Welcome to Fully Equipped’s weekly Tour equipment report. Every Friday of PGA Tour weeks (plus other times, if news warrants), GOLF equipment editor Jack Hirsh runs you through some of the biggest news surrounding golf clubs on Tour, including changes, tweaks and launches.
Tommy Fleetwood’s new putter this week at the Tour Championship is basically a more refined version of the one he used to nab his first PGA Tour win last year at East Lake.
As you’ll recall, Fleetwood finally got over the hump, winning for the first time on U.S. soil using a TaylorMade Spider Tour with custom Sharpie lines hand-drawn on the top by TaylorMade putter rep James Holley. Those lines helped Fleetwood frame the ball, but he eventually went away from the alignment aid this spring.
This week, the lines are back in a new design and in a new shape with TaylorMade’s new Spider Tour V. With the new wand, Fleetwood gained nearly three-fourths of a stroke on the greens during his opening-round 66 at East Lake on Thursday.
Fleetwood is making his fifth putter change of the year this week and Holley said the alignment aid and the new shape were just two parts of a three-part story.
When it comes to the shape, it’s a really interesting progression to follow for Fleetwood and his putters over the past two years. He went from a blade to the Spider Tour (TaylorMade’s deepest CG mallet at the time) last year. This year, he’s progressively gone to a more forward CG with his putter, going from the Tour to the Tour X and now the Tour V, TaylorMade’s most forward-CG mallet. All with short slant hosels.
Fleetwood is always testing different putters on the practice green at events, not just for him, but also to give feedback to TaylorMade.
“We test a lot with Tommy throughout the year not only for his game but also to generate feedback on designs for putters we are looking to bring to market,” Holley told GOLF. “Specifically on Spider Tour V, he had a lot of feedback for us in terms of the forward CG and longer blade length.”
Fleetwood tested the new Spider Tour V and F shapes at the Valero Texas Open before their release on Tour two weeks later, but Holley said ultimately, Spider Tour was still the best for his stroke at the time.
But as the season has gone on, Holley said his stroke is in a better place to use a putter with a more forward CG.
“With his work with Phil Kenyon, his stroke has gotten into a really nice spot, and he really can almost use anything,” Holley said. “Generally, he does a bit better with more forward CG specifically on the left-to-right putts.”
Fleetwood did change alignment aids that week in Texas. He went away from the short sharpie lines on the top of his putter to a “pilot’s eye” alignment aid. He ended up using the “pilot’s eye” for most of this season.
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Until last week at the BMW, when Holley said Fleetwood brought up bringing back the lines, this time lasered onto the top. Holley made Fleetwood replicas of his Tour Championship-winning putter with the Sharpie lines lasered on earlier this year.
With the Sharpie-line putter, Holley said they learned Fleetwood doesn’t like long individual lines to line up with and instead does better with something that creates a path or parallel line.
Thus, the idea for the full-length laser lines.
“Our team back at TaylorMade HQ is pretty incredible and can create putters of almost any shape or visual very quickly,” Holley said. “We sent Tommy some CAD designs of lines on different heads on Wednesday of last week and had this Spider Tour V he is playing ready for him to practice with on Monday.”
The last piece of the puzzle for the switch was the sole draft on the Spider Tour V, which Holley said is uniquely altered for the model’s forward CG.
“The sole on all our putters are specifically designed with CG in mind,” he said. “The sole of Spider Tour V along with the lines made it easy for Tommy to aim the putter and feel confident it was on the right line.”
Spider Tour V
Neck: Short slant
Insert: Pure Roll
Loft: 2.3˚
Lie: 68.5˚
Length: 34″ EOG
Finish: Torched
Grip: SuperStroke 2.0 Mid Slim
After his opening-round 62 at the Tour Championship, Min Woo Lee revealed he made a ‘gamble’ this week trying to break a ball-striking funk after two poor starts to the FedEx Cup playoffs.
Not only did Lee change his iron shafts, but he did so with a blind test.
“I was looking at what’s in the bags of everyone else and trying to find out what to do and ended up changing shafts before the week, on the Tuesday,” Lee said. “Even my team was very hesitant about it, but the results were really good when I did practice with it, and it was nice to hit shots that I saw out there, and it was really good.
“It was very hesitant and very reactive on the last two weeks on why I wanted to change it, but it was a good gamble.”
Lee switched to the True Temper Dynamic Gold S400, a heavier profile than his previous Nippon Modus3 Tour 125 X, after a blind test earlier this week.
“There were three shafts that he (Callaway rep Kellen Watson) took off the stickers on, and I just hit some shots,” Lee said. “One was really nice, and it was that one.”
Watson said Lee has been working with his coach, Ritchie Smith, on neutralizing his swing path and attack angle. That was actually the catalyst for the switch from the Dynamic Gold X100 two years ago to the Modus 125.
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The Modus helped him dynamically start to shallow his attack angle, but over the last few months, Lee’s team realized the shaft was more compensating for issues rather than solving them. The slightly lighter weight was actually making Lee swing too fast.
Thus, the blind test this week and the heavier and slightly softer S400 won out.
“There’s less catch-up and squaring from the shaft,” Watson said. “The additional lag was helping straight shots and cuts. He’s able to be more aggressive with draws during the swing without the fear of a left-to-left shot.”
On Thursday, Lee was third in the field in SG: Approach, picking up 1.3 shots.
“I don’t think I hit too many perfect shots, but the misses were really good,” he said. “When I try to hit a fade, you want the miss to be straight and not way right. I thought it’s just a little bit easier to get to the ball or lag behind me a little bit, so then I don’t have these missed contacts.”
Cameron Young has played the best golf of his career over the past year+ and most of it leads back to switching to Scotty Cameron’s Phantom 9.5R early last season.
But the run that included Young’s first three PGA Tour victories, including the Players Championship, and the No. 4 standing in the FedEx Cup coming into this week has, at least for this week, come to an end.
Young has a new wand this week in the form of a Scotty Cameron Xperimental 10.5. From the photos shared by GolfWRX, the model appears to be new shape from Cameron, with a fairly similar shape to Young’s 9.5R.
The key difference appears to be an aluminum insert that Cameron has been using more and more of this season.
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With nearly all of Cameron’s putter shapes using an insert this cycle, the brand has experimented with different materials in addition to the Studio Carbon Steel available at retail. Tried-and-true Cameron materials have shown up like Studio Stainless Steel, German Stainless Steel and even Teryllium. But the most interesting is probably the alumnium, which hasn’t shown up in too many Circle Ts before this year.
With aluminum being lighter than steel, the insert helps take mass away from the face, allowing it to be reallocated deeper in the putter head and increasing MOI.
Young was spotted testing the new Phantom 12 at the Travelers, which has an aluminum face to accomplish the same thing.
While Young has put together the best season of his PGA Tour career thus far, his putting has fallen off since his last win. He peaked at 37th in SG: Putting after his second win of the year at the Cadillac Championship in May, but has since fallen to 113th after three consecutive negative performances. That’s after ranking 7th in the stat in 2025.
He opened with an even-par 70 at East Lake, but went out in 5-under 30 to begin his second round.
This section is dedicated to cool photos we’ve snapped recently on Tour, but haven’t had a reason to share yet. This week, check out PGA Champion Aaron Rai’s wedges, who recently switched to stamping the wedge names on his wedges instead of the letter or loft.
Some other gear changes and notes we’re tracking this week.
Cameron Young also switched to a Ping G440 Max 3-wood with a Mitsubishi Tensei 1K White 80TX shaft, his fourth 3-wood in the last few weeks … Chris Gotterup has been using a Japan-only Bridgestone B-Forged 100CB 4-iron since Memphis … Russell Henley added a TaylorMade Qi4D 3-wood and 7-wood with Titan Black.
A selection of GOLF content from the past week that may interest you.
Wyndham Clark’s meteoric turnaround has 1 main club behind it — Wyndham Clark won again with his Ping Scottsdale TEC Ally Blue Onset CB putter and is now ranked among the top putters on Tour after starting as one of the worst.
Inside Mitsubishi’s GAME CHANGING studio — Take a behind-the-scenes look at Mitsubishi’s new KOBO testing and fitting facility.
Cameron Young’s Scotty Cameron putter is finally coming to retail — After Young’s success in 2026 with his gamer and seemingly everyone on Tour trying it, Scotty Cameron is finally bringing out the Phantom 9.5R to retail.
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