Hybrid Putter!
I had the opportunity to test this putter out. For me the only way to test new equipment is to actually take it out in the field and play with it under actual conditions. Yes I took it to the practice green so I could get a feel for it and if I wasn’t a fair guy I would have left it in the car after I was done on the practice green.
I like a heavy putter, which is why I gravitate towards the mallet style putter. This putter looks like it should weigh a ton but it’s extremely light but it strikes to the ball like a heavy flat iron. Anyway I was on the practice green taking a few practices putts and I was sailing everything a mile past the hole. So I made an adjustment (like I was in Arizona on fast, fast greens), I took a little off the stroke and found the ball really comes off the club face very smoothly. But I still wasn’t convinced that this was a putter I would invest in so I took it out into the field.
On my second hole I actually retrieved it from my bag and wanted to see what it could do on a 40 foot par putt. I did it because I remembered how far past the hole I was hitting everything on the practice green. My putt was a little up hill so I took a few practice swings, lined up my putt and effortlessly got the ball within 12 inches of the cup. I pulled my old putter out and dropped approximately where the other the ball was and found I had to take a much harder swing which meant i didn’t have enough control of the putter and place the ball about four feet short.
So I started off not liking the putter, but in the end discovered that it would probably bring more control to my game in the end so I may consider making this purchase because I think this putter could get me into shooting in the low 80’s. You can check out Rife Putter by going to their website www.rifeputters.com/. Enjoy!
