Spotted: Rory McIlroy’s 50

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Rory McIlroy has been on a bit of an equipment odyssey as of late. The 23-time PGA Tour winner has made adjustments from the top of the bag (driver head, shaft changes) to the bottom (putter) in 2023.

McIlroy, a TaylorMade staffer since 2017, made a surprise switch to Vokey wedges in late 2022. However, he arrived at the Wells Fargo Championship earlier this month with new custom TaylorMade MG3 wedges.

As our Andrew Tursky wrote for PGATour.com: "After working with his TaylorMade team for six or seven months, however, McIlroy was able to combine different design characteristics from wedges that he's used in the past, in order to make new wedge designs with the head shape, leading edge, and sole grinds that he wanted."

Now, ahead of the Memorial Tournament, the Ulsterman looks to be applying the same principles to an additional wedge: an MG3 Raw 50 degree with nine degrees of bounce.

McIlroy appears to be opting for the softer, lighter Project X 6.5 shaft, which matches his other wedges, rather than the PX 7.0, which he has in the rest of his irons.

Check out photos of McIlroy's new 50-degree wedge, below.

Head to the GolfWRX forums for more photos and to see what our members are saying.

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JD

May 30, 2023 at 9:07 pm

Rory plays P790s? He's one of us!

BobbyG

May 30, 2023 at 7:20 pm

Rory should go back to Playing his Nike clubs.

brandell

May 30, 2023 at 7:14 pm

thought a intern wrote this article but come to find out its the editor-in-chief….geez

proofread prior to hitting publish my guy 🙂

michael

May 30, 2023 at 4:06 pm

Rough article at best. This is gap wedge, not relevant to his PW, and he doesn't play the P790 (which also do not have a PW loft of 47*). You edited this writing?

Tom Lassar

May 30, 2023 at 2:51 pm

I’m gaming the very similar TM wedges: 50/9 degree bronze Hi Toe, 54/11 degree chrome MG2 and 60/11 degree TW MG2. All with TT S200 shafts. Best looking, softest feeling and spinniest wedges I’ver ever owned. And, careful testing has shown that other than looking cool, rust doesn't add spin.

nick

May 30, 2023 at 1:53 pm

Interesting article, but I don't understand the relevancy to Rory of the loft of a P790 PW (which is actually 45?, not 47?)

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Driver: Ping G430 (10.5 degrees @9)Shaft: Fujikura Ventus TR Red 6 X

3-wood: Ping G430 (15 degrees @14.5)Shaft: Fujikura Ventus TR Red 8 X

5-wood: Ping G425 Max (17.5 degrees @16.5)Shaft: Fujikura Ventus TR Red 8 X

Hybrid: Ping G425 (22 degrees)Shaft: Mitsubishi Tensei CK Pro Blue 80 TX

Irons: Titleist 718 TMB (5), Titleist 718 CB (6-9)Shafts: True Temper AMT Tour White S400 (5-9)

Wedges: Titleist Vokey Design SM8 (46-10F), Wedge Works proto (50-M @49 degrees), Titleist Vokey Design SM8 (54-10S), Wedge Works (58-T @59)Shafts: True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400 (46, 50), KBS Tour HT 125g S+ (54, 59)

Putter: Sik Pro C-Series

Grips: Golf Pride Tour Velvet

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Driver: Ping G425 LST (9 degrees @8.4)Shaft: Fujikura Speeder 661 TR X

3-wood: TaylorMade Stealth Plus (15 degrees @ 16.5)Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Blue 7 X

7-wood: Ping G430 Max (20.5 degrees @18.75)Shaft: Fujikura Ventus TR Blue 8 X

Irons: Ping i210 (4-PW)Shafts: KBS Tour-V 120 X

Wedges: Ping Glide 4.0 (50-SS, 56-SS), Ping Glide 2.0 (60-TS)Shafts: KBS Tour-V 120 X (50-56), True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400 (60)

Putter: Ping PLD DS 72 prototype

Ball: Titleist Pro V1

Grips: Golf Pride MCC

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Driver: TaylorMade SIM2 (9 degrees)Shaft: Project X HZRDUS Black

3-wood: TaylorMade Stealth 2 Plus (16.5 degrees)Shaft: Project X HZRDUS 80 TX

Driving iron: TaylorMade P-790 UDI (2-iron)Shaft: Project X HZRDUS 105 Hybrid TX-Flex

Irons: Mizuno Pro 221 (4-9 iron)

Wedges: Mizuno T22 (45 degrees), Titleist Vokey SM9 (52, 56, 60 degrees)

Putter: TaylorMade Spider X

Ball: Bridgestone Tour B X

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