Equipment
Spider Tour: TaylorMade releases Jason Day, Dustin Johnson putters
Ever since Jason Day started using a red TaylorMade Spider prototype putter in 2015, golfers have been demanding it — even fellow Tour players. While TaylorMade did release a red version of its Spider Limited putter, it was not a replica because it had a sight line and a different hosel. That has changed.
Jason Day, Spider Tour (Red)
With its newest release, golfers can have the same putter Jason Day uses and the same one Dustin Johnson uses (as of late 2016). That includes the same shafts, face inserts, hosels, head shapes and colors.
According to TaylorMade, there are two general categories of putters available in today’s market: classic shapes and technical mallets. Technical mallets are a way to raise moment of inertia (MOI), which is a measure of forgiveness, to help golfers increase their consistency on the green. With its new TP line, TaylorMade satisfies the demand for classic shapes, while the Spider Tour putters are for those who seek technical mallets.
Related: Did Jason Day just have the best putting year of any Tour pro ever?
The most notable of the new releases is Day’s Spider Tour Red, which has been in especially high demand among GolfWRXers. TaylorMade says Day selected his particular shade of red from a group of about 20 different colors. It just so happens to be the color of a venomous Spider that inhabits his native Australia.
Dustin Johnson, on the other hand, started using a prototype Spider Tour Black putter because it’s what his brother had in the bag, and he took a liking to it. According to TaylorMade, he was ecstatic about the performance of the Spider Tour Black after playing with it for just four holes in a pro-am at the 2016 BMW Championship, so he put it in play that week. And he won.
Dustin Johnson, Spider Tour Limited (Black)
There is a slight difference between Day’s Spider Tour Red and Johnson’s Spider Tour Black, and it will be reflected in the retail releases. The Spider Tour Red uses a Pure Roll Surlyn insert, which offers a softer sound and feel at impact than the Pure Roll 80/20 insert Johnson uses in his Spider Tour Black putter.
The Spider Tour Red putter will be sold with a custom Jason Day putter cover, while the Spider Tour Black will have an all-black putter cover. Both putters are equipped with short, slant-neck hosels and will sell for $299.
Spider Tour Platinum
TaylorMade will also be releasing a new putter along with the Spider Tour Red and Black on March 1. It’s called the Spider Tour Platinum ($219), and has a double-bend steel shaft and a black sightline on its platinum-colored body, which features red “wings.” It also has a 6061 aluminum face insert. Its putter cover is red and platinum, and it will be sold with a SuperStroke Pistol GT 2.0 grip.
All three putters have head weights of 355 grams, and will be sole with 34- and 35-inch standard lengths. Want one? You can currently pre-order from TaylorMade.
Related: See what GolfWRX are saying about TaylorMade’s Spider Tour Limited putters here.
Equipment
Putters that never made it: Check out some of the best tour builds that didn’t make the cut
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.
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
Wedges: Cleveland RTX6 Tour Rack (52-10 Mid), Titleist Vokey Design SM10 (56-08M), SM11 (60-04T)
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
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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Hedge Hog
May 23, 2017 at 10:53 pm
Ron Jeremy uses his Johnson for putting. He’s got a
Fatso SuperStroke ..keeps his hands out of the equation. He holes out everything..
Lambo
May 13, 2017 at 12:25 am
Does both the black and red come with black shafts as stock shafts?
Lambo
May 13, 2017 at 12:23 am
Does both the black and red come stock with a black shaft?
rodger Davidson
Jan 7, 2017 at 1:22 am
Can you still pre order ?
Brent
Dec 31, 2016 at 10:55 am
Just got mine…great putter! Really like the looks and feel.
TexasSnowman
Nov 17, 2016 at 10:50 pm
I like the absence of the Sight Line on the Black and Red: I prefer to aim the face if that makes sense.
MG2
Nov 17, 2016 at 7:24 pm
Do folks on eBay know that these are about to be $300? Yet they’re still listing for thousands?
Jas3
Nov 18, 2016 at 8:56 am
Haha thought the same hope the wakers get stuck with them…
Ryan
Nov 16, 2016 at 10:01 pm
Thank you Taylormade !! You listened and delivered. Bravo !
Joe Perez
Nov 16, 2016 at 7:20 pm
Looks like TM really -is- feeling the finiancial pinch, since they’ve apparently decided to cut back on options, specifically abandoning the 33″ inch market. Would’ve liked to get one.
JJ
Nov 16, 2016 at 8:49 pm
Dumbest comment ever.
Last year TM was selling this exact JDay version for $750 custom orders only.
nick
Nov 16, 2016 at 6:01 pm
what a riot… now there’s the “real” JD putter without the sightline and the slant hosel… TM is a joke…
Mongoose
Nov 16, 2016 at 4:18 pm
Let’s not forget who made these putters popular. If DJ and Jason were using a pitchfork we would buy that too… It’s not the putter, it’s the player…
Someone
Nov 16, 2016 at 1:57 pm
Black sightline, not white.
I like dj’s, but I wonder what the inserts feel like in comparison.
peter collins
Nov 16, 2016 at 1:52 pm
one minute wonder, EVNROLL is the way forward imo
new stuff!!
Nov 17, 2016 at 5:16 pm
whatever man – you see how well these guys putt with wedges?
bh
Nov 16, 2016 at 1:06 pm
Looks good to my eye, but $300? When it’s on sale for $75 in a couple years I’ll pick one up.
Warren Schroer
Nov 16, 2016 at 12:41 pm
Day putted better wit the black one before switching to the red and DJ putted better than ever with the black – I’ll wait until these are under 100 and have a sight line….bout 1 year.
BradT
Nov 16, 2016 at 12:03 pm
id give em my money but apparently I stand on the wrong side of the ball.
Rafibomb
Nov 16, 2016 at 11:38 am
Well TM just got my money. One black version please.
Tony Rich
Nov 16, 2016 at 9:33 am
Why does the red one have to be so ugly? It will be distracting to look at.
The black is not so bad and DJ makes almost anything look cool.
But Day’s putter is ugly on TV let alone in your own bag.
Jackson Galaxy
Nov 16, 2016 at 12:21 pm
Let’s be honest, nobody buying these putters for the looks.
Jas3
Jan 9, 2017 at 8:19 am
Speak for yourself I love the look! ????
JayG
Nov 16, 2016 at 9:25 am
THANK YOU!!!!!!
MR B
Nov 16, 2016 at 9:11 am
about darn time!