Tommy Fleetwood appears to be attempting one thing new on the greens this week.
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Whereas Tommy Fleetwood remains to be broadly thought to be among the finest gamers with out a PGA Tour win, 2024 was one other profitable 12 months for the Englishman. He picked up a win on the DP World Tour, the place he ranks fifth this seaaon, and made the PGA Tour’s Tour Championship for the second-straight season after lacking out three years in a row.
However the world’s Tenth-ranked participant noticed a little bit of a dip in his placing on the PGA Tour this season. Throughout his resurgent 2023 marketing campaign, Fleetwood was tied for 14th on the PGA Tour in Strokes Gained: Placing, gaining practically a half shot per spherical, the very best mark of his profession, however not an excessive amount of of an outlier from 2022 and 2020 when he averaged round .4 Strokes Gained on the greens and was within the prime 30 on Tour.
However this previous season, Fleetwood dropped to T87th in placing, gaining simply .04 strokes per spherical, his second worst mark since 2018, when he joined the Tour.
Whereas Fleetwood has tried completely different putters right here and there, he’s largely caught with an Odyssey White Sizzling Professional #3 blade for many of his profession, together with in his win in Dubai earlier this season.
However, it appears as if Fleetwood is making a fairly large departure from his establishment as he was pictured with a brand new prototype TaylorMade putter in Abu Dhabi this week forward of the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship.
Fleetwood has been on TaylorMade’s gear workers since 2021, however the seven-time DP World Tour winner hasn’t but gamed a putter from the OEM. He revealed the putter was one thing he had been testing at residence throughout the break between this week and his earlier begin on the Alfred Dunhill Hyperlinks Championship a month in the past.
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“It’s a new TaylorMade putter that I’ve been working with at residence,” he stated Wednesday. “And yeah, like the blokes at TaylorMade, they’ve performed a tremendous job like we spoke about, designing one thing like slightly bit completely different.
“It’s felt actually, actually good. It was the proper time for me to be practising with one thing. It’s type of tough lately. I really like testing like my tools and testing issues which might be new and completely different, however it’s so tough with the way in which the schedule is. The tournaments are packed in so shut to one another, and there’s by no means not an enormous occasion or not an vital occasion it appears.”
TaylorMade is usually preserving particulars on the brand new putter near the vest, however a spokesperson for the OEM stated the brand new putter “has the traits of his earlier gamer however makes use of the technological advantages of Pure Roll insert and Truss.”
