ロリー・マキロイは先週のカナディアン・オープンでテーラーメイド Qi35ドライバーを使いましたが、今週の全米オープンは同社Qi10（Dot無し）に変えています。
また、カナディアン・オープンで使ったQi35フェアウェイウッド、P770 PROTO 3番アイアンも止め、以前のセッティングに戻しています。
The curious omission on the head is a dot next to the loft on the hosel,
which denotes whether it's a Qi10 "dot" (the lower spinning core
option) or the standard Qi10 core head. McIlroy had been playing the "dot"
version, but it's fair to wonder if he's gone to the standard version that
offers a slight uptick in spin. It's a subtle change he's yet to confirm.
“They knew he was going back home for three weeks and they sent him home with a bunch of options for drivers,” GOLF’s Johnny Wunder said on this week’s episode of GOLF’s Fully Equipped. “So Rory actually went back with some Qi35 heads and with some Qi10 heads. They gave him options. These were all his spec and they actually sent him some shorter options as well.”
When McIlroy tests drivers at home, despite playing ribbed versions of Golf Pride’s MCC grips, TaylorMade will send him shafts with round grips because McIlroy will test all of the options himself and fit himself to one. Without the ribbed grips, McIlroy can adjust the FCT Sleeves on the drivers and play with different settings without worrying about where the rib sits in his hands. When he gets back on Tour, he has TaylorMade reps swap out the round grip for a ribbed one.
Recently, McIlroy had been playing with driver builds around 45.75″, just
under the USGA legal limit. But TaylorMade sent him some shorter options
as well.
As TaylorMade sources told Wunder, McIlroy landed on one of the shorter options paired with his new Qi35 (DOT) head.
The final build was a 9-degree (stated loft) Qi35 (DOT) head, the Tour-only version of the driver that is essentially a combination of the Qi35 LS and Qi35 Core heads, with a 44.75″ Fujikura Ventus Black 6-X shaft, one inch shorter than his previous gamer.
“The nice thing for TaylorMade is that Rory landed on this Qi35,” Wunder said. “Rory landed on the shorter build. These were ideas that TaylorMade had that they sent to him.”
This isn’t the first time McIlroy has gone with a driver shaft shorter than 45″. He played a 44″ driver during the spring of 2023, notably switching to Fujikura’s Ventus TR Blue model, as opposed to his trusted Ventus Black. The shorter build did nothing to limit his prodigious length as he flew one tee shot 349 yards at the Dell Technologies Match Play.
This is the second time McIlroy has put Qi35 woods in the bag. He first gamed them for the opening three rounds of the Arnold Palmer Invitational before making an about-face and putting his Qi10 woods back in for the final round Sunday. The driver head he’s using this week appears to be different than the one from March as it’s missing the date that was written on the sole, and it has more weight (8 g vs. 3 g) in the forward TAS port.
※未確認or？
・テーラーメイドのツアー専用1.5度FCTスリーブ
ツアー専用で、1.5度変化
・Recently, McIlroy had been playing with driver builds around 45.75″, just
under the USGA legal limit.
最近、マキロイはUSGAの規定長さ制限をわずかに下回る45.75インチ前後のドライバーを使用していました
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Qi10ドライバーは45インチの情報あり
This time, it was a TaylorMade Qi35 driver with a shorter build than his
previous version. His new driver build is a Qi35 Core head with 9 degrees
of loft, with the hosel set to “lower,” and it measures nearly an inch
shorter, now playing at 44 5/8 inches with a Fujikura Ventus Black VeloCore+
6X shaft.
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