Xander Schauffele was able to play his first round on Thursday in Hawaii, at the Tournament of Champions (26th, -3), with his new driver Callaway Paradym Triple Diamond… yet he had white lines on the face added by the player.
Alignment marks made by Hideki Matsuyama on his 3 wood at the Memorial Tournament in June 2022 had earned the Japanese a disqualification.
Xander Schauffele, driver
For a very similar case the American Xander Schauffele was spared Thursday in Hawaii in the 1st round of the Tournament of Champions.
Difficult to find it. Winner of this tournament in 2019, on the Kapalua Plantation Course, Schauffele “wants to see the face of his club”, explained his caddy, Austin Kaiser, on the GolfWRX Instagram account, with supporting photos.
We can indeed see that the white, horizontal traces are obvious, but there is a nuance compared to the Japanese winner of the Masters 2021. In the photo above we see that the marks were made with white felt, while those observed on the Matsuyama fairway wood, last June in Ohio, had been made with white paint.
Another nuance, the traces on the driver of the Japanese delimited the shape of a ball, while those of Schauffele are all horizontal and spaced out, without revealing the impact zone of a golf ball. Like last year, it is…
