Revealed: the secret club which helped Scottie Scheffler win his third major

Mark Townsend 19 May 2025

Scottie Scheffler moved alongside the likes of Jordan Spieth, Vijay Singh and Billy Casper with a third major success and he did it in his trademark ruthless style.

Three bogeys on the front nine suggested there might be a wobble but he eventually won by five after a back nine of 34 gave him a level-par 71 and 11-under aggregate. He is now 3-3 with the 54-hole lead at a major and his margin of victory is the largest since Rory McIlroy won by eight in 2012.

For the record this was the 10th straight American winner in the PGA Championship and his 11th win worldwide since the start of 2024.

It takes a lot for Scheffler to play around with his bag set-up. Unlike other players he might go a year before switching up some of his lesser-lofted wedges and he has had two Srixon ZU85 irons (3 and 4) in there for some time.

But this week the 3-iron made way for the TaylorMade Qi35 7-wood. He carries the older Qi10 3-wood and the 7-wood is in there to give him more height than the 3-iron as well as to fit in with the 3-wood. The 7-wood launches about 1.5-2˚ higher than his 3-iron with about 1500 more RPM of spin.

The yardage he wanted to cover off was to give him a carry of around 240 yards and the 7-wood was launching at 14.9° at 5175 RPM carrying 245-yards at 160mph ball speed.

Key adjustments

Adrian Rietveld is TaylorMade’s Senior Tour Manager and he made some key adjustments to make Scheffler make the jump. He made it more upright from when he tried it at Torrey Pines so that it would sit squarer at address and it is more like a 5-wood in build to give him a better chance of hitting the right numbers.

“We fit his 3-wood shorter so it did not go further than his desired distance with that club, so when you fit a standard 5-wood it goes too far,” said Rietveld. “You don’t want to add loft to a 5-wood because it closes the face, so we built a 5-wood spec in a 7-wood head. It has the dynamics of a 5-wood but with the spin and launch conditions of a 7-wood to produce the carry number he wants with that club.”

Scheffler has the Ventus Black 9X shaft in the 7-wood with a finished loft of 20˚. What goes on underneath the grip is also pretty out there – Scheffler has six double-sided tapes to give him the perfect grip on the club.

The three-time major winner had two eagles and 19 birdies over the week and just one double-bogey when he had that mud ball on the 16th on Thursday.