Coming into the PGA Tour’s final full-field event of 2024, this week’s RSM Classic, Sweden’s Ludvig Aberg may not have felt a lot of motivation to make a change to his driver. After all, the 25-year-old former Texas Tech star ranked 12th on the PGA Tour in Strokes Gained: Off the Tee (0.538) and 21st in average driving distance at 310.5 yards.
But Aberg changed anyway, removing the Titleist TSR2 driver he had used all year to earn eight top-10 finishes and $9,728,857 in prize money and adding a new Titleist GT2 in its place.
Aberg’s GT2 has 9 degrees of loft, but the SureFit adjustable hosel is set in the D4 position, which adds 0.75 degrees of loft without changing the lie angle. The club appears to be fit with the same Fujikura Ventus Black 6 X shaft Aberg used throughout 2024.
Aberg is returning to action after having knee surgery he had following the Tour Championship. That break, and playing one PGA Tour event before the holiday season, may have created the perfect chance to test the new Titleist driver in competition.
On Thursday, Aberg averaged 311 yards per drive off the tee, and on the 584-yard, par-5 seventh hole, his drive went 350 yards.