PGA Tour pros have access to just about everything they need in golf equipment, but that doesn’t always stop them from going to a store and shopping with us regular folks.
Especially for gear nerds like Justin Lower.
Lower was a guest on this week’s episode of GOLF’s Fully Equipped and the PGA Tour veteran told host Johnny Wunder that his favorite putter in his collection was actually a Rife Aruba that he bought for $50 at a golf shop in Augusta, Georgia.
“I do it all the time,” Lower said. “I go to golf shops and the first place I go is the used section. Just to see if there’s a relic there or something that someone turned in that might have a little bit of play, or maybe it was lost in a tour pro’s divorce or something and the wife turned it into a golf course, who knows?”
As you can imagine, with habits like this, Lower has developed quite a collection of golf clubs over the years.
“We’re building a house right now. And when I get my golf setup, I’ll do a quick run, a quick recap video of everything I have,” Lower joked.
Lower certainly isn’t the only pro who has visited a local golf shop.
During the 2022 FedEx St. Jude Championship, Rory McIlroy sent caddy Harry Diamond to a Memphis Edwin Watts Golf to make a subtle length adjustment to his putter.
Just last year, Mark Calcavecchia, winner of the 1980 Open Championship, bought a putter off the rack at the pro shop of the host club of that week’s PGA Tour Champions stop.
And in 2010, Jim Furyk famously bought a Yes! Sophia putted for less than $50 at a golf shop in Massachusetts during the Deutsche Bank Championship and ultimately used it to win the Tour Championship and the FedEx Cup later that month.
So the next time you visit your local golf shop, take a look around because a Tour pro might be doing the same thing.
For more from Wunder, Lower and Odyssey Tour rep Cody Hale, listen to the full episode of GOLF’s Fully Exhausted podcast hereor watch it below.
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