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LONG IRONS APLENTY
The most common equipment change at an Open Championship is the addition of long irons. Players commonly take out a fairway wood or go for a more forgiving 3-iron to be able to cut through the wind with a lower shot that can roll out on the contoured fairways of a links golf course.
Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy, Collin Morikawa and Tommy Fleetwood all followed that strategy at the top of their bags. Tiger plays a P·770 3-iron that he used off the tee frequently especially on the demanding Par 3 17th hole. Rory McIlroy went back to his famous P·760 2-iron that produced an epic 2nd shot en route to his win at the Scottish Open in 2023.
Collin Morikawa has made a few key changes to his irons for this week. After testing a prototype 3-iron and P·790 3-iron, both bent to a 2-iron loft. Collin decided to go with the more forgiving P·790 to hit low piercing shots both off the tee and in the fairways. Collin's spec is below:
Tommy Fleetwood has notoriously played a 9-wood for the majority of this season, however, with the exaggerated height on his 9-wood out of the fairway Tommy elected to replace it with a P·7CB 3-iron.
Let's take a look at the rest of Team TaylorMade's equipment for this week.
- Qi10 8.0° driver (Ventus Black 7 X)
- Qi10 15.0° 3-wood (Ventus Black 8 X)
- P·7TW 5-PW (Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100)
- Spider Tour X (L-Neck)
When we arrived on the grounds at Royal Troon on Sunday, Scottie Scheffler was in absolute grind mode on the practice green. His coach Phil Kenyon had his patented level out and they were dissecting every angle of each putt he hit. They varied the putts from short to long, uphill to downhill and Scottie went through his pre-putt routine on the first attempt of each one:
- Line up ball
- Look at ball from behind
- Walk to the other side of the hole, read the putt from that side
- Go to the selected point of the line and read the putt from multiple points within the line
- Walk to ball and address the putt, then step off to read it once more from behind
- Drain the putt
Phil used his level to get the slope of the putt, then he and Scottie would identify the aim point on his line and Phil marked it with a white sharpie. Scottie's goal then would be to hit that white dot on the green, and when he did the putt went in 100 percent of the time.
Here's how that translated to the golf course on Sunday:
NEW DRIVER HEAD FOR TIGER
After his first two days of practice rounds, Tiger Woods decided to make a key change to his driver set up and change from a 10.5° Qi10 LS head to a 9.0°. The loft sleeve is set up on the upright side towards higher with the sliding weight toward the draw position. In short, Tiger made this change to have a lower ball flight off the tee to cut through the unpredictable wind at Troon and take advantage of the rollout a lower tee shot could get on the links fairways.
- Qi10 LS 10.5° driver (Graphite Design Tour AD VF 6 X)
- Qi10 Tour 15.0° 3-wood (Graphite Design Tour AD VF 7 X)
- M3 19.0° 5-wood (Diamana D+ 80TX)
- P·770 3-iron (Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100)
- P·7TW 4-PW (Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100)
- Milled Grind 4 56° TW (Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400)
- Milled Grind 4 60° TW (Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400)
- Qi10 9.0° driver (Ventus Black 6X)
- Qi10 15.0° 3-wood (Ventus Black 8X)
- P·760 2-iron (HZRDUS Black)
- P·760 4-iron (Project X 7.0)
- Rors Proto Irons 5-9 (Project X 7.0)
- Milled Grind 4 46° SB, 50° SB, 54° SB (Project X 6.5)
- Spider Tour X Putter
- 2024 TP5x MySymbol
BIG CHANGES TO COLLIN'S BAG
As mentioned above, Collin is adding a P·790 3-iron to the bag this week to cut through the Scottish wind. However, an even more impactful change is coming in his 5-iron through pitching wedge as Collin is adding the yet-to-be release P·7CB irons. Collin famously switched to P·7MC irons the week before he won the 149th Open Championship at Royal St. Georges and is following a similar tactical change at this year's Open. The sole of the P·7CB's can cut through the firm turf of Royal Troon giving Collin more precision and workability with his irons which he will rely on especially on the lengthy holes on Troon's back nine.
To combat turf interaction, Collin also added a Milled Grind 4 SBC 60° wedge. His full WITB is:
- Qi10 9.0° driver (Ventus TR Blue 6X)
- BRNR Mini 13.5° (Ventus TR Blue 6X)
- Qi10 18.0° 5-wood (Mitsubishi Kuro Kage 80 TX)
- P·Series Proto 3-iron (Project X 6.5)
- P·7TW 4-PW (Project X 6.5)
- Hi Toe 3 52° (Dynamic Gold S400)
- TP5x pix
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