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.

Get the Guerin Rife 2 Bar Blade Putter at GolfGods

The Official Guerin Rife Site

The Ping G5i Putter was the 2006 Golf Digest Hot List Editor’s Choice in the Blade Putter Category and won again in 2007. Two years in a row—it has to be good, right?

I’ve tried this one in a local pro shop, and I think that it has a very nice feel. Accuracy was good, too. But the part I liked best was the grip. Best feeling grips I’ve ever felt.

The putter has an insert that surrounds a hard urethane middle with a softer perimeter for better feel. They also claim it has a better sound, but as long time readers know, I’m quite deaf, and can’t tell you a thing about that.

The design also is different from previous blade models. There are thru-holes and sole cavities to redistribute the weight and improve the moment of inertia (resistance to twisting). There’s also a new alignment system on the top rail that has been described as crescent shaped, a piece of metal that curves outward toward the ball. The back, which you can’t see in the photo, has a flat blue crescent shaped area to further help you align things.

Ping established its reputation with its putters, and I think they continue to maintain that one here.

Odyssey’s new SRT Tri-Ball putter uses a high-density alloy ring to move the center of gravity deep and back from the face of the putter. The high moment of intertia with this design helps you move the putter straight back, and straight through. The putter also takes the 2-ball alignment system one better by creating a three ball alignment system (a two ball system will be available later this spring).

I don’t think there’s been a more imitated idea in putter design than the two ball alignment system. Go to any golf show with a lot of independent golf club makers and you will find dozens of imitation two ball clubs.

The design, however, isn’t entirely original. Golfsmith had the Snake Eyes Strikeline ML with an orbital ring two years ago. I have played that putter for some time and think that its wonderful. You can find a review here.

Like the rest of the successful White Steel product line, the White Steel Tri-Ball SRT Putter face features Dual Insert Technology, which combines a modified White Hot(R) urethane insert with a milled stainless steel insert for the precision and accuracy of steel with the feel and distance control of urethane.

The new White Steel Tri-Ball SRT Putter is face balanced, has a half-shaft offset and is available in both right-and left-handed models in 33-, 34-, 35- and 36-inch lengths. It will be available at retail February 1, 2006 with an MSRP of $249.

You can get it at Golfsmith.

Harrods is offering a solid platinum putter for a mere $28,220.

I can’t even imagine having the kind of money where this would seem like a good idea.