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Rory McIlroy’s club breaks at BMW PGA Championship, but he still hits to 10 feet

The Rules of Golf would allow him to replace it during the round.

Rory McIlroy once threw his 3-wood in frustration at the 2016 British Open at Royal Troon and broke it, and there was that time at the 2015 WGC-Cadillac Championship at Doral when he angrily threw his club in the lake on the eighth hole, but the club damage that happened on Thursday during the DP World Tour’s BMW Championship was not his fault.

Playing his second shot on the par-5 12th hole at the Wentworth Club in Surrey, England, hit an iron shot from the fairway and as the ball rose into the air, the head of his club flew off the end of the shaft and tumbled down the fairway.

As McIlroy looked on in shock and disbelief at seeing the club break, the ball landed on a mound to the right of the hole, kicked left and wound up about 10 feet from the cup.

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McIlroy missed the putt for eagle but made birdie on the hole.

He clearly did not break the club in frustration or anger, so the Rules of Golf would allow him to replace it during the round.

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Irons are attached to golf shafts using very strong epoxies. During the television broadcast, McIlroy could be heard saying all his irons were “re-glued” at last month’s Tour Championship at the East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta.

It’s very possible McIlroy will be able to take the clubhead that flew down the fairway to a builder and have it reattached to a shaft that matches his specifications. Repairing and rebuilding the club could easily be done before the start of McIlroy’s round on Friday.

Rory McIlroy’s golf equipment at the 2024 U.S. Open at Pinehurst No. 2

Here are the sticks McIlroy is using at Pinehurst.

A complete list of the golf equipment Rory McIlroy is using at the 2024 U.S. Open Championship at Pinehurst No. 2:

DRIVER: TaylorMade Qi10 (9 degrees), with Fujikura Ventus Black 6X shaft

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FAIRWAY WOODS: TaylorMade Qi10 (15 degrees), with Fujikura Ventus Black 8X shaft, (18 degrees), with Fujikura Ventus Black 9X shaft

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IRONS: TaylorMade P760 (4) TaylorMade RORS proto (5-9), with Project X 7.0 shafts 

WEDGES: TaylorMade MG4 (46, 50, 54 degrees), Titleist Vokey Design WedgeWorks (58 degrees bent to 59), with Project X 6.5 shafts

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PUTTER: TaylorMade Spider Tour X

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BALL: TaylorMade TP5x

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GRIPS: Golf Pride New Decade Multicompound (full swing) / SuperStroke Zenergy Pistol Tour (putter)

Rory McIlroy using prototype TaylorMade iron at 2024 Valero Texas Open

McIlroy has a new club in the bag the week before he goes for the Career Grand Slam once again at the Masters.

When it comes to drivers, Rory McIlroy has been more than willing to upgrade into TaylorMade’s newest, latest and greatest every year since he signed an endorsement deal with the company is 2017. Irons, however, are another story.

The four-time major winner has used a prototype set of RORS Proto irons fitted with Project X 7.0 shafts for nearly all his rounds, occasionally adding a TaylorMade P·760 2-, 3- or 4-iron based on the course setup and conditions. Those clubs, which Jon Rahm played when he was a TaylorMade staff player, were released in 2018, so it was noteworthy when McIlroy was spotted on the range preparing for the start of the Valero Texas Open with a prototype TaylorMade 4-iron.

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McIlroy was asked about the club during his pre-tournament press conference.

“So after I went to Vegas, I went out to The Kingdom [TaylorMade’s test center in Carlsbad, California] for two days. I needed to get into a fresh set of irons, my irons were like two years old maybe, so they were getting a little worn,” McIlroy explained. “They just produced these couple of proto, I guess like are they the MC replacements maybe, I think? I’m not sure what they’re actually going to be called. Yeah, I have no idea.”

Commenting on how the 4-iron played, McIlroy said, “They performed really well. It’s just as fast as the 760 that I was using. Launch is a little higher actually, which was surprising, and it’s just sometimes I felt like when I hit my 5-iron in the blade and then the 4-iron in the 760, it was such a different feel. To go from a 5-iron now to that 4-iron, it feels a little closer to what I feel in the 5-iron. So just a little bit more responsive, but didn’t lose any performance from it, which is great. Yeah, it will be in the bag this week.”

As a true muscleback blade, McIlroy’s RORS Proto irons have extra mass low in the head, behind the area where he makes contact with the ball, but his prototype 4-iron is clearly a better player’s cavity back iron. The current P•7MC has a very similar shape and similar milling design on the back of the head, as well.

McIlroy’s prototype is fitted with the same Project X 7.0 Rifle shaft and Golf Pride MCC grip as his other irons and wedges. 

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