Jordan Spieth’s surprise switch was the year in doing

When some players hit the golf course, there are only certain clubs KNOW will be in their bags.

Tiger Woods’ Scotty Cameron Newport 2 Putter; Brooks Koepka’s Nike Vapor Fly Pro 3-Iron; and Jordan Spieth’s Scotty Cameron 009.

Or at least the last one was up to this week past.

Formerly unthinkable became a reality for spieth as he changed putters to WM Phoenix Open last week, with his 009 taking a back place in a TP Mills similarly TPA Trad II Forget. Spieth’s first switch in nearly eight years resulted in a T4 conclusion, his best in PGA Tour in 399 days.

The exchange has actually been more than a year in doing.

Many gears would consider TP Mills a classic brand that became famous by the likes of Arnold Palmer, Lee Trevino and Phil Mickelson. But today, TP Mills does not have much presence in PGA Tour.

David Mills, the son of founder Trruett P. Mills, Sr., could not last show that one of the company attackers put him in the bag of a pro the tour, but said it could be more often than they understand Golf fans.

“We have been pretty successful,” told Mills Golf, showing the Amy Yang record setting in the LPGA 2023 CME Group Tour with a TP Mills Fleetwood prototype. “We don’t advertise, we don’t pay players. If one does not do homework, they will not know about it. “

Mills said Spieth’s Putter is actually about one year old. At the beginning of last year, a builder of the Dallas club, Frank Hartwick, was reached in Mills on behalf of Spieth and sought a place for the big champion three times.

“He said Jordan knew who we were and respected the product,” Mills said. “Frank didn’t have a lot of information and I just said,” What is land weight and what length? “”

The latest construction was a 353 grams of 1040 hand -fired carbon steel weight, with a 70 degree liar, 3 degrees of attic and 34.5 inches.

“The way you machine make it makes it sit well on the ground unlike many ground locals,” Mills said. “I will not say exactly what I did to her to make her work because that would be hard.”

After Mills had sent Pitter, Spieth thanked him for this through Hartwick, but Mills did not hear much more about it after that, and Spieth never put him in the game last season.

It was up to this fall when Spieth, during his healing from an ankle operation, was, as many golf Nerds do when they cannot hit full shots due to injury, confusing with his golf club collection in his basement.

The mill stability impressed Spieth so much that he reached the mill and wanted to talk more about Pitter.

Mills would not share what the two discussed, but called it a “good visit”.

Spieth did not put in the game during his debut in the season at AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-AM, where he lost more than nine tenths of a field strike in a T69 end.

At the time he arrived at TPC Scottsdale, he had several layers lying around his bag during a practical Wednesday session, but the only stick without Green was forged trade II.

He pulled the foot on the new flat stick for the round of Thursday’s opening and shot 68, but still did not seem so safe in it.

“I have some options, just trying to get confused a little with the way it sits on the ground, the draft at the end of the putter, see if I can pick it where it decides to approximate a little better and off the ball is a little softer, “Spieth said after Thursday’s round. “I can use some options this week. I can climb what I did today. We will see. “

Spieth stuck with mills all week and ended up finishing T4 and winning more than nine tenths of a stroke, good for the 12th in the field.

After the last round, Spieth was not asked if Putter will find a permanent home in his bag, but if we know anything about spieth, nothing is out of the table.

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