Quick Answer: Rory McIlroy won the 2026 Masters with an all-TaylorMade bag: Qi4D driver playing 8 degrees, Qi10 3-wood, Qi4D 5-wood, Rors Proto irons, MG5 wedges, Spider Tour X putter and 2026 TP5 ball. Some published lists swap the two fairway woods, so verify specs before you copy any club.
Rory McIlroy shot 67-65-73-71 at Augusta National in April and finished 12-under par, one shot clear of Scottie Scheffler. Only Jack Nicklaus, Nick Faldo and Tiger Woods had won back-to-back Masters titles before him. Every club in his bag came from TaylorMade, and so did the ball.
Bag lists agree on the big pieces and split on the small ones. This page lines up the clubs Rory McIlroy used to win the 2026 Masters, shows where the published specs conflict, and says which version I trust. As of October 6, 2026, that Masters is still his only win of the year.
Rory McIlroy’s 2026 Masters bag, club by club
These specs show the bag he played at Augusta in April, not the bag he carries today. A later section covers what changed.
| Club | Model | Loft as played | Shaft | Where published lists disagree |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Driver | TaylorMade Qi4D | 9° head that plays at 8° | Fujikura Ventus Black 6X, 45 5/8 in. | One list shows 9° as the playing loft |
| 3-wood | TaylorMade Qi10 | 15° | Fujikura Ventus Black 8X | One list shows a Qi4D |
| 5-wood | TaylorMade Qi4D | 17.5° finished (other outlets say 18°) | Fujikura Ventus Black 9X | One list shows a Qi10 |
| 4-iron | TaylorMade P760 | 23° | Project X 7.0 | None found |
| 5-iron to 9-iron | TaylorMade Rors Proto | 26°, 30°, 34°, 38°, 42° | Project X 7.0 | None found |
| Wedges | TaylorMade MG5 | 46°, 50°, 54°, 61° | Project X 6.5 (Wedge version in the 61°) | One list shows a 60° lob wedge |
| Putter | TaylorMade Spider Tour X | 2° | Black stepless, 34.5 in. | Loft, insert and model name differ |
| Ball | TaylorMade TP5 (2026 model) | n/a | n/a | None found |
TaylorMade’s tour team supplied the lie angles, lengths and swingweights in the sections below. No second source confirms them.
Why Rory plays a 9-degree driver at 8 degrees
Rory’s Qi4D head carries a 9-degree stamp. His TaylorMade rep turns the sleeve two settings toward lower, so the club plays at 8. Rory likes the look of a low-lofted face and wants the center of gravity far back, and the weights handle the second part. Our loft sleeve guide explains how each click changes loft and face angle.
He runs two 4-gram weights in the front of the sole and two 11-gram weights in the back. TaylorMade says that setup gives him a higher, steadier spin window that holds up on low-face strikes. I wouldn’t copy 22 grams of rear weight blind, because it changes launch and curve differently for every swing.
He plays a Fujikura Ventus Black 6X that measures 45 5/8 inches, with a 1-inch tip trim and a D5 swingweight. Lie angle is 59 degrees. The grip is a black-and-white Golf Pride MCC with two wraps.
TaylorMade ran his fitting in the fall of 2025. He hit 30 shots, missed his target twice and carried the ball about 330 yards with a 117 rpm spread in spin, according to TaylorMade senior tour manager Adrian Rietveld.
Augusta backed up the fitting. Rory led the field in driving distance at 334 yards per measured drive, five yards past the next player. In the final round he averaged 325 yards and hit 71 percent of the fairways. He still missed some, and Golf Digest called his driving sketchy at times.
The Qi10 3-wood that came back for Augusta
Rory played Qi4D versions of both fairway woods in every start before the Masters. For Augusta, he put his old Qi10 3-wood back in the bag. It’s a 15-degree head with a Ventus Black 8X shaft.
The 5-wood stayed a Qi4D. TaylorMade finishes it at 17.5 degrees, which other outlets round to 18, with a Ventus Black 9X, a 58.5-degree lie, 41 5/8 inches of length and a D4 swingweight. Rory spent two seasons trying to improve that club, according to TaylorMade, and he landed on a spec he’s comfortable with.
He had the newest head available and still picked the old one for the biggest week of his year. Familiarity beats novelty at that level. If your old 3-wood still gets the ball in the air, keep it.
How Rory gaps his irons and wedges
Rory plays a P760 4-iron and Rors Proto muscleback blades from 5 through 9, all with Project X 7.0 shafts. TaylorMade says he has used this same combination for most of the last five years. He tried a different iron setup early in 2026 and went back to the blades before his PGA Tour opener at Pebble Beach in February.
Lofts run 23, 26, 30, 34, 38 and 42 degrees from the 4-iron through the 9-iron. His wedges follow at 46, 50, 54 and 61 degrees. Run the gaps and a pattern shows up.
He steps four degrees at every club from the 5-iron down to the 54-degree wedge, with a three-degree step between the 4-iron and 5-iron. The one big hole sits between the 54 and the 61, seven degrees apart.
Lie angles start at 59 degrees in the 4-iron and climb half a degree per club to 61.5 in the 9-iron. His wedges sit at 62 degrees in the 46 and 63 in the other three. The 9-iron and the 46-degree wedge share a length of 36 1/4 inches.
The 61-degree lob wedge started as a 60-degree low-bounce head that his tour team bent to 61. TaylorMade says the extra degree adds a little bounce, which helps a low-bounce wedge sit properly on tight grass like Augusta’s. Rory wanted easier 40-to-70-yard shots. His team also built him a fresh lob wedge before the week so he had new grooves.
The 2026 TP5 and Rory’s partial wedge shots
Rory moved to the updated 2026 TP5 at the start of the year. He says it spins more consistently, launches a little lower and holds its line better on off-center strikes.
That consistency changed how he plays partial shots. With this ball, he says, a full wedge shot spins straight back off the green, so he learned to hit half and three-quarter wedges instead. The habit spread up through his bag, and he now plays those shots with clubs as long as a 6-iron.
The 12th hole on Sunday shows the payoff. He hit a three-quarter 9-iron into the 155-yard par 3 and left it about seven feet from the hole, then made the birdie putt. Rory called that shot and his 350-yard drive on 13 the two key shots of the week.
My read: the seven-degree hole between his 54 and 61 doesn’t cost him because he fills it with partial swings. That’s the part of this bag a weekend golfer can use. Our tour ball comparison is a good place to start if you want to test what a tour ball does to your own wedge spin.
Spider Tour X putter specs
Rory’s Spider Tour X has a short slant hosel, a full sightline and a Pure Roll insert. It’s 34.5 inches long with 2 degrees of loft and a 69-degree lie. The shaft is black and stepless, and the grip is a SuperStroke Pistol Tour with one wrap.
He has played the torched-finish version since the 2024 Tour Championship. TaylorMade’s tour rep says it carries 30 degrees of toe hang and a flatter lie angle, which gives Rory the face rotation his moderate arc needs. He opens the face going back and closes it coming through, and the short slant hosel suits that motion.
Where the published bag lists disagree
Golf Digest’s list, which Yahoo Sports republished, shows a Qi4D 3-wood and a Qi10 5-wood. TaylorMade’s own breakdown, GolfWRX, Golf.com and MyGolfSpy all show the reverse. I go with the reverse, because the manufacturer and three outlets agree.
The putter splits too. Golf Digest lists a Spider Tour X X3 with 3 degrees of loft and a True Roll insert. TaylorMade lists a Spider Tour X with 2 degrees and a Pure Roll insert, and GolfWRX names the same Spider Tour X. I side with TaylorMade because its tour reps work on the club.
Two smaller conflicts matter if you’re copying specs. Golf Digest shows a 9-degree driver, which is the head’s stamped loft and not the 8 degrees he plays. Golf Digest also shows a 60-degree lob wedge, while TaylorMade and GolfWRX list it at 61.
I can’t see inside his bag, so treat every number here as a strong report. Before you quote a loft to the half degree, check in-hand photos from the week.
The bag after Augusta
The table shows an April snapshot. Before the Memorial in June, GolfWRX’s tour report said Rory tested a heavier Ventus Black 7X shaft in his driver, in place of the 6X he used at Augusta. The same report said he swapped his two 11-gram rear weights for two 13-gram weights. That adds 4 grams to the head and roughly 10 grams to the shaft, and the goal is stability.
I haven’t confirmed which of those changes stayed in the bag through October. His next scheduled start is the DP World India Championship, October 15 to 18, so another tweak is possible.
Did Rory McIlroy win anything else in 2026?
No. Through early October, the Masters is his only 2026 win. He finished tied for seventh at the PGA Championship, tied for 32nd at the US Open, tied for 40th at The Open and tied for fourth at the Tour Championship.
Aaron Rai won the PGA Championship at Aronimink, Ryan Fox won The Open at Royal Birkdale, and Scottie Scheffler took the FedExCup. His 2026 schedule lists no World Cup. Searches for the clubs he used to win any other 2026 event point to wins that didn’t happen.
Which parts of Rory’s bag are worth copying
Copy the wedge gapping first. Check the loft of your pitching wedge against your sand wedge. A gap of 10 degrees or more leaves a yardage you can’t hit with a full swing, and even Rory’s seven-degree hole needs partial shots to cover it.
Practice half and three-quarter wedges next. Rory says the habit spread through his bag as far as the 6-iron, and it costs nothing but range time.
Skip the blades. Rors Proto muscleback irons punish off-center strikes, and Rory’s strike pattern isn’t yours. Test a ball before you test a driver, because the ball changed how Rory plays his partial shots.
This setup isn’t for everyone, and the driver shows it. A 6X shaft suits a swing that averages 334 yards at Augusta. If your swing speed sits well below tour level, a softer flex will find more fairways and lose less distance.
Quick answers about Rory’s clubs
What driver does Rory McIlroy use?
He won the 2026 Masters with a TaylorMade Qi4D, a 9-degree head that plays at 8 degrees. The shaft was a 45 5/8-inch Fujikura Ventus Black 6X. He tested a heavier 7X shaft before the Memorial in June.
What putter does Rory McIlroy use?
A TaylorMade Spider Tour X with a short slant hosel, 34.5 inches long with 2 degrees of loft. He has played the torched-finish version since the 2024 Tour Championship.
What golf ball does Rory McIlroy play?
The 2026 TaylorMade TP5. He moved to the updated model at the start of the year after playing the previous TP5 in 2025.
Is Rory McIlroy’s whole bag TaylorMade?
At the 2026 Masters, yes. Every club and the ball came from TaylorMade. His wedges are MG5s, his irons are Rors Proto blades with a P760 4-iron, and his fairway woods split between the Qi10 and Qi4D families.
How far does Rory McIlroy hit his driver?
He averaged 334 yards per measured drive at the 2026 Masters, the longest in the field. His 350-yard drive on the par-5 13th on Sunday set up a birdie.
Did Rory McIlroy use the same clubs to win the 2025 Masters?
Mostly. He kept the Qi10 3-wood, the Rors Proto irons and the Spider Tour X, and he changed to a Qi4D driver, a Qi4D 5-wood and the updated TP5.
Before you copy any of it
The clubs Rory McIlroy used to win the 2026 Masters make a good reference because they won, but the exact bag changed by June. Start with his gapping and his partial-wedge habit, since both cost almost nothing to try. If your wedge lofts have a big hole in them, our wedge gapping guide walks through the fix.