Jon Rahm wins 2023 Masters with new woods but old irons and shafts

Rahm finished first in Strokes Gained: Off the Tee last season on the PGA Tour, so it would have been understandable if he opted to stick with this Callaway Rouge ST Triple Diamond driver and not transition into Callaway’s new Paradym Triple Diamond, but he did.

“My request to Callaway is always simple,” Rahm said during his fitting for the Paradym. “Longer, straighter and more forgiving. There you go. If we can try to do that every year, we’re good. So far, the last two years, they’ve gotten better.”

Rahm saw prototypes of the Paradym Triple Diamond for the first time in late September of 2022 at Silverleaf Club, his home course in Scottsdale, Arizona. The driver he hit was not in “cosmetic final,” which means the paint, decals and markings were not what you would see at retail. Rahm liked the overall shape of the head, which is critical when fitting tour pros. If they don’t like how a club looks, they typically won’t play it.

Three months later Rahm visited Callaway’s test center in Carlsbad. He liked the driver, but it was critical in the final fitting that he not only find a gamer but also a back-up with which he can travel and use if the gamer is damaged.

While Rahm’s driver head states the loft is 10.5 degrees, the actual loft is closer to 11.6 degrees. Callaway fitters tweaked the head’s weights, putting a 5-gram weight in the front port and a 10-gram weight in the back to give Rahm’s driver the precise flight and spin numbers he wanted. Kellen Watson, Callaway’s PGA Tour performance rep, said Rahm saw tighter dispersion and more consistent spin numbers than with his old driver.

Rahm has used the same Aldila Tour Green 75 TX shaft for more than a decade, and Callaway’s PGA Tour reps don’t even consider changing it when they bring new drivers to Rahm for prototype testing. The Spaniard tested nearly a dozen Aldila Tour Green 75 TX shafts in Carlsbad to find backup shafts, too.

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