The new TaylorMade TP Black line of putters is the latest instalment of traditional blade and mallet shapes all featuring the company’s roll-enhancing grooved face insert, along with seven distinct hosel/shaft bend orientations and all at a relatively affordable price.
Putting coach Bill Smittle encourages golfers to test their performance with both blade and mallet putters to see if they are right for them, but generally, players who struggle with distance control or alignment are good candidates for mallet putters.
The Ping PLD Milled line-up expands to include two classic Anser blade additions (notably Tony Finau’s Anser 2D) and three mallets, including the DS72 model that Viktor Hovland used on his way to winning the FedEx Cup last year.
Different back then, familiar now. Thomas went on to shoot 65 in the second round and eventually finished T-12 while getting on the plus side of the ledger in putting.
With eight models in each line, the putters all feature faces with LA Golf’s descending loft technology, where the loft changes from four degrees at the top of the face to one degree at the bottom of the face to ensure the same ideal launch angle for consistent forward roll.
The Titleist Scotty Cameron Phantom line of putters for 2024 features 10 fresh takes on several familiar shaped modern mallets milled from 303 stainless steel with lightweight 6061 aircraft aluminium flange and sole plate components.
The HB Soft 2 putters present a family of nine affordable models that feature different shapes geared to different stroke type, but their most important feature again is the complex variably milled faces.
Putting is normally a key component to success on the PGA Tour. Given that, it seems logical to take a look at every putter used to win a tour event over the course of the season. As the 2024 season kicks off this month with 38 regular-season and FedEx Cup Playoff events, let’s take a Read more…
The new Titleist Scotty Cameron Super Select putters maintain a fresh approach to classic shapes with renewed efforts to add forgiveness by distributing more weight to the heel and toe.
TaylorMade expands its Spider line-up to include a new high-stability mallet, the GTx, and the GT Max, an oversize mallet with adjustable weights on its parallel arms that change the centre of gravity’s distance from the face to make it feel, swing and perform like multiple putters in one.
In a fascinating two-part video series, Dr Sasho Mackenzie uses advanced 3D modelling to explain the effects two different putter styles had on a group of golfers.
When Ping commemorated the 55th anniversary of the patent for its legendary Anser putter with limited-edition milled versions in aluminium bronze, stainless steel and copper at three different drops earlier this year, the average time it took for any of those runs to sell out was approximately 180 seconds. Now, the company is set to Read more…