Tommy Fleetwood received his sixth DP Tour title on the Dubai Invitational final weekend to offer the brand new Qi10 driver its first skilled victory.
Fleetwood defeated Rory McIlroy by a small margin in a Group TaylorMade closing spherical faceoff.
Along with his new Qi10 LS, he hit 57% of the fairways and averaged 313 yards off the tee all week.
He drove the ball on a string with the low spin variant of TaylorMade’s most forgiving driver but.
That forgiveness continues to be a characteristic on the LS model which is often meant for use by professionals and higher gamers who purpose for distance and management.
“The most important features for Tommy with the Qi10 comes with actually tight spin charges, particularly on misses,” mentioned TaylorMade Senior Tour Rep Adrian Rietveld. “On misses, Tommy would usually get 3100-3200 spin, on this one he’s getting 2700, which is large for him as a result of it means the gap is there. He’s nonetheless getting somewhat little bit of roll out of it.
“On the flush photographs, he’s gone from 10.5 or 11° launch at 2,600 spin, to now at 12° launch at 2,400 spin. While you add that up, that’s an actual sport changer for him.”
All through the week, Fleetwood’s strategy efficiency along with his TaylorMade P·7TW irons and TP5x pix golf ball was significantly spectacular. He completed first in strokes gained tee-to-green at +3.88, third in strokes gained strategy at +2.18, and first in greens in laws at 82%.
Wanting additional into the statistics reveals that Fleetwood had loads of game-changing performances over the week. It’s hardly stunning that the entire equaled victory while you think about every thing from the gap off the tee to taking the lead within the GIR%.
The standout membership in his bag is an outlier as a Titleist made 60 diploma Vokey wedge, the most well-liked membership on tour, aslo finds a spot in his bag.
He additionally makes the bizarre alternative of deploying a mini-driver one thing uncommon amongst professionals. He makes use of the TaylorMade BRNR Mini Driver.
“For me, if I HAD to hit a fairway, I’m extra snug hitting a driver than a 3-wood,” Fleetwood explains.
“I might tee the driving force down, and I might hit somewhat lower, or a neck-y lower within the fairway. The three-wood isn’t for that. The three-wood, typically, is a reasonably scorching membership that I’ll hit from 270 or 280 within the fairway on a par 5.
“You get some programs the place a 3-wood just isn’t all the time that mandatory. [With the BRNR] you set a traditional swing on it, and it goes somewhat shorter than a driver, and I’m extra snug hitting it straight. It’s a substitute for a 3-wood, mainly.
“You might virtually consider it when it comes to wedges on the low finish of the bag. Some folks have 4 wedges, some folks solely have three, they usually must manufacture a 52 to go 100 yards, or 105 yards. There are completely different photographs. That’s successfully what you do along with your principal driver, you’d be manufacturing it to hit that shot within the fairway, which is nice, however perhaps you need one thing you’ll be able to simply hit.
“You possibly can nonetheless hit it off the bottom, and it goes a really comparable distance to a 3-wood. It spins sufficient. It’s not a deep sufficient face the place it’s to this point off the underside that the ball doesn’t rise. So that you get a reasonably first rate strike, sufficient to get within the air. It’s a big-head 2-wood actually.
“For me, I bear in mind the TaylorMade Burner in 1998. It was my first ever correct driver. Lee Janzen did a clinic, when he was the U.S. Open champ, and it was the Open at Birkdale. I used to be 7. Some juniors may go up and hit a shot they usually gave you want a Burner driver, and I went up and hit a shot, and I bought a Burner. It was my first ever correct driver.”
Tommy Fleetwood’s Championship-winning bag at Dubai Invitational
Driver: TaylorMade Q10 LS (9 levels @8.5)Shaft: Fujikura Ventus TR Blue 6 X (45 1/8 inches, tipped 1 inch)Mini driver: TaylorMade BRNR Mini Driver (13.5 levels @12)Shaft: Fujikura Ventus TR Blue 6 X5-wood: TaylorMade Qi10 LS (18 levels)Shaft: Mitsubishi Kuro Kage 80 XTS XIrons: TaylorMade P7TW (3-PW)Shafts: Undertaking X 125 6.5Wedges: TaylorMade Hello-Toe 3 (52), Titleist Vokey Design WedgeWorks Proto (60-T)Shafts: True Mood Dynamic Gold Tour Situation S400Putter: Odyssey White Scorching Professional 3Grip: SuperStroke Mid Slim 2.0Grips: Golf Delight Tour Velvet Wire, IomicBall: TaylorMade TP5x pix
