Which TaylorMade clubs do you remember from your early days?
Back in the day I played the Bubble Burner woods, the ones that Ernie played. I switched to all TaylorMade clubs and the golf ball right after the Walker Cup at County Down [2007]. That was when I signed with TaylorMade. I didn’t have a single TaylorMade club or golf ball in my bag at the time. The transition was very easy for me – the golf ball was great, I really liked it. I had no issues finding clubs; the driver and fairway woods were really good. I’m pretty sure at that time it was the V-Steel fairway woods and the driver was the SuperQuad.
How did the relationship with TaylorMade begin?
For me it started with Dave Cunningham [who worked for TaylorMade]. I came out to Carlsbad, to the Kingdom [TaylorMade HQ], and I played golf at The Bridges with Dave, Keith [Sbarbaro, TaylorMade VP of tour operations] and Phil Mickelson. That was the first time I met Keith and we have been good friends ever since.
What did you first like about the brand?
Over the years, TaylorMade have done a really great job of getting their products to their staff guys to test. They let us test the stuff to see if they need to tweak anything, so when a new product comes out the tour players are 100% behind it. The worst part about that is they bring us something, we really like it but we can’t use it for six months!
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