Collin Morikawa has tried many other places over the past few years, but he always seems to gravitate to him reliable Taylormade TP Soto, a layer he used to win the Zozo 2023 championship.
This week, a new flat is entering the conversation.
IN Traveler This week, Morikawa has put into play a new brand Olson Tour Matrix 1.0 Round Round.
Many gears recognize Logan Olson as the other bright star in the Putter design space, who has gained recognition for his one -time creations, Batch omissionsand a little over a year ago, Drafting Putter Scottie Scheffler used to win hero World Challenge 2023.
Olson has since arrived under Taylormade umbrellaAnd the first big fruit of that purchase was Matrix Olson Tour, who debuted at Charles Schwab Challenge last month. Thorbjørn Olesen used a similar matrix Olson Tour 1.0.
With the matrix, Taylormade Putter Rep James Holley now has a modular mounting system that allows him to create a blade puter with two facial options (grooves or flight mills) and three width options (1.0, 1.25, 1.5), along with an auxiliary set and weights, precisely in the other.
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“I can have a burst built its length, control it on it, and then I can simply change it back, give it a quarter, so a little further,” Holley Golf told the travelers. “It will be a little heavier. If I want to make it the same rocking weight, change weights out. So it just makes it easy to change the items back and on.”
Morikawa, one of the leading ball strikers in the game and the number 4 player in the world, is not new to the name Olson, having tried a custom prototype last year.
The interesting difference is that last year’s prototype had a buried insert, just like its Sot, while Putter Morikawa tested and eventually Gamed this week at the TPC River Highlands has a mixed face.
Taylormade announces the purchase of Logan Olson’s tendency creator
It is also not the first change of the year for Morikawa, who has lost a blow to the greens this year and ranks 110th in the tournament in this category. For two tournaments in April, Morikawa tried a spider Tour V, CG More before in the Tayormade formation, but that putter lasted only six rounds in the bag.
Holley said they were not trying to re-go to the Morikawa setting. Holly’s placement coach and Morikawa, Stephen Sweeney, used Vertex Golf Movement sensors to see the dynamics of Morikawa hit and did not see much to change. They were really trying to match the sound, to feel the optics with what Morikawa liked.
Holley said they went with a rounded bumper shape and the point of view to match Olson, but Fly Mill Face feels just a little stronger, which Morikawa preferred.
With the new stick, Morikawa’s results were useful in the greens after he received 31 strokes and won .126 strokes as part of a 67 opening at TPC River Highlands.
Combination of zero torque and arm block
Zero Rolling Movement (or whatever you want to call it) in PGA Tour is ready to hit a step of fever after JJ Spaun captured the first major championship in the US Open with the type of putter.
After losing the shocks in the greens his last three events, maybe this is what Matthieu pavon made to prove the prototype concept of technology ping, the PLD Ally Blue Sset 5 Pitter.
Another interesting is that Matthieu Pavon looks ready to play the new PLD starting work in a wrist locking configuration. Do not think I have seen a zero torque tonizer in a wrist locking configuration. Pic.twitter.com/g0sbkmqld
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It was not a radical departure for the Pavon, who played a center grafted in much of his career, but this driving is different for several reasons. For beginners, the ping version is not really a zero torque in what becomes the traditional sense because the toe does not indicate when it is balanced. On the contrary, it actually has about 5 degrees of toe hanging (ie “5” in the name).
Corey Conners is using a similar prototype, Ally Blue Sset 15, which, as you can imagine from different nomenclatures, contains 15 degrees of toe.
Putter still falls into a similar category as other “zero torque” options as it has the shaft located behind the putter face, creating the beginning (again, name).
But where it varies is the Pavon stick is one of the first starting partners in the PGA Tour to combine technology with an Armlock configuration.
JJ Spaun marks the first great victory for this kind of Putter fashion
“He’s a kind of cheated with a balanced face, Mallete against the blades, and then now he is trying the beginning. For him, he actually visually liked it, and wanted to try Armlock,” said Ping players development manager Dylan Goodwin. “Going with the wing block. Juds is right, requires many of the game variables and a stroke. No lean manipulation of the axis too, so it feels like speed is very, very durable.”
With the axis behind the face of the putter, Goodwin said Pavon was also able to line up.
Adam Scott continues to try
Adam Scott with difficulty on the shafts in his Mira AS-1 Irons led to his best ball performance of the season while winning 1,009 blows to the US Open, the first time he was positive in the category since the Valsspar champion in March.
But the Golf Ultimate Tinkerer was again in it this week at the traveler championship.
While the AS-1/TC-202 Scott combination group debuted at US Open seemed intact, we noticed a 5-I-hell of the Callaway Golf Apex Mb 5-iron in the Scott bag.
Scott has two sets of handcuffs, AS-1 and Title 681.asthat were customized specifically for it but this Will not stop it by trying anything to get an advantage.
Tommy Fleetwood’s mini change led to another
Tommy Fleetwood Switched to the new Taylormade R7 Quad Mini driver this week After a memorable two-year run with Brnr Mini. A shaft change in Fujukura Ventus TR Blue 6-X Was it the catalyst that led to exchange.
But it also led Fleetwood and Adrian Rietveld I Tayormade to try something else.
Fleetwood was playing Ventus Red Velocore+ 6-X at his mini driver to match the same shaft that he passed on his Qi35 driver to start this season. So when they landed by returning back to the TR Blue to his mini driver, they also wanted to try it on the big stick.
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Fleetwood did some tests in the Wednesday and then received the new axis configuration in his nine-holes, which seemed to go well because he was in the bag on Thursday for the opening round.
It is clear that something immediately worked with the driver and the mini because Fleetwood lost only two roads on Thursday at TPC River Highlands and won 1,247 strokes from Tee (T4 in the field) on his way to an open round 66.
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Jack Harsh is the editor of associate equipment in Golf. A local Pennsylvania, Jack is a graduate of 2020 at Penn State University, earning degrees in transmitted journalism and political science. He was captain of his Golf High School team and recently returned to the program to serve as the main coach. Jack also * try * to remain competitive in local amateurs. Before joining Golf, Jack spent two years working at a Bend TV station, Oregon, mainly as a multimedia journalist/reporter, but also producing, anchoring and even presenting the weather. He can be reached in jack.hirsh@golf.com.