{"id":765177,"date":"2026-06-27T18:01:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T18:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/765177\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T18:01:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T18:01:16","slug":"multiple-players-make-significant-putter-changes-at-travelers-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/765177\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiple Players Make Significant Putter Changes At Travelers Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"

Equipment changes aren’t uncommon on the professional circuits and, at the Travelers Championship, multiple players were doing just that, specifically on the greens.<\/p>\n

Putters are often the most changed aspect of individuals’ bags, with the likes of JJ Spaun, Rickie Fowler and Justin Rose opting to change their flatsticks at the $20 million tournament.<\/p>\n

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For Spaun, he had been using a L.A.B. Golf DF3<\/a>, which claimed its first Major win at the US Open last year.<\/p>\n

Continuing to use the model throughout 2025, and then the majority of 2026, the American switched to a L.A.B. Golf VZN.1i for this year’s US Open, but after missing the cut at the Major, he appeared with a Scotty Cameron Prototype in the bag at TPC River Highlands.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Scotty Cameron Phantom 9.5R has become more and more popular in recent times, with Cameron Young<\/a> and Justin Thomas putting the putter into their set-ups.<\/p>\n

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Sitting nine-under through two rounds at the Travelers Championship, Spaun’s putting has improved this week, with the Major winner currently T15th on the greens, gaining 2.338 shots.<\/p>\n

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\"JJ\n<\/p>\n

Spaun at the US Open (left) and Travelers Championship (right)<\/p>\n

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Spaun isn’t the only one changing to a Scotty Cameron putter, as Fowler changed to an Xperimental Phantom Prototype.<\/p>\n

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At the start of 2026, the American put a center-shafted Scotty Cameron Golo in the bag<\/a>, which actually came out in 2012.<\/p>\n

Like the Golo, the Xperimental is center-shafted, with Fowler ranking T39th on the greens, so far, this week. He currently sits 34th in SG: Putting for the whole of the PGA Tour, with it unclear as to whether the move to the new putter is a permanent one.<\/p>\n

One player not moving into a Scotty Cameron, instead moving out of one, is Rose, who moved back to an Axis 1 model after using a Phantom 5 Prototype.<\/p>\n

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Little is known about the Axis 1, but it appears to be a model from the brand’s SP Series, with SP standing for Stroke Profile Adjustability. Looking at Axis 1’s website, it looks to be based on the Axiom.<\/p>\n

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\"Rickie\n<\/p>\n

Fowler has been using a Scotty Cameron Prototype, while Rose has put an Axis 1 back in the bag<\/p>\n

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An individual who was seen trialing a new flatstick prior to the tournament start, but didn’t make the move, was Jordan Spieth<\/a>, who for the first time was using a L.A.B. Golf model, specifically a VZN.1i.<\/p>\n

Using a blade-style putter for the whole of his career, Spieth has never used a mallet but, following the practice pre-event, that did start the rumor mill of him moving to a zero-torque putter.<\/p>\n

For the first two days, though, he has been using his current gamer, the TP Mills Trad II.<\/p>\n

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\"Matt\n<\/p>\n

Fitzpatrick made a driver change at the Travelers Championship<\/p>\n

(Image credit: Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Along with the the flatsticks, more equipment changes, and new gear, have been spotted in Connecticut.<\/p>\n

Matt Fitzpatrick, for example, moved to a Ping G430 LST driver<\/a>, while new Srixon models hit the bags of the brand’s staffers.<\/a><\/p>\n

Hideki Matsuyama, Shane Lowry and Ryan Fox were just a few names using the new clubs, which are called the Srixon ZXi RKT, and possess the standard, LS and Max heads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Equipment changes aren’t uncommon on the professional circuits and, at the Travelers Championship, multiple players were doing just…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":765178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-765177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/765178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}