Equipment
The details on Jason Day’s 1-iron at the U.S. Open
Update 6/15/17 5:00 p.m.
We’ve confirmed that Jason Day is playing the first round of the 2017 U.S. Open with the TaylorMade M2 1-iron. Read below for more information on the club.
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Modern fairway woods and hybrids make the game much easier for most golfers… just not Jason Day. The No. 3-ranked golfer in the world is considering using a custom 1-iron this week at Erin Hills to replace his 3 wood, which has called an “uncomfortable club” in the past.
Photo from TaylorMade Golf
Traditionalists probably wouldn’t call the fairway wood-replacement club a 1-iron, although there’s nothing quite like it currently in play on the PGA Tour. It’s a TaylorMade M2, the company’s longest and most forgiving iron model, that was produced for PGA Tour players in a 2-iron loft. It was then strengthened to a loft of 13.5 degrees for Day. The club is 40.5-inches long (about 2 inches shorter than the average length of a 3 wood on the PGA Tour) and has a Project X HZRDUS Black 6.5-Flex, 105-gram graphite shaft. The swing weight is D3.
Day is currently playing a TaylorMade M1 (2017) fairway wood at 15 degrees with a Mitsubishi Rayon Kuro Kage Dual Core TiNi 80TX shaft. Throughout 2017, he’s used a TaylorMade PSi 2 iron with a True Temper Dynamic Gold X7 steel shaft that he regularly flies in excess of 250 yards. On courses with firm, fast fairways, it can roll out to more than 300 yards.
Discussion: See what GolfWRX Members are saying about Day’s 1-iron in the forum.
Neal Shipley was the first to admit that he enjoyed his food while in college. But since his days at Ohio State, he’s slimmed down and earned a PGA Tour Card.
That hasn’t stopped him from having fun with his wedge stampings, though it’s led to some misunderstandings.
On the 54 (degree), we have ‘Big Fudge,'” Shipley told GolfWRX. “It was supposed to be ‘Big Fridge,’ so this happened a little while ago. ‘Big Fridge’ was a nickname between my college teammates and I, with ‘fridge’ meaning stomach, a big stomach.
“We told the Ping guys to put … ‘Big Fridge’ on it, and I think maybe some bad cell service or something, and they thought I said ‘fudge,’ so they put fudge on it.”
On Shipley’s 50-degree he also continues the food theme, this time with his go-to order at the “Golden Arches,” and his stamping “DONS 7.”
“The number 7 meal, the two cheeseburger meal, that was my McDonald’s order, back when I would have McDonald’s frequently,” Shipley shared.
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It’s that sense of community that drives day-to-day interactions in the forums on topics that range from best driver to what marker you use to mark your ball. It even allows us to share another thing we all love – buying and selling equipment.
Currently, in our GolfWRX buy/sell/trade (BST) forum, @raw10628 has a L.A.B. DF3 putter and Masters putter cover up for grabs.
From the listing: “Some great items here today, time to thin out and make room for next set of gear. All prices include shipping.
LAB DF3 Purple 33.5” 68° lie with TPT – $725. LAB Masters release DF3 cover – $150.”
To check out the full listing in our BST forum, head through the link. If you are curious about the rules to participate in the BST Forum, you can learn more here: GolfWRX BST Rules
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Shaft: Accra TourZ Green 5-M4
3-wood: Ping G440 Max (15 degrees)
Shaft: Accra TourZ Green 6-M4
5-wood: Ping G440 Max (19 degrees @18)
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Hybrid: Ping G440 (23 degrees)
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Putter: L.A.B. Golf OZ.1i
Shaft: ACCRA Putter Shaft
Grips: Golf Pride Tour Velvet
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Still Newbie, but will come up with witty nomer soon
Jul 3, 2017 at 11:33 pm
Hogan Apex II 1 iron, MacGregor Jack Nicklaus Signature 1 iron, Muirfield 20th Anniversary 1 iron, Titleist 962 1 iron, Titleist 990B 1 iron, Titleist DCI-B 1 iron, Original Ping Karsten 1 iron, Ping Eye 2 1 iron, Callaway S2H2 1 iron. You learn to strike it well and with todays balls, you learn to increase your swing speed to actually get it airborne. Summer time approach’s on par 5’s if no water in front.
Darryl
Jun 26, 2017 at 3:05 am
Earlier that month in a Taylormade R&D meeting:
Marketing exec: “Right boys, we’ve fleeced them for 5-PW sets requiring 4 hybrids, lets come up with a way to make long irons cool again, custom build a low lofted hybrid for…………..let me see………let’s say Jason Day, then disguise it as an iron and if it gets loads of coverage put it into production in 8 different lofts with none of the extreme, expensive tech in the prototype included and sell them at a 15% mark up on a standard per iron cost. The poor bas***ds will be knocking the store doors down to get hold of them just to punt them on ebay for a 1/3 of the price 6 weeks later.”
Club designer: “But wait, we have a corporate responsibility here, should we also give them a load of hyper expensive shaft options as well?”
That’s not to say I wont be looking at one myself……
Jacked_Loft
Jun 18, 2017 at 4:24 am
Modern golf course design with forced carries and hard greens have made the 1 iron obsolete. Still got a couple of them but bag a 5 wood since 20 years.
mojoman
Jun 16, 2017 at 9:13 pm
“If you’re caught on the golf course in a storm and you’re afraid of lighting, hold up a 1-ron. Not even god can hit a 1-iron.” – Lee Trevino
Mad-Mex
Jun 15, 2017 at 10:02 pm
And every 18+ HDCP and wanna be pro is going to want one,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Bob the Chemisy
Jun 15, 2017 at 12:02 pm
Used one iron till in my late forties. Takes practice but not hard to hit, even off fairway. Switched to hybrids because they require to practice.
Chuck
Jun 14, 2017 at 10:44 pm
If it was a sword in Games of Thrones, it would be called Worm Burner.
rebfan73
Jun 14, 2017 at 10:30 pm
Nice!!!
Penile Disfunction
Jun 14, 2017 at 8:57 pm
It’s going to be used to scoop ice cream for his kids and slather the stuff perfectly flat on some cookies
Orvill
Jun 14, 2017 at 5:57 pm
If you can’t hit a 1-iron you can’t hit a driver. Conquer the 1-iron before you pick up a driver otherwise you will be flatulating in the wind.
David Labbe
Jun 14, 2017 at 7:18 pm
I think you read too much.
Orvill
Jun 14, 2017 at 10:27 pm
I think you read too little.
Orvill
Jun 14, 2017 at 10:27 pm
Driver and 1-iron have many swing similarities, but if you’re afraid of a 1-iron keep on whiffing since you are a big driver man.
Ben Jones
Jun 14, 2017 at 5:21 pm
Miss my Eye2 1 iron. Rocket ball. But it could go left.
Thomas A
Jun 14, 2017 at 4:06 pm
I have a 1-iron that I use to fish out balls that I hit into the right side pond with my 2-iron.
bg
Jun 14, 2017 at 2:34 pm
13.5 degrees for a 1-iron? Typical Taylor Made and their Jacked up lofts. 🙂
JD
Jun 14, 2017 at 11:18 am
This is probably used just to hack out of the rough. If I had 250 to go on a par 5 in thick rough, I’d love to have a 1 iron to fight it out of there vs. a hybrid or a wood that wouldn’t even touch the ball.
O
Jun 14, 2017 at 11:45 am
No, it is not to hack it out of the rough. You don’t play golf much, huh.
LD
Jun 14, 2017 at 12:03 pm
Better than hitting a driver out of the rough.
PD
Jun 14, 2017 at 1:29 pm
I find the putter is the best club to use out of the deep rough.
Neil Odenbaugh
Jun 14, 2017 at 11:11 am
thats funny, I used to have a one iron, it worked like a putter for me, used to hit it dead right off the hosel, about two feet off the ground.
Could also hit it ‘thin’ and it would run right into the tall rough in front of the tee box, and go like 50 yards….
Albuquerquedan
Jun 14, 2017 at 12:28 pm
I currently bag a 2 iron, bent strong to 14 degrees. It works like a medieval torture device for me. I hit it about 85 yards, dead left into the woods, and actually really low for the loft. Can also hit it ‘thin’, and get it to run about 150 yards into the creek on the right.
Old Putter
Jun 14, 2017 at 1:21 pm
Thanks for these….
made my day
BJB
Jun 15, 2017 at 4:08 am
legendary
Grizz01
Jun 16, 2017 at 8:26 am
1 iron and 2 iron need a high club head speed in order to get it up in the air. I’m still playing m 1994 Lynx Parrallax, I have the 17 degree 2 iron with it. Still can get it up in there air but I’m losing height year after year. I had a Golfsmith 1 iron from the same period and could get it 260yds off a tee. The graphite shaft snapped and put the head somewhere in my shop. Still can’t find it. Doubt I could hit it now.