Lando Norris Linked to Rose's McLaren Clubs at Cadillac Championship
Justin Rose will tee off this week at the PGA Tour’s Cadillac Championship with a new McLaren setup, and lando norris is part of the same orbit that helped push the move into view. The 45-year-old is taking a fresh set of irons into Miami after finishing second at the Masters this month and climbing to No. 5 in the world rankings.
The change lands at a sharp point in Rose’s season. He leads the PGA Tour in greens in regulation and sits seventh in strokes gained approach, but he is also two weeks from the PGA Championship, which makes a new bag a real test rather than a routine tweak.
Miami launch for McLaren Golf
McLaren Golf formally launched on Wednesday, and Rose was at the golf range’s formal launch in Miami. The company is trying to extend McLaren’s identity beyond Formula 1 and luxury cars, with a push into golf built around design and manufacturing precision.
Rose said he had been involved early, not just as a name on the project. “I’ve had the opportunity to be involved from the outset — working with the team, testing the clubs and helping shape what they’ve become,” he said on Tuesday. That hands-on role means the switch is not a blind jump into a new set of sticks.
Rose's new iron setup
At Trump National Doral, Rose is expected to debut a McLaren Series 1 combo set from 5-PW and a McLaren Series 3 4-iron. The rest of his bag will stay unchanged, so the move is concentrated in the part of the set that controls his scoring chances from the fairway and off the tee on longer holes.
That narrower shift matters because Rose is not coming in as a player searching for form. He has been using a mixed bag of clubs this year, but his results have been strong enough to put him near the top of the game while McLaren Golf is still getting its first public run.
Zak Brown and Lando Norris
Rose’s link to McLaren is not new. He has a long-standing relationship with Zak Brown, McLaren Racing’s CEO, and he is a regular golf partner of lando norris, who is an F1 world champion. Those ties explain why Rose was on hand in Miami as the brand moved formally into the sport.
The backdrop adds another layer. In 2019, Rose signed with the Japanese brand Honma and then quickly abandoned those clubs when his form fell off. This time he is testing a new setup while his season is trending the other way, with a Masters runner-up finish, a No. 5 world ranking and a major championship only two weeks away.
