The story of how Scottie wound up in the TaylorMade P7TW irons is quite relatable; He wanted to be like Tiger.
The change was brought on after Scheffler played a round with the club’s namesake, Tiger Woods, at the 2020 Masters.
As Scheffler told GOLF back in 2022, he was in awe of how well Tiger controlled the golf ball at Augusta, even though Scheffler beat him by five that Sunday, he wanted to try them for himself. He also figured there would be some familiarity given that Scheffler and Woods were both Nike staffers, Scheffler was already playing TaylorMade irons at the time, and he had previously played Woods’ Nike irons.
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“What I noticed when I hit them at home was I was able to hit different windows, so when I flighted it down, I could pitch it lower than I could the P730,” he said in 2022. “And when I wanted to hit it up, I could hit at higher. And so I saw more variability in the shots and then the distance control was basically the exact same. I saw the benefits of being able to flight it down and keep it flatter and not have that overspin with a little bit more variety.”
There was also another element he needed to change. Scheffler’s irons were previously one inch long, giving them an unwieldy D6 swingweight. The solution to that issue came from his long-time coach, Randy Smith, and club fitters, who recommended that Scheffler shorten his irons by three-quarters of an inch and make them one degree upright.
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Since those two changes in 2021, Scheffler has become the unquestioned No. 1 player in the world, winning 16 PGA Tour titles and three majors. This past week at the Memorial, Scheffler gained 7.26 strokes on approach, good for second in the field. He’s first in the category for the season on the PGA Tour by more than three-tenths of a stroke.
And those TaylorMade P7TWs he switched to? They are the exact same ones you can purchase for yourself.
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The P7TWs may look like a traditional muscle back blade, but they have tungsten slugs in the toe of the club to help move the CG toward the center of the face. They also have a milled sole grind which was a key point in the design process for Woods to ensure he didn’t have to test multiple sets to find one he liked.
