Cleveland Designed By Series Putters

Bobby Jones’ Calamity Jane is undoubtedly the most famous putter in the most famous putter in the history of golf (he actually won the Grand Slam with Calamity Jane II, though).  Now you can get a replica of that most famous of flatsticks from Cleveland Golf, as a part of its “Designed By” series of putters. The Cleveland putter retains the classic look of Jones’, but updates it with modern materials and technologies, such as Cleveland’s CMM metals, tungsten weights and CNC milled faces.

I tried one of these at Miles of Golf in Ypsilanti yesterday and really liked the way it putted. The two bar system on the putter serves both to move the weight back, and as an alignment tool. It’s also got TaylorMade’s Anti Skid Groove Insert system, which has 12 polymer filled grooves that are supposed to minimize backspin and get the ball moving forward faster.

The design feature I like best about the putter is the triangular head. For some reason, the way the putter narrows at the back really inspires confidence. I felt like the force of the putter was focused directly behind the ball.

TAYLORMADE Mezza Monza AGSI

PineMeadow’s White Polymer Putter offers many of the features of Odyssey’s White Hot Putter at a third of the price.

The putter is constructed of stainless steel; Pinemeadow says that the weight creates an evenly balanced putter. The soft white polymer insert is intended, like the Odyssey to offer soft feel and touch. Unlike other low priced putters, the face of the Pinemeadow is milled for flatness.

If you’re a bargain hunter, PineMeadow is a line of clubs that you should consider. Each club comes with a thirty day playability guarantee that minimizes your risk. PInemeadow also has a one-year warranty.

White Polymer P727 Putter

The GigaGolf Technica LX 520 shares many of the design features of the much more expensive Hogan Bettinardi “Big Ben” putter—which, as far as I can tell, you can’t get new any more.

As with all the GigaGolf products, it comes with a 30 day playability guarantee, so you can take it out and try it risk free.

Technica LX 520

You’ll spend $300 on a driver, but only $29 on a putter that you use twice as often. The putter is the killer piece of equipment in your bag, and I’m amazed that more attention isn’t paid to it.

The Guerin Rife 2 Bar Putter is to putters what the R7 is to drivers: a fully adjustable stick packed with more technology than Bill Gates’ house.

The putter is adjustable in two ways: first, you can adjust the lie angle with the aid of a white alignment line and an included adjustment tool. You stand over the putter in a comfortable address position and check the line. If the line on top of the putter doesn’t match the rest of the line, you need to adjust the angle.

The putter also has an adjustable weighting system. The two tubes extending from the back of the putter contain weights that can be set to nine different configurations. You can adjust the weight to the speed of the greens, or to compensate for a left or right tendency.

The tubes also are designed to set the weight back in the club, while while extra weights on the wings offer stability.

Finally, the putter’s face has a groove system—similar to the TaylorMade Rossa system, it seems to me—that is designed to grip the cover of the ball and lift it upward and out of the depression it sits in. Guerin claims that most amateurs miss below the hole because they misread the grain. The groove system, they say, gets the ball on top of the grain faster, reducing the effect.

This is one I’d really like to try.

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