Equipment

10 important equipment photos from the 2024 Farmers Insurance Open

Published

2 years ago

Jan 24, 2024

Yes, it’s PGA Merchandise Show week, but it’s also Farmers Insurance Open week at Torrey Pines. And the field is sneaky stacked, with big names such as Xander Schauffele, Collin Morikawa, Max Homa, Patrick Cantlay, Tony Finau, Jason Day… you get the point.

It’s a big field, for a big event, on a big golf course.

And the rough is big-time thick as this on-site reporter can verify.

But with a rain-out on Monday, and the event itself starting on a Wednesday, it didn’t make for the best club testing week. Plus it was a relatively cold-and-wet day for the Tuesday Pro-Am.

Still, though, there were some interesting equipment photos and stories to be had.

Here are 10 equipment highlights from the 2024 Farmers Insurance Open:

1) Not to worry, Berger still has the TaylorMade MC 2011 irons in the bag

Daniel Berger played in The American Express last week after a 19-month-long injury-induced hiatus from the PGA Tour, and he finished T39. Not a bad comeback at all. This week at the 2024 Farmers Insurance Open, we caught up with Berger to see what’s in his bag, and to make sure he still has the TaylorMade TP MC 2011 irons in there. Not to worry, the Modern Classic irons are still going strong.

He also has a pair of new TaylorMade Qi10 Tour fairway woods, including a 21-degree 6-wood.

See what else Berger has in the bag this week

2) Jason Day doesn’t miss with his 7-wood

These type of photos from the PGA Tour are always very humbling. Jason Day is starting to create a nice wear mark right in the center of the face on his TaylorMade Stealth 7-wood.

We also verified that Day is using Bridgestone’s new Mindset visual technology on his Bridgestone Tour B X golf ball, which he helped develop.

Learn more about Bridgestone’s new golf balls here, or click here to see Day’s full WITB setup at the Farmers

3) The #1 Putter on Tour

Most Odyssey staff bags say “#1 Putter in Golf,” but Maverick McNealy’s is a little different, because he was statistically the “#1 Putter on Tour” throughout the 2022-2023 PGA Tour season in terms of Strokes Gained: Putting stats.

4) Woodland’s new woods

Gary Woodland has Cobra’s new Darkspeed LS driver in the bag, which appears to be 7 degrees, at least based on the white sticker he has on the hosel. He’s also testing a Darkspeed fairway wood, too.

Woodland also has a custom paint job on his Scotty Cameron Phantom putter, which is quite reminiscent of the Jailbird putters that took professional golf by storm in 2023, thanks to his buddy Rickie Fowler.

I think we can all agree that, regardless of his equipment, it’s great to see Woodland back on Tour after having brain surgery last year to remove a tumor.

See Woodland’s full WITB here

5) Hideki’s jaw-dropping (backup) putter

Hideki Matsuyama is the king of testing cool, new, custom Scotty Cameron putters, even though he mostly ends up using the same gamer putter that he’s used for years. This backup putter he was testing was especially noteworthy, however, due to the additional weights that are inside the face, and the beautifully simplistic stampings and putter finish.

While we likely won’t see this putter in competition, we must applaud the engineering and design.

Click to see Hideki Matsuyama’s full 2024 WITB

6) L.A. Golf’s metal-faced putters

It was a busy week in the world of L.A. Golf, as the company unveiled a slew of new products, including a Gold-Edition driver shaft, a single-bend putter shaft, a 120-gram putter shaft, and a few new putters, which are equipped with heavier, “exotic metal” face inserts, as pictured above.

See what GolfWRX members are saying about L.A. Golf’s new metallic face inserts

7) TaylorMade’s metal-faced putters

Speaking of metal-faced putters, we also spotted a TaylorMade Spider Tour X custom putter that’s made with a milled aluminum face, which has a decidedly firmer feel than the company’s typical Pure Roll inserts that are much softer.

See what GolfWRX members are saying here

8) Swag’s Channel 4 News headcovers

I’m Ron Burgundy?

Click to see more photos of the SWAG headcovers

9) Go Rutgers!

I try to stay as unbiased as possible when writing about golf equipment, but as a fellow former Rutgers Scarlet Knight golfer, I must say that Chris Gotterup’s custom Vokey wedge just might be the coolest wedge on the PGA Tour.

Check out Gotterup’s full WITB here

10) Ben Griffin’s white Mizuno driver

We first spotted Mizuno’s white-crowned STX 230 driver last week when Keith Mitchell tested it at The American Express, and this week, it’s likely that Ben Griffin is switching into the new Mizuno STX 230 prototype.

What do you think about white-crowned drivers making a comeback? GolfWRX members are weighing in here.

And, with that, we say goodbye to the beautiful cliffs at Torrey Pines. We’ll see you next week on the beautiful cliffs at Pebble Beach for more equipment photos and information!

Check out all of our photos from this week at the 2024 Farmers Insurance Open

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Andrew Tursky

He played on the Hawaii Pacific University Men's Golf team and earned a Masters degree in Communications. He also played college golf at Rutgers University, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism.

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Mike

Jan 24, 2024 at 6:04 pm

6 is an important number to satanists. Jesus is the 7-fold I Am, who they do not like. Just sayin’.

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  Jan 24, 2024 at 7:46 pm
  
  Sell it somewhere else, padre.
  
  It’s just a 6 wood.
  
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Whats in the Bag

Christiaan Maas WITB 2026 (June)

Published

7 hours ago

Jun 11, 2026

GolfWRX Staff

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.

Equipment

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

Published

7 hours ago

Jun 11, 2026

Alistair Cameron

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

Equipment

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

Published

10 hours ago

Jun 11, 2026

Alistair Cameron

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.