Nelly Korda made 1 key gear change earlier than her seventh LPGA win

Throughout a season during which she gained six instances already, you’d assume World No. 1 Nelly Korda would have been hesitant to modify from something that’s been working.

However golfers, as we all know, are a fickle bunch. Korda is not any exception: her seventh win of the year this previous week at The Annika was her first with a brand new putter.

Whereas Korda turned simply the third participant in LPGA historical past to win 5 straight begins earlier this season, together with a significant on the Chevron Championship, she fell right into a funk over the summer time, lacking three straight cuts, together with each the U.S. Girls’s Open and KPMG Girls’s PGA Championship.

She completed simply exterior the highest 20 in her subsequent two begins, however earlier than the AIG Girls’s Open, she requested reps at TaylorMade to ship her a couple of totally different Spider fashions to check. Korda ultimately requested the TaylorMade crew to construct her a brand new Spider Tour X with an L-neck and brief sightline and ship it to St. Andrews simply earlier than the follow rounds.

That’s been Korda’s go-to wand ever since, as she completed tied for second at St. Andrews after benching her Scotty Cameron Squareback 2, the identical mannequin she used to win each her main titles. She then went 3-1-0 on the Solheim Cup and notched one other high 5 on the Kroger Queen Metropolis Championship. However these have been the one three occasions Korda used the brand new flatstick for as she missed almost two months with a neck damage.

This week at Pelican, as she turned the primary American to win seven or extra instances in a season on the LPGA since 1990, the Spider Tour X was the one piece of substances she modified from her final win in New Jersey in Might.

Whereas Korda’s brief sightline model is a Tour-only providing (however nonetheless accessible by means of TaylorMade’s MySpider program), the TaylorMade Spider Tour X L-Neck is obtainable now on Fairway Jockey.

Korda’s putter options all the identical tech because the retail providing such because the True Path alignment system, which is designed that can assist you visualize the road to the outlet. The Spider Tour X additionally sports activities TaylorMade’s TPU Pure Roll insert, which has been a fixture on their putter fashions for years. The retail model is white, whereas Korda’s model is blacked out.

And as if Korda wanted one other comparability to Scottie Scheffler’s excellent PGA Tour season (he’s gained seven instances too, should you forgot), her new flatstick is the very same head and neck mixture because the one the lads’s World No. 1 switched to earlier than his torrid run.