In addition to playing his way into contention through 36 holes at the Safeway Open, Nick Watney also inspired an equipment setup change by another contender this week at Silverado, Adam Scott. While Scott was playing a practice round with Watney earlier this week, Scott took a liking to Watney’s driver setup. According to Titleist TOUR rep J.J. VanWezenbeeck, Scott saw Watney’s 11.5-degree TS3 driver and liked the look and performance of it so much that he requested to have one built. It should be noted that 11.5 degrees is comparatively a lot of loft to have on a driver for PGA TOUR players; according to Titleist, only one other player in the Safeway Open field has a driver that measures 11.5 degrees of loft. Most other PGA TOUR players use drivers that have between 8-and-11 degrees of loft. Come competition time on Thursday, Scott had the Watney-inspired driver setup in the bag. Scott, making his 2019-20 season debut this week, was previously using a TS3 driver at 9.5 degrees with an A1 SureFit hosel setting. After playing with Watney, he switched into a TS3 driver at 11.5 degrees with a B1 SureFit hosel setting — the same head setup as Watney’s. Scott did, however, continue using his familiar Graphite Design Tour AD-DI 8X shaft that he had previously. On Thursday, Scott — averaging 323.4 yards off the tee — fired a 7-under-par 65 to share the first-round lead with Andrew Landry. He cooled off on Friday with a 73, though, and sits at T15 entering the weekend. Watney, who’s had his 11.5-degree driver in play since the 2019 Desert Classic, shot rounds of 69 and 65 to move into solo second behind Bryson DeChambeau, his playing partner in Saturday’s final twosome. Watney’s driver is equipped with a Mitsubishi Tensei CK Pro White shaft.
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