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Tour Tech Rundown: A TaylorMade ride or die does it

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Sunday is giving Saturday a run for its money as Moving Day, at least on the PGA Tour. The numbers posted at Pebble Beach were stunning in the depths that they reached. Scottie Scheffler made three eagles and a birdie on the par-five holes, shot 63, and didn’t win. Among the players in the top five, their ringer score for the front nine was 26. The only hole that none birdied was number nine. The back nine played a bit tougher. 27 was the best ringer score that they could compile. Hole 12 held firm against the birdie barrage, while 14 did not surrender an eagle (even to Scheffler). A new reality with classic golf courses is that they no longer hold up against today’s talent, strength, and equipment. We should love them for what they were and are, but they will not be the standard for par, at least at the professional level.

That cornucopia of themes brings us to this week’s Tour Tech Rundown. Winners raised trophies in California, Florida, Riyadh, and Adelaide. Their equipment choices ranged from one brand to four brands, with certain selection similarities and other option differences.

PGA Tour @ AT&T: It’s Collin’s time!

For a decent amount of time, after Akshay Bhatia lost his lead, Sam Burns stepped up to make a run at the top spot. At the same time, Scottie Scheffler was on a tear. The world number one stood seven-under after seven holes, but then cooled off. Scheffler managed a tie for fourth, courtesy of his day-four 63. He was one shot behind co-runners up Sepp Straka and Min Woo Lee, and two behind the victor. Bhatia had another chance to take the next step and win against proven champions, but a missed, six-feet putt for birde at 16 extinguished the flickering candle of hope for the young Wake Forest native.

The man of the hour was Collin Morikawa. The two-time major champion had not won since 2023, when he triumphed at Zozo. Morikawa notched birdies at 15 and 16 to take a lead, but nearly threw the tournament away with a 17th-hole double cross. His patented fade never materialized at the famous par-three hole, and Morikawa nearly went down the cove by the penultimate green. He was able to pitch onto the putting surface, but his putt for par drifted off.

At the final hole, Morikawa split the fairway with his driver, but erred in therough near the green. His pitch for three was a gem, rolling out to mere inches. With the tap-in birdie, Collin Morikawa was able to secure a seventh tour title and re-establish himself as a contender.

Collin’s Gear Bag

Much like Charley Hull (see below) Collin Morikawa has Taylor Made as his ride or die through the bag. Every club and his golf ball are TM. Morikawa begins with a Qi4D LS, and pairs it with Qii4D Tour 3 and 5 fairway metals. Beneath the iron covers, Morikawa mixes in three different models. His four-iron is a PDHY. He adds in two P7CBs in the 5 and 6 slots. The set concludes with the P730 model for his 7iron through the pitching wedge. Morikawa closes his bag with three MG5 wedges, at 5o  (SB09), 56 (LB08) and 60 degrees (TW). Along the ground, Morikwa trusts his TP5x ball to a Spider Tour X putter.

PGA Tour Champions @ Chubb Classic: Toms’ sandy wins the day

Put a wedge in David Toms’ hands and something special might happen. Toms’ only major victory on the regular tour came courtesy of an up-and-down from 100 yards at the 18th at Atlanta Athletic Club. On Sunday at Tiburon, Toms made every mistake he could conjure, leading to two doubles and two bogeys. Despite those missteps, Toms jarred a massive, twenty-feet save for par at 17. He came to the par-five, 18th hole, in a tie for the top spot, still hopeful for a win in regulation time. Already in the clubhouse were Boo Weekly and Justin Leonard. Both had a chance to reach 13-deep, but neither could make four at the final hole. With no holes left, the duo could simply wait, watch, and wonder. Then came Toms.

The LSU alumnus took two shots to reach the left greenside bunker. Faced with a lengthy sand shot, Toms played it to perfection. He landed it partway to the hole, then let it run out to within inches of the flagstick. The birdie tap-in was the clinching shot, moving him one ahead of the runners-up, into a fifth senior title, and first since 2023.

David Toms Gear Bag

It’s tricky keeping up with PGA Tour Champions golfers and their current equipment lineup. As recently as 2024, Toms was gaming Callaway driver and fairway metals, Srixon hybrids and irons, and Cleveland wedges. A Scotty Cameron putter and a Titleist ProV1 golf ball rounded out the utensils. Clearly a guy at a point in his career that plays what he wants to play, and not what will put food on the table.

Ladies European Tour: One Hull of a day for Charley

At the close of play on Saturday, ten golfers at within two shots of the lead. Korea’s Hye-Jin Choi had reached 15-under par, but had little time to relax. On her heels at -14 was Japan’s Rio Takeda, followed by an octet of challengers at 13-deep. There would be no holding on, no preservation of a lead. Sunday would be a barnburner, a shootout, and one golfer would emerge with the title at Riyadh Golf Club.

On day four, every golfer in contention had stumbled at least twice. Some made bogeys, others a double, and for the majority, a stumble meant not enough birdies. England’s Charley Hull had a pair of bogeys on her card. She also counted seven birdie and an eagle, to go with eight pars. Hull signed for the day’s low round with 65. No one else in contention was lower than 67. One of those golfers, Akie Iwai of Japan, began the day one shot clear of Hull. Iwai played a marvelous round, including fashioning a birdie at the last.

The problem for Iwai was, that birdie came on the heels of a bogey at 17, one of two that she made over the closing six holes. Hull’s last bogey came at the 10th, and she followed that with four birdies and an eagle over her final eight holes. The clubslingers laid it all out on the final day, and in the end, Charley Hull stood tallest.

Charley’s Gear Bag

Leave it to Charley to keep her equipment the only boring thing about her. The woman who once took up vaping to kick a tobacco habit, runs driver to putter with TaylorMade gear. The Qi4D driver gets her down the fairway, and Qi35 hybrids at 17 and 19 degrees move her deeper along the void. For irons, Hull emulates many of her long-hitting peers with a special driving iron, in this case, a P770 4 iron. She rounds out the lofters with P7MB five iron through pitching wedge. Inside of 100 yards, Hull relies on three Milled Grind 3 wedges, set at 48, 54, and 60 degrees. The rock that she rolls, a Taylor Made TP5x, gets its bump from a Soto TP Hydro Blast putter.

LIV Golf: It’s been a minute, AK

Anthony Kim played the role of Larry Mize of Sunday’s final trio at The Grange. Long ago, Mize faced off in a Masters playoff with Greg Norman and Seve Ballesteros. In the most unlikely of scenarios, Mize dispatched both to win his only major title. Not nearly as mild as the Augusta native, Kim was still a distant third in the betting, with Jon Rahm and Bryson DeChambeau as much clearer favorites.

All the odds shifted as Rahm struggled with the flat stick, and DeChambeau struggled with his other sticks. Rahm posted minus-one on Sunday, while BDC struggled to +2 on the fourth day. For their efforts. Rahm earned a solo silver medal, while DeChambeau tied for third spot with Tyrrell Hatton and Peter Uihlein.

How Anthony Kim was on the 2026 LIV circuit, merits our attention. After 2025, he was relegated to non-status, and had to reclaim a place via the qualifying tournament. He did so by two shots, placing third to claim the recently-added opportunity. When Patrick Reed left LIV in January, to return to the DP World Tour and, perhaps one day, the PGA Tour, Kim was awarded Reed’s spot on the 4Aces squad.

On day four Kim was nearly flawless. He posted zero bogeys over the course of 18 holes, an unlikely feat along Australia’s sand belt. His final-round 63 brought him from five shots in arrears to a three-shot win over the field. Much will be said and written across the socials and the webs and the office spaces, about the American’s resurgence. A kid from Los Angeles, who found a collegiate home at the University of Oklahoma, Kim simply went away from the PGA Tour and professional golf, as rumors of his downs and downs swirled. Fans with long memories remembered the street baller who could make a golf ball obey and dance. He was the future of every Team USA, until he no longer was.

On Sunday in Grange, Kim went out in four-under figures. LIV gambled on the individual winner coming from the final two groups, and sent both off from the first tee, in its shotgun format. While his playing partners struggled, Kim gained momentum. He came home in five-under 31, to post nine-under for the round. There is no telling if Kim will preserve his new-old self, and there is no guarantee that he will provide similar performances down the road. Like Tiger in 2019, we saw what we once considered standard and expected, and for that, we should be grateful.

Kim’s Gear Bag

Despite gaming a Titleist GT3 driver in January’s circuit qualifier, Kim trusted his long ball to a Callaway Quantum Triple Diamond Max at Seaton. He also had Callaway fairway metals from the Paradym Ai Smoke and Elyte Triple Diamond lines in his bag. For irons, Kim opened with a Titleist T150 4-iron, then concluded with the TaylorMade P7TW line for five iron through pitching wedge. The winning wedge configuration included new 50 and 54 degree Titleist Vokey SM11s, while the 58 degree saucer was a holdover, a Vokey WedgeWorks model. On the greens and surrounds, Kim rolled his Titleist ProV1 with a Scotty Cameron prototype putter, known among friends and family as a Scotty Cameron TourType Timeless GSS tour prototype.

Ronald Montesano writes for GolfWRX.com from western New York. He dabbles in coaching golf and teaching Spanish, in addition to scribbling columns on all aspects of golf, from apparel to architecture, from equipment to travel. Follow Ronald on Twitter at @buffalogolfer.

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  1. Ronald

    Feb 16, 2026 at 9:06 am

    Mistake on the location of the LIV event. Making changes to the story as I type. Take care.

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2026 PGA Championship betting odds

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Scottie Scheffler leads the betting ahead of the second major championship of the year, with the World Number One a +345 favorite to get his hands on a second PGA Championship.

Rory McIlroy who won the Masters back in April is a +800 shot to complete half of the calendar slam at Aronimink Golf Club this week, while Jordan Spieth can be backed at +5900 to become a career grand slam winner.

Here is the full betting board for the 2026 PGA Championship courtesy of DraftKings.

Scottie Scheffler +345 – (Check 0ut his WITB here)

Rory McIlroy +800 – (Check out his WITB here)

  • Jon Rahm +1300 
  • Cameron Young +1500
  • Bryson DeChambeau +1700
  • Xander Schauffele +1850
  • Matt Fitzpatrick +1950
  • Ludvig Aberg +2000
  • Tommy Fleetwood +2600
  • Collin Morikawa +3500
  • Brooks Koepka +3900
  • Justin Rose +4300
  • Russell Henley +4600
  • Si Woo Kim +4700
  • Justin Thomas +4800
  • Robert MacIntyre +5300
  • Patrick Cantlay +5300
  • Viktor Hovland +5400
  • Tyrrell Hatton +5500
  • Jordan Spieth +5900
  • Sam Burns +6000
  • Hideki Matsuyama +6200
  • Adam Scott +6400
  • Rickie Fowler +7000
  • Chris Gotterup +7400
  • Patrick Reed +7400
  • Min Woo Lee +7800
  • Ben Griffin +8000
  • Sepp Straka +8400
  • Shane Lowry +9000
  • Akshay Bhatia +9200
  • Maverick McNealy +9200
  • Joaquin Niemann +9200
  • Jake Knapp +9200
  • Jason Day +9600
  • Kurt Kitayama +10000
  • J.J. Spaun +10000
  • Harris English +10500
  • Nicolai Hojgaard +11000
  • Gary Woodland +11000
  • David Puig +11000
  • Michael Thorbjornsen +12000
  • Jacob Bridgeman +12000
  • Keegan Bradley +12500
  • Corey Conners +14000
  • Alex Fitzpatrick +15000
  • Sungjae Im +15500
  • Sahith Theegala +15500
  • Harry Hall +15500
  • Alex Noren +16000
  • Thomas Detry +16500
  • Marco Penge +16500
  • Kristoffer Reitan +17000
  • Alex Smalley +17000
  • Wyndham Clark +17500
  • Sam Stevens +17500
  • Keith Mitchell +17500
  • Daniel Berger +18500
  • Ryan Gerard +20000
  • Nick Taylor +20000
  • Rasmus Hojgaard +21000
  • Dustin Johnson +21000
  • Pierceson Coody +23000
  • Aaron Rai +24000
  • Jordan Smith +24000
  • Angel Ayora +24000
  • Bud Cauley +25000
  • Matt McCarty +26000
  • Jayden Schaper +26000
  • Brian Harman +27000
  • Taylor Pendrith +27000
  • Ryan Fox +27000
  • J.T. Poston +27000
  • Cameron Smith +29000
  • Ryo Hisatsune +29000
  • Michael Kim +29000
  • Max Homa +29000
  • Denny McCarthy +29000
  • Tom McKibbin +30000
  • Rico Hoey +32000
  • Matt Wallace +32500
  • Ricky Castillo +33000
  • Haotong Li +33000
  • Michael Brennan +34000
  • Max Greyserman +36000
  • Stephan Jaeger +37500
  • Christiaan Bezuidenhout +37500
  • Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen +39000
  • Aldrich Potgieter +40000
  • Andrew Novak +42000
  • Patrick Rodgers +42500
  • Daniel Hillier +42500
  • Max McGreevy +46000
  • Billy Horschel +48000
  • Chris Kirk +48000
  • Ian Holt +49000
  • Casey Jarvis +49000
  • William Mouw +50000
  • Steven Fisk +50000
  • John Parry +50000
  • Nico Echavarria +52500
  • Garrick Higgo +52500
  • John Keefer+55000
  • Matthias Schmid +57500
  • Austin Smotherman +57500
  • Sami Valimaki +60000
  • Andrew Putnam +60000
  • Lucas Glover +62500
  • Daniel Brown +62500
  • Jhonattan Vegas +75000
  • Emiliano Grillo +80000
  • Mikael Lindberg +85000
  • Adrien Saddier +100000
  • Bernd Wiesberger +100000
  • Elvis Smylie +110000
  • Stewart Cink +130000
  • Kota Kaneko +130000
  • David Lipsky +150000
  • Chandler Blanchet +150000
  • Andy Sullivan +150000
  • Joe Highsmith +180000
  • Adam Schenk +200000
  • Travis Smyth +200000
  • Davis Riley +225000
  • Martin Kaymer +400000
  • Brian Campbell +400000
  • Padraig Harrington +450000
  • Kazuki Higa +450000
  • Jordan Gumberg +450000
  • Ryan Vermeer +500000
  • Austin Hurt +500000
  • Tyler Collet +500000
  • Timothy Wiseman +500000
  • Shaun Micheel +500000
  • Y.E. Yang +500000
  • Michael Block+500000
  • Mark Geddes+500000
  • Luke Donald+500000
  • Bryce Fisher+500000
  • Jimmy Walker +500000
  • Jason Dufner +500000
  • Jesse Droemer +500000
  • Jared Jones +500000
  • Garrett Sapp +500000
  • Francisco Bide +500000
  • Zach Haynes +500000
  • Paul McClure+500000
  • Derek Berg +500000
  • Chris Gabriele +500000
  • Braden Shattuck +500000
  • Ben Polland +500000
  • Ben Kern +50000

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GolfWRX is on site for the second major of 2026: The PGA Championship from Aronimink in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania.

The tournament’s location, just outside Philadelphia, and its status as a major championship mean GolfWRXers are in for a treat: WITBs from a strong field, custom gear celebrating the PGA Championship, and the rich culture of the City of Brotherly Love — we have noted a relative absence of cheesesteak-themed items thus far this week, but most of the rest of the usual suspects are well represented.

Check out links to all our photos below.

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How much each player won at the 2026 Truist Championship

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Kristoffer Reitan held his nerve at Quail Hollow on Sunday to claim his first PGA Tour victory and the $3.6 million winner’s check that came with it. The Norwegian fended off a packed leaderboard on a dramatic final day, with Rickie Fowler and Nicolai Højgaard both taking home $1.76 million for their runner-up finishes.

With a total prize purse of $20 million up for grabs, here’s a look at how much each player won at the 2026 Truist Championship.

1: Kristoffer Reitan, $3,600,000

T2: Rickie Fowler, $1,760,000

T2: Nicolai Hojgaard, -$1,760,000

4: Alex Fitzpatrick, $960,000

T5: Tommy Fleetwood, $730,000

T5: Sungjae Im, $730,000

T5: J.J. Spaun, $730,000

T8: Ludvig Aberg, $600,000

T8: Harry Hall, $600,000

T10: Patrick Cantlay, $500,000

T10: Matt McCarty, $500,000

T10: Cameron Young, $500,000

13: Justin Thomas, $420,000

T14: Min Woo Lee, $360,000

T14: Chris Gotterup, $360,000

T14: Nick Taylor, $360,000

T17: Alex Smalley, $310,000

T17: Gary Woodland, $310,000

T19: Austin Smotherman, $242,100

T19: Rory McIlroy, $242,100

T19: Keegan Bradley, $242,100

T19: Sudarshan Yellamaraju, $242,100

T19: Kurt Kitayama, $242,100

T24: Patrick Rodgers, $156,643

T24: Pierceson Coody, $156,643

T24: Adam Scott, $156,643

T24: Andrew Novak, $156,643

T24: Harris English, $156,643

T24: J.T. Poston, $156,643

T24: David Lipsky, $156,643

T31: Brian Harman, $114,416.67

T31: Viktor Hovland, $114,416.67

T31: Alex Noren, $114,416.67

T31: Tony Finau, $114,416.67

T31: Nico Echavarria, $114,416.67

T31: Corey Conners, $114,416.67

T37: Sam Burns, $82,187.50

T37: Maverick McNealy, $82,187.50

T37: Akshay Bhatia, $82,187.50

T37: Taylor Pendrith, $82,187.50

T37: Matt Wallace, $82,187.50

T37: Andrew Putnam, $82,187.50

T37: Bud Cauley, $82,187.50

T37: Lucas Glover, $82,187.50

T45: Justin Rose, $60,000

T45: Daniel Berger, $60,000

T45: Ryo Hisatsune, $60,000

T48: Denny McCarthy, $50,000

T48: Aldrich Potgieter, $50,000

T48: Webb Simpson, $50,000

T48: Michael Kim, $50,000

T52: Mackenzie Hughes, $45,187.50

T52: Max Homa, $45,187.50

T52: Brian Campbell, $45,187.50

T52: Jhonattan Vegas, $45,187.50

T52: Matt Fitzpatrick, $45,187.50

T52: Chandler Blanchet, $45,187.50

T52: Jordan Spieth, $45,187.50

T52: Jacob Bridgeman, $45,187.50

T60: Xander Schauffele, $42,500

T60: Robert MacIntyre, $42,500

T60: Ricky Castillo, $42,500

T63: Ben Griffin, $41,250

T63: Sepp Straka, $41,250

T65: Ryan Gerard, $40,250

T65: Si Woo Kim, $40,250

67: Ryan Fox, $39,500

68: Jason Day, $39,000

69: Sahith Theegala, $38,000

70: Sam Stevens, $37,500

71: Hideki Matsuyama, $37,000

72: Tom Hoge, $36,000

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