It seems only fitting that at a tournament littered with colourful paint buckets that Peter Malnati, wearing a bucket hat and using a yellow golf ball, won.
Zalatoris’ affinity for a more forgiving long iron is the continuation of a trend on tour in recent years as utility irons and game-improvement or players-distance-type irons have found their way into more than half the bags on tour.
Clark, who ranked first in strokes gained/putting for the week, picked up more than six shots on the field on the greens in his first competitive outing with the Odyssey Ai One Jailbird Cruiser mallet.
The Titleist Scotty Cameron Phantom line of putters for 2024 features 10 fresh takes on several familiar shaped modern mallets milled from 303 stainless steel with lightweight 6061 aircraft aluminium flange and sole plate components.
Titleist’s wedge team, led by master craftsman Bob Vokey, believes there are three keys to great wedge play: shot versatility, distance and trajectory control, and maximum spin. All three have been addressed in Vokey’s latest creation, the SM10.
The new Titleist AVX, a three-piece multilayer urethane cover ball, continues to meet the specific demands of players looking for a softer-feeling, lower-flying and lower-spinning counterpart compared to the company’s flagship Pro V1.
Although best known for it’s tour-level Pro V1/V1x line, Titleist knows there are players seeking golf balls that perform more than good enough without costing you the equivalent of a filet mignon dinner per dozen. That’s where the Tour Soft and TruFeel models come in.
Clark’s wedges are Titleist’s Vokey SM9 model with a 46-degree pitching wedge and 52 and 56-degree gap and sand wedges. His 60-degree lob wedge is a Vokey SM9 WedgeWorks model with True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400 shafts.
Titleist, the company whose irons are the most played on the PGA Tour, will roll out its new line-up of T-Series irons this week for players to begin testing and using in competition at the Memorial Tournament.
Australian Golf Digest
