By John Schwarb, PGATOUR.COM

Following the smashing debut of its RocketBallz metalwoods last year, it was only a matter of time before TaylorMade put some of the same technology – and part of that name – into irons.

On Tuesday the company introduced "RocketBladez” irons, featuring a slot cut in the sole of the iron similar to the slot on the RBZ fairway woods and hybrids. The slot flexes and rebounds at impact, increasing the speed of the face and creating faster ball speed, higher launch angles and higher ball flight, according to TaylorMade.

TaylorMade calls the slot the “speed pocket,” and it is found on the 3- through 7-irons. The two-millimeter slot is protected from the elements by a polyurethane strip. The irons also have a large cavity behind the stainless-steel face to lower the center of gravity and pull it farther away from the face to promote forgiveness and higher launch.

Two editions of the irons are coming to market, the Rocketbladez (arriving at retail on Dec. 3; $799/steel, $899/graphite) and RocketBladez Tour (arriving Feb. 1; $899/steel). The Tour irons have smaller heads, less offset and a less-pronounced cavity.

“We created RocketBladez irons for amateurs, but when our TOUR Staff pros tried it, they wanted it,” said TaylorMade president and CEO Mark King. “We created a Tour version, and they love it. It’s the first distance-oriented iron to be played on TOUR. The genius of the Speed Pocket is that not only does it deliver more speed for more distance, it delivers consistent speed, so shots fly a consistent distance. That combination of speed and consistent distance is what made the eyes of our tour pros light up.”

Sean O’Hair put a set of prototype RocketBladez in play earlier this month at the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open in Las Vegas, the first of probably many sets on TOUR if the RocketBladez prove as popular as the RocketBallz metalwoods.

STROKES-GAINEY PUTTING: Until last week, the book on Tommy “Two Gloves” Gainey was that he was a serviceable putter, not the best on TOUR but not the worst. In 2011 he was 78th in strokes-gained putting, and coming into last week was 86th.

And then the fourth round at The McGladrey Classic got under way.

Gainey, of course, shot the low round of the year on TOUR, a 10-under 60 that vaulted him to the top of the leaderboard. Nearly three hours later, he was a first-time champion. He was plus-5.119 in strokes-gained putting for the round, an amazing figure for an amazing round. (He’s now 66th in strokes-gained.)

He did it with an Odyssey Backstryke Blade, one of the more unusual putters on TOUR from a mainstream manufacturer. The putter has a T-shaped head with a shaft that connects to the rear of the putterhead.

Gainey put the putter in play in 2010 on the Web.com Tour’s BMW Charity Pro-Am and finished second, and since then has stuck with it. His model is 34 inches in length with four degrees of loft and an XG insert.

BITS: Davis Love III finished T4 at his hometown McGladrey, using a belly putter for the first time. He did not anchor it. … Odyssey presented Brandt Snedeker with a gold putter as congratulations for his FedExCup title. Odyssey has only made two gold putters for non-major titles; the other was for Stuart Appleby’s final-round 59 in winning the 2010 Greenbrier Classic.

WINNER’S BAG: Tommy Gainey at The McGladrey Classic:
Driver: Callaway Razr Fit (Aldila RIP shaft, 10.5 degrees)
Fairway wood: Callaway FT-I Tour (15 degrees)
Hybrid: Adams Idea Pro a12 (20 degrees) 
Irons: Callaway Razr-X Forged (4-PW)
Wedges: Callaway Forged (50, 54, 60 degrees) 
Putter: Odyssey Backstryke Blade 
Ball: Callaway Hex Tour Black

Jason Kokrak jumped inside the top 125 with a T2 at Frys.com. He played a new Titleist Pro V1x.

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By John Schwarb, PGATOUR.COM

Jason Kokrak is one of the PGA TOUR’s big bombers (11th in driving distance) but had virtually nothing to show for it this year – until the Frys.com Open.

Kokrak finished T2 at CordeValle, getting a crucial big payday with just two events left on the schedule to crack the top 125 in money. The rookie came into the week at 167th on the money list but left 117th, a livelihood-saving week. He had only one finish higher than T34 in 24 previous starts in 2012.

How did he do it? As usual, Kokrak was near the top in driving distance (ninth) but also led the field in greens in regulation and was eighth in strokes-gained putting, all with the new Titleist Pro V1x prototype. The Frys.com Open marked the second week in which the new Pro V1s were available for TOUR pros.

The Pro V1x offers lower spin than the Pro V1 and is preferred by most pros seeking more distance while not sacrificing control around the greens.

HOT ODYSSEY: The Odyssey ProType ix No. 1 is the company’s most popular putter among TOUR players, after just two weeks in players’ hands.

“Players are using the interchangeable weights to match a specific swing weight and to create a specific toe swing feel,” Odyssey rep Johnny Thompson said. “Players are asking for blank No. 1s so they can have their particular sight line -- sight dot, blank, topline, etc.”

Rookie Danny Lee finished a season-best T16 at Frys.com with the putter.

OLDIES: Remember the TaylorMade Bubble Shaft? The Great Big Bertha? The first Top-Flite solid-core surlyn ball? (OK, we won’t ask your age for that one.) Check out this fun list from Golf Digest about memorable equipment launches.

The time is nearing when equipment companies start to roll out new products – or at least new product hype. TaylorMade, to name one, has been touting a new release next Tuesday. Promotional materials say it is supposed to make Sergio Garcia “freakishly longer.” (Irons, perhaps?)

Are any highly touted products of yesterday still in your bag? Tell us in the comments below.

WINNER’S BAG: Jonas Blixt at the Frys.com Open:
Driver: Cobra ZL Encore(8.5 degrees)
Fairway wood: TaylorMade RocketBallz (15 degrees)
Hybrid: Cobra Baffler T-Rail (18 degrees) 
Irons: Cobra S3 Pro MB (3-PW)
Wedges: Callaway X-Forged (52, 60 degrees) 
Putter: Yes! C Groove Donna II
Ball: Titleist Pro V1x

By John Schwarb, PGATOUR.COM

Try this question on your golf partners: Who was the first player on the PGA TOUR to win with a Titleist Pro V1 ball?

We’ll answer that in a bit, while offering one hint – the win was in Las Vegas in 2000. At that year’s event, now the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open, Titleist changed the game with a high-performance solid construction ball. Since then, many companies have followed with their own editions, but nothing has matched the popularity of the Pro V1 among pros or amateurs.

Every few years Titleist comes out with new versions of the ball, and last week in Las Vegas – symmetry, anyone? – was time for the 2013 model.

“It’s like Christmas, what are we gonna get?” said Charley Hoffman of the unmarked white boxes that were waiting for Titleist ball loyalists at TPC Summerlin.

A total of 18 players put the new balls in play at Shriners Hospitals, with 14 playing the Pro V1x and four playing the Pro V1. Bill Lunde was the highest finisher with the new ball, taking fifth with a Pro V1x. Ryan Moore won the tournament with the present-day Pro V1 that’s available in stores.

“It’s the best-feeling ball I’ve played, ever,” said Hoffman, who missed the cut with a new Pro V1.

When the Pro V1 first hit the PGA TOUR in 2000 at Las Vegas, 47 players used it immediately (the Pro V1x arrived a couple years later). Billy Andrade won the tournament with the ball, becoming the answer to a golf equipment trivia question.

NEW FLATSTICKS: Fredrik Jacobson, surprisingly 132nd this year in strokes gained-putting (he was sixth last year), switched from an Odyssey Black Series I No. 1 to an Odyssey ProType ix No. 4 HT (high toe) at Las Vegas.

The ProType ix, with a black PVD finish and a slightly firmer White Hot insert, is only available for purchase in Japan but has proved popular over here. J.B. Holmes, Matthew Goggin and Gavin Coles all put the putter in play at Shriners Hospitals.

FRESH APPLES: Stuart Appleby got new wedges with tungsten slugs from the Callaway trailer in Las Vegas. He uses 52- and 58-degree X-Forged wedges, with personalization unique to him. Check out the photo.

WINNER’S BAG: Ryan Moore at the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open:
Driver: TaylorMade RocketBallz (Fujikura Motore, 8.5 degrees)
Fairway woods: TaylorMade RocketBallz (15, 19 degrees)
Hybrid: Adams Idea Pro a12 (20 degrees) 
Irons: Ping S56 (4-PW)
Wedges: Cobra Trusty Rusty (55 degrees), Titleist Vokey Design (60 degrees) 
Putter: Yes! Sandy 12
Ball: Titleist Pro V1

By PGA TOUR staff Chances are, you've never heard of Aerotech, but this small Washington golf company had a major impact on the 2012 PGA TOUR season. Graphite-shafted irons are still a vast minority on TOUR, but the numbers are growing, especially among some of the bigger names in the sport. Matt Kuchar was among the first to convert -- he switched a couple of years ago -- and he brought Brandt Snedeker along with him. Carl Pettersson also had a career year while playing the shafts, which have a graphite core, but reinforcing steel fiber lacing the shaft surface. Aerotech began making golf shafts in 1994, but it wasn't until Matt Kuchar's big year in 2010 that the company started to grab an important piece of the PGA TOUR market. A big reason the shafts have grown in popularity on TOUR is that they are closely matched to the extra-stiff steel shafts that have dominated for decades. Instead of a stereotypical light, whippy feel, Aerotech has produced shafts that are heavier, stiffer, and stronger than the graphite iron shafts that were seen on TOUR starting in the 1990s. Both Kuchar and Snedeker play a 95-gram SteelFiber model, which are still considerably lighter than standard extra-stiff steel shafts, which are 25-35 grams heavier. SNEDEKER KEEPS IT SIMPLE: Snedeker added the high-tech shafts to his irons, but that is about it. He won the TOUR Championship by Coca-Cola -- and the FedExCup that went with it -- with years-old technology in his driver and putter. Snedeker plays Bridgestone J40 irons -- the same irons Kuchar used to win THE PLAYERS -- but the rest of his bag is a hodgepodge. Snedeker might be the most finicky player on TOUR when it comes to drivers. In short, he hates to change them. He used the TaylorMade 425 R7 long after other players upgraded, and he was using a 2008-era TaylorMade Burner Superfast TP early this season before it was damaged. He switched to a first-edition R11 (not the R11s), but eventually found a replacement for the Superfast. As for his putter, it's even older. Snedeker has used the same Odyssey White Hot XG Rossie heel-shafted mallet for years.

By John Schwarb, PGATOUR.COM

On the eve of the FedExCup Playoffs finale, 10 percent of the 30-man field re-signed multi-year equipment contracts with Ping.

Louis Oosthuizen, Lee Westwood and Bubba Watson – Nos. 6, 8 and 11 in the standings coming into the TOUR Championship by Coca-Cola – all have been longtime Ping staffers and will stay that way, the company announced Wednesday.

Westwood, 39, has played Ping clubs for 27 years, while Watson has played the company’s clubs since he was a teenager. Oosthuizen made arguably the shot of the year by holing out an S56 4-iron from 255 yards out on the second hole at Augusta National on Sunday -- the fourth double eagle in Masters history.

Ever wonder what is demanded within a full-line equipment contract? In a release, Ping said that the three stars will wear the company’s name on hats and bags and play a minimum of 11 Ping clubs, including a company driver and putter.

DIVINE NINE: Do you have any clubs in your bag that are 9 years old, or older? Golf.com discovered that Phil Mickelson used a 9-year-old Titleist 980F 5-wood at the BMW Championship, replacing his Callaway Razr Fit 5-wood. When Mickelson first used that club, he was still a Titleist staff player. He moved to Callaway in 2004 and has mostly played that company’s clubs ever since, but with Phil being Phil, you never know what will resurface in the bag.

By John Schwarb, PGATOUR.COM

Everyone knows that Robert Garrigus is crazy long throughout the bag. But the shortest club was key to landing a trip to the TOUR Championship by Coca-Cola.

Garrigus and Ryan Moore were the only two players to enter the BMW Championship outside the top 30 in the FedExCup standings, then play their way inside at Crooked Stick. Only the top 30 advance to the Playoffs finale at East Lake.

A T4 finish at the BMW lifted Garrigus from 31st to 20th, and during the week he was 11th in strokes-gained putting and T4 in putts per round with an Odyssey White Ice 2-Ball V-Line putter that went into the bag just the week before at the Deutsche Bank Championship.

Garrigus’ key round at Crooked Stick was a Saturday 66 that featured no bogeys and an eagle-birdie-birdie run from the 15th through 17th holes.

“I've been really comfortable with that putter, that new putter, and I just needed (Saturday) to see one go in, and I finally got the eagle putt to go in,” Garrigus said. “That was a big one. And then the next two putts on 16 and 17 were right in the jar…”

On Sunday, Garrigus clinched his finish with a 69 that included a four-birdie streak on the back nine, starting with this 60-foot bomb at the 13th.

The putter is a conventional-length model, which is also a twist for Garrigus. He famously putted for a while – and won – with a 28.5-inch putter that looked like something out of a junior’s bag. Earlier this year he went completely the other way with a Scotty Cameron Big Sur 46-inch long putter.

Now, 33 inches looks like the magic number.

“You know, I really decided to do something I've never done before, and that's go to a regular length putter,” Garrigus said. “If I could just stroke it under pressure the way I wanted to, it was going to be good because I've never tried it before. It's 33 inches, and it's rolling great.”

SERGIO’S STUFF: Sergio Garcia, heading to East Lake next week at 12th in the FedExCup standings, had two new TaylorMade ATV wedges made to refresh his arsenal. He had a 50-degree (bent to 51) and a 58-degree (bent to 56) made, then he came by the company’s truck at Crooked Stick to put the finishing touches on the wedges with a personal grind giving slight relief to the heel and toe.

BITS: Hunter Mahan switched from the Ping Nome mallet putter that he had success with earlier in the season to a more conventional heel-toe blade at the BMW. He’s moving on to the TOUR Championship by Coca-Cola, one of three players (Phil Mickelson, Steve Stricker) to qualify for the Playoffs finale in all six years of the FedExCup. … Nineteen of the 30 players at East Lake will play Titleist balls. … Argentina’s Tommy Cocha won the inaugural PGA TOUR Latinoamerica event with a Titleist bag of equipment and a ProV1x ball.

WINNER’S BAG: Rory McIlroy at the BMW Championship:
Driver: Titleist 913D3 (Mitsubishi Diamana proto 70X, 8.5 degrees)
Fairway woods: Titleist 913Fd (13.5, 18 degrees)
Irons: Titleist MB (3-9)
Wedges: Titleist Vokey Design SM4 (46, 54, 60 degrees) 
Putter: Scotty Cameron GSS 
Ball: Titleist Pro V1x

By John Schwarb, PGATOUR.COM

As Titleist keeps putting new metalwoods into PGA TOUR players’ hands, Rory McIlroy is quickly winning with them.

McIlroy won the PGA Championship in August with Titleist’s new prototype 913D3 driver, just a few weeks after it debuted on pro tours, and at last week’s Deutsche Bank Championship became the first player to win with Titleist’s new 913 prototype fairway metals.

The company began putting the fairways into players’ hands at the FedExCup Playoffs opener, and McIlroy immediately put a 913Fd 13.5- and 18-degree model into play at The Barclays. He had played 906F fairway metals for most of his professional career.

The new metals are the 913Fd and 913F, with the Fd having a bigger head and less spin.

“He liked the Fd products … it produced the ball flight he was looking for, a flat ball flight with not too much spin, but enough spin to hit some different shots, some cuts, some draws. And when he wanted to keep it down, he could keep it down as well,” Titleist tour rep Chris Tuten said on the company’s blog. “He was very happy with it, and so are we.”

One would imagine so, with how McIlroy is piling up wins.

LONG BALL: Dustin Johnson finished T4 at TPC Boston with a new 3-wood, a TaylorMade R11S. He was looking for a weapon to better attack the par 5s and found it in a 15.5-degree model, playing the par 5s in 9 under for the week including three birdies and an eagle at the remodeled 18th hole.

WEDGE WORK: Jim Furyk has been seeking a better wedge, one with versatility to chip and pitch while also working out of bunkers and as a flop-shot go-to. In recent weeks, Callaway reps built seven different wedges for the 2010 FedExCup champ, all with different sole grinds and the extreme hosel offset he prefers.

The keeper turned out to be a Vintage X Forged 54/14 with the sole flattened, moving the bounce to the trailing edge in order to keep as much bounce in the heel as possible. The sole has three different bounces with the heel at 14 degrees, the center of the sole having 10 degrees and the toe having 8 degrees. This combination has been coined the "Cork Screw" grind.

Furyk is sixth on TOUR in scrambling and third in sand save percentage.

WINNER’S BAG: McIlroy at the Deutsche Bank Championship:
Driver: Titleist 913D3 (Mitsubishi Diamana proto 70X, 8.5 degrees)
Fairway woods: Titleist 913Fd (13.5, 18 degrees)
Irons: Titleist MB (3-9)
Wedges: Titleist Vokey Design SM4 (46, 54, 60 degrees) 
Putter: Scotty Cameron GSS 
Ball: Titleist Pro V1x

By John Schwarb, PGATOUR.COM

Brian Harman is one of the success stories of the FedExCup Playoffs so far, turning in the best finish of his PGA TOUR career at The Barclays to shoot from 97th in points to 41st.

He was near the bubble at the start of the week at the Bethpage State Park Black Course; now he’s in a pretty good spot to play through this week’s Deutsche Bank Championship and into next week’s BMW Championship.

And maybe one degree did it.

The lefthander doesn’t carry a 3-iron in his TaylorMade Tour Preferred MC set, and found himself pressing on approach shots to long par 4s in an early-week practice round – his first ever on the intimidating Black Course.

So he brought his irons to the TaylorMade van Monday night and had all of them (4-iron through PW) bent one degree strong. Come Thursday, in the first round of The Barclays, he shot 65. He ended the week tied for fifth, showing an impressive aversion to Playoffs pressure.

“It has to creep in, but you let those thoughts come and just let them pass,” Harman said. “You know the best way to assure a spot next week is focus on hitting the 4‑iron, 6‑iron, whatever it is.”

In his case, one degree stronger.

HEAVY METAL: Titleist’s new 913D3 prototype driver has won two of the last three events on TOUR, with Nick Watney’s win at The Barclays coming on the heels of Rory McIlroy’s dominant win at the PGA Championship.

Titleist also debuted its 913 fairway and hybrid prototypes at Bethpage. Graham DeLaet, the biggest mover of all last week with his T5 finish at The Barclays (from No. 106 to No. 44 in the FedExCup), used a 913F fairway.

TWO GLOVES MOVES ON: Tommy Gainey played himself from outside the top 100 in FedExCup points into a spot this week at TPC Boston after a T38 at The Barclays. He made adjustments to his Callaway Razr Fit driver to find some more spin, specifically by changing his upright hosel stting and adding more weight in the toe of the driver while taking it out of the heel.

The result? Gainey could still hit a hard cut but with more than 100 RPMs of spin.

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WINNER’S BAG: Nick Watney at The Barclays:
Driver: Titleist 913D3 (10.5 degrees)
Fairway woods: Titleist 910F (15, 19 degrees)
Irons: Titleist AP2 (3-PW)
Wedges: Titleist Vokey Design SM4 (54, 60 degrees) 
Putter: Scotty Cameron GSS 
Ball: Titleist Pro V1x

By John Schwarb, PGATOUR.COM

When someone has a prolonged winless drought on the PGA TOUR, the equipment can help tell the story of just how long the drought lasted.

When Sergio Garcia won the 2008 PLAYERS Championship, he was swinging a TaylorMade Tour Burner driver and an R7 5-wood, plus a Scotty Cameron Newport 2 putter. He’s now a full-line TaylorMade guy (now, as then, one of their flagship TOUR players), having added a Ghost Tour MA-81 putter. The driver is the company’s top-of-the-line R11S.

But the most significant equipment change from Garcia’s win four years ago to his most recent, last week at the Wyndham Championship? His shoes.

Garcia, a longtime metal spikes proponent including during his win at TPC Sawgrass, won at Sedgefield in metal-less shoes. Adidas Golf’s new crossflex, an athletic-style shoe delivering lightweight performance with spikeless traction, not only held up during the wet week at Wyndham but helped Garcia end his winless streak in the U.S.

“When I first tested the new crossflex shoe I didn’t want to take them off,” said Garcia, making just his second TOUR start in the shoes at the Wyndham. “They are by far the most comfortable golf shoe I’ve ever worn; they feel more like a running shoe yet provide great traction on the course.”

Garcia next heads to The Barclays and the FedExCup Playoffs at 33rd in the standings quite confident, um, from head to toe.

PINK POWER: Let’s be honest, Bubba Watson’s target of 300 drives this year at 300 yards or longer wasn’t really a challenge for the TOUR’s leader in driving distance at 315.9 yards.

Still, with four more 300-yard pokes at the Bethpage State Park Black Course, the “Bubba Long in Pink, Driven by Ping” promotion will be complete with $100,000 raised directly off the face of his pink G20 driver.

For each big drive this season in PGA TOUR-sanctioned events, Ping donated $300 to Watson’s charity campaign. The tally is at $88,000 (for 296 drives), plus $10,000 contributed by Ping at the start of the initiative. Then there was the $250,000 Ping contributed from the sale of 5,000 pink G20 drivers to the public.

Not bad.

STATUS QUO: Dicky Pride did some Trackman testing with two set of irons recently, the TaylorMade Tour Preferred MC he had used all year and another set with a lighter shaft. The latter set produced longer shots, but Pride – about to make his first start in the FedExCup Playoffs, ranked 79th in points – opted not to change now.

WINNER’S BAG: Garcia at the Wyndham Championship:
Driver: TaylorMade R11S (Mitsubishi Diamana, 9 degrees)
Fairway woods: TaylorMade RBZ, 15 degrees; Burner SuperFast 2.0, 18 degrees 
Irons: TaylorMade Tour Preferred MB 3-PW 
Wedges: TaylorMade ATV (50, 58 degrees) 
Putter: TaylorMade Ghost Tour MA-81
Ball: TaylorMade Penta TP

By John Schwarb, PGATOUR.COM

Rory McIlroy romped to an eight-shot win at the PGA Championship thanks to some game-sharpening in the last few months with swing coach Michael Bannon and putting advisor Dave Stockton. A swing that had gotten just loose enough was tightened, and we saw the results.

The results were also helped by some key tweaks in his Titleist arsenal.

McIlroy led the field in driving distance at Kiawah Island with an impressive 311.5-yard average, all with a Titleist 913D3 prototype driver. McIlroy was first fit for the new driver last month at home in Ireland before the Irish Open, using his two-year-old 910D2 as a base point.

“This one just performs so much better,” McIlroy said at the Irish Open. “I’m getting less spin, which is great in the wind, and it carries 15 yards further in calm conditions.”

Think he knew with that quote that he was ready for The Ocean Course?

McIlroy’s other new additions include a 17-degree Titleist 910F 5-wood (with a Fujikura ZCom Pro 95 graphite shaft), first put into play two weeks ago at the World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational. That replaced a 503i 2-iron he played at the British Open and an 18-degree 906F 5-wood he had in the bag since turning pro. McIlroy also had his 712 MB irons replaced at Firestone after the grooves were getting worn.

Besides leading the field in driving distance, McIlroy led the field in birdies (20), was 10th in putting average (1.688) and 13th in greens in regulation (67 percent).

MAJOR WRAP: McIlroy also played a Titleist ProV1x ball, joining Bubba Watson (Masters) and Webb Simpson (U.S. Open) as major winners with the ProV1x. Ernie Els won the British Open with a Callaway Hex Black Tour. As far as winners’ full product lines, Titleist owned half the major count with McIlroy and Simpson, while Watson carries Ping and Els is with Callaway.

CRISIS AVERTED: Would you be nervous if your longtime putter broke during a Tuesday match before the year’s final major? That’s what happened to Keegan Bradley when his Odyssey belly putter, “The Tooth”, snapped while playing with Dustin Johnson, Phil Mickelson and Rickie Fowler.

During play, the “spud” broke, a piece that secures the putterhead to the shaft. Fortunately, an Odyssey rep at Kiawah came to the rescue and used the old shaft with a new White Hot XG Sabertooth head. Voila, the “Tooth 2.”

“No worries at all,” Bradley said last week. “It’s amazing, with my old shaft it looks the exact same, there’s no difference.

Bradley and the Tooth 2 finished T3 at the PGA.

MORE NEW STUFF: Pat Perez, in the picture at the PGA for the first two rounds before finishing T21, used a new TaylorMade Ghost Spider prototype putter. … Peter Hanson finished T7 with the same Ghost Spider prototype and a new 18-degree TaylorMade Rescue 11.

WINNER’S BAG: McIlroy at the PGA Championship:
Driver: Titleist 913D3 (Mitsubishi Diamana proto 70X, 8.5 degrees)
Fairway woods: Titleist 906F2 (13 degrees), Titleist 910F (17 degrees)
Irons: Titleist MB (3-9)
Wedges: Titleist Vokey Design SM4 (46, 54, 60 degrees) 
Putter: Scotty Cameron GSS 
Ball: Titleist Pro V1x