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When you find a set of irons that work, it’s hard to let them go.
Daniel Berger decided to go back to his 10-year-old TaylorMade MC Forged irons – a set he used dating to his time at Dwyer High School in South Florida – after his Callaway contract ended in 2020. He had the irons in the bag for his first PGA Tour win in 2016 and has added two more victories since June with them.
The Florida State University product has called them the best set of irons ever made. Last year, Berger rummaged through his garage and discovered a TaylorMade MC Forged set that had yet to be taken out of the box. While he plans to use the irons for as long as possible, he has gone to great lengths to find new sets of the old sticks. He recently went to Instagram, where he asked random golfers if he could buy their TaylorMade MC Forged set, and he’s planning on finding more on eBay.
After a winner’s check north of $1.4 million at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, there is no doubt he can afford a few sets.
Max Homa is off to a hot start in 2021, culminating in his victory last week at the Genesis Invitational. He had been using a Scotty Cameron Futura T5W putter almost exclusively since the 2019 Waste Management Phoenix Open but switched to a Scotty Cameron Phantom X 11.5 mallet two weeks ago for his T7 finish at Pebble Beach. It was the same week Cameron unveiled an extension to the Phantom X putter line.
Homa’s putting has mostly held him back this season as he ranked No. 152 heading into the Genesis Invitational in strokes gained putting, but he ranked No. 7 in strokes gained putting in Los Angeles.
Rickie Fowler is also searching for an upgrade to his putter, a club that traditionally has been a non-issue for him during his career. After ranking No. 1 in strokes gained putting in 2017 and No. 13 in 2019, Fowler has fallen to No. 196 this season – almost near rock bottom on the PGA Tour.
Fowler used two putters during a missed cut in Phoenix, borrowing a Scotty Cameron Newport Art of Putting flatstick from his caddie, Joe Skovron, for Round 2. He returned to his trusty Scotty Cameron Newport 2 blade at Pebble Beach, but once again ranked outside the top 100 on the greens.
Jordan Spieth normally uses a Titleist U500 utility at most tour stops, but the West Coast Swing is an exception. Looking for a flatter ball flight to combat California’s coastal winds, Spieth has gone to a T100 4-iron.
The 4-iron was built with a slightly longer True Temper Project X 6.5 shaft to match the ball speed he saw with the U500 utility, but with a lower launch angle.
In the Titleist camp, their TSi driver line continues to play well. At Pebble Beach, 43 players used one and 30 percent of them did so without a contract.
At the Genesis Invitational, FootJoy had 48 percent of the shoe count and 33 percent of the glove count.
Sean Fairholm