The news of Taylor May and Callaway's new No. 1 wood has brushed the screen in the past two days, but compared with previous years, the major club endorsement stars have not broken out too much movement of "transfer" or "change of club". Until the PGA TOUR began to start the Battle Sentinel Championship as scheduled, finally two Grand Slam champion personality stars "not willing to be lonely" have grabbed the headlines with their clubs.
Rhett joins PXG "Team"
Since Copka signed for SCHIXON last November, Patrick Reid has become the biggest "free agent" who has not signed any club endorsements. However, as the first game of 2022 unfolded, Xiao Fat also said goodbye to freedom, and appeared at the Sentinel Championship in Hawaii with the newly signed club and the eye-catching logo of the new sponsor.
In the early morning of Beijing time this morning, PXG, a new American club brand, officially announced through social media that Red had become the latest member of the company's "team".
PXG refers to its signings as troops, and although it doesn't provide contract details, Red is already wearing a PXG logo hat and using PXG clubs on the fairways of Hawaii's Kapalua Plantation Stadium on Wednesday practice day. PXG has also succeeded Zach Johnson with another Masters winner.
Red was shown as a PXG signing star
Details of the 14 clubs in Red's latest bag have not been announced, but PXG has confirmed that the American character star is using the company's fourth-generation One Wood GEN4 0811X for the Sentinel Championship.
It's not unusual for "free agents" in the club market, but few are like Red, who over the years have used almost a variety of club brands and changed a myriad of clubs. Just take the example of last July when he participated in the Tokyo Olympics, he had the following "mix-and-match" equipment in his bag:
No. 1 Wood: Titleist TSi3
Three Wood: TaylorMade SIM
Mixing rod: Callaway Apex Pro
Hardcore (4): Grindworks PR-202
铁杆(5-PW): Grindworks PR-101A
Dig up the rod (51 degrees): Artisan Proto
Cut-up bar (56 degrees): Vokey SM8
Dig up bar (60 degrees): Vokey WedgeWorks Proto
推杆: Odyssey White Hot Pro 3
Match Ball: Titleist Pro V1
In fact, even when he won the Masters in 2018, Red did not sign a contract with any clubs. As can be seen from the above equipment, Red's club selection can be described as quite "willful", except for a few "big factory" clubs, he does not mind using some non-mainstream company equipment, such as Artisan Golf's digging rod and Grindworks' iron.
Both Rhett and the caddie hats were replaced with PXG
It is worth mentioning that although equipment such as tees and putters have been changed back and forth, in the configuration of the hardcore group in recent years, Red has always favored the Grindworks brand. In fact, the Japanese hardcore maker has also been one of the sponsors of Little Fat, and until Tuesday, the front logo on Red's hat was Grindworks. Even on Wednesday, he began to show off as a PXG star, with PXG's huge logo on the front and back of the hat, but the side of the hat still bears the Grandworks logo, suggesting that he still intends to maintain a partnership with the Hardcore Japanese brand.
According to the analysis of the US Golf Digest website, in recent years, the endorsement pattern of golf clubs has changed, and brands are increasingly inclined to smash large budgets on a few "head stars". For players like Red, who have faded out of the world's top ten ranks, they have realized that instead of signing a ball equipment endorsement that is not satisfactory in the amount, but also obeying the orders of people in the club link related to the performance of the game, it is better to leave the most eye-catching sponsorship positions on the bag and the hat badge to the non-golf club brand.
Red signed a new sponsorship in good spirits
So that these people would rather play their most comfortable clubs at will, and can also bear a slight loss in the benefits of club endorsements. The same was true of Copca and Garcia in the first two years, and it is also true of today's "free man" Daniel Berger, Francesco Molinari and Li Haotong, who we are most familiar with. Of course, Rhett's abandonment of free agency status now may not only mean a lucrative contract, but the detailed terms offered by PXG must also make him very satisfied.
Details of the 14 clubs in Red's latest bag have not been announced, but this morning he has already started using PXG's fourth-generation One Wooden GEN4 0811X for the Sentinel Championship. However, in the first round, Xiao Fat only shot 74 (+1), unfortunately becoming the only 3 players in the whole game to hand over high standards, tied for the bottom of the 38 players... It seems that Captain America, who has just joined the team, still needs a lot of run-in work.
Deshambo doubled for a new No. 1 wood
The reason de Chambor is called the "number one wood maniac" is not only because he was the long-time champion who was no.1 in the pga tour kickoff distance last season, but also because he has been switching back and forth between different number one woods.
At the start of the new year, he began testing a new Cobra prototype stick, and this no. 1 wood has only recently appeared on the USGA's compliant club list.
If strictly according to the USGA list, Deschampeau's new big guy is called THELDX LS, and the LS may represent low spin - which is a good match for a "mad scientist" who has been pursuing more power, lower spin, and faster ball speed for the simulator.
Cobra LTDx LS on the USGA compliant club list
According to a video posted on social media by De Chambord, he began testing it with a mysterious prototype of Cobra as early as last November, when he reached a speed of 208 mph. A month later, he used a prototype club at a sponsored event in Arizona to soar to a speed of 221 mph, setting a new personal record high.
Almost certainly, that mysterious prototype pole is the LTDx LS that is now unveiled. The outstanding feature of this club is that the position of the club head near the club surface, there are two symmetrically distributed counterweight screws, and the counterweight of different number grams, especially the location where the heavier counterweight is located, will effectively help golfers change the flying ballistic. If you add two counterweights of 10 grams, as shown in the USGA picture, it will be easier to help reduce inverted rotation.
De Chambo used the new no. 1 wood to drive a distance of 353 yards
If Rhett has been switching to a variety of different club brands, then Deshanbo is repeatedly entangled in different no. 1 woods of the same brand. Over the past year, from King SpeedZone to RadSpeed to King LTD Pro, he's oscillated between several No.1 models of Cobra. Even king LTD, which is the most used in 2021, is already an old pole head that was released in 2015...
Today, seeing De Chambord using the latest version of the Mysterious One wood is a good sign for big fans of Cobra equipment – which means that, perhaps as soon as early this year, Cobra will join the arms race between Taylor May and Callaway to launch a new line of tees.
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