Another major week is upon us and the pros have descended on Quail Hollow for the PGA Championship.
While the start of PGA Championship week has been a soggy one, the game’s best have been grinding away trying to make the most of the gaps between the weather.
Our team has also been working the range to see what some of the pros are gaming this week in Charlotte.
Here are five of the coolest finds so far on Monday and Tuesday of PGA Championship week.
Adam Scott’s Titleist AS.681 irons
There’s a bit of a backstory here. One of the biggest gear nerds on Tour, Scott put his custom-made Titleist AS.681 blades back in the bag last week at the Truist Championship, and we got to see them first hand this week in Charlotte.
Scott had been using another set of irons custom-made for him, the Miura Golf AS-1s, but after three years, the Titleist blades have re-entered the bag. The 681.AS blades are modeled after the original Titleist 680 blades that Scott first came out on Tour with in the early 2000s.
The 2013 Masters winner put those clubs back in the bag just four years ago before Titleist made him this one-off set to his exact specifications. The sole has a sharper leading edge, and there’s more offset compared to Titleist’s 620 MB, their current blade on the market.
The clubs are basically exact copies of the 680s Scott first used on Tour.
Xander Schauffele (and Tom McKibbin’s) putter
The putter pictured above belongs to Xander Schauffele. It’s an Odyssey Toulon Las Vegas Prototype that the companies collaborated on before Toulon became its own company again in 2023.
But Odyssey just recently released a limited version of the putter, the Odyssey Red Seven X, and Tom McKibbin couldn’t wait for the company to send him one. So he went and bought one at a Japanese golf store last week before heading home after LIV Golf Korea.
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“I wanted to try one with a milled face and I knew I was going home for a few days,” McKibbin told GOLF. “So I figured I’d just get it and practice with it for a few days before the guys here sort me out.”
Despite putting his own cold, hard-earned cash on the line, McKibbin said this putter won’t be harder to kick out of his bag than any other.
Michael Block’s 9-iron
In case you haven’t heard, Michael Block is back for this week’s PGA Championship. Block, a Southern California teaching professional, was the darling of the tournament in 2023, battling his way into contention and making a hole-in-one on Sunday before finishing T15.
He’s still using the same TaylorMade Tour Preferred irons originally released in 2014. The irons are loaded up with lead tape and have a pretty insane amount of rust on them.
However, one iron was noticeably different from the others. The 7-iron used for the hole-in-one on the 69th hole of the 2023 PGA, a club he was offered $50k for, has been retired, and in its place, TaylorMade him a brand new Tour Preferred 7-iron. It just doesn’t feel right, though.
Jon Rahm’s Callaway Proto wedge
It must be nice to be a professional and get whatever you need.
We can’t tell you much about Jon Rahm’s new Callaway Prototype wedge, other than it has a T grind, Callaway’s low-bounce option with extreme heel and toe relief.
There’s some sort of milling going on with the back of the wedge there as well, but the stamping is for Rahm’s Legion XIII LIV Golf team. As for the S/L mark, that’s anyone’s guess.
Jake Knapp’s new custom TaylorMade putter
Rory McIlroy isn’t the only player with a custom-finished TaylorMade Spider on Tour anymore.
Jake Knapp has had a bit of a revolving door for his putter this year. He shot 59 with a Scotty Cameron Phantom 9.2 Circle T, but has been bouncing around different variations of Scotty Cameron Phantoms, PXGs and TaylorMade Spiders.
This week, Knapp has arrived at Quail Hollow with a new TaylorMade Spider Tour X9 with a custom-blasted finish.
“Jake was in Spider Tour (Note: not Spider Tour X) Double Bend to start the year,” TaylorMade Tour putter rep James Foley told GOLF. “He wanted to test the Spider X, which has more forward CG compared to the Tour. When we were testing the X, we found he needed about 10° of toe hang to match the feel and release of the double-bend face-balanced Spider Tour. We achieved the toe hang by doing a long flow neck with 1/2 offset.”
Johnny Wunder contributed to this report.
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