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Keita Nakajima, the No. 1 amateur in the world, has signed a multi-year agreement with TaylorMade, the company announced Wednesday. Nakajima, 21, is playing the Masters after winning last year’s Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship. Nakajima will play a full bag of TaylorMade equipment, including a Stealth Plus driver, two Stealth Plus fairway woods and a mixed set of irons, and wear TaylorMade apparel. He will tee off at 12:35 p.m. Thursday with Bubba Watson and Tom Hoge. Nakajima has held the top spot in the World Amateur Golf Ranking for 63 weeks and counting. He also has won the Australian and Japanese amateurs and had success in professional events, winning on the Japan Tour and finishing T28 (ZOZO CHAMPIONSHIP) and T41 (Sony Open in Hawaii) in two PGA TOUR starts. Nakajima has secured starts in three majors this year. He is exempt into the Masters and The Open at St. Andrews by virtue of his win in the Asia-Pacific Amateur. Winning the Mark H. McCormack medal as the world’s top-ranked amateur earned him a spot in this year’s U.S. Open. Nakajima has had TaylorMade equipment in the bag throughout his amateur career, including at his PGA TOUR debut at last year’s ZOZO Championship. He used a full bag of TaylorMade equipment, including a Stealth Plus driver, at the Sony Open, where he was T5 after two rounds. Nakajima also used a Truss TB1 Juno Hydro Blast Putter to hole a 25-foot birdie putt on the second playoff hole to win the Asia-Pacific Amateur. Here’s a look at the clubs in Nakajima’s bag this week: DRIVER: Stealth Plus (10.5 degrees) 3-WOOD: Stealth Plus (15 degrees) 5-WOOD: Stealth Plus (19.0 degrees) IRONS: P·7MC (4-5 irons); P·7MB Irons (6-9) WEDGES: Milled Grind 3 Wedges; (46, 52, and 56 degrees); Hi Toe RAW Wedge (60 degrees) PUTTER: Truss TB1 Juno Hydro Blast Putter

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SAN ANTONIO — Jordan Spieth continues to look for an older version of himself. The search shows moments of success. He shot 2-under-par 70 on a gusty Friday afternoon at the Valero Texas Open. He enters the third round with share of second place at 7 under par, two shots behind the leader, Cameron Tringale. Winless since 2017, the 27-year-old Spieth will again be a factor on the weekend in 2021. He often has been since early February at the Waste Management Phoenix Open. That was the week his work toward finding his older self — the golf swing of his youth — took a beneficial turn. He started rehearsing a move on the practice range at TPC Scottsdale in an effort to shallow the plane of his downswing. He wanted to swing like he was that freshman in 2012 at the University of Texas, beating Justin Thomas in the final match of the NCAA National Championship. RELATED: Full leaderboard | Tringale leads by two at Valero Texas Open "A swing feel that’s kind of like an artistic motion," is how he explained Friday, "like I almost can see it happening from behind me as I’m feeling it." The Valero Texas Open is his seventh start since embracing the drill. He's had three Top 5 finishes, a tie for 15th and two wins last week at the World Golf Championships-Dell Technologies Match Play, where he lost in the Round of 16. For those anticipating a return to form for the 11-time winner from Dallas, the trend inspires hope. He is trying, he said, "to go back in time." He wants to find his swing of his 15-year-old self, or at least the one that brough him so much acclaim so soon. Spieth wants to reverse "essentially everything," he said, "all the bad habits I got into." He said his attack on the ball got too steep after 2017, when he won three tournaments, including The Open Championship. Then came all the questions and doubts. "I could sit here and tell you six different things I'm thinking about," he said. "I want it to be one or two." He appears, at times, to have achieved that simplicity and purity. He shot 5-under 67 on Thursday at TPC San Antonio, seven birdies against two bogeys. He birdied his first two holes Friday. He was 2 under after nine. He expected stress and it came. Texas in the springtime is a windy place. He made bogey at the 11th and the 13th. But he followed those with birdies at the next two, which included an approach on the 459-yard par-four 15th to 4 feet. Spieth coasted through the last three holes, wind and all, with straight pars. "I’m really pleased with where things are at, but they’re not where I want them to be at," he said. "I’m trying to kind of take it slowly and patiently and reward myself, be excited about the good ones and not get too down about the bad ones." So on goes the search. "I’m really just trying to go back in time structurally to a place that I’ve been," he said. "Trying to work backwards."

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Matthew Wolff withdrew after the first round of the Farmers Insurance Open with a hand injury. Wolff shot 78 on Torrey Pines' South Course while playing alongside Rory McIlroy and Brooks Koepka. "This week I've been battling an injury with my right hand that I've fought to play through but has unfortunately continued to worsen over the last 24 hours," Wolff said in a statement. "It's become clear I need to make the tough but right decision to properly address the pain in order to be able to play at 100% as quickly as possible. I'm disappointed to withdraw from one of my favorite tournaments of the year but want to thank the PGA TOUR, Farmers Insurance team and incredible volunteers for their hospitality." Wolff made 14 pars Thursday on the South Course but also suffered two triple-bogeys, on the seventh and 10th holes. He began his day with a bogey on the first hole before holing a bunker shot on 18 for his lone birdie of the day. Wolff is 16th in this season's FedExCup after runner-up finishes at both the U.S. Open and Shriners Hospitals for Children Open.

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