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Valspar Championship Tour Truck Report: DJ sticking with new flatstick, Kisner ditches the armlock
With little margin for error at the Copperhead Course this week, it’s not surprising to see few major changes from the participants in this edition of the Valspar Championship.
That said, we’re still spotting plenty of interesting things in Florida, including the apparent end of Kevin Kisner’s armlock experiment and Dustin Johnson sticking with a surprise putter switch he made in the final round of the RBC Heritage.
Remember, you can check out all our photos from the Valspar here!
Titleist
Viktor Hovland is putting a 2021 Pro V1 in play after using it last week at the Zurich Classic. According to Titleist, he’s seeing higher ball speed with the driver and more control into the green.
Denny McCarthy is testing a TSi2 driver (10 degrees). He’s seeing more speed and better spin control.
Roger Sloan is testing a U500 4-iron, which he finds easy to launch and is able to work it both ways.
Byeong-Hun An put a Fujikura Motore X F3 6 X in his TSi3 driver.
Staffer Jimmy Walker tested a L.A.B. Blade putter before returning to this Scotty Cameron.
Callaway
Kevin Kisner moved from the armlock to a “very stable and consistent” 2-Ball Ten putter with a Red Stroke Lab double-bend shaft. SuperStroke Traxion 2.0 Tour grip. 34.25 inches. 3.5 degrees of loft.
Grayson Murray is testing a Graphite Design Tour AD DI 9 X in a Mavrik Sub Zero 7-wood.
New to us since we last saw him, Phil Mickelson is going with a Callaway PM Grind ’19 “Raw” (52, 58, 64) setup. 
TaylorMade
After putting it into play for the final round of the RBC Heritage, it looks like Dustin Johnson is sticking with a new TaylorMade Brandon 1 prototype putter and LA golf graphite putter shaft. If this putter seems familiar, it’s because we saw Tommy Fleetwood put something very similar into play a couple of weeks ago too (pictured below in photo from TaylorMade).
Ping
Andrew Putnam is testing a Fujikura Ventus Red 6 X shaft in his driver.
Scottie Scheffler (not a staffer) is decreasing loft in his Ping G425 LST driver.
PXG
James Hahn tested a Cobra RadSpeed driver with a prototype Aldila shaft.
SEG
Scott PUREd KBS C-Taper 125 Custom Black shafts for Gary Woodland and Project X 6.5 shafts for Jordan Spieth (3-PW, 6.0 in wedges).
Free agents/others
Justin Rose was spotted testing a number of grips.
Chris Kirk is testing a Cobra RadSpeed driver with a Mitsubishi 1K shaft.
Both Brendon Todd and Rory Sabbatini are testing Mitsubishi MMT iron shafts.
William McGirt is testing a Graphite Design Tour AD DI HB 95 S shaft in a Callaway Apex Hybrid.
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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Driver: Ping G440 LST (9 degrees)
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)
Shaft: Accra TourZ Green 6-M4
Hybrid: Ping G440 (23 degrees)
Shaft: Oban Isawa Red Hybrid Shaft 04 Flex 70 Gms
Irons: Srixon ZXi7 (5-P)
Shafts: Aerotech SteelFiber Private Reserve i80
Wedges: Cleveland RTZ (50-MID, 54-FULL, 58-MID)
Shafts: Aerotech SteelFiber Private Reserve i105
Putter: L.A.B. Golf OZ.1i
Shaft: ACCRA Putter Shaft
Grips: Golf Pride Tour Velvet
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MarkM
Apr 29, 2021 at 9:34 am
Brandon1?
McDreamerson
May 10, 2021 at 10:18 pm
putter model is a “BANDON 1”, not a Brandon 1. Also, funny to note that TM just announced the DJ signature Spyder and he switches to this. Love the name of the new stick though. Love that place.
Gianni burner
May 13, 2021 at 12:02 pm
Funny that you’d even mention that the DJ spider release because it was not a stock offering…. they don’t even make new spider tours anymore bud…. funny that you’re so dumb