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TaylorMade introduces all-new Truss putter series, adds new Spider S to lineup

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TaylorMade has unveiled its two latest putter innovations for 2020—the all-new Truss series, as well as the Spider S, the newest addition to the brand’s Spider family.

All-new TaylorMade Truss putters

Designed for players seeking the stability and performance of high MOI mallets in more classic shapes, the all-new Truss series features a distinct hosel structure.

The hosel structure creates multiple contact points on the topline and reduces the amount of unsupported mass, in design to improve the stability of the putter face at impact.

The Truss hosel design aims to provide foundational stability and strength through its geometric shaping that’s widely used across various forms of architecture, from home building to bridges with stronger horizontal support across the topline.

Per the company, TaylorMade collected data on 40,000 putts hit by golfers of various skill levels and found that more than half of the strikes occurred on the toe-side of center causing deflection which can lead to offline putts. Through this research, the company created its Truss series – designed to provide twist-resistance with greater torsional stability while maintaining a traditional shape.

Through the dual contact points on the topline, the new Truss putters seek to provide players of all skills with the performance of a high-MOI putter with the look of a blade or traditional mallet.

Truss arrives in four different models: TB1, TB2, TM1, and TM2.

TB1

A heel-shafted blade design that most closely resembles a traditional blade putter, with an additional 8g of weight added to the toe in design to counterbalance the Truss hosel.

TB2

A center-shafted blade with the hosel stretching across the center of the face in a bid to increase stability.

TM1

A heel-shafted mallet that combines the Truss hosel with a classic mallet shape.

TM2

A center-shafted mallet with minimal offset and the hosel stretching across the entire topline. Per the company, the most stable putter in the family.

Each model has a nickel-cobalt finish and features the Cobalt Blue Pure Roll insert and comes equipped with a KBS Stepless Stability Shaft and Lamkin Sink Fit Skinny grip.

Truss will be available at retail beginning February 7 with an MSRP of $299 with comes in length options of 33”, 34” and 35”.

TaylorMade Spider S

The latest addition to the Spider family, the Spider S is designed to provide maximum stability and forgiveness and is constructed of 6061 aluminum and is 100-percent machine milled for precision shaping.

The square-frame putter head is outfitted with two 48g tungsten sole weights that are placed on the toe and the heel in a bid to help stabilize the putter while also optimizing CG location.

A heavy tungsten backbar is utilized to further customize swing weight based on the length of the putter. Coming in 55g, 65g and 80g units, the backbar at the rear of the putter is designed to influence head weight, feel and performance. The heaviest weight (80g) pairs with the shortest putter length (33 inches) and vice versa.

The combination of advanced materials and square shaping aims to promote high MOI for increased forgiveness and consistent roll on strikes across the face. Per TaylorMade, with an MOI of 6,000-plus the Spider S offers the most forgiving performance of any model in the Spider franchise.

The new Spider S also includes the brand’s Pure Roll insert. The 5mm thicker than usual surlyn insert is designed for better sound, feel and roll characteristics.

Speaking on the new Spider S, Bill Price, TaylorMade Senior Director of Product Creation, Putter & Wedge stated

“With Spider S, we utilize advanced materials and machine milling to create the highest MOI and most forgiving model in our Spider lineup. The beauty and performance of this putter is in all of the tungsten. We use more than 150g in each head to deliver precision weighting and optimal performance.”

TaylorMade’s Spider S comes in two different colorways: Navy and Chalk, and arrives equipped with the KBS Stepless Stability Shaft and Super Stroke Pistol GTR 1.0 grip.

The Spider S is at retail beginning February 14 with an MSRP of $349.99, and is available in length options of 33”, 34” and 35”.

 

 

 

Gianni is the Managing Editor at GolfWRX. He can be contacted at [email protected]

20 Comments

20 Comments

  1. Steve C

    Feb 6, 2020 at 10:44 am

    Golf equipment consumers, myself included, are a bunch of dupes. We needlessly spend way too much money on new equipment that will never improve our game.

  2. Wes B

    Feb 4, 2020 at 11:40 am

    I normally defend these companies but this is literally the worst looking putter I’ve ever seen!

  3. Jason Pitts

    Feb 4, 2020 at 7:14 am

    That is one fugly putter. It’s almost as if they ran out of ideas and some intern said “hey I have an idea”. This is a monumental flop.

    • JP

      Feb 4, 2020 at 9:06 am

      Nobody had an idea. It was a blatant copy of several putters that had been made before.

      And there is zero possibility of adjustment. Can’t even change the lie angle.

  4. Alan Dershowitz

    Feb 4, 2020 at 2:40 am

    That Truss putter didn’t do much for Ben An in Phoenix, the poor guy couldn’t hit the side a barn with that thing. And to us old timers that putter looks like an old Taylor model back in the day.

  5. Mark

    Feb 3, 2020 at 10:50 pm

    What about adjustability for loft and lie?

    Enquiring minds (and there are many of those on this site) want to know.

    The apparent failure of the GolfWRX journalist to address this question is more evidence of his lightweight journalistic credentials.

  6. Drew

    Feb 3, 2020 at 10:18 pm

    Three HUNDRED dollars!?

  7. Guia

    Feb 3, 2020 at 8:14 pm

    I suppose they decided that they had to offer something. These putters look like that they were designed by a 12 yo. Clunky, heavy look, no finesse. Look like something that you find in low end golf shop for $10.

    Ugh

  8. JP

    Feb 3, 2020 at 5:54 pm

    I’d go insane looking at that heel shafted TB-1 in the first picture. There is a nasty reflection of the sight dot running up the truss hosel design. That would be enough for me to throw it in a lake! Did no designers even look at these when they were prototyped? Who took the pictures and thought that looked ok? Ooooppppppsssssss

  9. Ccshop

    Feb 3, 2020 at 3:51 pm

    Ugliest group of putters I’ve ever seen

  10. ML

    Feb 3, 2020 at 2:36 pm

    After watching Ben An miss EVERYTHING with this putter over the weekend I’d be scared to touch it.

  11. try hard

    Feb 3, 2020 at 12:20 pm

    Kinda looks like my old dead center

    • Jimmy Ray

      Feb 3, 2020 at 2:52 pm

      Eggs-ACTLY my thought on seeing these Truss putters. Ugh.

  12. Francis Kennedy

    Feb 3, 2020 at 11:04 am

    I’m 70, got down to a 10hcp (b4 it became 2 much work) currently a happy 15. Last year bought a Tommy Armour putter on sale, new, 4 $70.00. Making 5-6 out of 10 on average from 8-10ft. Paying 5x$ won’t make MY game (anybody’s) better, it’s like a 20hcp playing ProV1.

  13. Cooper

    Feb 3, 2020 at 10:10 am

    If you listened to the gear dive with Toulon he described releasing this exact putter soon. Looks like tm beat them to market. Interesting to see what Odyssey does in response.

  14. DB

    Feb 3, 2020 at 9:38 am

    So I noticed that the tour-issue TB1 and TM1 all had heavier weights in the toe, presumably to bring the COG back to the center of the face given all the weight in the hosel/heel.

    The retail putters have the same weights in the heel and toe. Oops.

    • Corey

      Feb 3, 2020 at 10:27 am

      That’s incorrect. Go look at TM’s website. The two heel shafted models have heavier weights in the toe.

      • DB

        Feb 3, 2020 at 11:42 am

        You’re right, I was wrong. I was looking at the pictures on TM’s website which are misleading. The specs show the different heel and toe weights.

        • Christopher

          Feb 3, 2020 at 5:39 pm

          Not sure if I’m missing a picture, but all the putters on the TaylorMade site have 7.5 gram weights in the images.

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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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