UNIVERSITY PLACE, Wash. – Daniel Summerhays, who sprinted toward the top of leaderboard Friday in the second round of the U.S. Open, made an unusual equipment decision heading into the year’s second major championship.
He shortened 13 clubs in his bag – everything but the putter – by a full inch. He went from standard length to one inch below standard.
Summerhays explained he had been experimenting for several weeks, choking down on all his clubs by roughly an inch.
At the start of U.S. Open week, he asked Ping technicians to build him a new set of clubs, all one inch shorter than his previous clubs.