My Edel Putter Fitting

[iacas]

5 minutes ago, OrangeHog said:

I wish I had taken a picture of it because there was some software he had that recommended specs.  I'm assuming it was built into SAM but I could be wrong.

Software can't tell you what your eyes and brain are going to see as square.

[PLINYElder]

Received my Edel after only two weeks. Used it today and love it! It is counter balanced and the head is lighter then I'm used to, but I didn't miss anything under 5 feet today, I'll practice the lag putts. I am used to a very heavy Scotty Newport 2, CB, with extra weight in head. After today, I am confident I'll be a much better putter in the future!

 

the fitting was donee in Roseville Ca, at golf galaxy, took about an hour before the store opened. I must have lined up fifty times at least before my fitter decided on a head, lines and offset. 

 

We did several dozen rolls to also get the shaft flex and weight decided on. 

 

It it really feels like MY PUTTER when I stand over it!

 

Edited February 2, 2017 by PLINYElder

[OrangeHog]

15 minutes ago, iacas said:

Software can't tell you what your eyes and brain are going to see as square.

Be that as it may, I obviously had no issues aligning the putter.  That tells me that my eyes and brain squared up the finished product just fine, regardless what the software said.

Edited February 2, 2017 by OrangeHog

[OrangeHog]

At long last I received my custom Edel E-3 today!!!!  

 

I immediately took it out of the box and started rolling putts on my practice green in the living room.  It's difficult to express how excited I am to finally have "the one" in the bag.  After about a half hour I told my wife that we needed to get out of the house and go hit the First Tee course with the kiddos since it was 70 and sunny outside.  Of course, this was purely selfish because I wanted to try out the Edel on real greens.

 

The First Tee locally has an awesome practice facility and actually has two par 4's and a 190-yard par 3 (from the tips).  Greens were a little fuzzy today but it gave me a pretty good gauge on working with this putter.

 

First hole I came up just a tad short with my approach shot (front fringe) and had my chip lip out.  Kind of took a weird spin out of the hole and ran out to around 8 feet away.  Stepped right up, set up and drained the putt.  Nice start.  Next hole I nestled my uphill birdie putt from around 25 feet away to a foot and tapped in.  Final hole had a 20 footer for birdie, misread the line and ran it past about a foot.  Again, tap in for par.

 

Take-away from a very limited exposure is that my distance control is silly good with this putter.  I threw down some balls on the greens to practice the same putts I had in regulation and every single one ended up right on top of the previous ball.  Alignment is so easy...I don't even have to give it any thought.  The putts I missed were just me mis-reading the break.  That will happen but I'm super excited about having this putter in the bag.  I sincerely feel like I'm finally found the putter I've been searching for for a long, long time.

[RFKFREAK]

On 2/18/2017 at 11:36 PM, OrangeHog said:

At long last I received my custom Edel E-3 today!!!!  

 

I immediately took it out of the box and started rolling putts on my practice green in the living room.  It's difficult to express how excited I am to finally have "the one" in the bag.  After about a half hour I told my wife that we needed to get out of the house and go hit the First Tee course with the kiddos since it was 70 and sunny outside.  Of course, this was purely selfish because I wanted to try out the Edel on real greens.

 

The First Tee locally has an awesome practice facility and actually has two par 4's and a 190-yard par 3 (from the tips).  Greens were a little fuzzy today but it gave me a pretty good gauge on working with this putter.

 

First hole I came up just a tad short with my approach shot (front fringe) and had my chip lip out.  Kind of took a weird spin out of the hole and ran out to around 8 feet away.  Stepped right up, set up and drained the putt.  Nice start.  Next hole I nestled my uphill birdie putt from around 25 feet away to a foot and tapped in.  Final hole had a 20 footer for birdie, misread the line and ran it past about a foot.  Again, tap in for par.

 

Take-away from a very limited exposure is that my distance control is silly good with this putter.  I threw down some balls on the greens to practice the same putts I had in regulation and every single one ended up right on top of the previous ball.  Alignment is so easy...I don't even have to give it any thought.  The putts I missed were just me mis-reading the break.  That will happen but I'm super excited about having this putter in the bag.  I sincerely feel like I'm finally found the putter I've been searching for for a long, long time.

Wow, that's beautiful.

Was there an up charge for getting it in black?

[iacas]

34 minutes ago, RFKFREAK said:

Wow, that's beautiful.

Was there an up charge for getting it in black?

No, but I'd be careful. You're not fit for a black putter, so there's a chance you could aim it differently.

[RFKFREAK]

2 minutes ago, iacas said:

No, but I'd be careful. You're not fit for a black putter, so there's a chance you could aim it differently.

Oh, wow. didn't think the color would make that much of a difference.  I think the fitter only has the standard silver color materials.