{"id":253983,"date":"2025-10-31T20:51:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T20:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/253983\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T20:51:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T20:51:12","slug":"mallets-dominate-pro-golf-and-putter-sales-but-could-blades-rise-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/253983\/","title":{"rendered":"Mallets dominate pro golf and putter sales, but could blades rise again?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ahead of next week\u2019s DP World Tour Playoffs, SMS on Tour, the DP World Tour\u2019s equipment surveying service, posted the address photos of each putter used by the top 70 qualifers.<\/a><\/p>\n

Just seven of them, 10 percent, were considered blade putters by modern standards. Go back 15 years and blades would likely make up the vast majority.<\/p>\n

On this week\u2019s episode of GOLF\u2019s Fully Equipped, Odyssey Tour rep Cody Hale<\/a> joined the show and told co-host Johnny Wunder that Odyssey\u2019s usage on the PGA Tour trends toward mallets<\/a> at an 80 percent clip.<\/p>\n

But Wunder raised the question, could players ever go back to blades? The other guest this week was PGA Tour pro Justin Lower who still uses a PXG protoype Anser-style blade.<\/p>\n

Wunder suggested the trend would only reverse when gear heads decide they want to go back to what worked for them before.<\/p>\n

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Hale didn\u2019t shrug him off. He also pointed out that while \u201czero torque\u201d putters are skyrocketing in the retail market, usage has stayed relatively flat at the professional level over the last year. But he also explained why so many players have gravitated toward mallets.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can build mallets that play like blades,\u201d Hale said. \u201cAnd obviously, mallets with more stability, but you get all the alignment of benefits out of different mallets.\u201d<\/p>\n

But with the rise of \u201czero torque\u201d putters<\/a>, could OEMs eventually build blade putters that play like mallets? Only time will tell but Hale said there\u2019s still a lot of intrigue around that category.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo it\u2019s going to be interesting to see where it goes because it\u2019s, you know, some of the zero torque models have, you know, there\u2019s still a lot of testing going on and we\u2019re still introducing a lot and we still feel like there\u2019s a lot of players that could benefit from it,\u201d Hale said. \u201cBut as far as the usage on Tour, I mean, it\u2019s sort of it\u2019s pretty level right now.\u201d<\/p>\n