Your Putter Setup for This Season

[GolfSpy MPR]

We're still multiple weeks away from opening day here in the Upper Peninsula, but I have established my putter hierarchy going into the season:

Projected putter depth chart:

• Starter: Odyssey 2Ball Ten, double bend, 34", stock SuperStroke grip
• Backup: Edel EAS 4.0, 34", Garsen G-Pro Edge grip
• Break glass in emergency: Evnroll ER11v MidLock, 40"

But that raised the question in my mind: what does you putter setup look like normally? It seems to me there are three possibilities:

• Monogamy: you have a single putter to which you are committed. I would include in this category serial monogamy: you have a single putter at a time, retain it for multiple seasons, only changing if you (for instance) get fitted for a new putter.
• Hierarchy: you have a main putter, but there is another (or a couple others) on standby if that one goes awry.
• Rotation: you have a bunch of putters, and you choose one for the day based on course conditions, weather, color scheme, reading tea leaves, etc.

So throwing the question to you all: what's the state of your putter(s)?

[skraeling]

With the price of clubs now… monogamy. 
 

That said it’s been a fruitful relationship.

I did have a very old odyssey white hot that I referred to as white hot crap.  Pretty sure it’s the worst insert putter I’ve ever owned.

Edited April 24, 2023 by skraeling

[cnosil]

I like to try putters, any putter can be replaced at any given time.  I don’t regularly rotate as described but I also don’t have a specific hierarchy.  A putter could go in the bag just because I want to hit it again, because the current one isn’t performing well, or because I saw something I liked and purchased.  I don’t really get too attached to any putter so it could be sold off to purchase something different.  

For example, I want to play/experiment with putter shafts.  Is it easier to replace the shaft or the whole putter.   If the shaft provides no benefit, probably easier to flip the entire putter.  

[Parshooter36]

I plan to stick with my putter for the season, but plans can change.

[Kenny B]

I only have one putter that I use; fitted by Ping.  I have no reason to change, and really no desire to try any other putter; sure I look at them in stores, maybe even rolling a few balls but they all fee strange to me.  If I get fitted for a new putter, it will be because something happened to mine and can't be repaired or I made a life-altering decision and changed to Kuchar's right arm lock technique.  

[JoeB1]

Monogamy at this time with my SeeMore FGP, new Winn pistol grip. I took the time to find the sweet spot and added a few marks with the wife’s brightest pink nail polish. 

Edited April 24, 2023 by JoeB1

[Brian A]

Starter is my Cameron Golo and then if I really struggle the Cobra Supernova will come out. I love both though 

[GolfSpy_BEN]

I tend to pick a putter and stick with it. I played a Scotty Cameron California Monterrey from 2009 until December of last year. Before that, it was a used Scotty Newport from 2004-2009 and a Odyssey rossie that I inherited as a teenager and played from 1995 until I bought that first Scotty. 
 

This past winter I tried out an Evnroll ER7v and I liked it, so that is currently in the bag. Having played blades the past 20 years, there has been a little bit of a learning curve thus far, but I am pleased with its overall performance.

While I tend to be fairly monogamous about my putters, I did sign up for the LAB golf test, as their putters are so radically different from what I am used to, I would welcome the opportunity to compare and contrast how they might affect my game.

[TSauer]

I have a decent collection of putters, I would say I'm somewhere between hierarchy and monogamy. My primary/current gamer is a Newport 2 with a P2 grip, but its' spot is heavily contended for by an Evnroll ER2. I am usually switching back and forth between the two, the gravity grip on the Evnroll is such a great combo which makes it hard to beat. Heck, sometimes I'll even throw my 2019 Spider just because I miss putting with it.

 

 

I may have a problem.. 

Edited April 24, 2023 by TSauer

[GolfSpy SAM]

1 hour ago, TSauer said:

I have a decent collection of putters, I would say I'm somewhere between hierarchy and monogamy. My primary/current gamer is a Newport 2 with a P2 grip, but its' spot is heavily contended for by an Evnroll ER2. I am usually switching back and forth between the two, the gravity grip on the Evnroll is such a great combo which makes it hard to beat. Heck, sometimes I'll even throw my 2019 Spider just because I miss putting with it.

 

 

I may have a problem.. 

How much for that 5.5?  (I kid, I kid, my DF 2.1 is beautiful - like a special frying-pan-shaped rainbow....)

[Dooby]

2 hours ago, GolfSpy MPR said:

We're still multiple weeks away from opening day here in the Upper Peninsula, but I have established my putter hierarchy going into the season:

Projected putter depth chart:

• Starter: Odyssey 2Ball Ten, double bend, 34", stock SuperStroke grip
• Backup: Edel EAS 4.0, 34", Garsen G-Pro Edge grip
• Break glass in emergency: Evnroll ER11v MidLock, 40"

But that raised the question in my mind: what does you putter setup look like normally? It seems to me there are three possibilities:

• Monogamy: you have a single putter to which you are committed. I would include in this category serial monogamy: you have a single putter at a time, retain it for multiple seasons, only changing if you (for instance) get fitted for a new putter.
• Hierarchy: you have a main putter, but there is another (or a couple others) on standby if that one goes awry.
• Rotation: you have a bunch of putters, and you choose one for the day based on course conditions, weather, color scheme, reading tea leaves, etc.

So throwing the question to you all: what's the state of your putter(s)?

How do you like the EAS 4.0? I have the EAS 1.0 and wish I could’ve tried the 4.0 before committing. 

[richk9holes]

Hierarchy but I'm flirting with the rotation concept. I've always been this way. Starter set had a simple blade with no targeting and I used it plenty, but always also gamed my dad's hand me down Titleist dead center.

Got a Ping sigma g anser for Christmas one year and liked it but not the grip, so I spent 2 years going back to the dead center. It's now traded away along with a 64° vokey for a sm8 vokey.

Got a stroke lab one and played it 2 seasons, but also picked up a center shaft CG Huntington beach soft #11 to try CS. Both were traded for my current Sik DW 2.0.

Where I sit now 1)Sik DW 2.0 2)Hogan Sovereign I got for $25 to mess with 3)Ping iN Wack E that sits on a mount by the putting mat in case I don't want to go in my car trunk.

Any of these could come out with me any given day.

[TSauer]

10 minutes ago, GolfSpy_SAM said:

How much for that 5.5?  (I kid, I kid, my DF 2.1 is beautiful - like a special frying-pan-shaped rainbow....)

Lmao! I laughed so hard at that description!

[tommyb1683]

I definitely have a hierarchy going on, I recently got my Phantom X 5.5 and have been hitting it great so it stays in the bag. If it were to start acting up though I have both a Newport and Newport 2 to go back to. I used to use a white hot pro for quite awhile but it would be a little harder to go back to that one because I cut it down and set it up for my son who is 4. Try getting anything away from a 4 yr old. lol

[jkimbrell0]

1 hour ago, TSauer said:

I have a decent collection of putters, I would say I'm somewhere between hierarchy and monogamy. My primary/current gamer is a Newport 2 with a P2 grip, but its' spot is heavily contended for by an Evnroll ER2. I am usually switching back and forth between the two, the gravity grip on the Evnroll is such a great combo which makes it hard to beat. Heck, sometimes I'll even throw my 2019 Spider just because I miss putting with it.

 

That is a really awesome wooden stand, did you make that?

 

Also just curious for you and everyone else in here that switch up putters often: are you making that decision based on anything? Speed of greens you are playing/constant miss/anger? 

[scubahoops]

Monogamy.

I have a LAB putter and they take some time getting used to them and learning to putt a little different. Now that I have I am probably putting better than I ever have and I don't plan on making a change even though I love trying out new putters. 

[scubahoops]

1 hour ago, GolfSpy_SAM said:

How much for that 5.5?  (I kid, I kid, my DF 2.1 is beautiful - like a special frying-pan-shaped rainbow....)

I love the description, very funny and very accurate. I have a DF 2.1 also and you defined the look quite nicely!

[TSauer]

29 minutes ago, jkimbrell0 said:

That is a really awesome wooden stand, did you make that?

 

Also just curious for you and everyone else in here that switch up putters often: are you making that decision based on anything? Speed of greens you are playing/constant miss/anger? 

Thanks, I did build this one. I had a few empty slots when I initially built it…. not sure if that was a such good idea 

Also, when I switch it’s typically a combination of two things: Not putting well and boredom, it’s like a 75/25 mix, as bad as that may sound. I am always tinkering and trying out new things. 

[cnosil]

44 minutes ago, jkimbrell0 said:

Also just curious for you and everyone else in here that switch up putters often: are you making that decision based on anything? Speed of greens you are playing/constant miss/anger? 

I might change if I have been putting bad for a while, but I know it is t the putter, most likely me.  Speed of greens is about making the right stroke for the speed and not putter.   
 

i switch when the mood strikes, there is some new advertised tech, or I see a putter that I like the looks of.   Basically no real reason is needed.  

[cnosil]

3 hours ago, TSauer said:

I have a decent collection of putters, I would say I'm somewhere between hierarchy and monogamy. My primary/current gamer is a Newport 2 with a P2 grip, but its' spot is heavily contended for by an Evnroll ER2. I am usually switching back and forth between the two, the gravity grip on the Evnroll is such a great combo which makes it hard to beat. Heck, sometimes I'll even throw my 2019 Spider just because I miss putting with it.

 

 

I may have a problem.. 

@Jmikecpa, wanna show him a picture of your putter collection?   This one seems lacking in total count  

[SFLOrange]

Monogamy.  I've had two putters in my life.  The first one was my high school gamer that didn't survive the stress of trying to outdrive friends off the tee with it.  I was so in love with that putter I kept playing with it for years even though it had some physical defects.  All that being said, I am currently looking to upgrade to a milled steal putter, precisely because I think it will last.

[Jmikecpa]

2 minutes ago, cnosil said:

@Jmikecpa, wanna show him a picture of your putter collection?   This one seems lacking in total count  

If you insist….

[Jmikecpa]

And even more ironic is over the past two seasons I have used exactly three putters and none of those three are in this picture. Current gamer for close to a hear is a Toulon Madison with a stability shaft, inch and a half too long with a SuperStroke Flatso installed flat side forward. Head of the putter is just under 400g and I have a 75g counterweight in the grip. It is not pretty but it is my Frankenstein. 

[TSauer]

5 minutes ago, Jmikecpa said:

If you insist….

Now THIS is a collection

There's a reason I made sure mine only had 10 slots! Haha!

[SFLOrange]

5 minutes ago, Jmikecpa said:

And even more ironic is over the past two seasons I have used exactly three putters and none of those three are in this picture. Current gamer for close to a hear is a Toulon Madison with a stability shaft, inch and a half too long with a SuperStroke Flatso installed flat side forward. Head of the putter is just under 400g and I have a 75g counterweight in the grip. It is not pretty but it is my Frankenstein. 

Your collection just inspired me to pitch golf channel on a hoarder house spin off for people with awesome golf club collections.  I think it would be a hit 

[Jmikecpa]

58 minutes ago, SFLOrange said:

Your collection just inspired me to pitch golf channel on a hoarder house spin off for people with awesome golf club collections.  I think it would be a hit 

The other side of the rack is irons and wedges and I have two stand up racks with woods and hybrids. I used to have a problem….

[Jeffrey Davis]

Got fitted for a putter by txg last year. Came out with the special select newport 2 which is now in the bag for about half a season already. 

 

Previously used a PING Anser 2i which was my main weapon since high-school haha

[Chad Parmer]

7 hours ago, GolfSpy MPR said:

We're still multiple weeks away from opening day here in the Upper Peninsula, but I have established my putter hierarchy going into the season:

Projected putter depth chart:

• Starter: Odyssey 2Ball Ten, double bend, 34", stock SuperStroke grip
• Backup: Edel EAS 4.0, 34", Garsen G-Pro Edge grip
• Break glass in emergency: Evnroll ER11v MidLock, 40"

But that raised the question in my mind: what does you putter setup look like normally? It seems to me there are three possibilities:

• Monogamy: you have a single putter to which you are committed. I would include in this category serial monogamy: you have a single putter at a time, retain it for multiple seasons, only changing if you (for instance) get fitted for a new putter.
• Hierarchy: you have a main putter, but there is another (or a couple others) on standby if that one goes awry.
• Rotation: you have a bunch of putters, and you choose one for the day based on course conditions, weather, color scheme, reading tea leaves, etc.

So throwing the question to you all: what's the state of your putter(s)?

I have a main squeeze putter. 34” Cleveland Huntington Beach Soft #4 blade. But I have a mistress putter as well. Sometimes if my #1 ain’t rolling right, I will bust out the old school Maltby Blade. Great putter as well, just noisy as heck  I will try other putters, but always a blade. Haven’t been sold on a mallet yet. See a lot of pros using them, just looks bulky standing over it. IMO. Whatever works for YOU!! Lol. 
Keep em straight!️‍

Edited April 24, 2023 by Chad Parmer

[Clemo]

Going to be running the Scotty Cameron Phantom X7 for the foreseeable future. There is something about my old beaten up Studio design that keeps calling me back however , its meant to be not forgiving and I shouldn't be able to putt well with it but in my time of need and I pull it off the shelf its works wonders!

Cheers

 

[Caddie1966]

I’m momgamous with putters.I’ve owned 4 putters in 50+ years of playing.  All are still in the family.

Ping Anser which I bought new in 1968 for $20.  I still have and it is still usable with the original ping man grip.

Odyssey Rosie 2.  1st mallet purchased in 1998.  Used for 11 years. Grandson uses it now with a kid size shaft.

Ping Anser from 2010. Strong arc blade.  Used for 5 years and it stays in my office for me to practice my stroke indoors.

Odyssey 7 first 34 inch purchased 2015 and still use it. It needs to have a new grip or get a grip wrap soon.