Putters

The putter is by far your most important club. You will be amazed at the improvement in your putting stats when you have your putter custom fit for lie, loft, length, weight and balance. We have dozens of designs available or we can adjust your current putter to suit your needs.

Length: Probably 80 percent of golfers play will ill-fitted putters. Most are too long because the standard length is 35 inches and most golfers will be forced to stand too tall at address or have their arms jammed up into their bodies. Either way, the end resul ay be a bad stroke.
Your height is not the main determinant in putter fitting. Stuart Appleby (6'1') and Justin Leonard (5'9') both use 33-inch putters. It's a combinaton of arm length, torso size and legs.

Proper length can be easly determined by standing with your weight balanced in the middle of your feet, and tilting forward so your arms hang straight down, palms facing, with a slight elbow flex. This is the ideal putting posture. Your eyes should be directly over the ball. Have somone measure a line from the top of your left wrist to the ball (where your eyes hit the ground). That is your correct putter length.

Lie Angle:   The sole of the putter should be flush to the ground. If the toe of the putter is pointing up off the ground it isn’t a good fit and will contribute to the ball going slightly to the right, for right handed golfers.  Toe down is equally bad and may cause the ball to be pulled off-line.

Loft:  Most putters have 3 or 4 degrees of loft in order to lift the ball from the slight indentation it sits in, on the green.  If you regularly play on very fast or very slow greens it may make sense to have the loft adjusted a degree or two to suit the conditions.  Given the tolerances in club head casting it is always a good idea to have the loft checked.

MOI:  Moment of Inertia refers to the putter head’s resistance to off-centre hits.  If you hit the ball with the absolute center of gravity of your putter head, then MOI is not an important factor however most golfers vary as much as ½ inch off-centre which causes the head to twist slightly and force the ball slightly off line.  Higher MOI putters resist twisting and tend to hit the ball more accurately.  Higher MOI can be achieved in a variety of ways including by enlarging the head and by adding weight to the heel and toe of the more traditional styles.

Balance

Balance is extremely important in a putter.  It can mean the difference between feeling confident when putting, or not.
 
Several factors affect putter balance: overall length, head design, and head, shaft and grip weights.  If it's occurred to you that your putter will fit better if you just snip a few inches off the top of the shaft, don't do it, at least not without other adjustments. If you do you'll alter the club's swing weight, and that changes the feel and performance of the putter head.

Putter weighting can be done in a variety of ways.  Extra weight down the shaft will provide more head feel.  Back weighting in the butt end will provide increased weight overall but not affect the head.  The most recent tests have shown that, for most golfers, adding from 30 to 120 grams down the shaft under the lower hand position, leads to more consistent putting.

At Al’s we can work with you to determine which type of adjustment will take strokes off your game.

Don't Let Your Putter Handicap Your Game!

Lynx LCC-7

With each body individually milled from 6061-T6 Aircraft grade aluminum and heads manufactured using a 100% CNC (Computer Numerically Controlled) process, these putters are both accurate and attractive. Available in two weight options of 345 grams or 375 grams in the rear perimeter.

KZG Milled Putter

100% CNC milled from a single block of premium carbon steel. Superbly engineered and balanced for enhanced feel and exacting performance.

Snake Eyes

Snake Eyes have produced many great new putters. Here is a sample of three:

653P.2

653P.1 is a large, high moment of inertia design with three Snake Eyes screw weight ports in the back.

653P.2

653P.2 is a mid-size mallet with three Snake Eyes screw weight ports in the back. The port channels also serve to aid in alignment.

653P.3

653P.3 is an offset, face balanced long hosel design that has two weight ports - one on the heel and another on the toe.