Putters!!!! Is there a difference?

[kid2]

Following on from the Forged vs Cast threads that are being thrashed about has anyone any opinions on putter preference.......
CNC Milled from a single block of metal!
Or cast.......
I ask because im thinking of buying another putter just for curiousity....I would love a Redwood Ping Zing
at 170€ its not cheap....Then there's the Karsten Zing 80€ which is cast......Both are the same weight but the feel off both faces feels different with the same ball.....

Are the flagship models really worth the extra dough?

 

[USER1999]

I like looking at a milled putter. I am an engineer, and appreciate the workmanship.

 

[Spinn77]

I changed from an old odyssey insert blade type to the Scotty in March.

I havent looked back. Much better off the clubface and my handicap has tumbled since the seasons started as my putting has come on.

 

[Imurg]

Yes there's a difference.
But if you putt better with a £4.99 Dunlop from Sports Direct than you do with a £200 Scotty which are you going to buy?
The Scotty for show or the Dunlop for Dough?

 

[HomerJSimpson]

For me this is the single most subjective area in golf. Will a milled putter work any better than a cast one. I don't care if its hacked out of solid gold, if it gets the ball in the hole regularly it doesn't amke an iota of difference.

For the record I was looking at the odyssey black series which are seriously good milled putters and wanted the #9. However I couldn't justify the £200 price tak and so got the white ice version for half the price. My putting has improved immensly since so I guess milled doesn't have to be the way forward

 

[kid2]

Yes there's a difference.
But if you putt better with a £4.99 Dunlop from Sports Direct than you do with a £200 Scotty which are you going to buy?
The Scotty for show or the Dunlop for Dough?

Priceless!!!!!!!

 

[in_the_trees]

im a cnc milling machinist.....just buy a cheap £10 putter i can easy mill the face for ya

 

[Hendy]

Have a mate unstoppable on the greens at the minute with a slazenger 11.25 putter from JJB sports..

Dam him!! he is costing me a bomb week in, week out... need to chat him into buying a dearer one or something else for that matter!!

 

[Oddsocks]

If you can put with it who gives a goose whether its milled, CNC or chocolate.

Its interesting with the JJB reference, last year i got a cheapie from sportsworld as i wanted to see if the larger mallet style would heklp with my alignment compared with a convensional blade set up. I got on pretty well with it and when i had my putting lesson my pro laughed " WTF have you got there "

he had a few puts with it and he's next statement " actually that a pretty nicely balanced putter, how much was it "

Now granted its not made of some of the extreme metals that some are, didnt come in optional shaft lengths but all the same if im totally honest appart from the face insert on rossa being groved, with my eyes closed im equally as bad with both and cant tell the difference.

On sunday i played with an older gentleman who's putter looked from the late 80's early 90's series of pings, but... and a big but, he averagely single putted most greens, if they were long puts everything was inside a foot.

 

[medwayjon]

If a putter works for the individual it doesnt matter at all.

I know a fella, off a very low handicap who has all the latest gear in his bag with one exception, his putter. He has had the same wilson putter for about 20 years, it looks like a piece of crap but he is lethal with it.

 

[CrapHacker]

Q. Putters. Is there a difference ?

A. Yes. Phil Mickleson is a good putter. I am not.

Lee Westwood is somewhere in between.