Equipment
First look: ’13 Nike Method Core Weighted Putters
Take a look at Nike’s new line of Method Core putters for 2013 that add fixed weights that Nike says moves the center of gravity lower and a further distance from the putter face for a better roll. The weights also allow Nike to fine tune the weight of a putter for different lengths.
“Most people don’t realize that they are about three-tenths of an inch above the ground at impact,” Franklin said. “You need to keep the center of gravity of the putter as low as you can so that it never gets higher than the CG of the ball. This stops the putter from driving the ball down and creating backspin on the ball.”
The Method Core Weighted putters employ the same milled face and Polymetal Grooves that were used in previous Method Core models.
The putters will be available Nov. 1, 2012 in five different models, and carry an MSRP of $169.
- MC01w — Available in right-handed and left-handed models. Specs: 2 degrees of loft, 33, 34 and 35 inches
- MCO2w — Right-handed only. Specs: 2 degrees of loft, 33, 34 and 35 inches
- MC03w — Right-handed only. Specs: 2 degrees of loft, 33, 34 and 35 inches
- MCO4w — Right-handed only. Specs: 2 degrees of loft, 33, 34 and 35 inches
- MC11w — Right-handed only. Specs: 2 degrees of loft, 33, 34 and 35 inches
Check out the photos below, including pictures of the new Nike Method Concept Putter.
Click here for more discussion in the “Tour/Pre-release equipment” forum.
Equipment
I’m happy with my bag. Now what? – GolfWRXers discuss
In our forums, one user has solidified the entirety of his bag and now finds himself adrift. Specifically, what’s a gear junkie to do when there’s no longer a need to tinker?
@Baxterbarret asked:
“After replacing shafts in my irons, I’m officially satisfied with all 14 clubs in my bag, and it has me stuck. As a gear junkie, I’m lost without the need to try something different. Anyone else get here? What did you wind up buying next?”
Our members in the forum have been offering up advice on where the original poster can go from here, offering up their own perspectives and experiences with finally having a complete bag.
Here are a few posts from the thread, but make sure to check out the entire discussion and have your say at the link below.
- cmb71: “First of all, welcome to the club! ? The first step is admitting it. I love trying different driver/fairway/iron/wedge shafts, but be careful. And you have to have a backup bag. I have 2 full bags and backups of my irons and wedges with different loft/bounce/shaft combos. Where I live it’s difficult to get access to testing things, so it’s a lot of trial and error, then sell the losers. The benefit is it really helps me understand what is best for my game.”
- Veebee3: “My condolences, wouldn’t wish this on my worst enemy. Luckily you just need to play more rounds of golf, preferably at the hardest courses in your city, and you will soon become unsatisfied again lol.”
- mpf08796: “The best part about golf is that you’re only one bad round away from a complete bag overhaul.”
- @Baxterbarret even offered an update of his own: “Update: I scheduled a GTS fitting. I know I have an addiction. So thankful for this community of support and enablement. ??”
Entire Thread: “I’m happy with my bag. Now what?”
Whats in the Bag
Keith Mitchell WITB 2026 (June)
Driver: TaylorMade Qi4D LS
Shaft: Project X Titan Yellow 6 X
3-wood: TaylorMade Qi10 (16.5 degrees)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Tensei 1K Blue 90 TX

7-wood: Titleist TS2 (21 degrees, C1 SureFit setting)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Tensei CK Pro Blue 90 TX

Irons: Mizuno Pro 225 (2), Mizuno Pro S-1 (4-9)
Shafts: True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100

Wedges: Mizuno Pro (48-10S @47, 52-10S, 56-10M (@55), Titleist Vokey Design WedgeWorks Proto (60.5-T)
Shafts: True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400

Putter: Odyssey EXO 2-Ball

Grips: Golf Pride Victory Cord
Ball: Titleist Pro V1
Equipment
Tommy Fleetwood makes a surprising TaylorMade Spider customization
Tommy Fleetwood has a growing collection of TaylorMade Spider putters. We shall wait to see if the newest options go into play, but they definitely has a fun twist to it.
Ahead of the 2026 Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village Golf Club, the team at TaylorMade gifted the FedExCup champion with his very own custom Spider putter, featuring some nifty details from his winning gamers last year.
While from a distance, the putters may look like your standard blacked-out Spider Tour and also the new torched PVD version, the ones that found its way to Fleetwood in Dublin, Ohio, feature custom laser-etched alignment lines on the topline of each putter, which are an exact replica of the hand-drawn Sharpie marks that TaylorMade Tour putter Rep James Holley drew onto the putter with which Fleetwood won the FedExCup.
No mathematical equations were made to evenly distribute the alignment aid this time, either, and on closer inspection, it’s possible to see the imperfections of what the permanent marker lines looked like when the team scanned and then used a laser to etch onto the putter head.

What’s interesting about the custom putters is that the markings found on the heads are actually not the original version that Holley first drew onto Fleetwood’s flatstick. Over time, they had changed slightly since Holley had to reapply the Sharpie, and had changed technique to stop the ink from smudging.
However, there is a copy of the first attempt from Fleetwood’s special alignment aid, and it’s found on a custom Winston Collection headcover, which the team had made specifically for the Englishman.

On the sole plate of Fleetwood’s black Spider Tour putter is a laser-engraved logo of the FedExCup, an ode to Fleetwood’s biggest triumph in golf so far, using that style of flatstick.

Fleetwood initially tested his custom lines when Holley first drew them at the RBC Heritage to match another style of Spider Fleetwood had tested prior.
“So Tommy, we started with the ZT, and that ZT we have kind of that top milling on the front with that, and he really liked that top milling, how that kind of framed the ball,” Holley told GolfWRX last year, when Fleetwood first played the hand-drawn alignment aid. “You know he uses his special ball, where the orange lines create that single path … so the milling kind of lined up well with that when he lines up the ball. We took a regular Tour, short slant putter that was completely blank, and I pulled out the Sharpie and did my best to kind of draw some stuff on there for him, and he liked it.”
It’s not the first time the team has given Fleetwood the option of his custom alignment aid in an engraved version, but Fleetwood had told them that he did not like the previous lines on the new putters because they were too perfect.
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Mar 28, 2013 at 7:19 pm
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gunmetal
Oct 28, 2012 at 8:51 pm
So the weights are fixed? Brilliant!! I sure know that everyone that I fit with a 34″ putter wants the exact same headweight?!?!?!
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pooch
Oct 26, 2012 at 3:10 pm
I wish they would have put the weighting system in the milled version of the Method Putters
Blanco
Oct 26, 2012 at 4:46 am
Time to get with it Nike. Lefty’s needs more than a plumbers neck. Your Method 003 should have been released in Lefty years ago. Major duh factor.
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cars29
Oct 25, 2012 at 9:02 pm
no belly putters?
mac
Oct 25, 2012 at 2:44 pm
finally some good looking Method Cores!! Gawd! last year was terrible!