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.
It may be time to pour one out for one of the oldest fairway woods on the PGA Tour.
At the beginning of the year, Brooks Koepka made it very clear he wasn’t going to change much when it came to his club setup (besides experimenting with his putter).
“I haven’t really tested anything,” he said at Torrey Pines in January. “I’m not a tinkerer. If something works, something works and I don’t really switch up. I like everything that I’ve got in the bag. I feel like I have a good understanding of the control, where the misses are.”
That attitude appears to have changed this week at the DP World Tour’s Alfred Dunhill Links Championship, where Koepka has made the surprising decision to remove his nearly decade-old TaylorMade M2 Tour fairway wood for an R7 Quad Mini driver.
That 4-wood has seen a ton of action for Koepka, having been in the bag for all five of his major championships, along with a Nike Vapor Fly Pro 3-iron from 2016, one of the only remaining Nike clubs in professional golf.
But, there’s some reason to believe this might only be a temporary move for Koepka.
Inside Tour Golf, the equipment surveyor on the DP World Tour who first reported Koepka’s move to the R7 Quad this week, is also reporting record mini driver usage for the DP World Tour this week. They counted 49 mini drivers, 29 percent of the field, this week.
A big reason why is the strategy of links golf itself. Players usually hit far fewer drivers on links courses because of the greater runout on the firm turf, as well as the extremely penal pot bunkers that dot the fairways.
Mini drivers offer a popular alternative to fairway woods this week because players are going to use them from the tee so often, they might as well go for some extra forgiveness from the larger head.
While this is the first time we’ve seen Koepka move away from his M2 Tour, it might not be goodbye forever. It very well could be a temporary, course-dependent move. We’ll just have to wait and see.
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As far as Koepka’s Nike Vapor Fly Pro 3-iron, that doesn’t appear to be going anywhere at this time and Koepka is also back in his Scotty Cameron T22 Newport 2 blade after shuffling through several putters this season.
When McLaren Golf launched with the Series 1 and Series 3 irons, it was only natural to expect a Series 2 to be forthcoming.
This week, McLaren staffers Justin Rose and Ian Poulter are giving us the first look at the prototype Series 2 cavity-back irons at the Dunhill.
Poulter gave gearheads a tease of the prototypes and confirmed they were the Series 2 on his Instagram story last week. Both the name and the design would seem to imply the cavity-back fits right in between McLaren’s Series 1 blades and Series 3 Players Distance irons.
That’s also evident based on how Rose and Poulter have built the new irons into their sets this week, with both players opting for the Series 2 in the 4- thru 6-iron while keeping the Series 1 blades in the 7-PW.
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For Rose, it’s the latest composition of a McLaren set he’s played since signing with the company in late April. While his short-irons and mid-irons have stayed as the Series 1, he has bounced back and forth using the Series 3 irons in the 4- and 5-irons.
While McLaren has remained tight-lipped on the design, we can probably safely assume the new cavity-back is a Metal Injection Molding (MIM) construction, just like Series 1 and Series 3. There’s also the presence of the structural mesh on the inside of the top half of the cavity, similar to the previous irons as well.
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 the wear pattern on Brooks Koepka’s M2 Tour 4-wood.
Some other gear changes and notes we’re tracking this week.
PXG launched the Raptor XLS and XLR drivers on the PGA Tour this week in the bags of Aldrich Potgieter and Eric Cole … Zach Bouchu added a Callaway Quantum Mini Driver to the bag … Steven Fisk is gaming a new Callaway Apex UW … Max McGreevy has a new Odyssey TRTL Prototype putter in play … Alex Fitzpatrick switched to a new Titleist GTS2 9.0 driver … Nick Dunlap added a Vokey SM11 WedgeWorks 60A+ lob wedge … Sudarshan Yellamaraju has a new TaylorMade Spider Tour V putter and Qi4D 3-wood.
A selection of GOLF content from the past week that may interest you.
Ping signs Walker Cupper and BYU star Kihei Akina to NIL deal – Kihei Akina’s fifth PGA Tour start this week at the Bank of Utah Championship is his first as an official Ping NIL ambassador.
The putters that powered Team USA’s historic comeback at Presidents Cup – Breakdown the model and specs for each of the 12 putters of the winning USA Presidents Cup team.
Wielding hockey-stick putter, Tony Finau chasing ‘better’ golf in Utah – Tony Finau explains why he’s using a bizarre hockey-stick grip putter.
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