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TaylorMade SIM driver

TaylorMade

First cited here by Hideki Matsuyama, January 2020

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  • Rose left little doubt that his time with Honma is all but certain to be over as he is playing a TaylorMade TP5 ball, 10.5-degree TaylorMade SIM driver, 15-degree TaylorMade SIM Max fairway wood, Cobra Speedzone Pro 17.5-degree 5-wood; his old TaylorMade P730 irons (4-PW) and two TaylorMade Milled Grind 2.0 wedges (52, 56 degrees) along with a Titleist Vokey lob wedge and an Axis 1 putter.
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  • Woods is putting the new TaylorMade SIM driver and a new Bridgestone Tour B XS golf ball in play this week at the Farmers Insurance Open. The driver is 9 degrees and has the same Diamana D+60 TX “White Board” shaft as the M5 model he used to win the Masters and the Zozo Championship.
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  • Morikawa, for example, has an 8-degree TaylorMade SIM driver with a hosel setting that’s been adjusted for higher loft; notice how the arrow on the hosel is pointed to the line that’s two clicks to the left of standard, toward the “higher” setting.
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  • McIlroy noticed his spin rate was slightly lower than what he was accustomed to seeing with a 10.5-degree TaylorMade SIM driver. (The two-degree loft sleeve is turned down two clicks, which makes it play like an 8.5-degree driver.)
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  • In his last start at Sawgrass, Rose had the TaylorMade SIM driver, SIM Max 3 wood, a Cobra Speedzone Tour 5 wood, TaylorMade P730 irons, TaylorMade Milled Grind 2 wedges, a Titleist lob wedge and his Axis1 putter.
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  • Additionally, Morikawa recently added 5 grams of weight to the back of his TaylorMade SIM driver to get rid of a slight right miss he started to notice in recent weeks, according to a TaylorMade representative.
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  • McIlroy tested new driver builds at home in Florida in the early part of the week before settling on a TaylorMade SIM with a new Mitsubishi Tensei AV Raw Orange 75TX shaft (tipped 1-inch).
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  • Not only does Johnson play a standard extra-stiff shift in his driver, he ups the loft on his TaylorMade SIM driver to 11 degrees to achieve a high launch for additional carry distance
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  • Prior to putting a peg in the ground at Liberty National, Johnson noticed a crack on the face of his TaylorMade SIM driver that immediately knocked it out of commission.
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  • Johnson’s current TaylorMade SIM driver measures 11 degrees, which is relatively high compared to his contemporaries on the driving distance leaderboard.
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  • On Tuesday, Woods had a new SIM driver (9 degrees) and his old TaylorMade M5 driver, each equipped with a Mitsubishi Diamana D+ 60TX shaft.
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  • Of course, Johnson ultimately decided to use his 45.75-inch TaylorMade SIM driver (10.5 degrees) en route to a record-setting performance
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  • the gear-focused likely noticed something different attached to the head of his TaylorMade SIM driver: Fujikura’s Ventus Black shaft
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  • he led the field in driving accuracy for the week with his 8-degree TaylorMade SIM driver with a Mitsubishi Tensei White 70TX shaft
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  • Woods has been testing a new 9-degree TaylorMade SIM driver, and he told the press on Tuesday that he's seeing more speed with it.
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  • it shouldn’t come as a shock to see the duo sporting all-TaylorMade club setups, including identical SIM drivers and MG2 wedges
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  • Hideki Matsuyama transitioned from TaylorMade's M5 driver to the 2020 SIM (9 degrees) at Waialae
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  • Johnson refrained from making any changes to his TaylorMade SIM driver during his Masters rout
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  • Rory McIlroy is using TaylorMade's SIM driver for the first time this week at Torrey Pines.
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  • Rose wound up missing the cut at Bay Hill with an equipment setup consisting of TaylorMade's SIM driver, SIM Max 3-wood, Cobra SpeedZone Tour 5-wood, TaylorMade P730 irons (4-PW) irons, TaylorMade Milled Grind 2 (52 and 56) and Titleist Vokey Design Prototype K-Grind (60 degrees) wedges, Axis1 Rose putter and TaylorMade 2019 TP5 golf ball.
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  • Johnson also used his length off the tee to his advantage on a soft Augusta National, averaging nearly 285 metres with his 10.5-degree TaylorMade SIM driver with a Fujikura Speeder 661 Evolution 2.0 X shaft.
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  • Morikawa’s win, his fourth on tour, came with his 8-degree TaylorMade SIM driver with a Mitsubishi Tensei White 70TX shaft – the same driver he had at last year’s PGA Championship – in the bag.
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  • Rahm uses TaylorMade’s SIM driver with an Aldila Tour Green 75 TX shaft, with the adjustable weight on the sole moved towards the toe.
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  • Driver: TaylorMade SIM (Mitsubishi Tensei CK Pro White 70TX shaft), 8 degrees
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  • Driver: TaylorMade SIM (Mitsubishi Diamana D+ Limited 60TX shaft), 9 degrees
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  • Driver: TaylorMade SIM (Mitsubishi Diamana D+ Limited 70TX shaft), 8 degrees
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  • Driver: TaylorMade SIM (Fujikura Speeder 661 Evolution 2.0 X), 10.5 degrees
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  • Driver: TaylorMade SIM (Mitsubishi Diamana D+ White 60X shaft), 8 degrees
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  • Driver: TaylorMade SIM (Mitsubishi Diamana D+ Limited 60 TX), 8 degrees
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  • Driver: TaylorMade SIM (Mitsubishu Diamana D+ Limited 60 TX), 8 degrees
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  • Driver: TaylorMade SIM ( Mitsubishi Diamana D+ Limited 60 ), 9 degrees
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  • Driver: TaylorMade SIM (Aldila Tour Green 75TX shaft), 10.5 degrees
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  • Driver: TaylorMade SIM (Fujikura Speeder 661X shaft), 10.5 degrees
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  • Driver: TaylorMade SIM (Mitsubishi Tensei White 70TX), 8 degrees
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  • Driver: TaylorMade SIM (10.5°, Fujikura Speeder 661 shaft)
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  • Driver: TaylorMade SIM (Aldila Tour X), 10.5 degrees
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  • “When Callaway signed him from TaylorMade, the shaft that he was actually going with year to year with Callaway was the shaft that they pulled out of his … SIM driver when he was with TaylorMade,” Wunder said.
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  • The driver is one of the most changed parts of Morikawa's bag over the last year or so, with the American previously using the TaylorMade Qi35 LS , Qi10 LS and even the TaylorMade SIM in that timeframe.
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  • Beginning with the driver, an area where Bradley has chopped and changed regularly in the last few years, with the American using the TaylorMade SIM, Stealth Plus, Srixon ZX5 and Ping G430 models.
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  • Collin Morikawa: Before switching to the new TaylorMade Stealth Plus driver, Collin used a sharpie marker to black out the center circle of his TaylorMade SIM as a way to reduce distraction.
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  • Tiger Woods was using a TaylorMade SIM driver for a long time and has been using TaylorMade models for a number of years because of his equipment contract with the company
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  • GOLF’s Jonathan Wall reported Morikawa dropped his trusty, four-year-old TaylorMade SIM driver and 3-wood for the current year Qi10 LS and Qi10 Tour models, respectively.
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  • it shouldn’t come as a shock to see the duo sporting all-TaylorMade club setups, including identical SIM drivers and MG2 wedges
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  • … Collin Morikawa had TaylorMade’s original SIM driver in the bag.
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  • Dustin Johnson swapped TaylorMade’s SIM2 driver for his old SIM.
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