Equipment scoop from the tours

It was not happenstance John Daly was wearing a TaylorMade hat and changed to the company’s rac TP irons at the Buick Invitational. Long John, who has been with Dunlop, is expected to sign an endorsement deal with the company. … Lofty doings: Brandt Jobe, who finished T-10 at Torrey Pines, added not one, but two degrees of loft (from 8.5 to 10.5 degrees) to his Callaway Fusion FT-3 driver last week. “Last year I had trouble with not getting quite enough loft,” said Jobe. “[It's] great when it’s real warm, but when it gets a little cold, heavy, damp, I [didn't] get quite enough spin on it.” … TaylorMade had nine players switch to its new r7 425 driver last week, including Tim Clark and Henrik Bjornstad, who also finished T-10. Sergio Garcia, meanwhile, went back to his original r7 Quad driver. … Titleist had a couple of prototypes at the Buick — the 906 F2 fairway wood (played by Lucas Glover, among others) as well as a 585 hybrid club (used by Davis Love III and others). … More Titleist: Buick runner-up José Maria Olazábal put Titleist’s 460cc 905R driver in play last week. … This should put to rest those comments that a 7-wood is a “woman’s” club: long-ballers Hank Kuehne and Scott McCarron each used a Callaway Big Bertha 7-wood at the Buick.

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 The percentage, according to Golf Datatech, of balls bought at on- and off-course golf stores represented by the 13 ball models used last week at the Buick Invitational. Titleist’s Pro V1 and Pro V1x alone account for 22.1 percent.

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