Morikawa’s New Olson Putter Headlines Shifting in Travelers

Collin Morikawa has tried many other putts over the past few years, but he always seems to favor his trusted Taylormade TP Soto, the putt he used to win the 2023 Zozo title.

This week, a new Flatstick enters the chat.

At this week’s Travelers Championship, Morikawa competed in the brand new Olson Tour Matrix 1.0 round putter.

Many shifters know Logan Olson is the next bright star in putter design, recognised for his one-time creation, craft batch release, and over a year ago he used putter Scottie Scottie Scottie Scottie Scottie Scottie Scottie Scottie Scottie Scottie Scottie Scottie Scottie Scottie Scottie Scottie Scottie Scottie Scottie Scottie Scottie Scottie Scottie Scottie.

Since then, Olson has taken the umbrella of Taylormade, and the first big fruit of this acquisition is the Olson Tour Matrix, which debuted last month at the Charles Schwab Challenge. Thorbjørn Olesen has been using similar Olson Tour Matrix 1.0.

With the help of the matrix, Taylormade putters Rep Rep now has a modular fitting system that allows him to create a blade putter with two face options (grooved or fly grinding) and three width options (1.0, 1.25, 1.5), as well as a series of alignment assists and weights without changing any other specifications.

“I could have a push rod cover his length, grip on it, and then I could swap it back and give him another quarter, so it’s a little wider,” Hawley told The Travelly. “It’s going to be a little heavier. If I want that same swing weight, change the weight. So, it’s easy to switch things back and forth.”

Morikawa, one of the most important ball hitters in the game and the fourth-ranked player in the world, hasn’t been new to his name and he tried a custom Olsen prototype last year.

The interesting difference is that last year’s prototype, like his Soto, had a grooved insert, while putter Morikawa was tested and eventually tested this week on the TPC River Highlands.

It wasn’t the best putter swap of the year for Morikava, who lost his stroke on the green this year and ranked 110th on the tour in the category. In two matches in April, Morikawa tried the Spider Tour V, the CG hammer for the most forward in Taylormade roster, but the putter lasted only six rounds.

Holly said they weren’t trying to re-cause Morikava’s putt. Holley and Morikawa putting coach Stephen Sweeney used the Vertex golf motion sensor to see Morikawa’s stroke dynamics without much change. They are really just trying to match the sound, feeling and optically to what Morikawa likes.

Holly said they had round bumper shapes and sight matching Olson, but the Fly Grinded Face felt stronger and Morikava preferred it.

With the new wand, Morikawa’s result is repairable on the green green as he took 31 putts and got .126, part of the 67 openings in TPC River Heights.

Combined with zero torque and arm lock

The zero torque (or whatever you want to call it) action on the PGA Tour will come after JJ Spaun won Putter Type’s first major title at the U.S. Open.

After losing the green stroke in his last three games, maybe that’s the technical prototype concept that led Matthieu Pavon to try Ping, the PLD Ally Blue Onset 5 Putter.

It wasn’t a thorough start for Pavon, who played the center putt for most of his career, but the reason for this putt was different. For beginners, the version of Ping is not actually a zero-torque pusher in the traditional sense, because the toes do not point when balanced. Instead, it actually has about 5 degrees of toe hanging (hence the name “5”).

Corey Conners is using a similar prototype, Blue Blue Inventory 15, which has a 15-degree toe suspension, as you can guess from a different nomenclature.

The push rod still falls into a similar category to other “zero torque” options, as its shaft places the shaft after the face of the push rod, creating an episode (again, hence the name).

However, Pavon’s wand is different, one of the first batch of play putters on the PGA Tour, combining technology with arm lock configuration.

“He’s kind of like a face balance, hammer-to-blade, and then he’s trying to have a seizure. For him, he actually likes it visually and wants to try Armlock,” said Dylan Goodwin, development manager at Ping Player. “Go with the arm lock. Just that, it also takes a lot of variables, and there’s no stroke. There’s no slimming of the manipulating shaft, so he feels the speed is very, very consistent.”

Goodwin said Parvin was able to keep himself in better shape as the shaft was behind the push rod face.

Adam Scott continues to test

Adam Scott Hard Stepp ran in his Miura As-1 iron, which gave him the best performance of the season as he scored 1.009 at the U.S. Open, the first time he has achieved a positive attitude since the Valspar title in March.

But the ultimate tinkerer of golf competes again this week at the Travelers Championship.

Scott looked intact when the AS-1/TC-202 combo set debuted at the U.S. Open, but we found the Callaway Golf Apex MB Prototype 5-Iron in Scott’s Bag.

Scott has two sets of irons, AS-1 and Titleist 681., designed specifically for him, but that won’t stop him from trying any advantages.

Tommy Fleetwood’s mini change leads to another

Tommy Fleetwood switched to the new Taylormade R7 Mini driver this week after two memorable years of race against the BRNR Mini this week. Fujitofuntos TR Blue 6-X axis replacement is the catalyst that causes exchange.

But that also led to Fleetwood and Taylormade’s Adrian Rietveld trying other things.

Fleetwood played the Ventus Red Velocore+ 6-X in his mini driver to match his QI35 driver who moved to the start of the season. So they also want to try it in the big stick when they land in TR blue in his mini driver.

Fleetwood had some tests in range Wednesday before a new axle setup on his nine-hole Pro-AM, which seemed to be going well as it was in the first round bag on Thursday.

Apparently, what’s going on with the driver and mini-scene situation, as Fleetwood missed just two fairways in TPC River Heights Thursday and scored 1.247 from the tee (T4) on his way to 66.

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