Stuart Appleby stormed the field on Sunday, shooting a rare score of 59 to seize the Greenbrier Classic. His prize? $1.08 million. The retail cost of his putter? Just $99. Indeed, Appleby rode a Odyssey White Hot XG 330 putter ...
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At PutterZone.com, we have made it our vocation to help demystify the jargon that surrounds putters and putter fitting. On that note, we noticed a bit of jargon misuse in the latest issue of a major golf magazine: “Last year ...
Read More »PING Scottsdale Putters Coming Soon
PING Golf announced today its new line of PING Scottdale putters, a nod to the company’s headquarters in Arizona’s Valley of the Sun. There’s even a cool cactus motif on the sole of the putters. The name also salutes the ...
Read More »Odyssey Black Tour Designs 2-Ball Putter Review
The Odyssey 2-Ball putter needs no introduction. It’s the bestselling putter of the modern era, and is ultimately a franchise unto itself. Since the introduction of the original White Hot 2-Ball in 2001, Odyssey has released numerous iterations of the ...
Read More »Putter Buzz: Vijay, Tiger and Boccieri Golf
At PutterZone.com, we sometimes collect little tokens and tidbits that don’t necessarily merit a full story, so we toss them into a basket that we call Putter Buzz… 1. Why is Vijay Singh smiling? Perhaps it’s the Cleveland T-Frame mallet ...
Read More »Tune Into The Greenside
We are pleased to announce that the latest episode of The Greenside is now airing. You can tune into it at The Hacker’s Paradise and download it as a podcast on iTunes. The Greenside is a collaboration between Sean of ...
Read More »Louis Oosthuizen’s Putter: Ping Redwood Anser
The big putter news at the beginning of the British Open was Tiger Woods’ switch to the Nike Method after 11 years of uninterrupted tour play with his Scotty Cameron Newport 2 putter. But the hottest putter of the tournament ...
Read More »Tiger Woods’ Putter Reignites Groove Debate
We read with interest the following throwaway quote in one of the major golf magazines regarding Tiger Woods and his switch to the Nike Method putter: “Never mind that the independent research on grooved-face putters seems to suggest the effect ...
Read More »A Method to The Putter Madness
Now that the British Open is underway and the dust has settled—sort of—on Tiger Woods’ decision to switch putters, PutterZone.com now takes a closer look at where Woods’ Nike Method putter fits into the larger putting universe. Specifically, we are ...
Read More »Tiger Woods’ Nike Method Putter Explained
Forget LeBron James—the real “decision” this week was Tiger Woods’ bombshell that he is switching from his trusty Scotty Cameron putter to the Nike Method 001 putter, at least for this week’s British Open, and possibly beyond. Needless to say, ...
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