The Oral History of Scottie Scheffler's Spider Tour X That Has Delivered 10 Worldwide Wins
Scottie Scheffler has won 10 times worldwide since March of 2024. There’s historical and statistical significance to that number in just about every way you want to slice it. If we are looking through the lens of Scottie’s equipment, the story starts and ends with his Spider Tour X L-Neck putter.
This is the story of how Scheffler’s switch to Spider Tour X led to one of the most dominant runs in PGA TOUR history.
THE TEXT MESSAGE THAT STARTED IT ALL
“We’re all set here in Dallas. See you Tuesday at Bay Hill!”
That’s how Scottie Scheffler responded to TaylorMade Senior Tour Manager Adrian Rietveld’s inquiry as to how recent putter testing was going ahead of the 2024 Arnold Palmer Invitational. After months of testing various putter options, TaylorMade’s putter team sent a final matrix of five Spider Tour X putters to Scheffler at his home in Dallas.
The answer Rietveld received from Scottie was both a cliff hanger and promising at the same time. Scottie had found a putter he liked after testing at home…but the question was, which putter was it?
When Scheffler’s golf bag arrived on the putting green at Arnie’s Place on Tuesday, whether we knew it or not at the time, it was perhaps the most anticipated headcover removal in TaylorMade Golf’s history.
With a few of my TaylorMade colleagues, I was on the scene at Bay Hill covering the tournament for TaylorMade when Scottie’s caddy Ted Scott put the bag down on the edge of the putting green. Our attention immediately turned to the black Spider headcover in Scottie’s bag. The only putter headcover in the bag.
As part of our job to tell stories around the equipment TaylorMade athletes play, we asked Ted if we could take some photos and videos of the putter before Scottie arrived for his practice, to which he gracefully obliged. I lifted the putter out of the bag, removed the headcover and there it was…a Spider Tour X L-Neck with a full sight line on top of the True Path Alignment and a Pure Roll insert.
I had no clue at the time that I was holding the putter that would kick start a run of 10 wins in just 15 months.
LET'S REWIND...
If we were to rewind from that pivotal moment on the putting green at Bay Hill, you would have to go all the way back to the 2023 FedEx St. Jude Championship in Memphis. It was there that Scottie, predominantly a blade putter user for most of his career, first put his hands on a Spider Tour X putter.
The whole idea in the beginning was that he was so adamant about using a blade putter for so long that we need to think outside the box if we were going to give him a putter with the benefits of a Spider putter. That’s where the prototype came in.Adrian Rietveld, Senior Tour Manager
This prototype version of the Spider Tour X featured a milled face, forward center of gravity and various custom components. Scottie put it through extensive testing at TPC Southwind and played the putter in the next two FedEx Cup playoff events. He then went back to a blade, while behind the scenes the TaylorMade putter team was working on various putter shapes and sizes for Scheffler to continue to test in the coming months.
Amongst the testing, Scheffler was built putters with various alignment aids on top including a sight line and dot on blade putters and various complexions of True Path on top of Spider putters.
After the Ryder Cup we identified that something that could help him know he was striking the ball on the center of the face would be beneficial for him. Instead of the sight dot he had on his blade, we started to re-introduce True Path and we were on to something in terms of his eyes and what he thought he was doing vs. what he was actually doing when hitting his putts. There’s so much that you can see and you can’t see which has aided him in hitting better putts whether it’s a good putt or a bad putt.Adrian Rietveld
Prior to the story defining text message we started this article with, in the weeks leading up to the Arnold Palmer Invitational, Scheffler asked Adrian Rietveld for four different versions of the Spider Tour X prototype putter he played in Memphis. Shortly after that request, he asked for a “bells and whistles” version of the Spider Tour X…which gave the TaylorMade putter team freedom to put their spin on the fifth and final putter of the testing matrix.
When Scottie asked for the non-prototype Spider Tour X, we just thought we would go right in the middle of the profile of the four prototype putters with a different insert than what he asked originally asked for. That’s the putter that ended up winning all of these tournaments.Adrian Rietveld
That “bells and whistles” Spider Tour X hasn’t been modified other than standard loft/lie checks since it was placed in a box, taped up and shipped from our Carlsbad HQ.
- Hosel: L-Neck
- Length: 35.5’’
- Sight Line: True Path with Full Line
- Loft: 3°
- Lie: 72°
- Insert: Surlyn Pure Roll
- Grip: Golf Pride Pistol
If you take anything away from reading this article, beyond the power and benefits of a Spider Tour putter, it should be that when Scottie Scheffler tells you he’s all set and ready to go…he means it.
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