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Rory Mcilroy’s driver was a major topic of discussion on Friday in PGA.
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Charlotte, NC – he can be nine shots from the superiority and have made the number number, but there is still a lot of attention about Rory Mcilroy in The empty quil.
More specifically, about the driver of Rory Mcilroy.
Mcilroy changed the driver’s head this week. His new one is a Taylormade Qi10 model, just like his player, but more polished; Mcilroy driver had in his bag at Philadelphia Cricket Club Last week he had defined the dressing signs in the sole (see below). This may not have raised his eyebrows if Mcilroy had not won the masters with his gamer a month ago, and if he had played well with the new driver this week at the Championship PGA.
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But Mcilroy did not run it well, hitting only four streets on Thursday and six on Friday. In the middle of this Friday round, Siriusxm reported that the old Mcilroy driver’s head was considered “not the most permissible” by the USGA, which is overseeing the driver trying this week in Quail Hollow, as he does in PGA Tour events. This formulation is quite unclear that it can mean a number of things but Striiusxm Staff Jason Sobel explained This meant that the driver was considered “non-conforming from the USA”.
During Spot Sirius XM, host Taylor Zarzour said: “(Mcilroy) was unable to use it this week – his gamer, if he wanted. It was considered no more permissible. Whether it was cracked or something happened to the head. Rory unable to use that driver and changed drivers yesterday …”
Players remove the driver’s heads throughout the season, sometimes because there are cracks in the face and other times because the faces wear so much that they generate a spring -like effect, like a trampoline, in which the ball stays in contact with the face for a period longer than presented. In the battle against distance, the USGA and R&A have set standards that limit this spring -like effect (called Characteristic timeor CT) and perform driver testing on tour.
So why was Mcilroy’s driver’s head estimated, as Siriusxm reported, is it no longer permissible?
This is a mystery that may not be solved until Mcilroy explains it himself. When Golf.com asked America’s PGA for Mcilroy’s driver, a media official referred to us to the USA, who did this week’s test. USA refused to comment on the Sirius XM report, saying only that the PGA championship test program is in accordance with the same level of support we offer at PGA Tour as part of their regular driver testing program “and” the results are confidential “.
A Taylormade spokesman said he did not know why Mcilroy had a new driver’s head.
How about mcilroy? After purpose 74 Thursday, he refused to talk to the reporters. And when he gathered to do on Friday, despite finishing with successive rods, he refused again, competing a series of steps from the note and go to the parking lot.
A similar situation played for Mcilroy two years ago In Genesis Invitation 2023. In that case, Mcilroy discovered that he had proactively entered a new driver’s head because he was concerned that the elder would not pass a CT test.
“I want to be able to use my driver from (2022),” Mcilroy said a month later, “but I can’t just because of – you use a driver for so long, and it starts to get a little … Basically, I just wouldn’t pass the test. I just didn’t want to take advantage of the chance.
Mcilroy has been extremely successful with him, and dedicated to Qi10 driver. In March, he paid a Uber driver Nearly $ 1,000 Transfer his old driver from Jupiter, Fla., In Orlando, so that he could make a tour of the tour club between Arnold Palmer Invitational.
This is not the first time the driver’s test has become a story in a major. In the 2019 Open Championship, R&A is considered that the driver of Xander Schauffle non-conforming, who asked him the questions about the testing process, which includes only part of the field. R&A tested 30 player drivers randomly, and Schauffle was the only one who failed to test – which we have heard of.
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