After picking up his third career win – and second in the last five starts – Michael Brennan shares some details on one of Titleist’s hottest prototype clubs.
Brennan took home the Baycurrent Classic Sunday in Japan off the back of an outstanding display off the tee where he led the field in accuracy – missing just five fairways all week, including none on Sunday – while ranking eighth in driving distance. As you can imagine, Brennan naturally led the field in SG: Off-the-Tee, taking over seven shots, his best performance of the season.
Because Brennan is one of the longest hitters on the PGA Tour and Yokohama Country Club measures a modest (for the PGA Tour) 7,322 yards on the scorecard, Brennan certainly doesn’t need to pull the big stick on every hole.
Instead, he often relied on his Prototype Titleist GTS 3W fairway wood off the tee. Brennan was the first player seen trying out for the club back in March, but we haven’t learned much more about that yet.
Brennan first tested the GTS 3W Proto (Titleist’s internal designation for the club) at the Texas Children’s Houston Open in March, during the launch of the GTS driver Tour. Since then, Titleist has released the GTS2 and GTS3 fairway woods both on Tour and later for sale, but there hasn’t been a look at the GTS 3W.
Even as other Titleist pros like Justin Thomas, Cameron Young and Robert MacIntyre have tested it or put it into play, no details have emerged – even when Brennan and Jackson Koivun found the winner’s circle with her
But on Sunday, Brennan shared some details about his trial and final decision to play for the club after their latest win in Japan.
“I kind of bounced around a couple different 3-woods this year, and I started playing this 3-wood I think at Colonial this year, which was in Ft. Worth. I’m pretty sure that was the week I switched to the 3-wood that I still play,” Brennan said Sunday. “Oh yeah, it’s been great. I feel like the spin consistency is better with that 3-wood for me. So when I toe the golf ball, it doesn’t go too, too far. When I heel it, it doesn’t spin too much and stays relatively consistent.”
Like its alleged siblings, the GTS2 and GTS3, the Prototype GTS 3W features a silver face, which was an addition Titleist made this year to make the faces appear more lofty. Many players respond to the brighter fairway wood and driver face by covering the ball better and achieving more consistent contact and launch.
In a departure from existing models, the Prototype GTS 3W has only one weight located in the center of the bottom of the club. The GTS2 and GTS3 both have flippable heel and toe sole weights to move the CG bias either right or left.
The only feature we can glean from the photos of the GTS 3W is that it appears to have a larger and flatter overall profile, with a similar face height to the GTS2. Since Brennan first played the GT1 3Tour fairway wood, as did Young, who also played the GTS 3W at times, it is reasonable to assume that the prototype occupies a similar role.
But Brennan added another comment that may indicate that this is something else.
“I feel like there’s a little bit of bias for me, which I think is good,” he said. “I usually play a cut with the longer clubs, so knowing it’s not going to go left super often gives me the freedom to swing hard.”
Titleist typically keeps most of their clubs with a fairly neutral flight bias in stock settings. If the GTS 3W really has a bias right to it, this would be something quite new.
It’s entirely possible that we won’t see what the GTS 3W ends up being for sale until Titleist’s next product cycle. Titleist took a similar approach during the third generation (2023) of the T Series irons in releasing a Tour-only T350 3-iron utility iron prototype. That prototype eventually inspired form for the utility U505 fourth generation in the lofts of 3 and 4 irons, but Titleist also launched an updated T350 iron prototype that we don’t have much information about.
But, with Titleist set to refresh its “1” product in the coming months after the initial GTS launch, gearheads can hope for some news on what the GTS 3W will become next.
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