The top two players in the Official World Golf Ranking have shown up in Memphis wielding new flatsticks.
According to photos posted by Golf Digest’s Luke Kerr-Dineen, both world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler and No. 3 Rory McIlroy were spotted Tuesday at TPC Southwind, site of this week’s playoff-opening FedEx St. Jude Championship, practicing with different putters than their previous starts.
McIlroy, who ranked No. 84 on Tour in strokes gained putting, was rolling putts in with a Scotty Cameron Phantom X T5.5 Tour Prototype mallet. For much of the past several seasons, including The Open a few weeks ago, McIlroy has used a TaylorMade Spider X, though he also dabbled with a Scotty Cameron Newport GSS blade putter earlier this year.