Breaking down Rickie Fowler’s one-of-a-kind set makeup

Welcome to Wall-to-Wall Equipment, the Monday morning gear wrap-up wherein GOLF tools editor Jonathan Wall takes you thru the most recent developments, rumors, and breaking information. This week’s Wall-to-Wall is dropped at you by Jonathan’s associate in gear nerdiness, GOLF senior tools editor Ryan Barath, who was on the grounds at Detroit Golf Club for the Rocket Mortgage Classic.

Rickie wins once more!

As a change of tempo from our conventional weekly gear wrap-up, we’re going to do a deep dive into Rickie Fowler’s gear setup — not solely to cowl what he had within the bag final week for his win on the Rocket Mortgage Classic, but in addition to create some better context round how he received right here with a few of his distinctive membership specs.

Driver

When it involves his driver, Fowler has discovered one thing that works along with his Cobra Aerojet LS. Although Cobra, like many different OEMs, affords a brand new driver launch yearly, Fowler hasn’t at all times been fast to modify to the latest mannequin and had gone again quite a few occasions to a Cobra F9 from 2019 — which simply so occurs to be the final 12 months that he received.

Fowler moved into his new Aerojet LS mannequin with a 70-gram Diamana prototype at first of the 12 months and hasn’t seemed again since, racking up nice end after nice end on Tour. Judging by the affect sample we snapped earlier this 12 months, I feel this new membership is working in addition to something he has ever used.

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3-wood

Just like his driver, Fowler moved into the Cobra Aerojet LS mannequin after going by means of quite a few choices from Cobra and different OEMs earlier this 12 months however the one factor that hasn’t modified is the shaft he makes use of: the Aldila Synergy 75X.

What makes this combo distinctive is that when going from his driver to his fairway wooden, the shaft weights are nearer than most gamers historically use. Even although Fowler isn’t the one participant on Tour to set up the highest finish of his bag like this, it’s way more widespread to see a 10-20 gram step up in (uncut shaft) weight as an alternative of 5 grams when going from the motive force to the fairway-wood shaft.

5-wood

Fowler’s 5-wood isn’t simply distinctive to him, however it’s a membership that we might level to as beginning a pattern on Tour.

What makes it so fascinating has a lot much less to do with the mannequin itself and extra to do with the way in which it’s set up — a stronger lofted 5-wood constructed solely 40.25″ inches lengthy, or the identical size as an ordinary 3-4 hybrid.

This mixture of a smaller rail-soled fairway-wood head with a shorter shaft affords improved shotmaking, particularly from the tough, and the power to flight the ball decrease when wanted. Fowler has been utilizing these basic specs going all the way in which again to the Cobra F6 launched in 2016 which fits to indicate that it’s doable to improve fashions with out having to overtake how these golf equipment match into his set.

We noticed an identical membership within the bag of Gary Woodland as he was making ready for the U.S. Open this 12 months.

Irons

It was just a few quick years in the past (2020-21) when Fowler had one in every of his worst ball-striking and method play years on Tour, dipping all the way in which to 157th in stroked gained method photographs. During that interval he went by means of quite a few adjustments along with his irons, together with switching to a set of RF proto blades — which, if we’re being sincere, have been really fairly candy golf equipment. He additionally switched iron shafts on a number of events.

Fast-forward to in the present day and Fowler is again to a extra acquainted forged-cavity iron along with his Cobra King Tour irons and all the way in which as much as seventh on Tour in stroked gained approaches, which is an unbelievable leap.

Rather than utilizing a combo set like Fowler has up to now, his set consists of the identical mannequin from the longest iron (4-iron) all the way in which to his pitching wedge. Speaking of getting again to a well-known feeling, Fowler additionally has gone again to KBS C-Taper S+ shafts.

Wedges

Although most golf equipment in Fowler’s bag might be present in golf shops or on-line, the one factor that you simply received’t discover anyplace are his Cobra wedges. These wedges are made customized for Fowler and different members of the Corba tour workers and supply a totally uncooked end and heavy head weights permitting the Cobra’s tour tools techs the chance to match the grinds and soles wanted for every participant, Fowler included.

Putter

Just in case you haven’t been being attentive to gear information, Fowler, together with quite a few different gamers — together with latest U.S. Open winner Wyndham Clark — use a mid-length Odyssey Jailbird putter.

Fowler switched to the Odyssey putter round January of this 12 months after going by means of a revolving door of putters during the last couple of seasons, together with some fairly cool one-off designs from each Scotty Cameron and Cobra. But come Sunday, it was the Jailbird that delivered the products on the 72nd gap after which within the playoff.

Ball

After rising up and turning professional utilizing a Titleist ball, Fowler switched to the TaylorMade TP ball in 2019 and noticed immediate outcomes along with his win on the Waste Management Phoenix Open. Since then, he has continued to depend on the TaylorMade TP5 for its mixture of distance off the tee and spin across the greens.

Although he had beforehand used the TP5X, he has relied on the usual TP5 for the 2023 season, which fits to indicate that identical to his 5-wood, as soon as you discover one thing you can depend on, there isn’t a lot cause to modify.

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Ryan Barath is GOLF Magazine and GOLF.com’s senior editor for tools. He has an intensive club-fitting and -building background with greater than 20 years of expertise working with golfers of all talent ranges, together with PGA Tour gamers. Before becoming a member of the workers, he was the lead content material strategist for Tour Experience Golf, in Toronto, Canada.