I Spent $3,200 On Putters In Ten Years.
Here’s What Nobody Told Me…
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I’m going to admit something embarrassing.
In the last ten years, I have bought eight different putters.
Three Scotty Camerons. Two Odyssey mallets. A Ping. A TaylorMade Spider. And, most recently, a LAB Golf DF3 that cost more than my last set of irons.
That’s roughly $3,200 in putters.
I have never broken 85 consistently.
If any of those numbers feel familiar to you, I am writing this for you, specifically. Because I figured something out last month that, if I’m being honest, I wish someone had screamed at me from across a parking lot in 2016.
Here it is.
The reason you have a closet full of putters is not your stroke. It is not your alignment. It is not your tempo. It is not your grip pressure. It is not the speed of the greens at your home course or the way you stand over a 4-footer.
The reason you have a closet full of putters is that almost every putter sold in America today shares the exact same design flaw. And until very recently, no premium brand had fixed it.
I learned this from a club designer named Chris McGinley.
McGinley spent 30+ years inside the engineering departments at companies whose names are on at least four of the putters in my closet. He has been part of teams that built clubs for eleven world #1 players. His bio is genuinely wild (he was a Navy nuclear engineer before he ever drew up a club), but the part that mattered to me was this one sentence:
“In 95% of putters, the weight is in the wrong place.”
That’s it. That’s the line.
For about a week, I did not fully understand what that meant. But once you see it, you cannot unsee it.
Imagine holding a hammer by the handle and trying to keep the head pointed at a target while you swing your arm back and through. The weight in the head wants to fall. It pulls. It rotates. You have to actively use your hand, your wrist, your forearm to keep it pointed at where you started.
That is what your putter is doing every time you take it back.
The weight is sitting behind the shaft. It is rotating the face open behind your hands during the backstroke. You are then unconsciously fighting to rotate it closed during the downstroke, hoping to land back at square at the exact moment the face meets the ball.
You sometimes win that fight. That is a made putt.
You sometimes lose it. That is a 3-putt.
And the cruel joke of the whole thing is that the higher-end the putter, the more sophisticated the marketing gets about why their version of the same problem is somehow not the same problem.
It is. They all have weight behind the shaft. I know, because I owned eight of them.
The reason I am writing this is that I finally found a putter that does not.
It’s called the RS1. Made by Performance Golf and designed by McGinley. In the RS1, 75% of the head weight sits IN FRONT OF the shaft axis.
Not balanced around it… Not slightly forward… Three-quarters of the head, in front of the axis.
Here is what that feels like at address.
The face wants to stay pointed. It does not want to rotate. You take the putter back and the weight in front pulls the face down and forward instead of letting it flop open behind your hands. You bring it through, and gravity is now working with you instead of against you.
I am not going to tell you this fixed my putting overnight. Nothing fixes a thirty-year putting habit in two rounds.
I am going to tell you that this is the first putter I have ever owned that did not feel like it was rotating in my hands during the stroke. And after six weeks with it, I am not 3-putting anymore.
The RS1 costs $399. I will be the first to admit I am a hard person to convince to spend another $399 on another putter. I have an entire family of putters in my closet, and a wife that constantly reminds me of it.
But…Two things made me try it.
Try the RS1 risk-free
for 365 days.
Try the RS1 today“Nice level arc so you don’t manipulate the face.”
One: it is $50 to $100 cheaper than every premium putter currently collecting dust in my garage.
Two: Performance Golf gives you 365 days to send it back. Not 30 days, not 60 days. A full year. You can play an entire golf season with this putter, and if you know it’s not right for you, send it back, and get every dollar refunded.
I do not know of another putter company that offers this. I checked. The industry standard is 30 days. Most premium brands hide their return terms behind the word “exchange.”
If you have already bought putters that did not work, the math here is genuinely interesting. Either this is the one (in which case, great), or it is not (in which case, you get a full year to figure that out and a full refund waiting on the other side).
Compare that to the 30 days you got the last four times.
I cannot tell you the RS1 is going to fix your putting. Nobody can tell you that, because every stroke is different. What I can tell you is that the design flaw that ruined the last eight putters I bought is not in this one. And the company is confident enough about that to let you roll it for a year before you decide.
I am 59 years old.
I am tired of buying putters.
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