A week before winning the 2020 PGA Championship at TPC Harding Park, Collin Morikawa won the 2020 FedEx St. Jude Championship. Since then, he and his TaylorMade SIM driver, which has a Mitsubishi Diamana D+ Limited shaft have been inseparable.
Although he has briefly worked with other drivers, he consistently returns to his longtime partner.
But Morikawa only had one driver in the bag on Tuesday at the Kapalua Plantation Course, and it wasn’t a TaylorMade SIM driver, nor did it contain a Diamana D+ Limited.
But Morikawa only had one driver in the bag on Tuesday at the Kapalua Plantation Course, and it wasn’t a TaylorMade SIM driver, nor did it contain a Diamana D+ Limited.
Newscasters got up with Morikawa on Tuesday in Hawaii to learn more about the transition. What Morikawa had to say regarding the switch is as follows :
“Yes, this week I will be moving to the Qi10 Max driver. When I mentioned that I wanted the Max, the guys gave me a lot of strange stares. See, the TaylorMade team has been incredible. It’s clear that they’ve adjusted a number of heads, added weights everywhere, and attempted to align the center of gravity. For me, the SIM has been fantastic. Rather than being deep or lengthy from front to rear, it is a shallower head. In comparison to the new ones, it is somewhat shallow. I have always found that to be appealing. The length of the head gives the appearance of being shallower, even though this face is identical to the Qi10 LS version and the normal core version. This one I attempted this using a different shaft. I actually haven’t changed shafts in a long time—I played with the 60-gram Diamana D-Plus for a bit a week prior to Harding Park, which was FedEx St. Jude. I changed to a little lighter version of the Diamana profile, and I’ve been finding my center ever since.” he said.
“The middle ones will always come out on top in the end. You glance at it whilst using Trackman, and it looks fantastic. However, I truly care about the misses, am I right? Where on my face am I going to miss it? Does it have a pleasant feeling?
And it’s been wonderful. It’s been incredibly good since I’ve been playing it for a few weeks, almost since the Bahamas. Putting it into practice excites me. Despite the spacious fairways on this course, you must stay in the fairway in order to score because of the wind.
Compared to my SIM, it’s a bit more spiny. My SIM was a tad bit below average. Look, it’s definitely ideal to optimise it as much as possible: low spin, high launch, for someone who doesn’t hit it that far. I have, however, been able to play my various heights with this one. It covers, therefore, if I have to be able to carry it and it’s downwind. I can keep it low, flat, and not spinny if it’s facing directly into the wind. It continues to reside, if anything, on the higher end of the spin values. If I get a spinny one, it might be spinning at 2500–2600 rpm, but the excellent ones are amazing when I strike it in the middle. At 2300, they are rotating while remaining in the air. However, when I glance up, it launches where I want it to and does what I want. That makes it extremely favorable in that regard.” he added.
“There is a lot of sound and sensation. There’s a lot of hot melt inside of me. I have to tell everyone that I have the amateur version because, you see, the Max is designed for someone who wants to get the ball up in the air and needs the spin. No, I genuinely adore it. Additionally, the sensation of the hot melt and everything inside it as well as the back and forth has slightly softened it, and the mishits have been excellent. Putting it into practice excites me.” Morikawa said.
It should be mentioned that Morikawa’s bag on Tuesday had just one 5-wood, a brand-new TaylorMade Qi10 V-Steel with an 18-degree angle, and a Mitsubishi Diamana D+ 80X shaft.
