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Tiger Woods spotted testing TaylorMade Juno and Scotty Cameron Newport 2 putters today (updated with photos)

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Tiger Woods is going through some tough times on the greens lately… not just holing putts, but deciding between putters.

He played in the 2018 PGA Championship with a TaylorMade Ardmore 3 mallet putter, then he played last week with a TaylorMade Juno blade putter. Now, he’s back to testing out the Juno against the Scotty Cameron Newport 2 that he’s had in the bag for 13-of-his-14 career majors.

Woods was spotted today at the 2018 BMW Championship practice round at Aronimink in Pennsylvania testing out both putters side by side. So he’s at least considering going back to his old flame.

Tiger’s TaylorMade Juno

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Tiger testing his old Scotty Newport 2

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Despite climbing into the top-10 in last week’s Dell Technologies Championship, Tiger struggled down the stretch, playing the last 5 holes in 3-over-par to finish T24. That cost him a lot of FedExCup points. He’s currently in the 25th spot on the FedExCup points list, so he’ll need a strong finish at this week’s BMW Championship in order to qualify for the year-end Tour Championship.

Tiger is currently ranked 50th in Strokes Gained: Putting on the year, according to PGA Tour’s website.

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23 Comments

23 Comments

  1. Ryan Michael

    Sep 5, 2018 at 11:24 pm

    Please bring that Juno finish to retail! It looks superior to the black copper all day long!

  2. larry

    Sep 5, 2018 at 7:07 am

    I wish every we could ban leftys from this site.

  3. Bol

    Sep 5, 2018 at 3:31 am

    It’s not the putter, it’s the ball

  4. Knarls Barkley

    Sep 4, 2018 at 7:30 pm

    Nice attempt at hijacking the cause Tom. Call your pappy Hannity and go sob to Fox News about your theory!

  5. Crash Test Dummy

    Sep 4, 2018 at 6:28 pm

    A change in putter can help if he was not controlling the ball well or missing it a certain way. However, it look to me he was just not reading the putts right and was hitting good putts.

  6. Golf Golf Golf

    Sep 4, 2018 at 3:25 pm

    I switch back and fourth between my Scotty Newport and my Bobby Grace AMG26… I’m beginning to realize its the carpenter and not the hammer.

  7. Tom

    Sep 4, 2018 at 2:28 pm

    Will anyone ask Tiger what he thinks of his clothing sponsor supporting the disrespecting of the US flag with their new ad supporting Kaepernick, the “new face of Nike”? Tiger’s dad was a proud military veteran.

    • Jerry

      Sep 4, 2018 at 2:32 pm

      Kaepernick was protesting police brutality…

    • JD

      Sep 4, 2018 at 3:05 pm

      Lets go through some logic here to break this down:

      Kaepernick kneels to protest police brutality, therefore Kaepernick hates the national anthem, therefore Kapernick hates the military. Nike supports Kaepernicks protest of police brutality, therefore Nike hates the military, therefore Tom is wondering if Tiger hates Nike.

      Lets keep going….

      Tom now hates Nike, therefore Tom throws his nike clubs and clothes in the lake, therefore Tom now walks 18 without clubs and completely nude, therefore Tom gets arrested for indecent exposure, therefore Tom is a creep.

      DAMN YOU NIKE!!! Now Tom is a creep.

      • Damone

        Sep 4, 2018 at 3:36 pm

        This is Brilliant and needs to be shared

      • Brad

        Sep 5, 2018 at 8:24 am

        The issue that most people have with him kneeling is the forum he chose. It’s one of the few times people of all backgrounds can come together and be united and he chose to divide people even more. I’m sure others don’t feel the same way, and that’s fine.

    • George

      Sep 4, 2018 at 3:08 pm

      please go to fox news for your backwards politics. This is a place for golf

      • Brad

        Sep 4, 2018 at 10:13 pm

        Actually, George, you just insulted a lot of people who choose to watch Fox. You just made it personal and not about golf. Shame on you.

      • Charles

        Sep 5, 2018 at 11:28 pm

        Sounds like little Georgy needs to find his way fo MSNBC and NFL blog sites, not a golf site, if he is trying to find friends and make conversation.

    • Bill

      Sep 4, 2018 at 3:18 pm

      Those protests have nothing to do with ‘the flag’ or the military. Get out of here with that bs.

      • Jordan Robert Anderson

        Sep 4, 2018 at 3:21 pm

        Since the protest is to kneel before the flag during the playing of the anthem, you will have a difficult time convincing me that the protest has “nothing to do with the flag or the anthem”.

    • Shoulders

      Sep 4, 2018 at 3:37 pm

      It’s just a flag.

      • cody

        Sep 4, 2018 at 4:27 pm

        NOT ACCORDING TO EDDIE IZZARD..

      • 4RiGHT

        Sep 4, 2018 at 5:08 pm

        Tell the families to slain soldiers when their casket is draped in one. That’s it just a flag…

        • ForeSight

          Sep 4, 2018 at 7:53 pm

          You don’t need to. They already know that.

    • bj

      Sep 5, 2018 at 8:39 am

      Tom your a troll

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Whats in the Bag

Christiaan Maas WITB 2026 (June)

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Driver: TaylorMade Qi4D LS (8 degrees)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus TR Blue 6 X

3-wood: TaylorMade Qi10 (15 degrees)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Black 9 TX

Irons: TaylorMade P770 (3), TaylorMade P7CB (4), TaylorMade P7TW (5-PW)
Shafts: Fujikura Ventus Black HB 10 X, True Temper Dynamic Gold X100

Wedges: TaylorMade Prototype (50-SB09), TaylorMade MG5 (56-HB12, 60-LV07)
Shafts: True Temper Dynamic Gold S400

Putter: TaylorMade TP Juno

Ball: Titleist Pro V1x

Grips: Golf Pride Tour Velvet Cord

Check out more in-hand photos of Christiaan Maas’ clubs here.

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TaylorMade MySpider Tour and Tour X: More customizable build options now available

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TaylorMade Golf’s MySpider program underwent a substantial overhaul over the last month. Firstly, the company launched the option to customize the Spider ZT model, and now the program has returned with the MySpider Tour and MySpider Tour X.

The revamped page now gives golfers complete control over every visual and functional detail of their putter on the popular Tour and Tour X head, with every cosmetic idea thought of. In MySpider Tour, golfers can choose from four head finishes, 16 paint fill colors, nine Surlyn face insert colors, three aluminum insert options, six sightline configurations, and four hosel options — L-neck, small slant, double bend, center shaft. Six sightline options are available in MySpider Tour, including the optically engineered True Path alignment system. MySpider Tour X gives builders the option of four head finishes, four hosel configurations, and five sightline options, also including True Path alignment.

One of the more interesting features of the new MySpider program is the availability of three distinct face insert options. Along with the usual Surlyn Pure Roll insert trusted by Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy, which can be customized from nine colors, golfers can now also select firmer options. Two are offered with the black aluminum Pure Roll insert, slightly firmer than the traditional insert, or for the firmest feel, golfers can choose from two colors of milled aluminum inserts.

Another fun addition to the MySpider Tour is the ability to use the “Tommy Sightline.” The custom alignment aid design, which was first drawn onto Tommy Fleetwood’s putter by PGA Tour Rep James Holley, is based on the milled sightline on his Spider ZT head. There are five shorter lines on the left and right of a longer central line serving as the traditional short line alignment aid.

See below for the full specifications sheet for MySpider Tour and Tour X:

MySpider Tour

MySpider Tour X

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Then and now: Comparing Rory McIlroy’s current setup to his record-breaking 2019 Canadian Open victory

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In Rory McIlroy’s first appearance at the 2019 RBC Canadian Open, he crushed the record books to earn his 16th PGA Tour title in dominating fashion, winning by seven shots over Shane Lowry and Webb Simpson.

McIlroy’s score of 22-under-par 258 is the lowest 72-hole score to date at the Canadian Open, and his closing 61 is also the best final-round score in the history of one of golf’s oldest tournaments. Finally, with his win in 2019, McIlroy became only the sixth player to win the career Triple Crown, adding to his victories at the U.S. Open in 2011 and The Open Championship in 2014, joining Tommy Armour, Walter Hagen, Arnold Palmer, Lee Trevino and Tiger Woods in a coveted list.

So, with that, why not compare his current setup to the clubs he used to break all the records?

Driver

2019: TaylorMade M5 (9 degrees), Shaft: Mitsubishi Tensei CK Pro White 70 TX
2026: TaylorMade Qi4D (9 degrees @8), Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Black 7X (45 5/8 inches)

McIroy led the Tour in Strokes Gained: Off-the-Tee in 2019; he’s doing the same in 2026. Between now and then, McIlroy has switched from the Mitsubishi Tensei CK Pro White 70 TX (a shaft with slightly more feeling in the tip) to the original Fujikura Ventus Black 7X, having just made the change to the heavier version from playing the 60X.

What’s interesting about McIlroy’s 2019 setup is that the weighting on his driver is actually set in the high-draw setting, using the T-Track weighting system, whereas in the Qi4D, he’s currently using a heavily rear-weighted setup. (Two 13-gram weights in the rear and only two 4-gram front weights.)

The TaylorMade M5 driver he played in during his Canadian Open win was the company’s first head that they claimed to design to initially exceed the USGA’s COR limit, and then injected with tuning resin to bring it back in bounds.

Fairway woods

2019: TaylorMade M6 3-wood (15 degrees), Shaft: Mitsubishi Tensei CK Pro White 80 TX; TaylorMade M5 5-wood (19 degrees), Shaft: Mitsubishi Tensei CK Pro White 90 TX
2026: TaylorMade Qi4D 3-wood (15 degrees), Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Black 8X; TaylorMade Qi4D 5-wood (18 degrees), Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Black 9X

The TaylorMade M6 fairway wood that McIlroy was using during the 2019 season is still in the bag of some of the best golfers on Tour in 2026. Just check out Justin Rose’s winning setup from the Farmers Insurance Open earlier this year. This year, though, McIlroy has still been searching for his top-end-of-the-bag setup, having played both the new Qi4D and the Qi10, which he won the Masters with.

The same shaft swap can be seen in the fairway woods as the driver, along with slightly less loft on the 5-wood.

Irons

2019: TaylorMade P750 (4) Buy here, TaylorMade P730 (5-9), Shafts: Project X 7.0
2026: TaylorMade P760 (4), TaylorMade Rors Proto (5-9), Shafts: Project X 7.0

The biggest difference between McIlroy’s custom set and the stock P730s is the groove design. While the P730s were constructed with 14 MX-9 grooves on their milled faces, McIlroy’s proto heads instead use the higher-spinning, 16-groove layout of the TW2 grooves. Other big differences between the sets are that McIlroy’s 7- and 8-irons have thinner toplines, are 1 degree stronger in loft, and are 1/4 inch longer than the original P730 builds.

With McIlroy’s 4-iron, the switch from P750 to P760 sees a transition to a two-piece construction with Speed Foam in it, which allows McIlroy to launch the ball slightly higher, with more workability.

Wedges

2019: TaylorMade Milled Grind (48-09SB), TaylorMade MG Hi-Toe (52-09SB, 56-09SB, 60-LB09), Shafts: Project X Rifle 6.5
2026: TaylorMade MG5 (46-09SB, 50-09SB, 54-11SB, 60-08LB @61), Shafts: Project X 6.5 (46-54), Project X 6.5 Wedge (60)

Between 2019 and 2026, McIlroy’s focus on his short game has been much more apparent. It was the reason why he switched back to the TP5 golf ball, to help with launch, spin and control with his wedges leading up to his career Grand Slam victory in 2025. The most apparent changes to McIlroy’s wedge setup are his lofts and bounce. He’s slowly delofted his pitching to a sand wedge, but has increased the loft on the lob wedge, bending his current 60-degree to 61. With that, adding more loft to his lob wedge also slightly increases the bounce and leading-edge sit point, so, as a result, he plays a lower-bounce lob wedge compared to 2019. The MG5 wedges are also softer than the first Milled Grind option from 2019. McIlroy also no longer plays the full-face grooves found on the Hi-Toe.

Putter

2019: TaylorMade Spider X
2026: TaylorMade Spider Tour X

Notice anything similar. Yes, the copper finish on Rory McIlroy’s Spider X putter in 2019 is a slightly more reflective finish than the recently released torched PVD finish. McIlroy was using the True Path alignment system, but now uses only a single white sightline.

Ball

2019: 2019 TaylorMade TP5 (#22)
2026: 2025 TaylorMade TP5 (RORS)

As mentioned above, McIlroy had transitioned from the TP5 to TP5x golf ball since his victory in Canada in 2019, but now is black with the same style of golf ball as his victory at Hamilton Golf & Country Club.

Grips

2019: Golf Pride Tour Velvet Cord
2026: Golf Pride MCC

Interesting, McIlroy actually used Golf Pride’s Tour Velvet Cord grips during his victory in 2019 (it was during a 2+ year switch to the corded TV) as opposed to his usual MCC grips, which he has played for most of his career.

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