This club was once a major American element

While most of the concentration in Rory Mcilroy bag this week has been on his driveris another club he brought with him Oakmont This attracted the attention of some gears.

It is not surprising that Mcilroy has a Taylormade P760 2-I have with it in at US While he debates whether he will play that club or a 5-lanon this week, where finding the fairways is a premium. What is surprising is that Mcilroy is one of just a few players who are interested in a moving iron this week.

Even when the players have left long handcuffs in favor of the hybrids and, most recently, 7-and higher 9-higher droop, the car cuffs have still found a place in the Pro Bags during the summer months, especially in the open and open US championship, when firms conditions lead to large rotations.

This week in Oakmont, with the unjust tracks of the club and brutally tough, more players are turning into 7- and 9-drat, surprisingly, to run the handcuffs.

We saw this phenomenon playing in the PGA championship when the players turned into higher forests to help extract the ball from the harsh humidity that week in Quail Hollow.

This is also part of the story this week, as Kellen Watson of Callaway told Golf how Woo Kim was looking for a 4 -iron replacement that could get it out of the rough. They settled in a 9-druy Callaway Ely with a black Ventus 10-X shaft at 40.5.

“This 9 wood rotates a tone, but with the combination of more ball speed and peak height, its transmission is the same as a 4-Herkuri, and it has a roughly applicable option,” Watson said.

Other ready to play a 9-Dru this week include Taylor Pendrith, Erik van Royen, Dustin Johnson, Adam Scott, Zac Blair and Tommy Fleetwood, Who plays one almost every week. Typically, there are only one number with a digit of 9 wood users in PGA Tour, but this week can have up to 20.

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But another factor that directs the growth of high high forests this week is the use of the feet, something where the car iron has usually been a useful tool. Due to the Oakmont flexion and invisible parts, it is best to hit the clubs from the most rotating to minimize participation.

It will also show how much modern fairway forest technology has improved to the point that the best can hit a ball as high as they want and not have the balloon, either flatten it and get a lower but still controlled ball flight.

Justin Thomas switches driver axes

Justin Thomas waves in April the two with his improved placement that made him break a three-year drought without winning in RBC heritage but also Its black prototype from Mitsubishi.

But an MC conclusion and a T31 in the memorial, who without saying to shoot 80 in the opening round, made him look again and this week, Thomas has not only changed the axis profiles, but he is going to a completely different manufacturer.

According to JJ Van Wezenbeeck, the top director of promotions of title players, Thomas was looking for something a little lower by rotating as his speeds have increased during the year.

He ended up descending to the attic from a 10.0 GT2 head in setting D1 (standard stretches by -.75 degrees attic) to a 9.0 head in D4 setting (standard stands with +.75 degrees attic) and a Fujukura 2024 Ventus Velocore + 6 -x.

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Van Wezenbeeck said the combo kept a lot of rotation in the cut, but the biggest pallor was below 200-300 rpm.

2024 drivers continue to play

We here in Golf called the 2024 Driver’s Year, so even with OEM to present the new product this season, it really should not be shocking that many players have hanged on their big sticks from last season, knowing they worked.

In addition to Rory Mcilroy and Scottie Scheffler becoming with their drivers Taylormade Qi10, Xander Schauffle, such as Woo Kim and Sepp Straka are among players still using the popular Paradym platform he smoke from last year.

Given their age and repeated use, he too were not shocking Mcilroy and Scheffler had finally failed their players CT testswith what comes to the PGA Championship for both players. But it is also not shocking that the two are still in QI10 this week in Oakmont.

Mcilroy’s head is the same one he spent in the PGA Championship, but while his pictures show the lack of a “point” with the number of attic, usually an indicator of the single tour model, we have confirmed that it is the same model that Mcilroy used last season and won the masters. He has also turned into a 45 and 3/4 axis.

Xander Schauffle goes for Align Max

Speaking to Schauffle, the big two -time winner last year has made a somewhat expected move to the new Golf Pride Pride Max Grps.

Schauffle was a tall user of Align’s original technology, which offers a memory ridge at the bottom of the syllable to promote proper and durable hand placement. The New Align Max, released earlier this year, Contains a 25 percent larger ridge.

With this change, Schauffle chose the MCC +4 Align Max instead of the MCC standard, as he used before, because he was using the tape to get the bar from the syllable anyway and he liked the clumsy feeling of +4s.

GT title metals remain a hot choice

Since the GT Metal Title Formation was hit in PGA Tour last year, they have been among the most used drivers in PGA Tour and the company has led the driver to count this season every week.

This comes from many uses from non -contracted players.

This week, Dustin Johnson, Matt Fitzpatrick and Justin Rose will all have a GT Tixist driver in the bag.

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Johnson initially placed a GT2 in the Championship PGA bag, but had entered with a Ping G440 before re-incorporating GT2 this week.

Yes, it is certain that it is strange to see DJ in anything other than a Taylormade driver, but these are strange times, friends!

Fitzpatrick is also thinking of adding a GT1 14.5-degree wood to the bag this week.

GT1 was added to the GT lineup earlier This year as a high -weight ultraralight option, but thanks to adjustable weighing, players are able to move heavy weight forward and add weight to bring it to standard pepper. Fairway GT1 head with 14.5 degrees is an option for tour only.