We may as well start this week’s Equipment Debrief with an update on World No.1 Scottie Scheffler who, as we reported last Wednesday, appears to be the latest player to convert to the TaylorMade Qi4D driver.
Scheffler is not someone to make too many changes to his bag over the course of a season, so it’s interesting to see that he has finally put his trusted TaylorMade Qi10 driver to one side.
The World No.1 was making his first competitive appearance since the Ryder Cup at the weekend, and he came close to making a winning return at the Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas.
Although Scheffler finished two shots off the pace at Albany Golf Club, his long game looked as reliable as ever – and we got some lovely shots (below) of his new driver, one that was responsible for seeing him end the week topping driving accuracy at over 90%.
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The four-time Major winner has gone for a bright blue face on the Qi4D, which looks similar to his previous gamer.
Earlier this year, we spoke to TaylorMade Tour Senior Manager, Adrian Rietveld, who shed a little bit of light on Scheffler’s driver preferences.
“You could say it’s about the brightness of the face, but he doesn’t have a topline on the driver, which is different to all of our drivers,” he said.
“When talking about the face, he likes to see as much of it as he can and that helps him at that low loft.
“It’s set between 7.5° to 7.75° and you can head-sort to get that within the tolerance, so he can have that exact loft that he’s always played and looked at.”
Scheffler, just like McIlroy, has also added the TaylorMade Qi4D fairway wood to his set-up, which takes the place of the Qi10.
What can we take away from this? Judging by the stats from the Bahamas, where Scheffler ranked second in SG: Off The Tee,…
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