Jason Kokrak won the 2021 Hewlett Packard Enterprise Houston Open on Sunday to capture his second PGA Tour victory of the year (2021 Charles Schwab Challenge) and the third Tour event of his career (2020 CJ Cup).
Check out the equipment the 36-year-old PXG staffer used this week in Houston!
3-Wood: TaylorMade SIM2 (Project X HZRDUS Smoke Green shaft), 15 degrees
TaylorMade SIM2 Fairway Wood
OUR TAKE: “I love the high launch.” With that simple statement, one of our testers summed up exactly what TaylorMade was striving for with its new SIM2 fairways. While the overall look of the SIM2 fairways is comparable to the original SIM heads, our GOLF testers repeatedly commented on the higher trajectories they were seeing. “Even my mishits are towering, the ball just flies,” another tester said. “It feels lively and easy to hit off the ground.”
THE DETAILS: It’s no accident our testers saw noticeable height increases with the SIM2 fairway woods. That was by design. While continuing to evolve its versatile V-Steel soles of last year, TaylorMade has redesigned the SIM2 heads to move weight lower to the ground for higher launch and more forgiveness. TaylorMade’s smaller and more workable SIM2 Titanium heads utilize 80-gram sole plates and a ZATECH Titanium Faces, whereas the SIM2 Max fairways are designed with C300 steel faces and have bigger heads for increased accuracy and distance.
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7-Wood: TaylorMade SIM2 Max (Project X HZRDUS Smoke Green shaft), 21 degrees
TaylorMade SIM2 Max Fairway Wood
OUR TAKE: “I love the high launch.” With that simple statement, one of our testers summed up exactly what TaylorMade was striving for with its new SIM2 fairways. While the overall look of the SIM2 fairways is comparable to the original SIM heads, our GOLF testers repeatedly commented on the higher trajectories they were seeing. “Even my mishits are towering, the ball just flies,” another tester said. “It feels lively and easy to hit off the ground.”
THE DETAILS: It’s no accident our testers saw noticeable height increases with the SIM2 fairway woods. That was by design. While continuing to evolve its versatile V-Steel soles of last year, TaylorMade has redesigned the SIM2 heads to move weight lower to the ground for higher launch and more forgiveness. TaylorMade’s smaller and more workable SIM2 Titanium heads utilize 80-gram sole plates and a ZATECH Titanium Faces, whereas the SIM2 Max fairways are designed with C300 steel faces and have bigger heads for increased accuracy and distance
Check out 150+ reviews from our gear experts in the ClubTest 2021 collection.
Irons: PXG 0311 T Gen4 (4-PW; True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100 shafts)
Wedges: PXG 0311 Sugar Daddy (52 degrees), Titleist Vokey SM8 (56 degrees) and Titleist Vokey WedgeWorks (60 degrees), with True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400 shafts
Putter: Bettinardi Studio Stock 38 (SuperStroke Pistol GTR 1.0 grip)
Golf Ball: Titleist Pro V1
Grips: Golf Pride Tour Velvet Cord
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