Links Golf requires creativity, imagination and terrain use that golf in the United States usually does not, so when the best pond game head for the open championship is not surprising that they use several clubs different than they do anywhere.
Many of the changes we are seeing in the open have a lot of sense, like many, many, many players who add handcuffs of services to hit low stingers from the Tee and keep it from the sea breeze to Royal Portrush.
Other changes need a little more nuances to understand, like the tendency of players that soften the angles (or straps) in their wedge quarrel to deal with the narrow, strong terrain of golf links.
And others, they are just good players who make interesting switches like every other week.
Continue to read below for the five gear observations we are seeing from the open championship to Royal Portrush.
Great services
What are Ludwig Aberg, Tommy Fleetwood, Lucas Glover, Tyrrell Hatton, Victor Hovland, Rory Mcilroy, Joaco Niemann, Xander Schauffle and JJ Spaun all have in common?
They are all among many players who have fallen Woodws High Fairway (5-Dru or higher), services of services or hybrids in favor of services this week.
Is the full opposite The trend we saw in the last two diplomaswhere Players gathered in 7- and 9-Dru to gain height and stop the ball. But this week, that extra height comes at the expense of holding the ball from the wind.

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So far the most popular choice is new T250 Title of Service This was released in May, with 30 players who used a week and the title that led the total counting with 57 when adding the highest U505 and previous generation models.
Interesting to mark with the T250 tool in the tournament is that players do not actually use the T250u head available with retail. The only differences between the standard T250 and T250U head are the most severe head weight and .370 Hosel was born to accommodate a hybrid shaft. But in the tour, it is easier for repetitions to have the same head if they want to put a steel shaft in it and they can always gain weight and grind the shaft tips.
Justin Thomas, while he tested an U50 1-Iz last week, is climbing once again with his 10-year title 915d 5-dru after strengthening the attic a little.
Very 2 but a little 1s
As I mentioned on Wednesday there was a A little more 1-myone than normal last week to the Scottish Open, included in Winner’s Chris Gotterup bag. But it seems that many of them, including Gotterup, were lost somewhere over the Irish sea.
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Joking, of course, but gotterup re-shakes his mini driver this week and has a Tayormade P770 3-Well in the bag instead of butter knife.
Ben an, who carries a week inside and week at PGA Tour, still has his U50 1-Iz, along with a T250 3-Iron, and Dean Burmeter had a fun conversation with my colleague Sean Zak for using 1-Herkuri in a Thursday 71 This was documented here by my other colleague Alan Bastable.
Open has a very delightful statistical appearance for using driver this week that You can look here under the “driving” statistics.
The removal of the ribbon
The four most popular lobby wedges for the title whose wedges are the number 1 wedge this week are The Low KBounce K, K*, L and T.
This is not as surprising as they are the most popular wedge noise in PGA Tour normally, but look at this thread below for Vokey Tour Rep aaron dill’s comments why each grinding is known this week.
The interesting thing about some players who choose these grinding, specifically L, T and K* is that some players have ribbons, also known as grinding lines, softened. By removing the bar from L grind results in Vokey a grindingWhile lifting it from M grilled makes it in a grinding a+.
Patrick Reed is playing a modified grind this week with the removed bar and Schauffle, who won in Troon last year with K*, is playing a modified k* with both strips removed.
When you take out these ribbons, it helps the club move faster through the ground because it is not caught with the angles. In the ties of turf firms, this is really useful for players who want to hit low rotary at the bottom of the face.
Bryson Dechambeau returns to La Golf Irons and more
Baganta of Bryson Dechambeau is a seemingly endless carousel of gear changes while seeking to choose every aspect of his game. The last change involved in getting New La Golf prototype ABOUT irons He used to win US Open last year.
Dechambeau detailed the move before the tour this week Tuesday.
“I had built handcuffs in La Golf, and we just made the wall thickness a little different. Just for some reason, well, I know why they were just going out a little hotter,” he said. “So we’re working on building the new group where the same wall thickness is, and I will put them other handcuffs again in the game.
“They’re doing great. Everything else was flying harder, doing everything I wanted, from the only interaction, you name it. It was flying over the greens at Oakmont, and it finally cost me cutting, which was frustrating to me.”
But just as soon as they went out, Dechambeau has a series of handcuffs of La Golf and three new wedges of La Golf in the bag this week. The main thing about La Golf’s Irons was a new weighing system, but we will have to wait to hear from Dechambeau himself whether this is the new group or an old one.
Wedges are new this week at 45˚, 50˚ and 55˚, but he has kept his ping glide 4.0 lobed in the bag.
Dechambeau fought in round 1, posting a 78, but gathered with a 65 to be able to cut.
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Tom kim goes the spider
Throughout his professional career, Tom Kim has never known anything other than a Scotty Cameron Putter.
This has been changed this week after Kim has moved to a Tayormade Spider Tour X, L-neck. The 23-year-old enters the week on the outside searching for FedEx Cup at 88 and the deployment was a large part of it after he dropped from 73 to 2023 to 142 in the category this year.

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The Taylormade Spider family has selected 24 wins in PGA Tour for the last two seasons, so Kim is clearly looking for what has made the best in the tournament. Through the 14 holes in his second round, Kim was third in the field with a shot, capturing over 4 strokes in the greens. He opened with a 69 in the round but was in the line of one over one with four holes to play.
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