Tour Justin Thomas spotted testing a new, longer driver shaft (and custom 4-iron) – 2023 Fortinet Championship

[adamwittman]

3-5 mph and 15 yards. Nothing mechanical. Nothing about more fairways. Just it goes farther. 

[the bishop]

41 minutes ago, rblmp32 said:

 

Well yeah, that's the obvious reason.  But I wonder if it's something more than that.   

So when that 'sumb*tch goes right, and you know it will, it goes far enough right to clear a treeline and still give him a shot.😆

[adamwittman]

26 minutes ago, the bishop said:

So when that 'sumb*tch goes right, and you know it will, it goes far enough right to clear a treeline and still give him a shot.😆

Bingo

[Gtyler14]

5 hours ago, BagofToast said:

Biggest lie of match play golf 

No truer words have ever been spoken!

[TiScape]

On 9/13/2023 at 1:06 PM, GoBlueGolf said:

He probably wanted to test it because it's pretty close to Alabama colors

Looks more SDSU to me! 😜

[elwhippy]

Another major winner using softer shafts than WRX members. Who would have believed it?

 

[kwonye]

Doesn't sound right that an additional few yards is worth the increased dispersion from mishits... especially for someone "struggling"

[CCUgolfer23]

On 9/15/2023 at 2:13 PM, kwonye said:

Doesn't sound right that an additional few yards is worth the increased dispersion from mishits... especially for someone "struggling"

he hit it pretty well over the final 3 rounds this week. Wonder if that will keep it in the bag for the time being. 

[MattyO1984]

Definitely liked the switch to the longer driver for JT. He is never going to be the most accurate player in the world but if he is going to be crooked I would rather he was longer and crooked. 

[jaffabell]

2 hours ago, MattyO1984 said:

Definitely liked the switch to the longer driver for JT. He is never going to be the most accurate player in the world but if he is going to be crooked I would rather he was longer and crooked. 

I didn't get to see much coverage with being away, did he put the longer shaft in play this week for every round?

[MattyO1984]

3 hours ago, jaffabell said:

I didn't get to see much coverage with being away, did he put the longer shaft in play this week for every round?

 

He has it in the 2nd through 4th round and I thought he looked pretty good with it. I never checked any stats but generally it seemed like quite a demanding driving course and he looked pretty good on it as best I could tell!

[Sean124]

6 hours ago, MattyO1984 said:

Definitely liked the switch to the longer driver for JT. He is never going to be the most accurate player in the world but if he is going to be crooked I would rather he was longer and crooked. 

Yep, he’s not exactly accurate with the shorter shaft. Might as well have one less club from the rough. 

[jaffabell]

31 minutes ago, MattyO1984 said:

 

He has it in the 2nd through 4th round and I thought he looked pretty good with it. I never checked any stats but generally it seemed like quite a demanding driving course and he looked pretty good on it as best I could tell!

Great! I was back off holiday early hours Saturday, was too tired Saturday night and was hoping to stay up last night to watch some... as soon as I saw his awful start I decided to hit the hay, glad I did! Would have been gutted to miss a win after all this time!

[jaffabell]

4 minutes ago, Sean124 said:

Yep, he’s not exactly accurate with the shorter shaft. Might as well have one less club from the rough. 

I just wish he would go back to the BF, he had that in play for loads of his wins! If he didn't hit the odd one off the planet it might free up his wedge game a bit. I think he will bounce back next season though

[MattyO1984]

4 minutes ago, jaffabell said:

Great! I was back off holiday early hours Saturday, was too tired Saturday night and was hoping to stay up last night to watch some... as soon as I saw his awful start I decided to hit the hay, glad I did! Would have been gutted to miss a win after all this time!

 

Haha, I had a similar dilemma last night. Sat up and watched all of Saturday night but then woke up ridiculously early and come yesterday evening, I was totally done in. I decided to just record it and I was out for the count before 10pm 😴 

[gvogel]

On 9/13/2023 at 11:25 PM, mattman said:

Now that his 4 iron has no offset his play is sure to drastically improve, and quickly.  Zach Johnson must be so relieved!

On the other hand, Zach used an AP1 4-iron (with more offset) with his set of AP2's.  So maybe he will be skeptical.

[Darth_Fader]

On 9/13/2023 at 4:20 PM, the bishop said:

@atursky did you get any 411 on the torch mark on the 4i?  done to allow bending more than normal w/out breaking?

they pressed out the offset to better match his MBs