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

Throughout a season during which she received six occasions already, you’d suppose World No. 1 Nelly Korda would have been hesitant to change 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 grew to become 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. Ladies’s Open and KPMG Ladies’s PGA Championship.

She completed simply exterior the highest 20 in her subsequent two begins, however earlier than the AIG Ladies’s Open, she requested reps at TaylorMade to ship her a couple of totally different Spider fashions to check. Korda finally requested the TaylorMade group 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 prime 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 harm.

This week at Pelican, as she grew to become the primary American to win seven or extra occasions 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 Could.

Whereas Korda’s brief sightline model is a Tour-only providing (however nonetheless obtainable by way of TaylorMade’s MySpider program), the TaylorMade Spider Tour X L-Neck is offered 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 opening. 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 received seven occasions too, in the event you forgot), her new flatstick is the very same head and neck mixture because the one the boys’s World No. 1 switched to earlier than his torrid run.