Nicklaus isn’t going to stop shaking winner’s hand

Professional golf resumes with Sunday’s charity exhibition, the TaylorMade Driving Relief best-ball Skins match, with the team of Rory McIlroy-Dustin Johnson facing the team of Rickie Fowler-Matthew Wolff at legendary Seminole. All proceeds from the match will go to COVID-19 relief. Although not long by today’s standards, Seminole is tough and will require the very best of each player to navigate the famed track. GolfWRX has identified a key club for each of the four golfers and will highlight one a day this week. Wolff’s TaylorMade Spider X putter SPECS Surlyn Insert, Full Sightline Loft: 3.5 Length: 33 Shaft: KBS Lie: 70 SW: D4 Grip: TaylorMade Lamkin “RedCap” As the “young gun” of the bunch this weekend at Seminole and already regarded as one of the purest ball strikers on TOUR, Matthew Wolff will ultimately have to putt well to give his team an opportunity to win the most skins. More than any club in his bag – yes, even his driver — Wolff lives and dies with his putter, and thus far in his young career, if he putts well, he’s extremely dangerous. TaylorMade Tour Tech Ryan Ressa has been working with Wolff since his days at Oklahoma State and this is what he had to say on Spider X. RYAN RESSA: “Wolff has been using the same Spider X copper since Jan 2019 when he was a sophomore at Oklahoma State. He put the putter in play in the first college event of the spring, the Amer Ari Invitational in Hawaii, and won. He was previously using a Mullen 2 Single Bend but immediately noticed better feel, alignment, and speed control. He has always played a single-bend model Mallet, occasionally testing other blades/mallets but always settling back to this gamer.” “His specs are 33 inches, full sightline, surlyn insert, 70-degree lie, 3.5 degrees of loft (as he likes to forward press right before he takes it back) … His putter is at D4 swing weight as well — relatively light for putter standards, but when we originally sent it out to him (early in the release), we still hadn’t received the weights for the back wings. He’s liked the weight the entire time and grown into it. Occasionally he will try heavier heads but always settles back on this original we sent him.” “In the past two years, he’s only played three rounds with a different putter. … In Korea, he played one round with the Del Monte before switching back in round two. The other event was the 2020 [Waste Management] Phoenix Open where he used the Truss Mallet for two rounds before switching back. He generally doesn’t tinker much with this X as he’s begun really grinding on his setup, alignment, and speed more so than trying new models. He’s got a lot of trust in this Spider X and is confident he can make anything with it.” Text provided by GolfWRX Director of Content @johnny_wunder Click here for more information on the TaylorMade Spider putters at PGA TOUR Superstore COMING THURSDAY: Rickie Fowler’s key club PREVIOUSLY: Rory McIlroy’s driver, Dustin Johnson’s wedges

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During the coronavirus pandemic, the PGA TOUR is making PGATOUR LIVE free and available for streaming, and adding new content every week. Currently the free content is limited to those in the U.S. There are features on two-time FedExCup champion Rory McIlroy, Payne Stewart, Ben Hogan and many more, plus tournament rewinds to get the juices flowing for the TOUR’s return next month. To get started, click here. Phil Mickelson and Tom Brady will take on Tiger Woods and Peyton Manning in Capital One’s “The Match: Champions for Charityâ€� at Florida’s Medalist Golf Club on Sunday. The mashup of golf and football will raise money for the fight against COVID-19 and mark yet another chapter of the storied rivalry between Tiger and Phil. Hard to believe that between them they have combined for 126 PGA TOUR wins, including 20 major championships and three PLAYERS Championships. RELATED: How to watch: Capital One’s The Match | How it works: Capital One’s The Match Herewith, some of their classic battles throughout the years, plus profiles: Battle at East Lake, 2000 TOUR Championship Woods and Vijay Singh shared the 54-hole lead, with Mickelson one back. Woods had set or tied 27 PGA TOUR records and won nine times that season, but it was Lefty who won this battle with a final-round 66 to Woods’ 69. It was the first time Woods had held at least a share of the third-round lead and not won since he was a newly minted pro in the fall of ’96. Firestone fireworks, 1999 WGC-NEC Invitational Through 54 holes Woods enjoyed a five-shot lead over Fred Couples and Nick Price. Mickelson was another shot back at 4 under, tied for fifth, but he shot a 65 to make it interesting, with five birdies in the first seven holes. Bogeys at the 16th and 18th would be his undoing, as Woods shot 71 for a one-shot victory over his rival. Tiger Woods, Captain See how Woods has grown from 82-time PGA TOUR winner to the victorious player/captain of the U.S. Presidents Cup Team at Royal Melbourne last year. PGA TOUR Profiles, Phil Mickelson Spend some time with one of the most dynamic and engaging talents of his generation, Mickelson, who doesn’t look ready to stop winning even on the cusp of turning 50.

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