Jason Day Adjusts His Putter Loft And Lie Weekly
/Former winner of the Farmers Insurance Open and current World No. 1 Jason Day turned up in the media center to discuss his game, his new Zurich-branded bag (which did not take questions) and this fascinating attention to detail with his putter.
I've never heard of a player so regularly adjusting loft and lie depending on greens. But as Day explained, part of the constant tinkering has to do with the metal used in his putter and part depends on putting surface conditions.
The topic arose because Torrey Pines presents poa greens on the South and 007 bent on the North.
And with my putter, the lie and loft changes from week to week just due to the fact that the greens are different. There has to be a balance between putting on a bent and putting on a poa annua because obviously as the day goes on, poa annua grows and it starts to become a lot more bouncy and can really, especially with the soft conditions, there's going to be a lot of spike marks there, soft spike marks as well.
It's kind of a different not a different technique, I would say, but just you've got to be a lot more committed on poa annua greens and more so on bent because they're going to I'm going to say they're going to run pretty flush this week on the North side, maybe a little firm just due to the fact that they're newer greens but yeah, you've got to be committed on the South side
Doug Ferguson followed up on the normalcy of such tinkering and Day's reasoning is noteworthy:
JASON DAY: Every week, yeah.
Q. Is that unusual?
JASON DAY: No, the actual the hosel that the Spider, the Itsy Bitsy Spider has, the actual metal that they make it out of is very soft, so if you lean on it for a week or go to pick up a ball out of the hole
Q. Or throw it, yeah.
JASON DAY: Throw it, yeah. Not me. But you can bend it over time. I just get it checked every single week just to make sure that everything's set. Sometimes if it's faster greens you don't need as much or you need less or need more or whatever it is. I discuss it with Sean from TaylorMade and Colin, my caddie, and we go in and change it.
Obviously you've got to make sure that the ball is rolling correctly because if it doesn't roll correctly, you're going to have a lot of inconsistent distance, variance in distance from when you hit a putt because you could stand there and hit the exact same putt on the putting green and one could go three foot fast and one could go a foot short, and you just can't have that inconsistency. You want to stand up there and not even think about it and hit a putt and it being consistent all the sometime.
