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USA Today
3 days ago
- Sport
- USA Today
Winner's Bag: Scottie Scheffler's golf equipment at the 2025 Memorial Tournament
Winner's Bag: Scottie Scheffler's golf equipment at the 2025 Memorial Tournament A complete list of the golf equipment Scottie Scheffler used to win the 2025 Memorial Tournament. Show Caption Hide Caption TaylorMade Spider ZT putters TaylorMade's new Spider ZT putter emphasizes consistent face control and alignment. A complete list of the golf equipment Scottie Scheffler used to win the 2025 Memorial Tournament: DRIVER: TaylorMade Qi10 (8 degrees), with Fujikura Ventus Black 7X shaft FAIRWAY WOODS: TaylorMade Qi10 (15 degrees), with Fujikura Ventus Black 8X shaft, TaylorMade Qi35 (21 degrees), with Fujikura Ventus Black 9X shaft. IRONS: Srixon ZU85 (4), with True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100 shaft, TaylorMade P-7TW (5-PW), with True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100 shafts. WEDGES: Titleist Vokey Design SM8 (50, 56), SM9 (60 degrees), with True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400 shafts PUTTER: TaylorMade Spider Tour X L-Neck BALL: Titleist Pro V1 GRIPS: Golf Pride Tour Velvet (full swing) / Golf Pride Pistol (putter)
USA Today
19-03-2025
- Business
- USA Today
TaylorMade signs top-ranked junior Asterisk Talley to endorsement deal
TaylorMade signs top-ranked junior Asterisk Talley to endorsement deal Asterisk Talley is the top female golfer on the Rolex AJGA rankings, and now she joins Nelly Korda, Brooke Henderson, Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy on TaylorMade's staff. Show Caption Hide Caption TaylorMade P·790 irons for 2025 offer better feel, more distance TaylorMade's updated P·790 irons have a new face material to go along with tungsten weights and updated internal structures enhance feel and distance TaylorMade Golf has signed 16-year-old amateur golfer Asterisk Talley to a sponsorship deal. Talley is the top-ranked junior girl's golfer in the Rolex AJGA Rankings and recently competed in the U.S. Women's Open. TaylorMade has a stable of staff players that includes Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy, Scottie Scheffler, Nelly Korda and Brooke Henderson, and on Wednesday, the Carlsbad, California-based company added 16-year-old Asterisk Talley to that group. While the rules governing amateur athletics have changed in recent years, allowing many athletes to be paid for the use of their name, image and likeness (NIL), financial details regarding the partnership between Talley and TaylorMade were not disclosed. Talley, a native of Chowchilla, California, is currently the top-ranked player in the Girls division of the Rolex AJGA Rankings, having won the 2025 AJGA Fortinet Stanford Invitational and ANNIKA Junior Invitational titles. Last season, she competed in the U.S. Women's Open (where she finished 44th) and was on the United States team that narrowly lost the Curtis Cup, a competition between the best female amateur golfers from America against the best players from Great Britain and Ireland. However, in that event, Talley shined, going 2-1-1 in match play, including a singles win over Lottie Woad, who is the top-ranked female amateur golfer in the world. 'As a company that's always looking to the future, we prioritize cultivating relationships with top-tier youth talent, and Asterisk certainly fits that mold. Her accomplishments at such a young age are remarkable. But just as importantly, she's a phenomenal young woman of standup character. We couldn't be more excited about our partnership with Asterisk; she has a tremendously bright future ahead both on and off the course.' - Eddie Erkmanis, TaylorMade Vice President of Sports Marketing According to TaylorMade, it is anticipated that Talley will be using the following clubs this season: DRIVER: TaylorMade Qi35 (9 degrees) FAIRWAY WOOD: TaylorMade Qi35 (16.5 degrees) HYBRID: TaylorMade Qi (19 degrees) IRONS: TaylorMade P·790 (4-5), P·7MC (6-PW) WEDGES: TaylorMade Milled Grind 4 (50, 54, 60 degrees) PUTTER: TaylorMade Spider Tour X BALL: TaylorMade TP5x
USA Today
14-03-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Rory McIlroy's $995 Uber ride may be the ticket to a $4.5 million payday at Players
Rory McIlroy's $995 Uber ride may be the ticket to a $4.5 million payday at Players PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. – When in doubt, call Uber. Last Saturday, McIlroy treated his clubs to a $995 Uber ride to Bay Hill Club & Lodge in Orlando – hope it was Uber Black – so that McIlroy could swap in his old reliable sticks for the latest and greatest from TaylorMade that he had played for the first three days. Those same clubs are in action again this week and have helped McIlroy produced rounds of 67 and 68 at the Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass, two off the lead and good for T-4 through 36 holes at the 2025 Players Championship. McIlroy explained why he changed his wedges last week on the eve of the Arnold Palmer Invitational and how it resulted in a switch to a standard TaylorMade Qi35 and matching fairway woods. But the experiment was short-lived. Trailing by seven strokes heading into the final round, McIlroy regretted the club switch and told his manager that he wanted to go back to old faithful, the TaylorMade Qi10, that he had used to great effect in winning the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am last month. There was just one problem: the clubs McIlroy wanted were back home in South Florida, nearly 200 miles, or 2 ½ hours, away. Allow McIlroy's putting coach, Brad Faxon, to detail what happened next. 'He had them Ubered from his house on Saturday night, which is pretty extraordinary to have those shipped up,' said Faxon, who works as a TV analyst on Sky Sports. Asked how much the Uber cost, McIlroy said, 'No idea. Not my department.' But his longtime manager, Sean O'Flaherty, checked his phone and confirmed that the ride cost $665 plus a $330 tip. The clubs arrived about 9:30 p.m., and were back in the bag for the final round. McIlroy shot even-par 72 on Sunday and finished T-15 at Arnie's Place. After the round he talked about the club switch but buried the lede. 'Sort of going back to what I'm comfortable with,' said McIlroy, who noted he would stick with his current mix of clubs through the Masters. 'I tried new woods for the first three days, didn't quite work out the way I wanted it to. So, yeah, I went back to my old stuff today.' He continued: 'I led Strokes Gained: Off the Tee in both Pebble and Torrey, so it was a really good idea to change,' he said with a facetious laugh. 'Then, [Saturday], I lost strokes off the tee, which is the first time I've done that in a long time. Yeah, just went back to what was familiar.' Ahead of the Players, he was asked about the club change again. 'You're always looking for a little edge, and for me it was like, OK, if I can find something that goes 300, that would be great, just for — not just for what's coming — for a lot of golf courses we go to nowadays, it seems like fairways pinch in at like 310, 320 (yards), which is just awkward enough for me to hit driver. But then if I hit 3-wood 285, 290, I feel like I'm not quite pushing it up there as far as I can. If I have to hit 7-iron into a green instead of 8-iron, I'll deal with it,' he said. 'Some years you vibe with a new piece of equipment a little easier. Like that Qi10 that I'm using that they brought out last year, it was like love at first sight. I was like, this thing is amazing. I think when you feel like that about a golf club, it's very hard to change into something else. It ebbs and flows. Some years it's easier than others.' McIlroy hit just four fairways on Thursday and just one on the inward nine. He managed to recover and shoot 67 but according to stats guru Justin Ray, it tied for the lowest score by a player to hit four or fewer fairways in a round at the Players. McIlroy headed to the range after the round and left with a feel of what he wanted to do. 'Hit it way better off the tee and that was very encouraging to see,' he said. 'I hit more fairways in six holes today than I did in 18 yesterday. Yeah, got it in play much better and then from there was able to give myself some opportunities and obviously make some birdies early. Couldn't quite continue that on to the back nine, but it was much better off the tee.' Asked to explain the fix, he said, 'I was just getting a little underneath it, just getting a little too much sort of side bend coming down, sort of in transition. So just trying to keep my right side a little higher and just try to cover it a little bit more was really the thought.' That swing thought and a $995 Uber ride have McIlroy, the 2019 Players champion, in the thick of another trophy hunt at TPC Sawgrass.
USA Today
11-03-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Get Equipped: New FootJoy shoes, Fujikura Ventus shafts
Get Equipped: New FootJoy shoes, Fujikura Ventus shafts In the days leading up to last week's Arnold Palmer Invitational, Rory McIlroy made wholesale changes to his equipment set. As I wrote, he added a new TaylorMade Qi35 driver, 3-wood and 5-wood, and made changes to his wedge setup by going from four wedges to three. Well, things didn't go the way McIlroy planned over the first three days at Bay Hill, and he switched back into his old gear before the start of the fourth round. "I probably just didn't give myself enough time," he said Sunday afternoon. "It can look good on the Trackman and it can look good on the range at home at the Bear's Club or on the golf course, but once you get out here in these conditions, that's where it really shows itself, and it just wasn't quite ready." McIlroy added he anticipated using his Qi10 driver and fairway woods through the rest of the Florida Swing and at the Masters, which starts just 30 days from today. I think, at some point this season, McIlroy will transition into the Qi35 again, but what Rory talked about at Bay Hill is a phenomenon every pro and recreational golfer has to understand: there can be a big difference in the way you perform with new equipment on the range or in casual rounds compared to how you perform with the same gear when there is pressure. For McIlroy, that means in tournament conditions against the best players in the world, but for you, it could mean your Saturday morning match. If a golfer feels doubt, that can lead to tension, and tension leads to bad swings, poor decisions and inconsistent results, leading to a negative cycle. On the other hand, trusting your gear and your swing encourages confidence, keeps tension low and often leads to better shots and more success. If you are looking to get into new clubs this season, take your time, go through the custom fitting process at a facility and with an expert you trust. Ask questions and learn everything you can about why a club is ideal for you and your game. A craftsman knows everything he can about his tools and how they work, and even a 20-handicap golfer should know why a driver, set of irons or a particular putter should benefit his or her game.
USA Today
05-03-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Rory McIlroy makes equipment changes at Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill
Rory McIlroy makes equipment changes at Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill After changing golf balls at Pebble Beach, Rory McIlroy has adjusted his wedges, changed his driver and fairway woods and even added a new 3-iron. Rory McIlroy made a significant equipment change before the start of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, switching from a TaylorMade TP5x golf ball to the brand's other five-piece offering, the TP5. With the help of that ball, McIlroy went on to win at Pebble Beach, and now he's at it again. After testing some new woods and wedges this week in Orlando ahead of the Arnold Palmer Invitational at the Bay Hill Club and Lodge, McIlroy has a new wedge set, driver and fairway woods. 'So, because this ball, especially with the shorter irons, spins a little bit more, especially with the sort of three-quarter shots, I feel a little more comfortable playing those, so I actually weakened my pitching wedge by a degree and a half, to sort of bridge the gap between having a 46.5 and a 54,' Rory said on Wednesday. 'So that's my 48 degree, and then 54, 60. I just feel like with the ball, I'm a lot more comfortable playing those sort of half- and three-quarter shots, so (I'm) comfortable going back to three wedges.' Previously, McIlroy had been a four-wedge player, using TaylorMade MG4 (46, 50, 54, 60 degrees) wedges fitted with Project X 6.5 shafts. Weakening the 46-degree pitching wedge and removing the 50-degree gap wedge allowed McIlroy to add another club to his bag. 'I sort of had to look at the top end of the bag then and how I was going to configure it,' he explained. While he did not discuss his driver during his press conference on Wednesday, McIlroy has switched to TaylorMade's standard Qi35. He also added two new fairway woods. 'For a while, I've been looking for a club that sort of carries 300 in the air,' McIlroy said. He added that many tour stops have fairways that pinch in around 310 or 320 yards, making driver a risky play, but that wasn't making him happy. 'My 3-wood, that's going like 285, 290, but guys that are shorter than me are hitting driver sort of 300 or 310, so I feel like I was at a disadvantage in some ways, even to like people that hit it shorter than me, depending upon the course setup.' Many pros have turned to mini drivers to create near-driver distance with enhanced accuracy, but McIlroy said he wasn't comfortable with them, so he's opted for a stronger-lofted 3-wood, a TaylorMade Qi35 with 15 degrees of loft. "And then, I've went from a 5-wood to a 4-wood. And that 4-wood sort of bridges that gap," he said. McIlroy's 4-wood is an 18-degree TaylorMade Qi35. But he wasn't done there. "Then, I've got the 3-iron that sort of replaces the 5-wood," McIlroy said, referring to a TaylorMade prototype 3-iron that looks like a recently-released P·770. "So I've got a club that sort of flies 260, a club that flies 280, a club that flies 300, and then the driver," McIlroyt said. "So that was sort of the reasoning behind them. It just sort of gives me more options off the tee, especially with being so comfortable at the other end of the bag with the wedges and hitting those three-quarter shots. It's nice to have those options up at the top end of the bag."
