Rory McILroy made a significant change of equipment before the start of AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-AmGoing from a TP5X Taylormade golf ball to the brand’s five -room offer, the TP5. With the help of this ball, McILroy then won in Pebble Beach, and now he’s again.
After testing new woods and corners this week in Orlando before the Arnold Palmer Invitational At the Bay Hill Club and Lodge, McILroy has a new corner set, a driver and fairway wood.
“So, because this ball, especially with the shortest irons, turns a little more, especially with the kind of three -quarter shots, I feel a little more comfortable playing them, so I actually weakened my hinged corner by a degree and a half, to fill the ditch between having 46.5 and 54,” said Rory on Wednesday. “So it’s my 48 degree, then 54, 60. I just have the impression with the ball, I am much more comfortable to play these kinds of half and three quarters, so (I am) at ease to return to three corners.”
Previously, McILroy had been a player of four heaps, using TAYLORMADE MG4 (46, 50, 54, 60 degrees) holds equipped with wells of the X 6.5 project. Weakening the hole corner at 46 degrees and removing the corner of the gap at 50 degrees allowed McILroy to add another club to his bag.
“In a way I had to look at the upper end of the bag and how I was going to configure it,” he said. Although he did not discuss his driver during his press conference on Wednesday, McILroy went to Taylormade Standard Qi35. He also added two new Fairway woods.
“For some time, I was looking for a club that carries 300 in the air,” said McILroy. He added that many tour stops have fairways that pinch about 310 or 320 yards, making the driver a risky game, but that did not make him happy.
“My 3 wood, it’s going like 285, 290, but the guys who are shorter than I hit the driver in a way 300 or 310, so I have the impression of being disadvantaged in some respects, even to love people who hit him shorter than me, depending on the configuration of the course.”
Many pros have turned to Mini pilots To create a distance close to the pilot with improved precision, but McILroy said that he was not comfortable with them, so he opted for a stronger wood at 3 years old, a TAYLORMADE Qi35 With 15 degrees of loft.
“And then, I went from a wood to 5 to a swood. The 4 McILroy woods are a Taylormade at 18 degrees Qi35.
But he hadn’t finished there.
“Then I have the iron to 3 which replaces the wood of the 5,” said McILroy, referring to a Taylormade 3-Fer prototype that looks like a Recently published p · 770. “So I have a club that steals 260, a club that flies 280, a club that flies 300, then the driver,” said McILroyt. “So, it was in a way the reasoning behind them. It gives me somehow more options on the tee, especially to be so comfortable at the other end of the bag with the corners and to strike these three quarters. It is good to have these options at the top of the bag.”
This article originally appeared on Golfweek: Rory McILroy brings equipment changes to Arnold Palmer Invitational
