When it’s working there are few better with the driver than McIlroy, who ranked third in strokes gained/off the tee and first in strokes gained/ tee to green for the week.
The flagship products of TaylorMade’s new lineup of metalwoods are about many things, but mostly they’re about being so fast they’re just this side of illegal.
The new TaylorMade TP5 and TP5x balls continue the company’s technological heritage of using a five-layer construction to optimise launch, spin and speed specifically for the requirements of wood, iron and wedge in your bag. But the latest iteration’s upgrade focuses on the layer just below the cover.
The new TaylorMade M5 and M6 drivers, the flagship products of the company’s new lineup of metalwoods that also includes fairway woods and hybrids, are about many things, but mostly they’re about being so fast they’re just this side of illegal.
TaylorMade’s M5 and M6 drivers, set to be officially unveiled to the world on Thursday (US time), already made their existence legal with the ruling bodies with their appearance this week on the USGA list of conforming clubheads.
Molinari hit two-thirds of his greens in regulation and for the week cashed in when he needed to with his custom Bettinardi DASS BBZero with a skull and crossbones stamp in the rear cavity in an Italian flag-themed paintfill.
GAPR clubs fit a growing hole between increasingly difficult to hit and lower-lofted long irons, hybrids that fly too high and long-shafted fairway woods that are harder to control.
Molinari uses a split set of irons, using TaylorMade’s P790 for his 4-iron, while the rest of his irons are the company’s P750 model with True Temper’s Dynamic Gold X100 steel shafts.
Australian Golf Digest
