Golf Monthly gets on board the brand new TaylorMade tour truck for 2025 to see what goes on, what the players get each week and some of the secrets of the trade when it comes to building clubs for some of the world's best players.
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00:00Right we have a special treat for you today behind me is the brand new for 2025
00:05tailor-made tour truck so we're gonna have a sneak peek inside meet the team
00:08find out what they get up to and see all of the different things they stock in there
00:12follow me oh wow good very impressive thank you very much for having us on the truck no worries
00:18so where should we start where do you where do you want to start so what is new for 2025
00:23okay so the glaring obviously thing that i would like to say about this the old truck versus what
00:29we've done on this truck is is right behind us in here is the office we had a fixed unit in our
00:34old truck which is a smaller office you could only really get about three people in there now i'll
00:39bring you through and you show you this big new office that we have so through here is now our
00:45meeting room come chill out area for our players that just want to escape what's going on hide from
00:50you guys the media wow yeah and so yeah it's just like we've got a workstation here so one thing we're
00:56big on is showing stats to players it helps when we're building clubs for these players like spotting
01:00gaps in their game where they can get better at um so we'll just sit here we've got hdmy ports that
01:05actually plug it up onto here so we can you can imagine if you're a player i can show you your stats
01:09from the weeks that you've played yeah and then we can just go through like what areas of the golf bag
01:14do we need to create something better for you to play better golf and that is one thing that we're
01:18doing here we have fridges that are in these cabinets here we've got a massive seating area there
01:22wireless chargers you know home away from home is pretty much debris for this truck i was going to
01:27say it is it is very spacious you could live in here quite comfortably yeah i mean trust me i'll be
01:33i'll be lying across there when there's nothing to do is this when the players come on here and they
01:36just want to relax have a chat yeah it's kind of primarily be where they hang out you imagine these
01:40players are away for eight weeks at a time right um you know they've got family at home it's nice to
01:44have the doors come shut now and then you can sit here facetime loved ones and make sure they're okay and then
01:50look forward to getting home i'd imagine so yeah we have like our hats just like general hats that
01:55are kept in here nicely hidden away oh yeah very nice and then the ones that are left there is all
01:59our player specific hats i'll show you those now yeah but normally we would have uh the golf on these
02:05tvs here um but yeah the players will come on and grab their own hats out of here and stuff like that
02:11each week so some familiar names there but mostly our dp world tour players very cool so that's the office
02:17um i'll just push this button here to get this star trekky door all of the mod cons yeah exactly
02:24and then um the kitchen area it's a very very very popular part of this truck mainly for caddies
02:31straight on double espresso straight to the range um so we can stop our snacks and stuff like that
02:36exactly um seating area either side so obviously what we wanted to try and do is when people come on
02:42this trailer is and not actually like feel like they have to always gravitate towards coming into
02:47the workshop um they don't want a shaft in the eye or anything like that and we don't we obviously
02:52don't want to do that so yeah we've worked out we could probably get about 12 people sitting down
02:57in the office and obviously in these areas as well our previous truck would have about five or six
03:02people being able to sit somewhere i was going to say is this quite a lot larger like square footage wise
03:07no so actually the trailer itself is not that much bigger okay obviously we're restricted for
03:12european driving laws yeah we can't go taller unless we want half a tour truck turning up in
03:17paris pretty tight in france yeah um so we can't go like that and we've gone like a hundred mil wider
03:22each side oh wow that's really not that much at all but what we've been able to do with uh the new
03:27generation of these trailers is the floor doesn't come up as high yeah so we've been able to shallow up
03:32the drawers keep the maximum amount of space but actually make more of an open plan area nice if
03:38you've seen our other truck as well we used to have big storage units across the truck um where we
03:43would keep a lot of stuff it just takes up so much room and it's quite ugly so we just try to get rid of
03:48that and and store a lot of it in here or underneath in the pods i was gonna say it's all very like neat
03:53and tidy everything looks very nicely kind of tucked away and it still has that new car smell um but it
03:59won't have that trust me a weekend it won't have that if it rains in belgium it won't be smelling
04:03this good so how many of you are typically come tournament week like on on deck so to speak so
04:10most weeks on tour would have one technician our technician alex is the is the best golf club builder
04:15in the world so we're very fortunate to have him um he he would predominantly be on this truck
04:20he's the face of the truck he uh the only thing he's not allowed to do which he'll agree with is
04:24he's not allowed to choose the music um because he listens to a lot of grime music and that's just
04:29not a vibe for me so i i have my own playlist that i'll put on but he controls it he's the face
04:33of the truck he gets on with everyone he's brilliant um so he'll predominantly be on here and then it's
04:37my job to get my track man and get out on the range and give him orders it's kind of like i'm the
04:41the ugly waitress and he's the head chef so i kind of place the orders with him and then i have
04:47to go and give it to the players so we'll just do a quick whiz around yeah i'm here and then um so our
04:53old trailer we had a shaft rack like i just said right down the end of the trailer yeah that used to be 50
04:57inches coming out which took up so much space so with the shaft rack behind us here is basically now
05:04what we've ended up with so we pull this up here and we get all about iron shaft iron shaft rack so
05:12we get unbelievable support from these guys it's free marketing for them as well like we want to
05:18get tailor-made product into the best players hands they want their arrows we call them in in our heads so
05:24they give us great support there and then in here we keep all of our graphite stuff
05:29and then this is the money draw here where we have our team tailor-made players so we have tiger
05:34scotty rory there for example colin and tommy in the next draw along charlie hull and nelly quarter
05:39you know we might see these guys once or twice a week uh twice a year sorry um but we just like to
05:45make sure that we if they do need anything we're on hand and we have stock the last thing we want to
05:49do is have tiger come on and say hey can i have a new lob wedge and we turn around and say sorry
05:54mate we haven't got your shop um which i don't think i'd call him mate but um i would i'd be like
06:00i'm so sorry let me find one mr woods yeah that's pretty much our shaft rack so again it looks neat
06:06and tidy looks part of the trailer yeah we didn't want people's eyes to come onto this truck and go
06:12hey that's where the shafts go we just wanted it to be nicely kept all branded quite nicely neat tidy
06:17everything has its place i'm liking the qi35 yeah neons as well yeah it is pretty cool but
06:23we've got so many of these strip leds in it to try and color match them all up is quite a hard time
06:27i can imagine but um yeah we get on with it well so the side that we're on here yeah would predominantly
06:32be alex's side of the truck so he will be here everything is built for speed on this trailer
06:38sometimes you have such a narrow window with a player and a practice around they're teeing off in
06:41half an hour we if if i place an order with alex for a driver he'd have it built in 25 minutes
06:46really yeah set ready to go that was going to be one of my next questions is how how long from
06:51yeah or the order hitting the deck yeah if it's the only order on yeah 25 minutes and is that is
06:57that the same for every club is that or does some take a full set of irons i mean we we do build quite
07:02a few irons on the truck but a lot of that is done like sort of like in-house and we ship it to
07:07the players so they can get used to them and stuff but got it set of vines on the trailer looking at
07:10an hour okay single golf club 25 minutes wow so it's quick turnaround time we're like a very very
07:16slow formula one pit crew yeah yeah yeah but in the eyes of like golf club building we're fairly quick
07:22yeah if that makes nice so yeah we have everything down here i'll open up some of these drawers for
07:27you to see so we've got phone cutouts now lovely marketing team love us for this yeah i can imagine
07:32it looks so beautiful um you know once two or three of these heads are missing out of the trailer
07:36i mean it doesn't look as great but we have everything locked and loaded this is now ready
07:41for our first event so everything in these drawers we are ready to go yeah um we'll go to sudal which
07:46will be notoriously looking back on the last nine years of doing this job is is the first truck event
07:52and we've got a new trailer this is gonna be busier than we've ever had it before so people will be
07:56coming on they might not need golf clubs but they'll definitely be coming on chilling on here yeah
08:00but yeah this is all fully ready um so that we've got like fairway woods in here we've got
08:04drivers we have irons down by where you are here we've got some wedge heads in here also so every
08:11bounce every loft everything you can think of high toe mg4 all of the weights are in the wall here so
08:17everything is component so the way it would work order comes in alex grabs his shaft comes over to
08:22here grabs what he needs the headwise flips around grind cut bend everything 25 minutes how how many
08:32how many kind of when you're at full capacity how many clubs are you as a total depends how many
08:38hours al wants to work if alex wants to work a full day which is i mean he's so quick at building yeah
08:44um you know we could build anything from i guess 100 units a day really and how like when you were at
08:49full capacity in terms of like heads shafts how many how many clubs are there on the truck at any one
08:55time hundreds i don't know just should we start counting yeah um well i've got about yeah 90 mg4
09:02i mean look we we tried to keep at least 12 of everything got it um drivers more so so like 20
09:07of each loft and driver um and then irons we keep six sets of each iron um because just you know you're
09:14never going to go through six sets a week right so the truck will come back for a restock but alex
09:19likes to keep you know 15 of each head 20 of each head just to make sure we're all good and is there like
09:23historically one event that is busier than any other kind of come the open i mean i mean to be
09:30honest with you the first truck event because these guys like i mean i landed from johannesburg this
09:34morning at 5am so i've been away i've been away i've done seven of eight weeks so far on tour this
09:39year and i've not seen a tour truck yet so the players are the same right so we we do a lot of work
09:43with them in middle east we kind of just fit everything i check in three flight cases at 32 kilos
09:48yeah and then we just we just crack on as soon as the truck hits that first truck event everyone's on
09:53here for loft and lies re-grips new wedges everything you imagine we've got that 12
09:57players and we're doing all of that it's it's a busy week um but yeah i mean we just we just try
10:02to make sure that the truck is is at best it can be for the the initial launch of it on the on on the
10:08dp world tour um but the open believe it or not is actually quite a quiet event for us oh really um
10:13yeah it's all in the preparation yeah obviously we have our limited edition staff bags and stuff like
10:18that that is all done in house carl our coordinator does everything with that i mean he embroidering
10:23and yeah all sorts he's an absolute gem for us in that front um but it's just like when you get to
10:29the event the icon players are very very dialed in what they have so you might build up a low bounce
10:33wedge for links golf yeah or something like that or a two iron so they can take five foot out or whatever
10:38but other than that it's kind of like they're all set yeah they know what they need and and then
10:42you just work away so that's that story you told earlier about colin murakawa switching in
10:47is that is that quite a rare occurrence there yeah is it yeah it's a cool story right i mean
10:51fantastic i mean it's like colin hadn't played a lot of links golf yeah so it's he came over and
10:56he was getting his uh p730s that was just sticking in the ground and can't get him out you know he's
11:00used to playing in america with a different grass and yeah we're just like hey he needs more bounce
11:05on his irons let's just go mc keep the same loft and liars swing weights everything the same and it's
11:09just yeah what next thing you know you're an open champion next thing you know you know yeah that's that's
11:14what we're in the game for though right i mean a hundred percent you know the element of trust he
11:18trusted us to uh to come up with something that was great and yeah yeah we produced on that on that
11:23front i mean we didn't actually hit any of the shots yeah still has to hit it right he's the god
11:27you do all the buildings and then there you go the f1 pit crew is a good yeah yeah good comparison
11:33slow f1 pit crew yeah yeah very cool so yeah we've got everything loaded in here yeah if we flip
11:38around to this middle counter now this is what i absolutely love about this trailer is the fact that
11:42i can be working on that side alex can be working on that side we're not interfering with anyone
11:46everything is here so putter loft and lie iron loft and life i've got a player and i'm just checking
11:51a lie i don't have to interfere with anyone just come on check away i go it's all very very well
11:56positioned i imagine a lot of thought went into it yeah yeah i mean this has been a three-year project
12:00for us yeah um you know you from sketching stuff on our old trailer with little bits of masking tape
12:07saying hey we could put this here to chalk drawings in our yard at the office oh really like that
12:11detail yeah of course because we just wanted to make sure that everything flowed yeah and you know
12:15if it didn't flow then we could we can make the changes on scrap bits of paper i guess you don't
12:19want to constantly be knocking into each other and exactly and that's that that's the thing that we
12:23didn't want to have we didn't want it to feel very very tight and claustrophobic and everyone just
12:27felt like they were in each other's way we wanted everyone to have a like a like a part to play
12:32do you have a favorite station is there one part is there one part of the build that you
12:36well i know alex is really enjoy alex is our part of specialist in europe he loves putters so he will be on
12:41this like you would not believe um for me i like i'll show you in a minute but i really like the
12:46grinding wheel because obviously you can recreate you know you you don't become a club assembly become
12:51a natural builder when you're designing your own grind um i like this machine uh loft and lie for
12:56the irons and i also love this station over here so this is our dela cruz machine the golf instruments
13:02machine which gives me the true loft and lie of a driver so where the driver goes in i can edit the lie
13:08at the top then i put the pins on the face and it tells me the loft so if you've got a 10 and a
13:13half degree driver and you've set it to lower yeah it would tell me what the actual true loft is like
13:18that okay so important when i'm cherry picking heads for like rory or someone like that that likes to see
13:22it look a certain way but i need to get the loft exactly the same do quite a lot of players play a
13:28slightly different loft to what you see on the head is yeah i mean we've got the fcts like the sleeves
13:34right so that's face changing technology so it also affects the loft but also how the golf club
13:39sits the lie angle of the golf club so when we have a a yearly product life cycle like we have
13:45obviously qi10 last year qi35 this year a great starting point is getting exactly the same loft for
13:50loft what is the new driver doing for a player versus what it did last year so we always use this
13:55machine to start start afresh and that they would be my favorite too and then you have the grinding
14:02wheel in a nice little cupboard in its own hole so we're just there we can just sort of shape away
14:07using this belt here recreate the grinds go from an america type grass to here's a lynx one yeah get
14:15it low spinning check-in whatever all of that cool stuff that is what i really like that gets the
14:20juices flowing almost i can imagine yeah safety goggles on for that bad boy safety goggles for ppe
14:26full ppe i'm not getting any sparks in my eyes you only get one set of eyes
14:31um and then that's pretty much our trailer to be honest everything you know that would be my side
14:35i have a select few of driver heads fairway heads over there so i can go ahead and build if alex is
14:39really busy i see you've got some grips over here as well and then i'll just show you here so we have
14:44just like the the player's shaft rack we also have the player's grip so oh wow you can imagine we've
14:49got like this is the tailor-made team tailor-made section here so we have like tiger and she's got
14:53scotty in the top so if i'm building something for tigers go straight over there gripping stations
14:58behind you there very cool and then this bit here with the fake grass a little bit of golf course vibe
15:04yeah this is our good to go section so caddy's sitting here let's say yeah he can just literally
15:10lean over and just grab them and we do have oh you've got some oh i see all of that yeah very nice
15:17so we just have everything ready to go golf balls golf balls they're in the clubbers
15:23ah okay let's have a look at some golf balls so this is our uh cubby holes if you like yeah
15:30for our players so you can go in and see like if we've got something for rory we'll just open up
15:35we've got rory mcroy's tp5x he's obviously just switching to tp5 so we'll just keep those in there
15:39as well just in case he ever wants to go back um so the players would come on grab this stuff
15:44normally take three dozen balls a week four gloves and three hats and obviously nike have these
15:49hats so we don't worry about those but then the player will come on go into the office and grab
15:54his out of his slot whatever which ones he wants for a week he might want a blue one for the week
15:57or a white one extra white or black or whatever so yeah that's pretty much it very very cool
16:03wow thank you so much for having us on pleasure to meet you got it and this place is yeah jealous
16:07you get to spend a lot of time on here yeah well we might not like it after a few years trust me
16:11all right take care