Freddaly Putters

[Mike_j_golf]

Hi,
Anyone else tried a fred daly putter am going to Golf vision tonight and they are doing a custom fitting have hit it any time i have been there.they feel great so easy to set it square to your target.Just know i am going to buy one unless any one has any reason not too.
Mike

 

[Cernunnos]

I've got one & love it... Went for the bladed #7 one. Though over the winter I could probably have done with one of the more heavily set versions for winter.

I was fitted for mine at the Quinn British Masters.

 

[Mike_j_golf]

Hi,
How would u compare it to your other 2 putters.
Mike

 

[Cernunnos]

Lol...Well I have a few more putter than just that, but to be honest The putters are all quite different than each other in different ways.

With Yes Putter the balance is great, nice feel & weight, plus the C Groove which does really help the end over end roll with less skidding on putts...

http://www.yesgolf.co.uk/item_16.htm

The cavity on the back is also perfect for picking up the ball on those given putts..lol Not to mention I love bladed putters. And although a heal toe weighted putter its also face balanced. Meaning if you were to ballance the putter by its shaft horizontally it would sit with the face level with the horizon, yet still suite either back & through or in to in players.



The Ping Karsten B60 that I have is a slightly shorter length than the Yes Putter, which I should have perhaps have gotten fitted. Again little to fault it on. Apart from maybe the lack of grinding in the face to inhibit skidding which it can be prone to in certain conditions & greens. Although stricktly speeking still a bladed putter, there is certainly a nod towards the D shaped mallet type, but still with that handy cavity. http://www.golfalot.com/ReviewImages/putters/Ping/karstenb60L.jpg
The Putter serves it purpous, but There are other varients of the B60 that for the sake of a few extra quid I might have been worth sticking out for. Now I love Ping putters, but this one is definitely one for fair weather & perfect technique. imo



Now as for the Daly Golf #7
http://www.daly-golf.com/html/precision7.htm
The link shows mine. Now its certainly the lighter weight of all of them & some respects actually clossest to being a classic design of putter as with the shaft balanced in your hand, the face will hang almost vertically. Which would lead you to believe that the putter would suite in to in players rather than back & through players. The Daly experience of fitting is well worth the effort. Though & ironically to me they as a company seem to favour the back & though aproach, which at times can feel a bit technical. But when leveling the head so that it sits on the ground correctly is the key to their putters.

The only thiong really is that the face could do with milling or groved technology to improve the roll, but the feel off the face is good & although there is a little more tendency to skid, with a proper & careful stroke, this barely comes into play.

Though If I were to get another Daly Putter I'd probably be tempted to get the #3
http://www.daly-golf.com/html/precision3.htm

for the useful cavity & the added mass for year round use. That's not to say the #7 was a mistake or no good. Far from it, its an excelent putter & when I'm playing well it really rewards, especially with the added feel. But on those days when I get the jitters so to speak & maybe try & get too technical, then things can go awry... Now this is nothing to do with the putter, but the tool (player/person) using the tool..lol

I love my Yes Putter, but the Daly Golf putter gives me something else I can use with an equally effective, yet different technology. And if nothing else it gives the player practical lesson he or she can take to the other putters they may also own.

 

[Mike_j_golf]

Thanks very much for all the info will have a fitting this evening and see how it goes.
Thanks Mike

 

[Cernunnos]

Pleasure... Anytime.

Regards. Paul.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

I have to be honest I have seen these in various AG stores and tried a few but they look hideous behind the ball and I didn't feel any appreciative difference to say a Yes or an Odyssey. Not a brand for me although the c/f offer does look good.

 

[RGuk]

I have to be honest I have seen these in various AG stores and tried a few but they look hideous behind the ball and I didn't feel any appreciative difference to say a Yes or an Odyssey. Not a brand for me although the c/f offer does look good.

You don't say.....

I go straight for these EVERY time, and then end up with Pings and Wilsons as my favourite of the moment....
Maybe I should start with the Pings and go on to the Daly.
Sadly, even if they were the best putters ever made, I couldn't but anything with the name Daly on it....sorry, Big John.....

 

[Mike_j_golf]

Hi,
Ended up buying the 5 the custom fit was very good and i would recomend it even if u had no intention of buying one never thought getting a putter custom fitted would make any difference but i think it will, the putters have nothing to do with john daly Fred daly was the first irish man to win the open and a club maker its his son that has carried on the club making tradition was talking to him last night and he was telling me they have 5/6 guys on the european tour using the putters without having to pay them and he reckons that if they could afford sponsorship they would have another 10 or 12, I would reccomend they as a try if u are thinking of a new putter.
Mike

 

[Cernunnos]

I have to be honest I have seen these in various AG stores and tried a few but they look hideous behind the ball and I didn't feel any appreciative difference to say a Yes or an Odyssey. Not a brand for me although the c/f offer does look good.

You don't say.....

I go straight for these EVERY time, and then end up with Pings and Wilsons as my favourite of the moment....
Maybe I should start with the Pings and go on to the Daly.
Sadly, even if they were the best putters ever made, I couldn't but anything with the name Daly on it....sorry, Big John.....

Wrong Daly...

...One is a Fat Big hitting Diet Coke swilling Yank & the other is an Irish oft forgotten about genious of Yesteryear. Fortunatly The Daly in question for the Putters is the Irish fella.

 

[DCB]

It's Fred Daly's son Robin who is the current designer of these putters.

 

[RGuk]

Wrong Daly...

...One is a Fat Big hitting Diet Coke swilling Yank & the other is an Irish oft forgotten about genius of Yesteryear. Fortunately The Daly in question for the Putters is the Irish fella.

Dear oh dear.....you must consider me some sort of ignoramus.....I know which Daly is which.....I'm guessing the Daly putter co. is named after the Fred that won the Open at Hoylake 61 years ago.

Interestingly, I saw some Big John stuff in Sports World today.....

 

[Cernunnos]

Wrong Daly...

...One is a Fat Big hitting Diet Coke swilling Yank & the other is an Irish oft forgotten about genius of Yesteryear. Fortunately The Daly in question for the Putters is the Irish fella.

Dear oh dear.....you must consider me some sort of ignoramus.....I know which Daly is which.....I'm guessing the Daly putter co. is named after the Fred that won the Open at Hoylake 61 years ago.

Interestingly, I saw some Big John stuff in Sports World today.....

Not Ignoramus... was hoping there was humour involved in the quip earlier. my reply was meant to make sure no-one reading the thread & wasn't aware of Fred Daly & his son etc didn't start thinking the putters have something to do with Mr "Grip it n Rip it". Who's game I note has actually started to improve. Perhaps he's been using some of their putters...lol. If not, maybe he ought to.

 

[RGuk]

Not Ignoramus... was hoping there was humour involved in the quip earlier. my reply was meant to make sure no-one reading the thread & wasn't aware of Fred Daly & his son etc didn't start thinking the putters have something to do with Mr "Grip it n Rip it". Who's game I note has actually started to improve. Perhaps he's been using some of their putters...lol. If not, maybe he ought to.

Point taken, temporary bad mood.......

 

[Cernunnos]

lol...