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Watch how Jason Day’s TaylorMade prototype putter was made

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11 years ago

Sep 2, 2015

Jason Day’s custom-built TaylorMade Itsy Bitsy Spider putter is undoubtedly the hottest putter in golf. He’s won three out of his past four tournaments with the putter, including the 2015 PGA Championship and The Barclays — where he fired a final-round 62 thanks to holing more than 148 feet worth of putts.

Due to the putter’s high demand, TaylorMade released 20 exact replicas in The Vault on Aug. 20 for $750. Sorry, but they’re already sold out. But as a consolation, you can marvel at TaylorMade’s awesome video on how the prototype putters are built.

According to TaylorMade, Day’s putter is an Itsy Bitsy Spider Japan model, but the stock hosel is cut off, then welded with a #3 short slant neck hosel. It’s coated with a custom acrylic to achieve the dark grey finish, and has a face insert made of 80/20 insert — the same one used in TaylorMade’s Ghost Tour putters.

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12 Comments

gunmetal

Sep 7, 2015 at 2:44 pm

1) As a clubmaker, there’s a lot of cool information scribbled on that napkin.
2) Some guys are more particular than others on tour. I don’t think every tour pro has every club tweaked like this. The putter is pretty touchy feely. I don’t see Justin Rose having his iron heads deconstructed to this degree. Shaft them up to his specs (throw a little lead tape here and there), get the right grips on how he likes and make sure loft and lies are tight and he’s probably set. Shouldn’t most of us be doing that anyway?
3) To the China bashers, Ping’s most exquisite putters to come out in a long time the Anser Milled lineup was all made in China. It’s all about quality control. Geography is irrelevant.

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Fifler

Sep 5, 2015 at 3:42 pm

I miss the part where they tjeck and adjust loft, lie and sw.

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Christopher

Sep 5, 2015 at 11:09 am

Isn’t the title of this article slightly misleading? This is how TaylorMade’s Jason Day prototype putter was made not how Jason Day’s TaylorMade prototype putter was made, I doubt craftsmen and women in the video made his putter!

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Stu

Sep 4, 2015 at 8:33 am

The correlation between your off the shelf TM clubs and most PGA Tour players clubs is about
the same as my (and most peoples”) golf game and the game they play. LOL

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- christian
  
  Sep 4, 2015 at 7:59 pm
  
  Exactly. How can anybody remotely believe that TM (in this case) sell the same clubs at your local Golf Galaxy as their tour pros use? Especially after seeing this video?
  
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Josh

Sep 3, 2015 at 7:02 pm

I’m a Titleist guy – this is the only non Titleist gamer in my bag the last 10-15 years. It just works for me. I wish they would release the black version.

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Golfraven

Sep 3, 2015 at 6:50 am

Not impressed, too much glueing going on there.

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James

Sep 2, 2015 at 10:01 pm

Why is the woman standing on her tip toes?

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rymail00

Sep 2, 2015 at 6:51 pm

I’ve never been a fan of the spider putters, but the no alignment aid, matte black is nice.

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Robert

Sep 2, 2015 at 5:28 pm

That is awesome. That finish is really cool. I’ve seen it on the tour issue DLL putter (It’s used instead of the black). When I first saw it I said, “Wow, why don’t they make all of then with that??”.

Very cool putter. I hope to see more slant hosel mallets as having the toe hang can bring a new element into mallet putting.

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Retail

Sep 2, 2015 at 5:18 pm

Now also please explain to the world this is why it will never come to retail!

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How it was made

Sep 2, 2015 at 3:30 pm

In China with cheap plastic

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Putters that never made it: Check out some of the best tour builds that didn’t make the cut

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2 weeks ago

May 18, 2026

Alistair Cameron

Arguably, the best perk of being a professional golfer on the PGA Tour is the ability to request or even just be handed pretty much any club you could think of. It happens more often than you think, usually with putters around the practice green from one event to the next. Come Wednesday, the Tour bags lining the edge of the putting surface become resting places for fallen flatsticks that never made the cut.

So let’s take a look at some of the best we’ve seen out on Tour this year that never made it to the competition. (You may notice none of Hideki Matsuyama’s custom Scotty Cameron putters made this list. There are too many.)

Let’s start with this custom Damascus Milled Odyssey Rossie made for Ryo Hisatsune. Featuring a single line and the short-slant hossel, we’ve seen plenty of Number 7 and jailbird heads featuring the Damascus Milled insert, but this is the first and only one we’ve spotted in a Rossie. Hisatsune primarily putts with an Odyssey Black Series iX #9, but we have seen him recently with a TaylorMade TP Collection SOTO, so there could be potential that the Damascus Milled Rossie could end up in the bag.

Everyone wants to be Cameron Young right now. We’ve had Justin Thomas and Tom Hoge both game the Scotty Cameron 9.5R prototype. Well, for the PGA Championship, Brooks Koepka nearly joined that list after requesting the same style of putter, with the full-length alignment line. But the Scotty Cameron reps took the request a step further and made one specially for Koepka with a Teryllium insert, similar to one in his previous Newport 2 gamers. The reason why this one didn’t go into play, though? Because it was too heavy.

Harry Hall was the third-best putter on Tour last year, so when Bettinardi made him a custom proto, you know it was going to be good. The custom BB28 blade features VDF face milling, a custom-welded single-bend shaft, and the owner’s initials – HH – on the sole of the putter. Hall, who usually games an Odyssey O-Works #7 W, has dabbled with a TaylorMade Spider Tour X already this year. Maybe there’s a chance this Bettinardi might make his bag.

Honestly, this one doesn’t need a description. It’s Kieth Mitchell’s custom Scotty Cameron Napa. One Scotty Cameron face stamp, two Scotty Dogs, two Scotty Cameron 7-Point Crowns and one Circle T. That is all. Oh, except for the Cashmere Cameron headcover.

Finally, and just for fun, how about we pour one out for this TaylorMade Spider Tour X made for Scottie Scheffler in its new torched finish. It’s unlikely we’ll see a putter change anytime soon from the best golfer in the world. In fact, he hit just two putts with it on the Harbour Town practice before going back to his trusty gamer.

Whats in the Bag

Patrick Reed WITB 2026 (May)

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2 weeks ago

May 18, 2026

GolfWRX Staff

Driver: Titleist GT3 (9 degrees) Buy here.
Shaft: Aldila Rogue Silver 130 M.S.I. 70 TX

3-wood: TaylorMade Qi35 (15 degrees)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Blue 7 X

7-wood: TaylorMade Qi35 (21 degrees)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Blue 8 X

Irons: Grindworks PR-202 (4), Grindworks PR-101A (5-PW)
Shafts: True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100

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Shafts: True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400

Putter: Scotty Cameron Tour Rat 1.5 Tour Prototype

Ball: Titleist Pro V1x

Grips: Golf Pride MCC

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Which of Tiger’s major winning irons are your favorite? – GolfWRXers discuss

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2 weeks ago

May 18, 2026

Gianni Magliocco

In our forums, our members have been discussing their favorite major winning irons used by Tiger Woods. WRXer ‘golferdude54’ kicks off the thread saying:

“Mizuno MP 14/29. Titleist 681T. Nike Forged Blades. TaylorMade P7TW.

Among these irons that helped Tiger win 15 majors, which is your favorite in terms of looks?”

And our members have been naming their favorites and why in response.

Here are a couple of posts from the thread, but make sure to check out the entire discussion and have your say at the link below.

SwingBlade: “I prefer the early blades he played and the more recent TM TW’s especially because after Tiger had his major behavioral setbacks, part of Nikes support payback was making Tiger play a Nike putter and cease using his beloved uniquely customized Scotty putter.”
ProjectX: “This (Nike Forged Blades) and there’s not even a close second.”

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