Tour Tony Finau WITB – 2023 Wells Fargo Championship

[atursky]

[jholz]

Tough not to root for this guy. Wishing him the best of success!

[Tupperwolf]

C'mon Tony, give Ping a chance to fix that 4i ferrule 🤕

 

This is clearly a dude that plays the hell out of all of his clubs!

[QuigleyDU]

savage! 

 

[alecfeltman]

love the fact that the swoosh lives on. 

[RoyalMustang]

that's the 310 yard driving iron from the Masters! Sweet! 

 

I love his swing: so relaxed and on point. Seems like a great guy to root for. I was struggling in a tournament last month and thought of his swing; just nice and easy, 3/4 if that, stay loose and let the club and body do their thing: I proceeded to smoke a 3H 20 yards past the other 2 guys' full drivers. Of course I lost that swing thought 2 holes later and it went downhill, but still.....copy that fluidity and ease.  

[ilikegolf26]

Is he still playing standard grips built up with like 12 layers of tape? The grips don’t look that big. 

[RCGA]

What are the specs on his grips? Are recall they're midsized with a lot of wraps? 

[Grouchykona]

That toeside putter sole has never been in contact with the ground 

[Santiago Golf]

3 hours ago, RCGA said:

What are the specs on his grips? Are recall they're midsized with a lot of wraps? 

 

You're spot on something like 6 to 8 wraps with a midsize grip

[Valtiel]

3 hours ago, ilikegolf26 said:

Is he still playing standard grips built up with like 12 layers of tape? The grips don’t look that big. 

 

3 hours ago, RCGA said:

What are the specs on his grips? Are recall they're midsized with a lot of wraps? 

 

3 minutes ago, Santiago Golf said:

 

You're spot on something like 6 to 8 wraps with a midsize grip

The golf.com article from last July says 13 wraps bottom hand, 12 wraps top hand over UTX Midsize grips. 

These look like less than that though, but I think that is because of how the wraps are tapered:

[Santiago Golf]

2 minutes ago, Valtiel said:

 

 

The golf.com article from last July says 13 wraps bottom hand, 12 wraps top hand over UTX Midsize grips. 

These look like less than that though, but I think that is because of how the wraps are tapered:

 

Very similar to Bubba build 

[CynicalFly27]

5 hours ago, ilikegolf26 said:

Is he still playing standard grips built up with like 12 layers of tape? The grips don’t look that big. 

Yeah. 

[easylittle5wood]

Never get tired of Blueprints. 
 

Also does a full set essentially. 

[EaglesGolf99]

That Paradym ∆∆∆T 14° looks just incredible at address. WOW!

[EaglesGolf99]

@aturskyany idea how open Tony's Paradym ∆∆∆T 14° is bent? 

[Rosco1216]

Those grips are super heavy too and the midsize have very dramatic taper. Much more than standard. When I played them i reverse tapered 6 wraps at the bottom to one at top and they still had quite a bit of taper left. 

[Foreleft]

Ping is running an ad - “Play the Wedge Finau plays”.

 

Guess they are talking about the Glide 4.0, but Bob Vokey would benefit also.

[smturner1203]

On 5/3/2023 at 4:13 PM, Valtiel said:

 

 

The golf.com article from last July says 13 wraps bottom hand, 12 wraps top hand over UTX Midsize grips. 

These look like less than that though, but I think that is because of how the wraps are tapered:

That much weight at the butt would throw off the swing weight quite a bit, yeah? Any idea how they address that? I have these same grips with 2 or 3 extra wraps down low and it brought all of my irons to the C8/C9 range. 

[EaglesGolf99]

1 hour ago, smturner1203 said:

That much weight at the butt would throw off the swing weight quite a bit, yeah? Any idea how they address that? I have these same grips with 2 or 3 extra wraps down low and it brought all of my irons to the C8/C9 range. 

Tricking the swing weight scale. 

 

Total overall weight still goes heavier. 

[Valtiel]

2 hours ago, smturner1203 said:

That much weight at the butt would throw off the swing weight quite a bit, yeah? Any idea how they address that? I have these same grips with 2 or 3 extra wraps down low and it brought all of my irons to the C8/C9 range. 

 

1 hour ago, EaglesGolf99 said:

Tricking the swing weight scale. 

 

Total overall weight still goes heavier. 

Agreed with Eagle. Handle weight does not change effective swingweight, and actually increases the total weight and thus MOI of the club. Swingweight will read lower, around 1pt for every 5g of grip weight, but the club will not “feel” lighter, and in fact will feel slightly heavier. I’ve swung fairway woods with 100g counterweights in them and they felt like swinging a 2x4 even though they would measure something like B2 on a swingweight scale. Now with regards to Tony, here is the crazy thing:

 

 

If PING’s specs are accurate and his driver actually measures D7 with his grip setup, then that club would measure E2+ with a standard grip on it. Just an absolute sledgehammer. 

[Yoshifan151]

That putter wear is wild

[Qegurezi]

That's a new head from the one he won with a week ago in Mexico.