Rory McIlroy has confirmed he’ll change again to his unique TaylorMade driver till a minimum of The Masters after ending a big tools change mid-tournament on the Arnold Palmer Invitational.
McIlroy made huge adjustments to his bag forward of the PGA Tour’s Signature Occasion, swapping his TaylorMade Qi10 driver, three-wood and five-wood for brand new TaylorMade Qi35 golf equipment, with the Northern Irishman additionally making alterations to his wedge set-up.
The large adjustments had been linked to McIlroy’s change to a special golf ball earlier this season, resulting in a rethink of his entire bag, though the membership experiment was minimize brief throughout an erratic week off the tee at Bay Hill.
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Rory McIlroy was seeking to win the Arnold Palmer Invitational for a second time
McIlroy had led the fields in strokes gained off the tee when he gained the AT&T Pebble Seaside Professional-Am final month and when he posted a tied-Seventeenth end on the Genesis Invitational a fortnight late, just for him to lose pictures to the sector in that metric throughout his tied-Fifteenth at Bay Hill.
“I led strokes gained: off the tee in both Pebble and Torrey, so it was a really good idea to change,” McIlroy laughed following his final-round 72, leaving him eight strokes behind event winner Russell Henley.
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Highlights from day 4 of the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill, the place Russell Henley claimed a dramatic victory
“[Saturday], I misplaced strokes off the tee, which is the primary time I’ve carried out that in a very long time. Yeah, simply went again to what was acquainted and what’s comfy.
“I tried new woods for the first three days, didn’t quite work out the way I wanted it to. So, yeah, I went back to my old stuff. Driver, fairway wood, everything.”
What was the considering behind the preliminary change?
McIlroy used a TaylorMade Qi35 driver, a 15-degree wooden and an 18-degree membership that he described as his ‘four-wood’ over the primary three rounds, with a TaylorMade “Proto” P770 three-iron and a brand new MG4 pitching wedge additionally added to the bag.
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The world No 2’s addition of a three-iron got here by dropping down from 4 to a few wedges in his bag, with the thought of the change serving to McIlroy have extra choices for membership choice off the tee.
“I would hit my three-wood that’s going like 285, 290, but guys that are shorter than me are hitting driver sort of 300 or 310. I feel like I was at a disadvantage in some ways, even to people that hit it shorter than me, depending upon the course setup,” McIlroy defined forward of the week.
“I messed round with the mini driver final yr, however I simply could not fairly get comfy with it. I’ve kind of been enjoying round with like stronger three-woods. This three-wood [Qi35] that I’ve carries like 300, 305 within the air, which is a extremely good membership for me to have.
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Highlights from the ultimate spherical of the AT&T Pebble Seaside Professional-Am, final month, the place Rory McIlroy impressed to assert a two-shot victory in his first PGA Tour look of the yr
“That four-wood sort of bridges that gap, then I’ve got the three-iron that sort of replaces the five-wood. So I’ve got a club that sort of flies 260, a club that flies 280, a club that flies 300, and then the driver.
“It simply kind of offers me extra choices off the tee. Particularly with being so comfy on the different finish of the bag with the wedges and hitting these three-quarter pictures, that it is good to have these choices up on the high finish of the bag.”
What’s going to McIlroy do subsequent?
McIlroy is ready to make use of his unique TaylorMade driver at The Gamers this week – reside on Sky Sports activities – and stated he expects to proceed utilizing it till after The Masters, the place he can have one other likelihood to finish the profession Grand Slam.
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“There’s pros and cons to it [equipment changes], and it’s a blessing and a curse at the same time that we sort of have to go through these 12-month club cycles,” McIlroy stated on Sunday.
“I probably just didn’t give myself enough time. It can look good on the Trackman and it can look good on the range at home at the Bear’s Club or on the golf course, but once you get out here in these conditions that’s where it really shows itself and it just wasn’t quite ready.”
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On the place he expects to play forward of The Masters, McIlroy added: “I’ll see how next week goes and then, just sort of see what I feel like and what I think I need.
“I feel it [Augusta] is simply going to be slightly bit totally different this yr. There’s some areas of the course which might be possibly slightly thinner tree-wise, simply with the hurricane that rolled by way of. The sixteenth is new inexperienced, so yeah I will most likely go up there a few times beforehand.”
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