Chris Gotterup got a big win at the Genesis Scottish Open, the second of his PGA Tour career and the first in six years for Bridgestone irons, but another company was celebrating the victory as well.
Other than his irons, the rest of Gotterup’s clubs, with the exception of his driver, are TaylorMade, and while Gotterup usually employs a BRNR Mini Driver, this week, he chose to game a TaylorMade Qi35 5-wood.
Gotterup used the 5-wood for his tee shot on the 72nd hole, which he needed to find the fairway with a two-shot lead over Rory McIlroy. Gotterup answered the call, split the fairway and made a low-stress par for his second PGA Tour win and also the 17th PGA Tour win this season for TaylorMade fairway woods.
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For context, there have been 32 PGA Tour events so far this season, which means more than half of them have been won by a TaylorMade fairway wood. Now, six of those events were won by Rory McIlroy or Scottie Scheffler, but others were won by non-contracted players.
That shouldn’t be too surprising given that TaylorMade is the No. 1 fairway wood on the PGA Tour, with many players unsponsored by the company choosing to use the new Qi35, last year’s Qi10, or even older models.
But the Qi35 core fairway Gotterup games is the latest and greatest, featuring the chromium carbon crown to help lower the CG of the wood to increase launch and lower spin. The entire Qi35 fairway wood lineup also features adjustable sleeves on the 3- and 5-woods, for the first time in TaylorMade’s fairway wood line.
Gotterup’s specific head is a Tour-only model without the adjustable sleeve, presumably because he wanted to flatten the lie angle, but otherwise it’s the same model that you could pick up for yourself.
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