Rory McIlroy's Winning Bag | 2024 Wells Fargo Championship
Rory McIlory heads back to the course where he won his last major championship 10 years ago with some momentum, picking up his second straight PGA Tour win thanks to an incredible Sunday round. Now Rory will turn his attention to the second major of the year, looking to snap a 10 year major-less drought.
Here’s a look at Rory’s winning setup from The Wells Fargo Championship, which he will likely be bringing to Valhalla this week.
All WITB information is courtesy of GolfWRX.
Driver: TaylorMade Qi10
Rory starts his bag off with the latest driver from TaylorMade, the Qi10 core model. He plays his Qi10 at 9 degrees with a Fujikura Ventus Black 6X shaft in it. Rory is known as perhaps the greatest driver of the golf ball currently and it showed this week at The Wells Fargo Championship. Rory led the field in driving distance, averaging 337 yards off the tee. While he wasn’t the most accurate, finding 51.59 percent of fairways which ranked 59th best in the field, he still led the tournament in Strokes Gained off the Tee.
Fairway Woods: TaylorMade Qi10 (3-Wood, 5-Wood)
Moving to his fairway woods, where McIlroy matches his driver, playing a Qi10 core model for both his 3-wood and 5-wood. His 3-wood has a Ventus Black 8X shaft in it, while his 5-wood has a Ventus Black 9X shaft. Rory has the length with his woods to use them off the tee and to pretty much have a go at any par 5 in 2. While the Qi10 isn’t the most forgiving model from TaylorMade, it provides plenty of it still along with high launch, making both these woods lethal choices for Rory.
Irons: TaylorMade Proto (4), TaylorMade Rors Proto (5-9)
For his irons, Rory plays TaylorMade prototypes throughout his bag, comboing a TaylorMade Proto 4-iron with TaylorMade Rors Proto irons for his 5-iron through the 9-iron. The TaylorMade Proto 4-Iron is similar to TaylorMade P7MC, so comes with a blade like shape with a small cavity to help with launch and forgiveness. Rory has played his own prototype irons for quite some time, and they have some resemblance to a TaylorMade P730. Both of these irons certainly played their role this past week. McIlroy tied for 2nd in Greens in Regulation percentage, hitting 49 of the 72 greens, just a shade over 68 percent! That accuracy into the green helped Rory finish 4th in Strokes Gained Approach to Green for the tournament, gaining 6.253 strokes on the field.
Wedge: TaylorMade MG4 (46, 50, 54), Titleist Vokey Design WedgeWorks (58 @ 59)
Like his irons, Rory’s wedges were dialed during his victory. Rory plays TaylorMade MG4’s for his pitching wedge, gap wedge and sand wedge and matches those with a Vokey WedgeWorks lob wedge. In addition to playing a major role in his GIR percentage and Strokes Gained Approach, especially with his distance off the tee, Rory was outstanding around the green. He gained 3.274 strokes on the field around the green, 9th best in the tournament. That included his hole-out from the bunker on the par 5 15th on Sunday for eagle, that took away any sliver of hope Xander Schauffele had of catching him.
Putter: TaylorMade Spider Tour X3
Rory continues to be one of the best tee-to-green players in the world, ranked 6th on the PGA Tour in Strokes Gained Tee to Green this season. But his putter can get cold from time to time, which has been one major reason why he hasn’t won a major championship in 10 years. When his putter is on though, he is tough to beat and this past week was a prime example of that. Rory uses a TaylorMade Spider Tour X3 mallet for his putter, and it was as good as any other club, except for his driver maybe this week. Rory entered the week 61st on the PGA tour in Strokes Gained Putting, gaining 0.181 strokes on average. At the Wells Fargo, Rory gained 4.282 strokes on the field on the putting surface, a resounding improvement that was 8th best in the tournament. He also finished 4th in Putts per GIR, and 5th in Total Feet of Putts made, so he wasn’t just hitting gimmie’s, but finding the cup from all over the green.