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Last month, one of the leading automotive companies made its way into a different sporting sector.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
McLaren, which is a British automotive company\u00a0and one of the premier Formula 1 teams, launched McLaren Golf. The company announced that\u00a0its\u00a0first professional golf partner was Justin Rose, the\u00a02013 U.S. Open champion.\u00a0 It also partnered with retired LPGA star Michelle Wie West, who came out of retirement to compete with the clubs at the Mizuho America\u2019s Open in early May and will play the U.S. Women\u2019s Open presented by Ally next week.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Rose debuted his new McLaren clubs at the Cadillac Championship held from 30 April to 3 May. He finished tied for 65th\u00a0place\u00a0with a score of\u00a02 over par\u00a0for the four-day tournament\u00a0in Miami, Florida, the same weekend as the F1 Miami Grand Prix,\u00a0where two McLaren drivers,\u00a0Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri, placed second and third,\u00a0respectively.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s something I\u2019ve been involved with from the outset \u2014 really helping the engineering team, really testing the very first editions of the club,\u201d Rose said before the Cadillac Championship. \u201cI\u2019ve been kind of working with the project for well over a year, probably. It\u2019s been exciting to, this week, finally launch it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rose, who won the 2026 Farmers Insurance Open in February,\u00a0has seen a dip in his play in recent weeks. After his tied-for-65th-place finish at the Cadillac Championship, Rose finished tied for 45th at the Truist\u00a0Championship but\u00a0bounced back with a top-10 finish at the PGA Championship, the second of four major championships on the men\u2019s side.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The 45-year-old Englishman insisted that his\u00a0two-week\u00a0dip in play\u00a0wasn\u2019t\u00a0because of his brand-new irons.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe testing process is an interesting one. You go through it, but not until you put something in play do you\u00a0kind of have\u00a0the time or the real ability to get comfortable with it,\u201d Rose said before his T-10 at the PGA Championship.\u201cSo, yeah, it might take a little bit of time to get fully, fully, fully comfortable just looking at something different, but yeah, it\u2019s been a very measured approach and something I\u2019m very excited about and something I\u2019ve really, really enjoyed doing.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n