An in-depth look at Jon Rahm’s clubs with TaylorMade’s Keith Sbarbaro

While we’re on the Jon Rahm train this week following his Hero World Championship win, PGATour.com posted a great interview with Keith Sbarbaro, TaylorMade VP of Tour Operations & one of Jon Rahm’s fitting reps on Tour, where they dive deep into Jon Rahm’s equipment.  I mean real deep.  It talks all about gear choices, precise specs of gear (like putter loft), and why he’s made the gear choices he has.

For instance, did you know Jon Rahm has two 4 irons in his rotation?

SBARBARO: He doesn’t play both 4 irons at the same time. The 750 is a 4 iron loft and the UDI 4 iron is 1.5 degrees stronger. They produce two different flights, so depending on the golf course he will choose one over the other. When Jon turned pro he needed a 3 utility iron; at the time we didn’t make one, and only had the older UDI. We didn’t have any 3 irons so we had to use a 4 iron and bend it stronger. Both are exact same specs expect for loft. He has tried graphite but really no advantage to it. Like I said the UDI is at 4-iron length, so at that length graphite feels very light to him.

I love reading stuff like this on the internet.  It fascinates me when you get to see how much (or little) goes into players getting setup in their gear.  Basically, it’s great to understand that it isn’t just a case of players getting paid to play whatever the commercial says they play, but rather they have a very intricate process in getting perfectly dialed in because they still have to perform on the course.

Anyway, check out the full interview.  I’ve read it four times.