Rory McIlroy WITB: Every club Rory has in play after major off-season shake-up
Take a deep dive inside the golf bag of the 2025 Masters champion after an off-season filled with huge equipment shakeups.
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It's rarely a quiet year on tour when you're Rory McIlroy, but even by the Northern Irishman's lofty standards, he had a heck of a 2025.
With his historic, emotional triumph at The Masters in April last year, McIlroy became just the sixth player in the modern era to complete the career grand slam, joining Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus and fellow TaylorMade staff player Tiger Woods.
McIlroy kept a relatively strong vein of form throughout the rest of the year that followed, finding himself broadly in contention at all three of the additional majors before closing the year by helping lead Team Europe to a storming away victory at the Ryder Cup.
As perhaps the most popular active player on tour right now, Rory's bag and choice of equipment comes under perhaps more scrutiny than any other major name in world golf. When he switches clubs, balls or even shafts, it tends to make headlines. Likewise, his general hesitancy to adopt new clubs unless he's 100% happy with them tends to lead to much speculation among pundits.
However a number of major equipment moves from McIlroy over the off-season have seen him open the 2026 DP World Tour season with a radically different set-up compared to last year.
Indeed, aside from his wedges and putter, he's playing with an entirely new bag, having adopted a full suite of new Metalwoods and, for the first time in his decade-long partnership with TaylorMade, new irons. Read on to see just what's changed.
Age | 36 |
Turned pro | 2007 |
Major wins | 5 |
PGA Tour wins | 29 |
DP World Tour wins | 20 |
Rory McIlroy WITB (January 2026)
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TaylorMade Qi4D Driver (9 degrees; Fujikura Ventus Black 6 X) | |
TaylorMade Qi4D (3-Wood, 15 degrees, Fujikura Ventus Black 8 X; 5-Wood, 18 degrees; Fujikura Ventus Black 9 X) | |
TaylorMade P-760 (4), TaylorMade P7CB (5-9; Project X 7.0) | |
TaylorMade MG5 (46, 50, 54, 60 degrees; Project X 6.5) | |
TaylorMade Spider Tour X | |
Driver & Woods: TaylorMade Qi4D
The story of Rory's journey towards TaylorMade's most recent driver is far from a straightforward one. Hesitant to let go of the Qi10 woods that served him so well throughout 2024, McIlroy kept the same woods in the bag throughout the entirety of the 2025 season after famously failing to get aligned with the quirks of the Qi35 – including a notorious incident where he spent almost $1000 to have his old woods Ubered to Bay Hill from his Palm Beach home.
McIlroy did attempt one more time to switch into the newer model at the Canadian Open — putting a full suite of Qi35 woods in the bag for that week's tournament. However after missing the cut he switched back to the Qi10 family.
TaylorMade seem to have got things right with the Qi4D, however, and McIlroy (along with fellow TaylorMade staffers Scottie Scheffler and Tommy Fleetwood) quickly switched into the new model after it was added to the USGA's conforming list late last year.
Speaking to GolfMagic at TaylorMade’s Qi4D launch at The Kingdom in Carlsbad, TaylorMade Director of Product Creation Andrew Oldknow revealed that McIlroy made the decision to put the new model in play after hitting less than a handful of shots with it.
“I think Rory was after three or four hits. He just turned around and said, ‘we can go to lunch now because this is better than my driver’."
Mcilroy has adopted a full suite of Qi4D metalwoods for the coming season, sticking true to his longtime preference for Fujikura Ventus Black shafts while switching out the heads only.
The TaylorMade Qi4D Driver is among the Best Golf Drivers we've tested this season, while the Qi4D Fairway Woods also performed admirably in our initial tests. Rory's immediate stamp of approval, however, is perhaps the ultimate endorsement.
Irons: TaylorMade P760, TaylorMade P7CB
McIlroy holds a standing in the TaylorMade staff team only matched by players like Tiger Woods and Scottie Scheffler, meaning he has access to clubs not just customised to suit his game, but fashioned from the ground-up specifically for him. As such, until this year, Rory was one of the only players on tour to play a model, affectionally dubbed the RORS PROTO, that were broadly unavailable for general purchase.
As such, it was a massive shock to the equipment world when Rory took to the course at the Australian Open late last year with a half-set of more forgiving cavity-back P7CBs in his bag. McIlroy would go on to make the switch total early in 2026, playing his first matches of that year's TGL season with a full suite of P7CBs and seemingly shelving his namesake blades permanently.
As noted by equipment insider SMS on Tour, McIlroy's new irons are predictably a fair bit different to the P7CBs you can buy off the rack. They have a customised leading edge, designed to mirror that of the P760 4-iron he also uses, and less offset to aid his turf interaction. Like his old Proto blades, the new P7CBs are fitted with Project X 7.0 shafts.
Wedges: TaylorMade MG5
One new TaylorMade release Rory has been enthusiastic in adopting is the TaylorMade MG5 family of wedges, which released last month and have already found their way into the Northern Irishman's bag. As the first fully-forged wedges ever released in TaylorMade's signature wedge line, the MG5s are already earning plaudits for their enhanced feel and exceptional workability around the greens.
Eschewing a pitching wedge, McIlroy uses four MG5 wedges starting at a 46 degree loft, working all the way up to a 60 degree lob wedge (which McIlroy has bent to a 61 degree lie).
Putter: TaylorMade Spider Tour X 'Small Slant'
Already one of the most iconic putter pairings on Tour, Rory and his TaylorMade Spider created a moment for the ages at Sunday's Irish Open final round, holing an incredible 28-foot eagle putt at the 18th to force a playoff and eventually win on the third playoff hole.
The Irish made for one of Rory's most prolific weekends ever with the putter, and the Spider came alive when he needed it most—McIlroy's final day charge to the top of the leaderboard included 160 feet of holed putts.
Rory's Spider build is a fairly conventional one—McIlroy opting for the company's pure roll insert, a small slant neck and a torched black and blue finish. The small slant neck aims to combine the performance of a blade with the benefits of a mallet design, with the weights positioned further forward to increase toe hang while maintaining MOI.
The package is finished off with a SuperStroke Zenergy Pistol Tour grip.
Golf Ball: TaylorMade TP5
McIlroy made headlines early this season reverting back to the TaylorMade TP5 from the TP5x ball he had previously gamed for years—the brand citing the model's slightly lower ball flight and Rory's preference for a slightly softer feel as the reason he made the switch.
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Brad Nash is Reviews Editor at GolfMagic, having joined the team in June 2025 to look after all things reviews, soft goods testing and equipment alongside Equipment Editor Georgina. Primarily a writer, you may see him pop up in videos or on the GolfMagic socials from time to time.