Tour Patrick Cantlay - WITB - 2024 Arnold Palmer Invitational

[GolfWRX_Spotted]

[ac6]

Is this the week Patty Ice switches something in this bag? Probably not, but stay tuned. 

 

Would love to see some pics of the iron faces, though. He's been gaming those AP2s forever, there's probably some sweet wear marks on them 👀

[KansasHacker]

Wilson AP2 8i, very rare

[PickItUpGolf]

I think it would have been hilarious if after the Ryder Cup we started having "Patrick Cantlay - What's on his head?" but too late now...

 

Bit like this joke actually, but I only just thought of it haha!

[BHI 99]

Even the pictures of his stuff are slow. 
 

 

🤣

[LeftDash14]

Looks like a fresh TS3. Wonder if old faithful cracked or got over the limit from use. Was impressed to see lots of 180-181 bs from him at Riv

[bcflyguy1]

12 minutes ago, LeftDash14 said:

Looks like a fresh TS3. Wonder if old faithful cracked or got over the limit from use. Was impressed to see lots of 180-181 bs from him at Riv

The set of 718 AP2 irons also looks quite fresh. Wonder how many sets he has left in the stash. 

[Valtiel]

Oh boy, a fresh 6-year old driver! I can imagine photographing his bag is like...



 

[pga43]

2 hours ago, ac6 said:

Is this the week Patty Ice switches something in this bag? Probably not, but stay tuned. 

 

Would love to see some pics of the iron faces, though. He's been gaming those AP2s forever, there's probably some sweet wear marks on them 👀

Actually no wear marks cuz this is a "newer" set of the old clubs.

 

 

Greg

[trying2scratch]

2 hours ago, LeftDash14 said:

Looks like a fresh TS3. Wonder if old faithful cracked or got over the limit from use. Was impressed to see lots of 180-181 bs from him at Riv

Was thinking the same thing! 

[LeftDash14]

1 hour ago, Valtiel said:

Oh boy, a fresh 6-year old driver! I can imagine photographing his bag is like...



 

Gotta have multi tour issue sets in cold storage for the gamers 😂

 

Good tech matters but not all tech is equal?

[BHI 99]

Ain’t gonna lie, I dig seeing the old stuff in a guys bag when he’s pretty much got the keys to the place. 

[phizzy30]

4 hours ago, LeftDash14 said:

Looks like a fresh TS3. Wonder if old faithful cracked or got over the limit from use. Was impressed to see lots of 180-181 bs from him at Riv

Looks like he gained some ball speed since last year.  He was in the low to mid 170's on average.  Now he's high 170's to low 180's.  Faster ball speed = faster pace of play???  Only time will tell.........

[CKaneb]

suprised no one has mentioned yet how that TSR2 has TS3 scoring lines/face markings

[BHI 99]

1 hour ago, CKaneb said:

suprised no one has mentioned yet how that TSR2 has TS3 scoring lines/face markings

and no milling on the SC Phantom and the old SM7 wedge? 

[barfly88]

14 hours ago, KansasHacker said:

Wilson AP2 8i, very rare

good catch.  

[MattyO1984]

I have an image in my head that the guys house is like a Titleist/FootJoy photo shoot from 2018. TS3 driver, 718AP2's and old FootJoy DryJoys all over the place. 

[jsixman]

Isn't that just a reflection of the Wilson?

[03trdblack]

Dewalt sponsoring a person who's probably never held a power tool in his life 🤔

[CKaneb]

12 hours ago, BHI 99 said:

and no milling on the SC Phantom and the old SM7 wedge? 

those 2 things have been in the bag for a while but the custom TSR2 is truly a "Tour Only" offering

[BHI 99]

17 minutes ago, CKaneb said:

those 2 things have been in the bag for a while but the custom TSR2 is truly a "Tour Only" offering

That’s what I’m saying..….even I have a SM7🤣

 

[bcflyguy1]

14 hours ago, CKaneb said:

suprised no one has mentioned yet how that TSR2 has TS3 scoring lines/face markings

That can't be; I've been told that Callaway is the only OEM that offers a million different secret menu options for Pro players and others like Titleist only have the retail options on offer and therefore those retail options are vastly superior. Has to be true, the forums have told me so...

[B_of_H]

On 3/5/2024 at 2:24 PM, ac6 said:

Is this the week Patty Ice switches something in this bag? Probably not, but stay tuned. 

 

Would love to see some pics of the iron faces, though. He's been gaming those AP2s forever, there's probably some sweet wear marks on them 👀

 

probably replaces the irons with a new set every spring. I can't imagine a pro playing the same irons for more than a year unless they rarely play or practice with their gamers outside of competition...which to me seems odd/unlikely.  I seem to remember berger saying he went through 14 sets of his old TM's in under 10 years.  

 

With old irons guys would get them re-grooved and re-finished then add more and more lead tape to make up the weight.  I'm not that is even possible with todays rules and these types of modern irons.  

Edited March 6 by B_of_H

[Valtiel]

23 hours ago, LeftDash14 said:

Gotta have multi tour issue sets in cold storage for the gamers 😂

 

Good tech matters but not all tech is equal?

 

20 hours ago, CKaneb said:

suprised no one has mentioned yet how that TSR2 has TS3 scoring lines/face markings

Woah good catch, that kinda fits with what I was going to speculate re: LeftDash's post above. 

The TS3 is a outlier in the Titleist lineup for several reasons that are relevant. Primarily its the aesthetics; Titleist woods have long had a lot of visual bulge and roll to the face due to shaping and paint lines, but the TS line looks *very* straight faced by comparison. Visually this could easily be a strong preference and the TSR2 cosmetics we see here could have easily been born from a "make this thing look like my TS3 at address". 

The other bit is CG bias where Titleist TS and prior was pretty consistently more heel side draw biased and the TSi3 start playing ball with the general trend of making the lower spinning heads more fade biased and the more forgiving heads more neutral, hence Patrick starting with the more neutral head (likely with hotmelt in heel) and why his previous forays into the TSR3 seeing the rear weight in one of the heel positions. 

[LeftDash14]

22 minutes ago, Valtiel said:

 

Woah good catch, that kinda fits with what I was going to speculate re: LeftDash's post above. 

The TS3 is a outlier in the Titleist lineup for several reasons that are relevant. Primarily its the aesthetics; Titleist woods have long had a lot of visual bulge and roll to the face due to shaping and paint lines, but the TS line looks *very* straight faced by comparison. Visually this could easily be a strong preference and the TSR2 cosmetics we see here could have easily been born from a "make this thing look like my TS3 at address". 

The other bit is CG bias where Titleist TS and prior was pretty consistently more heel side draw biased and the TSi3 start playing ball with the general trend of making the lower spinning heads more fade biased and the more forgiving heads more neutral, hence Patrick starting with the more neutral head (likely with hotmelt in heel) and why his previous forays into the TSR3 seeing the rear weight in one of the heel positions. 

As a fader maybe he likes the draw bias kinda like dj. 

[TiScape]

On 3/5/2024 at 12:25 PM, KansasHacker said:

Wilson AP2 8i, very rare

Tour only 😉 

[Valtiel]

1 minute ago, LeftDash14 said:

As a fader maybe he likes the draw bias kinda like dj. 

DJ tends to prefer his heads quite neutral actually as he himself (to the extent to which he can be trusted lol) has said that he doesn't have a defined heel or toe miss. That video building his SIM where Trottie talks about "DJ likes to feel a draw" is weird because literally all he does in that video is reduce the SIM's inherent strong fade bias by removing some weight from the rear and adding hotmelt back in the heel. It's still fade biased at that point based on my calculations, just less. 

In all likelihood it's related to strike tendencies for Cantlay, he probably misses in the heel when he does miss and simply doesn't want that miss to over cut/slice. Same deal with Jon Rahm and his draw bias preference. 

[TiScape]

27 minutes ago, Valtiel said:

 

Woah good catch, that kinda fits with what I was going to speculate re: LeftDash's post above. 

The TS3 is a outlier in the Titleist lineup for several reasons that are relevant. Primarily its the aesthetics; Titleist woods have long had a lot of visual bulge and roll to the face due to shaping and paint lines, but the TS line looks *very* straight faced by comparison. Visually this could easily be a strong preference and the TSR2 cosmetics we see here could have easily been born from a "make this thing look like my TS3 at address". 

The other bit is CG bias where Titleist TS and prior was pretty consistently more heel side draw biased and the TSi3 start playing ball with the general trend of making the lower spinning heads more fade biased and the more forgiving heads more neutral, hence Patrick starting with the more neutral head (likely with hotmelt in heel) and why his previous forays into the TSR3 seeing the rear weight in one of the heel positions. 

You need a job on a tour truck buddy!

 

*but I know the pay cut makes it a non starter 😉 

[LeftDash14]

13 minutes ago, Valtiel said:

DJ tends to prefer his heads quite neutral actually as he himself (to the extent to which he can be trusted lol) has said that he doesn't have a defined heel or toe miss. That video building his SIM where Trottie talks about "DJ likes to feel a draw" is weird because literally all he does in that video is reduce the SIM's inherent strong fade bias by removing some weight from the rear and adding hotmelt back in the heel. It's still fade biased at that point based on my calculations, just less. 

In all likelihood it's related to strike tendencies for Cantlay, he probably misses in the heel when he does miss and simply doesn't want that miss to over cut/slice. Same deal with Jon Rahm and his draw bias preference. 

And further more on the dj sim video as I’m a sim lover, the slider weight was in the toe for a bit on his sim (but not during masters/tour champ wins)

https://www.golfwrx.com/630586/dustin-johnson-witb-2020-bmw-championship/

I use heavy SIM back weights as my miss is a toe hook and it does seem to help fade bias + slider 
 

Makes sense on Cantlay strike location. CG predictability matters!

 

[noubrat]

What is that blacked out superstroke grip?