Rory McIlroy strikes deal with TaylorMade after messing around with Justin Thomas’ golf clubs

Rory McIlroy signed a new flexible deal with TaylorMade for Titleist Wedges after messing around with Justin Thomas' clubs.

Rory McIlroy strikes deal with TaylorMade after messing around with Justin Thomas’ golf clubs

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Rory McIlroy takes his clubs serious. Yet, while messing around with Justin Thomas‘ golf clubs, he found a new and flexible deal. After using Titleist Wedges at Dubai Classic, McIlroy has made changes to his TaylorMade deal. McIlroy held a couple of Vokeys in his bag after Dubai.

He was messing around with Thomas‘ golf clubs, after which he got inspired to buy his own. “Yeah, so this is my first year of my new deal with TaylorMade, and they gave me just a little bit of flexibility with some of the clubs that I can play,”  McIlroy explained ahead of the WM Open 2023.

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“Yeah, so that was really it. I was messing around with Justin, I see Justin Thomas all the time at home and messing around with some of his wedges and some of the grinds he has. I got in touch and ordered a couple, and they’ve worked really nicely,” said Thomas, explaining why he maid the choice to buy the clubs.

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Rory McIlroy makes changes to his equipment ahead of the 2023 WM Phoenix Open

Rory McIlroy
Rory McIlroy

McIlroy has made changed to his equipment ahead of the 2023 Waste Management Phoenix Open. He has added a TaylorMade 760 3 and 4 irons to help with is par 5s. “This week, as well, I feel by going back to that 760 long iron in the 3- and the 4-iron, just to give me a bit more extra flight into the par-5s.”

Further explaining his choices, McIlroy said, “I feel like sometimes with the 3- and the 4-iron in the blades they can come in a little flat at times, where the par-5 and the second shots into the par-5s specifically this week are very, very important.” McIlroy feels that longer irons have more flight to them, and therefore they will be useful at the Phoenix Open.

The last time McIlroy used Titleist Wedges was all the way back in 2017. This was at a time when he was not signed with any company. Soon after McIlroy got signed with TaylorMade. It was reported to be a $100 million deal.

The current world no. 1 comes into the WM Pheonix Open 2023 in great form. He is currently at the top of his game, and is a favourite to win. His great win was at the FedEx Cup. However, since then also he has been right at the top, finishing T2-4-T4-1-4-1.

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