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Gary Woodland and TaylorMade Spider range headline RBC Heritage reveal

TaylorMade is set to unveil a new Spider proto range at the RBC Heritage this week as Gary Woodland and other PGA Tour players watch closely.

The Most Successful Putter Franchise On The PGA Tour In 2026 Will See A New Launch At The RBC Heritage This Week
The Most Successful Putter Franchise On The PGA Tour In 2026 Will See A New Launch At The RBC Heritage This Week

is set to unveil a new proto Spider range at the this week, with the Spider Tour and Spider Tour X expected to be the main standouts as the putter family keeps running through the PGA Tour. and other players have watched the Spider line become one of the most visible equipment stories of 2026.

The range has been everywhere this year. TaylorMade's Spider models featured in five of the first six wins on the PGA Tour in 2026, won the 2025 and 2026 Masters with the Spider Tour X, and has gone on to claim 14 PGA Tour victories since switching to the Spider putter. Four of the current world's top 10 use a Spider model of sorts, while 40% of the world's top 20 have a Spider Tour putter in their bags.

McIlroy first added the Spider Tour X to his bag at the 2024 Tour Championship, and the model has stayed central to his setup through two Masters titles. That kind of continuity matters in a week like this, because the RBC Heritage is the PGA Tour's fourth Signature Event and one of the clearest stages TaylorMade has to show where the line is headed next.

posted pictures of the new heads on April 13, 2026, saying it had snapped shots of the new TaylorMade Spiders at the RBC Heritage and pointing first to the Spider Tour F, a winged or fanged mallet design already used by and tested by . Fleetwood trialed a TaylorMade Tour F before returning to his current Spider Tour gamer, which gives the reveal a small but telling wrinkle: the shape may be new, but the trust still has to be earned.

The new proto TaylorMade Spider Tour and Tour X are the main standouts, with Spider Tour V and Spider Tour F shapes also appearing in the range. For a brand that has already turned the Spider into a staple on tour, this week's reveal is less about a fresh paint job than whether the next version can keep the same players rolling the same way.

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