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@jbern @Middler @yungkory: Thank you for your replies and for sharing your experiences with the DF3 putter weight and its effect on pace. I may keep an eye out for a used DF3 w, 72deg lie and 32.5” length and give it a go someday.

Terrific thread and contributors here, been reading it for the last month or so. I got fitted into a 32.5”/72deg Link.1 last summer with Accra shaft by Club Champion. I had never heard of LAB, but was the most consistent with it during the fitting process so I decided to pull the trigger on a $750 putter. They built it with my grip (GolfPride Tour SNSR 140cc - which weighs 130g). My Link.1 experience was that it was a champ for helping me to start my putts on target and on-line consistently, almost point and shoot like. But I struggled mightily with pace control and a lack of feel. I went back for another fitting and the laser tool showed that I was presenting the face loft too upright (green laser dot was not even hitting the wall). Not ideal and not a good fit for me…. And the more I researched pace control the more info I came across about putter weight, so I weighed the Link and it was 607g with my preferred grip on it. Vs my research saying “ideal” putter weight should be in the 530-545g range. I know the grip added ~50g but it would still weigh almost 550g. Anyways, I ended up getting fitted into an Edel Array F3 putter and I’m much better with it. I wanted to like the DF3 but I can’t get past the negative loft (in my case) and the hands forward press look at address. Maybe someday I’ll give whatever the newest LAB model is a try, because I’m a believer. But I do wonder if the heavier putter weights and relatively upright fixed 2deg putter loft that LAB’s technology currently limits you to are also negatively impacting others? Did anyone else struggle with pace?