Tommy Fleetwood impresses with newly designed prototype putter at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship

Tommy Fleetwood flaunted his new putter, the TaylorMade TP Soto Truss TF prototype at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship.

Fleetwood guided the design for the putter and the making started in May when he traveled to California to discuss the designs with the team. The final putter has the characteristics of his previous club, Odyssey White Hot Pro, with the technology of Truss Hosel for stability.

Fleetwood expressed his exaltation after getting his new putter, via PGA Tour:

“The guys at TaylorMade, they have done an amazing job like we spoke about, designing something like a little bit different…It's felt really, really good…Definitely sort of the second half of this year, like through the summer I haven't putted as well or converted as many putts as we'd have liked,” Fleetwood said.

He continued, “We've been working on that and I happened to bump into Ken [Brown] and Howler [David Howell] on the course and we were talking about a couple of things. Working on sort of how I move my head in my stroke in a couple of practice drills and what happens there.It's sort of difficult these days. I love testing my equipment and testing things that are new and different, but it's so difficult with the way the schedule is."

Tommy Fleetwood is in second place at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship, scoring 10 under. He played only the first round of the event, where he scored 62 with three birdies on the front nine and five on the back nine.

Fleetwood played in the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship before this tournament. He finished third in his last DP World Tour event. He also played the Acciona Open de Espana to finish at T3 and the BMW PGA Championship to settle at T12. His other DP World Tour appearances were a first-place finish at the Dubai Invitational and a T14 at the Hero Dubai Desert Classic.

Tommy Fleetwood’s WITB in 2024 and 2023

In 2024, Tommy Fleetwood has a TaylorMade Qi10 LS driver and a TaylorMade BRNR Mini Driver. He has TaylorMade Hi-Toe 3 Wedge (52°) and Titleist Vokey Design WedgeWorks Proto in wedges.

Added to these, Fleetwood has TaylorMade Qi10 5-wood (18.0°) and TaylorMade Qi10 7-wood (21°) in woods, and TaylorMade P7TW (4-PW) irons. The golfer also got a TaylorMade blade putter and a TaylorMade TP5x pix ball.

In 2023, Fleetwood had a TaylorMade Stealth 2 Plus driver, TaylorMade BRNR Mini Driver, TaylorMade Stealth 2 fairway wood, TaylorMade P7TW irons, Titleist Vokey Design wedges, and Odyssey White Hot Pro 3 putter. He also had a TaylorMade TP5x pix ball and wore shoes from Nike.