Rory Blames Golf Ball In Explaining New Equipment Deal

After reiterating twice that his Masters ProV-1 golf ball struggles prompted more testing, something tells me Rory McIlroy will get pulled-over by the police every time he drives through greater Fairhaven.

As was reported here and the Forecaddie, McIlroy has signed with Taylor Made and cited the improved golf ball as a primary reason. (James Corrigan wrote in The Telegraph that the deal is worth $10 million a year.)

From David Dusek's Golfweek.com report on the signing.

“I wasn’t really happy with the golf ball I was playing, and I needed to do something,” McIlroy said during his press conference Tuesday at the Players Championship. “I felt like I struggled in the wind. So I sort of went back to the drawing board and tested for about 10 days pretty extensively after Augusta. (I) worked with a lot of different things, but I worked with the TaylorMade guys one day and started just on TrackMan (launch monitor) on the range and saw stuff with the golf ball, that new T5x ball that they have. I thought, ‘Wow, this is what I need.’ This is exactly the thing that I’ve been struggling with, and this is, I feel, what I need.”