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Blade or mallet putter?

More and more top tour pros are using the mallet type, ask Poulter to change. TM white smoke MC72 for me, first thing I done was change the crap TM grip. On the way to a scratch tie win I had 19 putts in 14 holes….game over. In club championship qualifying, with a front 9 of 3 under par, birdies at all three par fives, all single putts. (I cant hit em in two)
 
Been using a blade recently (soon to be in for sale...)!

Mallets adjust feel, to me, much more stable. That said I don't like huge mallets, will be buying a rossie size one.

I'd love to be as consistent with a blade putter as they look much better over the ball but why make things more difficult than they need to be?
 
Mallet for me all day, had played a donnay mallet for years and upgraded to a Rossie, both look very similar hence the reason i went and bought an odyssey as i wanted the same head type and bend in shaft as my old putter.
Rossie on the left Donnay on the right.
 

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I've used a face-balanced mallet for nearly 15 years now.
Began playing with a typical Anser style toe-heavy putter and thought it was ok.
Then I used a Mate's mallet and immediately it felt better.
If I go back to a toe-heavy now I can feel the toe seemingly moving much faster than the rest of the putter and it's just plain odd!
Don't know what sort of stroke I have - just that a mallet feels right and others don't.
 
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