Francesco Molinari - WITB 2019

[Broessner71]

Just a flat out phenomenal ball striker

[stimpmeterp]

Happy to have been wrong - just crazy that he’s that good regardless of the equipment. Clearly not a wrx’er

[boxerjoe2011]

Curious if Callway will make those irons the updated MB's...

[mackepa]

Curious if Callway will make those irons the updated MB's...

 

Nope. Not gonna happen.

[callawayjay]

Big mistake.

How do? Lol

[callawayjay]

Big mistake.

 

How so? Explain

[OldTomMorris]

First Rose now Molinari with new manufacturer. Yet so many were saying its big mistake changing equipment.

 

Testing and feedback (TrackMan etc.) nowadays means at this level a new manufacture is no big deal. The argument is no longer applicable.

[callawayjay]

It absolutely isn’t applicable

[fpyle3]

Congrats to Molinari and Callaway. Can anyone confirm those MBs are Miura-forged?

[Gnomesteel]

I'm so curious about his blades. They are clearly unique.

[jonn443]

Welp, looks like whatever those irons really are...

 

They're real and they're spectacular.

 

And Won.

[J13]

First Rose now Molinari with new manufacturer. Yet so many were saying its big mistake changing equipment.

 

Testing and feedback (TrackMan etc.) nowadays means at this level a new manufacture is no big deal. The argument is no longer applicable.

 

I agree, especially considering these are the best players on the planet. People let their own bias get in the way of rational thought. Bettinardi makes a nice putter but Toulon does as well. Can't go wrong with either.

[tgoodspe1991]

Big mistake.

 

Still think so?

[tgoodspe1991]

Someone explain to me 'why' he decided to go Callaway. His bag last year produced an incredible summer starting in D.C. at TPC Avenel and then onto the Open. Why the need to sign a bag deal off-season? Can't be for the $$$?

 

He wasn't a TM staffer if I recall, just using TM equipment. This year Callaway offered him big money to play their equipment. In golf, there's no guarantee that Molinari would ever win again. As a player (which btw these guys are technically contractors) you gotta take the money when you can get it. It's always about the money.

[imakaveli]

I see Francesco sticking with Inter Milan colors even with the putter paintfill :D

 

[OldTomMorris]

I see Francesco sticking with Inter Milan colors even with the putter paintfill :D

 

 

No West Ham colours?

[imakaveli]

I see Francesco sticking with Inter Milan colors even with the putter paintfill :D

 

 

No West Ham colours?

 

WH is his second team

[NewWildcatOrder]

lol, a lot of these takes aged well

[newportbeach]

Big mistake.

 

:taunt:

 

“My first week as a Callaway player…so happy to see that the switch I made wasn’t as crazy as some people thought. I know the clubs are good for me and I showed it this week.” - Francesco Molinari

 

Hearbreaking to see that beauty of a putter moved out for a toulon.

 

As much as most Wrxers would hate to admit I guess it must be the person putting and not the putter Looks like the Toulon works and the high cost of a putter must not always matter :swoon:

 

"The British Open champion enjoyed his "best putting day ever" which he capped off by sinking a 45-foot birdie at the difficult par-four 18th at Bay Hill in Orlando."

[009]

Interesting that Molinari won with a Toulon Madison (plumber's neck) and the Madison is not offered in the 2019 Toulon line. I wonder if they will add the Madison back into the line now that Molinari won with one.

 

I have a Garage Madison slant neck that I play from time to time. A very nice putter.

[beluga99]

146'9" of putts and a chip in for birdie on the 8th certainly helps! He's a gun ball striker who won't struggle with whatever you put in his hand. Hope he and Fleetwood enjoyed their trip to Disneyland together.

[ArniesArmy1234]

I want his exact setup! Exact shafts, everything. I love his game and he’s a great player at the moment

[EaglesGolf99]

Anybody know if Francisco rotates the Apex Hybrid (20°) and X-Forged UT (18°)?

 

Or are they both in the bag at the same time?

[denvergolf]

Tell me it doesn't look like this...

 

 

 

or upon further inspection, this Miura Giken

 

 

I don't see it at all :swoon:

[TheGooch]

Molinari is nails.

[cmatthews77]

mackepa said:

I find it a little strange that he’s using the old Apex hybrid. I wonder what he didn’t like about the new one.

Yeah I noticed that as well. I play those Apex hybrids and love them. Haven’t been able to try the new ones but the originals are hard to beat. Clean and simple. 

[DOGPGA76]

Great Miura Irons!

[BB28403]

> @tobybear said:

> I have a sneaking suspicion about where these Japanese Forged Irons came from

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> https://miuragolf.com/product/tournament-blade-mb001/

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> Similarities are uncanny, especially the hosel length being so much longer than the Standard Cally MB

 

You sure they are not classic tourneys? Re forged by the MAN? Maybe brought the plates out of retirement for tiger and Francesco and 1 other... pure speculation, but the best kind. I feel like MB001's are curved a bit more than those 5-9.

 

[boycer]

I thought I saw modus shafts in his wedges?

[Stonebridge]

When do we get to see driver & fwy pics?