Masters: Scottie Scheffler’s equipment at Augusta National included plenty of new gear

The Stealth drivers have a 60-layer carbon fiber face. (David Dusek/Golfweek)

Price: $599.99

Scheffler added the TaylorMade Stealth Plus+ driver to his bag during his brief offseason after getting fit for the club by company representatives who visited him at his home in Texas. The first time he used it in a PGA Tour event was at the American Express in January. It is 45 inches long, and while it is an 8-degree head, the loft has been adjusted down to 7.5 degrees. The shaft is a Fujikura Ventus Black shaft designed to be especially stable in the tip and have a lower launch and produce less spin for fast-swinging players.

The club has a carbon fiber crown, aerodynamic shape, and a moveable weight that allows players and fitters to create a draw or fade bias, but the carbon fiber face is showstopper technology. Nearly every other driver has a titanium face, but carbon fiber weighs significantly less than titanium, so more of the head’s overall weight is in the back. While the carbon fiber does not inherently create more speed, according to TaylorMade, at impact, the Stealth drivers’ lighter face and heavier back section creates a more efficient transfer of energy to the ball. Scheffler picked up an average of 3.4 mph more ball speed, which translated to 11 more yards of distance compared to his previous driver.

Several of Augusta National’s holes famously demand players hit a right to left shot, like the tee shot on the second hole, 10th hole and 13th hole. Players often chose to hit 3-woods on those holes to make it easier to curve the ball. During practice rounds last week, Scheffler moved the sliding weight in the sole more to the heel side to make it easier to hit shots from right to left or decrease the severity of cut shots that move from left to right.

For the week, he hit 43 of 56 fairways (77 percent) and had an average driving distance of 298.5 yards, which ranked 17th in the field.

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TaylorMade Stealth fairway wood (David Dusek/Golfweek)

Price: 329.99

This is the newest addition to Scheffler’s bag, having been added before the start of the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play Championship. His TaylorMade Stealth 3HL is 42 5/16th inches long, about an inch shorter than the standard retail model, and while the stated loft is 16.5 degrees, Scheffler’s has 15 degrees of loft. Like the driver, it is fitted with a Fujikura Ventus Black shaft.

For recreational golfers, fairway woods are often used to reach par 5s in two or advance the ball as far down a fairway as possible on long par 4s. For elite players like Scheffler, this is a secondary driving club that can make it easier to shape tee shots and hit them to a specific distance while keeping hazards out of play. Scheffler used it several times per round, including off the tee on the 10th hole every day at the Masters.

The Stealth 3HL has a carbon fiber crown that helps to lower the center of gravity and encourage a higher launch angle, along with a Speed Pocket slot in the sole that lets the hitting area flex more efficiently on low-struck shots. It is slightly larger than the titanium-faced Stealth Plus+ fairway woods, but both clubs have a V-Steel sole to help them maintain speed through the turf and Twist Face, a technology that TaylorMade debuted in drivers that helps mishit shots fly straighter.

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Scottie Scheffler (David Cannon/Getty Images)

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Over the past three seasons, Scheffler has tinkered with his irons on a few occasions, but his overall preferences have remained the same. He has used a pair of utility irons to bridge the gap between his fairway wood and his muscleback blades, typically a couple of Srixon ZU85 irons that have a hollow-body design.

Scheffler was using TaylorMade’s P·730 irons, the standard version of the musclebacks used by Dustin Johnson and Rory McIlroy, but after seeing some players using Tiger Woods’ version of the P·730, the P·7TW, he expressed interest in trying them. Scheffler had used Nike irons in previous years, like Tiger, so he was familiar with the shaping and how the soles worked through the turf. He added the P·7TW irons at the 2021 American Express.

The soles of the P·7TW irons are milled for consistency. (TaylorMade)

The lofts are very traditional, with the 5-iron being 26 degrees and the pitching wedge being 46 degrees, but they are still 1 degree stronger than the P·7TW irons sold at retail. The True Temper Dynamic Gold X100 shafts Scheffler prefers are heavy, stiff and created to produce a low launch condition.

The retail version of the P·7TW was first made available before the 2019 Masters, which Woods won. The P·7TW has a slightly longer blade length than the P·730, and the soles are milled to ensure they are produced precisely the way that Tiger wants them, every time.

For the week, Scheffler finished sixth in greens in regulation at the 2022 Masters, hitting 49 of 72 (68 percent).

P7TW irons – $1,999.99 at TaylorMade

Scottie Scheffler’s Titleist Vokey Design SM8 sand wedge (David Dusek/Golfweek)

Price: $149.99 each

The shot that jumpstarted Scheffler’s round on Sunday and gave him momentum was a pitch shot from below the third green that went into the hole for an unexpected birdie. He hit that shot with a Titleist Vokey Design SM8 60K wedge.

Scheffler has been using three Vokey SM8 wedges since the start of 2021 and asked Titleist to make him the wider-sole K Grind after trying one at the Tour Championship last August. The combination of a low bounce angle with a side sole makes the K Grind lob wedge especially good in greenside bunkers while still allowing skilled players to get the leading edge under the ball when hitting shots from the rough.

Scheffler uses F Grind versions of the 50 and 56 degrees SM8. The F Grind has a consistent, standard width and is the most popular of the six sole grinds available in the SM8 lineup.

All of his wedges are fitting with True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400 shafts, and they are the heaviest of the Dynamic Gold shafts and very popular as wedge shafts.

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Scottie Scheffler’s Scotty Cameron putter. (David Dusek/Golfweek)

Scheffler added this Scotty Cameron putter to his bag in February at the 2022 WM Phoenix Open, where he wound up winning on the PGA Tour for the first time.

The putter is milled from German Stainless Steel (GSS), measures 36 /14 inches long and there are two 25-gram weights in the sole, making it slightly longer and heavier than most standard putters. Cameron makes GSS putters only for tour players because while it is very soft and enhances the feel, it is too expensive to use in retail putters.

Scheffler’s Special Select Timeless is a heel-toe weighted blade similar to the Scotty Cameron Newport 2. He switched into it after visiting the Scotty Cameron studio in San Marcos, California, in December.

Scheffler liked the Newport 2 shaping and had been adding lead tape to the sole of an older Newport 2 putter he had at home to make it feel like the Scotty Cameron Super Rat tour prototype putter he used in 2021. While at the Cameron studio, he worked with fitters to create a putter that combined the look he wanted with the weight he preferred without using lead tape.

Before the start of the Masters, Scheffler had the loft and lie angle of the putter checked, which is routine before major championships. Drew Page, the Scotty Cameron rep on site, discovered that the numbers were off because the putter’s shaft had been slightly dented. Page texted Scheffler on Wednesday and got permission to re-shaft the putter and give it a new Scotty Cameron Dancing Cameron cord grip before the start of play.

Titleist Pro V1 (David Dusek/Golfweek)

Scheffler has used a Titleist Pro V1 in every PGA Tour event he has played and switched into the current version of the ball before the 2021 Hawaiian Swing.

The Pro V1 is a three-piece ball with a cast urethane cover and a compression around 87. It has a lower flight and generates slightly less spin off the tee than the four-piece Pro V1x. However, the grooves in wedges and short irons easily grab the urethane cover to increase spin and control on approach shots, chips, and pitches.

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