheap plastic