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Small Things, Big Differences

iacas

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Earlier today I fit a college player and a reasonably good putter with an Edel putter. His putter was a typical blade - the old PING/Cameron/Everyone-Has-a-Version classic blade putter with some heel/toe weighting.

He could aim his putter, from about ten feet (bear in mind that the laser reflects back over the same ten feet, doubling the error), to about four inches outside the right edge of the cup. Not great, but not as bad as we've seen from many. His putter had a single, solitary thin line on the top part of the putter.

What was his best fit putter? It was an almost identical Edel putter: the Umpqua head with no lines or dots at all. In fact, when I gave him just a dot - I like to give some players a bit more help to center the ball up beside just the heel/toe weighting - he aimed it about an inch right of the cup. Trying something, I drew a line on the putter. Bam! Back out to a cup right. Take the line away? Center of the cup every time.

Sometimes the tiniest of things makes a fairly big difference. Where it pulled his focus and attention, I don't know, but it resulted in some pretty big changes. Just a little dot.

P.S. His putter was also pretty badly weighted for him, too, or else I'd have recommended he find some way to make that putter work and save the cost of the Edel putter.

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mvmac
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Yeah that's pretty amazing. Good for everyone to know, don't buy the hype that whatever new putter that comes out with different lines, colors, shapes will help you aim better than others. Depends on how it fits your eyes.

Makes me laugh at myself for how crazy I was to when I was younger. Going from mallets, to blades, different hosel configurations, etc.

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Golfingdad

I had a very similar experience.  Ping Pal with one line on top aimed several inches right from 8' out and I ended up with a similar shaped head with no aiming lines.  I am sooooo confident in hitting my lines from 8' and in too. :)

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colin007

for me, i think the hosel made the biggest difference.

 

and i would be one of the ones that @iacas would be referring to with my previous aiming....from about 12 feet i was easily 2 feet right and 2 feet in the air....omg....

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Interesting, I have a number of putters. From Pings to Odesseys all blades. The one I like best is a Spalding TP Mills 5 with a single dot.

You might aim that the best. You might also aim it like crap.

The point wasn't that there was a dot or wasn't a dot… just that the smallest little thing can have a pretty big affect on the ability to aim a putter.

Oh, and I'm not saying you were disagreeing or saying anything contrary, @Pete F. Please don't take it that way. You should check yourself with a laser to see how you do.

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rkim291968

Along the same line, I taped an inch long white line on top/center of my driver's clubhead.    The driver's center mark wasn't visible at all - a small dark Taylormade sign on equally dark clubhead color.   With the clearly visible line, I "feel" I am hitting my drive more on center.

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Zeph

Very good example. Would be interesting to see how his aim held up some weeks or months down the line. This is a tiny detail on the club we swing the slowest. I wonder how small changes can affect the full swings with the other clubs.

Edel has spread more in Europe the last years, hope they come to Norway one day. If I buy a new putter sometime, I'd really want to try an Edel fitting.

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Very good example. Would be interesting to see how his aim held up some weeks or months down the line.

If our past experience with Edel is any indication, it'll still be true in years and even longer. We've almost told people that unless they suffer a major vision or brain injury or something like that, the way they see shapes and stuff is about the way they'll always see things.

I wonder how small changes can affect the full swings with the other clubs.

Yeah, it makes a good point. Unfortunately, there's not a LOT we can do with alignment aids on things like your 7-iron.

Edel has spread more in Europe the last years, hope they come to Norway one day. If I buy a new putter sometime, I'd really want to try an Edel fitting.

I recommend it. If nothing else, you'll see what kind of shape you aim best.

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