Parshooter36

I'd take the tickets. I know my game is not good enough for Augusta.

I played my 1st round of the year last night. My watch only gives me total putts per round, so I decided to start tracking some more in depth numbers in preperation for this review. I'll be interested to see how the numbers look after I get a few rounds under my belt.

I played my 1st round of the year after work last night and played great. I was a bit concerned as I have been making some swing changes in recent weeks through my GolfTec lessons and my simulator results have been hit or miss. They still have the tees forward, so I wouldn't consider it an official round but I managed a 2 over 72 which is phenomenal for me. Especially for the 1st time out!

Congrats to the testers!

Our greens just opened yesterday, so I am ready to start testing!

I use a Bushnell V5 Slope range finder and a Garmin S70 watch. I like the accuracy of the range finder on approach shots and the shot tracking data the watch provides.

Very nice article. Global Golf and 2nd Swing are where I buy most of my golf clubs. There are some great deals to be had.

I am generally a mid-size pistol grip guy, which they didn't have as an option. I decided to go all in on the Edel philosophy and went with the round standard grip. I am very interested to see how I get on with it, but I have a spare Golf Pride Tour SNSR grip just in case.

It does not take me long at all. The greens on my home course are fairly slow, but I play once a week with my dad and at his course the greens are as fast as I play all year. As long as I can spend a few minutes on the practice green before the round I can adjust to the speed most of the time. I am going from an insert putter to a milled face putter, so it will be an adjustment but I don't expect it will be a problem.

I found a deal on a used Dark Speed LS and had some store credit burning a hole in my virtual pocket, so I pulled the trigger.

I rolled a few more with the F-3 after my lesson at GolfTec this weekend. I can't wait to get this putter in hand so I can start testing.

That was very comparable to the fitting I had. Nice work on the video btw, I watched the entire thing. I would say the only downfall of the fitter was not listening in the beginning when he asked if you preferred a different look and you clearly said the blade. He clearly was trying to replicate the putter you already use, which I can't really blame him since your gamer alignment test was dead on. Mine was a good 6 inches right if the puck! But still, he should have done the tests with the blade as well to see if you would get similar results. Personally, I would have asked to do the alignment and distance tests with the blade. I mean you paid for the fitting, so your opinion should count for something.

I am righty all the way, but I know a few people that play opposite handed. It seems to be fairly common with people that grew up playing hockey.

I have midsize CP2 wraps throughout the bag. It's been my go to grip for the past 10 years. I've tried other grips from time to time, but I always come back to the CP2s.

There is a minty set of TS3's in with regular Kuro Kage shafts on ebay for a nice price right now. I wish it went to 6 iron as its only 8-GW, but it is still tempting.

I don't expect it will take long, I have several putters at home and don't seem to have much trouble switching between them. I don't usually take them to the course, but I do practice with them at home when I am struggling to start my gamer on target. I find that a different look can sometimes get me out of whatever funk I'm in.

I tested it with multiple heads, multiple hosels, and with my gamer. The T-Bar was the only thing I could seem to square up. Shortening the shaft to get my eyeline where they wanted it probably helped as well.

The fitter said the F-1 had slightly better numbers for me, but it was so close that I could go either way. I could easily game any of the 3 mallets, but the F-3 just suits my eye a little better. I gamed a L.A.B. DF2.1 the 1st half of last season. I no longer have it, so I can't do a direct comparison but I do have some experience with them. I am basically going the opposite way with this putter as the slant neck gave me the best path numbers and also gives the most toe hang.

I am super excited to get my hands on the F-3 after my fitting. Check out the before and after pictures on my alignment. It's hard to see the laser on the wall, so I pointed them out with the arrows. The 1st picture is with the 3-line alignment plate that was similar to the alignment lines on my gamer. This picture is after the fitting with the T-Bar alignment plate and me choking down the the 34" shaft length that they fit me into. In the past I had been fit into 36" putters, so this will be quite a bit different than putters that I have used over the past 10 years. If my aim is really off as much as this test shows, then who knows how much better my putting could be!

My intro is up, enjoy!

The propietary charging cable is unfortunate. Luckily, I bought my wife a Garmin Vivoactive 5 for Christmas so now we have a backup cable in case we lose one. I will say after 6 months of use, this watch is continuing to impress. I ran into some health issues late last year, so I am paying a lot more attention to the health monitoring features now than I did during the review period.

I buy almost all of my clubs from the previous year. In my experience when it says mint or like new most of the time it still has the plastic on the head.

2 of the 3 mallets in that picture do not have the alignment plates on them. The alignment plate completedly covers the flat part of the sole on the F-2 (the far left putter in the picture), so you could not scoop a ball with that model. I was able to scoop a ball with the F-3 (the 2nd putter in the picture), but you have to be quick with the flip because there is not a lot of surface area sticking out past the alignment plate. The 3rd putter that you referenced is the F-1. It has just a bit less surface area sticking out past the alignment plate than the F-3, but it's probably still "scoopable".

Thanks everybody! I am super pumped to be selected for this test as I have been interested in the Edel fitting philosophy for a few years now.

Introduction: Let's do this! I want to start by thanking Edel and MyGolfSpy for this amazing opportunity. This will be my 2nd review for MGS, and I could not be more pumped! My name is Andy, and I live in Southern Illinois a little over an hour east of St. Louis. I am 49 years old (for a couple of more months) and have been playing golf off and on since I was 15. I have played regularly, trying to improve my game since 2010. I have spent most of those years in the 12-15 handicap range for many years, and at this point in my life, I figured that was as good as I would get. Last year, something clicked mid-season, and I played the most consistent golf of my life. I had played that well at times, but never more than a few rounds, and then it would be back to reality. I finished the year on a heater and managed to win the men's division of my club championship, beating the 3 guys that had combined to win the last 10 championships. I consider myself a good but not great putter, and my putting stats pretty much confirm that. I don't make a ton of birdies, but I also rarely 3 putt. Most of my 1 putts are due to the fact that I only hit around 45% GIR, and most of the time I am an above-average chipper. I currently have 6 or 7 putters in the garage and have tried everything from belly putters to broomsticks over the years to try and improve my putting. I have been interested in Edel's fitting philosophy for a few years now. So much so that I put together my own laser and mirror setup in an attempt to mimic what they use in their fitting process to test my alignment on the putters I had in the stable at that time. I have been fit for putters a couple of times in the past, but I am looking forward to a completely different experience this time. I really like my current putter, but I am not married to any club in my bag. I know going in that alignment is an issue with my putting, so if the Edel system proves to consistently improve that, I will switch in a heartbeat. I have an indoor putting area in my simulator to test on, and golf season is nearly here, so there will be plenty of opportunity to put this putter to the test. The Fitting: I want to add a bonus section to this review as I feel the fitting process is key to Edel's overall landscape. I am not usually a big proponent of fittings as I have had wildly different results in my past fittings and feel like they are very dependent on the fitter you got that day. Even though I was the first fitting for the Array putters at the GolfTec I was fit at, the fitting was very scripted and structured which made me feel like you should have a similar experience wherever you get fit. In the Edel Array fitting kit they have all of the weights and alingment plates as well as the laser and mirror setup that was very telling in my fitting. They also have one of each of the four putters, each with one of the four different hosel options. Since the Array line is completely modular, they can change the hosels between the putters to put together any combination they need. We started with my height and standard wrist to floor measurement to get a ballpark for the putter length. She then had me set up over a putting mirror to see where my eye line was, which turns out was quite a bit inside the ball line. In the past I had been fit into 36" putters, but at 34" my eye line matched up perfectly with the ball line. We then moved to the part I was most excited about, and that was the laser alignment. For those that don't know, Edel uses a laser pointed at the ball. They place a mirror onto the face of the putter and have you address the ball. Once you feel like you are aimed at the puck, they remove the ball and the laser reflect back onto the wall showing if you are aimed correctly or not. My initial setup was well right of target. We tried several different alignment plates and for me the T-Bar was the clear winner. Now that setup and alignment was settled we moved on to the stroke. GolfTec uses Blast Motion to measure your putting stroke. My gamer putter is face balanced and I alway tried to use a straight back straight through motion with it. The Blast Motion sensor showed I was actually coming outside to in with my stroke which I suppose kind of balanced out my aiming to the right. We tried all four heads and found that the blade was definitely not for me. The F-1 and F-3 were the finalists and the numbers were so close that it just came down to personal preference. Even though the F-1 was more in line size wise with putters I have used in the past, I just loved the look of the F-3 and went with it. We then tried all four hosels in the F-3 head and found that the slant neck balanced my stroke out the best. The final test we did was some distance putting to dial in the weighting. My current gamer is extremely head heavy, so we started with the heaviest weights in the head and no counter-balance weight. I was lagging them up perfectly (I actually made the first putt) so we stopped there. I am usually a mid-pistol grip guy, but that wasn't one of the options so I decided to go all in on the Edel philosophy and went with the standard round Edel grip. I have never come away from a fitting with such a positive feeling. I am really excited to how much impact proper alignment can have on my game. First Impressions (20 out of 20) : My Edel Array F-3 showed up this week and it is stunning. I love the Edel script, there are multiple fonts in use here, but it doesn't bother me at all. The milling is flawless and to me everything about this putter screams quality. The face has a unique milling pattern. It is not as soft as other milled putters I have tried, but in initial testing it gets the ball rolling nicely. There are some obvious signs of the modular design, but I feel like Edel has done a good job of hiding them for the most part. At a glance, I'm not sure the average person would realise that the putter can be taken completely apart. Here is a shot of the undercairrage where the alingment plate and face plate attach. I am coming from an insert putter which definitely has a softer feel the the Edel, but this is not a negative for me. The F-3 has a very solid feel and sound. The face is made of 1025 carbon steel, so you don't get the high pitched "ting" that I have heard from aluminum faced putter I have tried in the past. The Edel putter is a bit smaller than I am use to, but I just love the look of it and it frames the ball nicely. I am also already a fan of the Edel round grip. I have never used a complety round putter grip before, but it is very comfortable in the hand and took zero time to get use to. Finally, the headcover might be the most durable looking head cover I have ever seen. It feels like it is made from some sort of canvas material that should hold up well to all of the flexing that comes removing the headcover over and over. It has a nice strong magnet closure which I much prefer over velcro. I also like the black on black Edel emblem sewn onto the flap.