PGA Tour pros are constantly making golf equipment changes in a bid to gain a tiny fraction of performance. But this week on tour Sahith Theegala has made one of the strangest equipment changes we have ever seen. You will rarely find something as outlandish as this on the PGA Tour, but here we are.
Players often change the swing weights in their irons, use combo sets, mess around with shafts, and leave a certain club out of their bag. But this week, Theegala has taken a club out of his bag, simply because he doesn’t like the number associated with it. Yes, you heard that correctly. I have certainly never heard of a player changing the number on their iron because of their lack of affection for that number before.
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What golf equipment change has Sahith Theegala made?
The American has a real dislike for his seven iron. Bizarrely, it doesn’t seem to be the actual club he hates, but the number seven.
“I’ve just never really loved the number seven”, Theegala said, speaking to the PGA Tour.
“It’s been my least favourite club in my bag, probably my whole life. I’m like,’I’m done’.
Instead of making adjustments to the swing in terms of swing weights, trying out different shafts, or even switching to a different model, he… changed the number. Yep, the world number 12, effectively had two eight irons in his bag at the Tour Championship.
He added: “I chunked it like four times at Memphis (FedEx St. Jude Championship) and Colorado (BMW Championship) combined, hit it in the water.
Probably six times in total in two weeks, and I’m finally like ‘alright, I’m over it. I’m changing to the seven with the number shaved off it and a different font eight on it’.
“So, it’s worked out. It’s one-for-one, so far. I hit it nice last week.”
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