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This putter pretty much started the rage last year<\/p>\n
L.A.B. Golf<\/p>\n
Perhaps the hottest trend in golf equipment right now: Zero torque putters. Understandable, because this type of putter is designed to keep the face square through impact and let the ball roll effortlessly toward your target. And you\u2019ll feel no resistance throughout your stroke. Golfers are raving about how they\u2019re sinking more putts with them. I\u2019ve been communicating with a lot of PGA Professionals at courses around the country lately, and many have told me that they cannot keep zero torque putters in stock. Golfers love them that much. And apparently price is no obstacle. Many are selling for north of $500.<\/p>\n
But before I tell you what\u2019s available, first know that the \u201cno torque\u201d label is a bit misleading. These putters do have some torque. Also, while they\u2019re amazing at getting the ball going in your intended direction, you still need to read the putt and the green, and you still need to properly gauge how hard of a stroke to take.<\/p>\n
The first time I tried one was last year. It was the L.A.B. Golf DF3 mallet<\/a>. I found it to be forgiving, stable, and \u201cfully automatic\u201d \u2013 meaning it felt as if gravity was guiding the putter on the correct path all the way back and through the stroke. It was honestly a crazy feeling. L.A.B. is pretty much the leader of this putter category. \u201cL.A.B.\u201d stands for the manufacturer’s patented Lie Angle Balance technology. The company promises that this putter will naturally return to square at impact without any need for you to manipulate it.<\/p>\n The head on this particular model is unique. It\u2019s a center-shafted, flat-bottom model in which the shaft connects right behind the front flange and directly into an oddly shaped ring that\u2019s hollow in the middle. That hole is referred to as a \u201cGimme Getter\u201d as it\u2019s a golf ball-shaped cutout designed to scoop a ball when you press it onto the ball. You can order it \u2013 and the company\u2019s other zero torque putters \u2013 in a stock model or customize it for length, colors, grip, shaft, alignment markings, and head weights. <\/p>\n In this case, I was extremely impressed with how easy it was to control putt speed. Putts within three feet were near-automatic. And it was surprisingly simple to get a quick feel from those over 20 feet. Plus, the alignment was pretty spot on. Off-center hits from the heel and toe somehow still made it to the target, making me a believer in the forgiveness promise. And all throughout, putts sounded pretty solid.<\/p>\n The new Rossie zero torque model <\/p>\n Odyssey Golf<\/p>\n The past few weeks, I\u2019ve been using Odyssey\u2019s gorgeous new red-and-black, square-to-square S2S Tri-Hot Rossie half-mallet<\/a>. Due to its aluminum, steel and tungsten construction, its center of gravity lies forward enough so the shaft enters the head on the topline \u2013 eliminating the need for any shaft lean. Its dual-layer urethane insert has a soft outer and firm inner layer, to deliver consistent ball speed and enhanced forward roll. I\u2019m normally a blade user, but this old Ray Cook-style head just speaks to me. It\u2019s super easy to line up. And several times when I\u2019ve pulled the putter out at either a golf course or on the putting green, other people have come by to check it out and try it. Looks and feels great.<\/p>\n Other zero torque putters are just hitting the market, including Bettinardi\u2019s Antidote SB3<\/a> and TaylorMade\u2019s Spider ZT<\/a>, among others. If you\u2019re contemplating a switch, the best thing you can do is try them out first before you buy \u2013 either at a store or a demo day. Make sure to take your natural putting stance and alignment, and then putt away. You want it to fit your stroke, rather than the other way around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This putter pretty much started the rage last year L.A.B. Golf Perhaps the hottest trend in golf equipment…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[133887,49,48,622,133886,133885,45878,133891,133888,82,132077,133890,133889],"class_list":["post-297640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-bettinardi","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-l-a-b","tag-lab-golf","tag-odyssey","tag-putter","tag-putters","tag-sports","tag-taylormade","tag-torque","tag-zero-torque"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}