Piretti Matera
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Pictures! We need pictures! I'm a big fan of that style and look forward to hearing how it works for you.
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- #3
I will get some photos up this weekend. It has been a crazy week.
One of my favorite players on tour is Tony Finau, because he is a local. I have actually played with him many years ago. His story is very well known at this juncture and he is one of the “good guys.” Anyway, he has had a Piretti Matera in his bag for some time.
I have always wanted to play a blade-style putter, but they just don’t work for me as well as something with a little more MOI. The Matera is a great compromise. It still has some of that blade look, but with the deeper flange, it provides some help.
I had been considering a Matera for quite a while and reached out to Piretti. I worked with a guy named “Bill Craig.” He was wonderful to work with. Very responsive and helpful. They had a “Workshop” Matera with a longer slant welded neck that could be finished the way I wanted. I had been reading about the Garsen grips and decided to try the G Pro Max. I gave the guys in the workshop the freedom to stamp the putter as they saw fit.
the putter looks great. It is a 380 gram head, which might be heavy for some, but at 33.5 inches, it feels really balanced to me. The mid-milling gives the putter a very pleasing sound and feel (who can say which is which), even with the X-type balls I have gravitated to this year.
Something about the combination of the head and the Garsen grip have just completely clicked for me. The putter is totally on fire. I had one other streak of putting like this in the last 3 years and it was last summer with an Odyssey Red Ball. I will admit that I am vain and the putter never appealed to me visually, but it worked. Ever since, I have been trying to find something that I loved to look at, but which still performed equally as well. This putter is it for me.
It was not an inexpensive putter and a little bit of a shot in the dark, because I have no access to Piretti putters in my area and, particularly the Matera. I am so thrilled with it, though.
I am a horrible photographer, but will get some photos up soon.
One of my favorite players on tour is Tony Finau, because he is a local. I have actually played with him many years ago. His story is very well known at this juncture and he is one of the “good guys.” Anyway, he has had a Piretti Matera in his bag for some time.
I have always wanted to play a blade-style putter, but they just don’t work for me as well as something with a little more MOI. The Matera is a great compromise. It still has some of that blade look, but with the deeper flange, it provides some help.
I had been considering a Matera for quite a while and reached out to Piretti. I worked with a guy named “Bill Craig.” He was wonderful to work with. Very responsive and helpful. They had a “Workshop” Matera with a longer slant welded neck that could be finished the way I wanted. I had been reading about the Garsen grips and decided to try the G Pro Max. I gave the guys in the workshop the freedom to stamp the putter as they saw fit.
the putter looks great. It is a 380 gram head, which might be heavy for some, but at 33.5 inches, it feels really balanced to me. The mid-milling gives the putter a very pleasing sound and feel (who can say which is which), even with the X-type balls I have gravitated to this year.
Something about the combination of the head and the Garsen grip have just completely clicked for me. The putter is totally on fire. I had one other streak of putting like this in the last 3 years and it was last summer with an Odyssey Red Ball. I will admit that I am vain and the putter never appealed to me visually, but it worked. Ever since, I have been trying to find something that I loved to look at, but which still performed equally as well. This putter is it for me.
It was not an inexpensive putter and a little bit of a shot in the dark, because I have no access to Piretti putters in my area and, particularly the Matera. I am so thrilled with it, though.
I am a horrible photographer, but will get some photos up soon.
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- #8
Great stick. Piretti makes nice ones and the Matera's I owned were always amongst my favorites. Its a head shape based-on/scary-similar-to the TP Mills Fleetwood which makes me adore it even more.
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- #11
Wow, the two putters are extremely similar. Thanks for pointing it out.
- Staff
- #12
Yessir, the Fleetwood came first, but Piretti is one of only three others to replicate or make a variation of it, Bettinardi and Lajosi being the other two.
No problem, I have a thing for putters. Haha
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That is one clean looking putter. I've loved that shape ever since I noticed with Finau with it. It takes my favorite blade style style in the Laguna/Zing but like you said seems to add a little extra heft behind it. Great purchase!
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- #14
I agree totally. I have always loved the look of the Laguna/Zing (Your Azalea is also similar to those two). I own a Toulon Long Island, which also is similar. I have a Rife Rival, which has a similar profile, but is a little larger in size, and had some success with it. This one fits within the lineage, but with the beef that I truly need with a little bit more shaken putting stroke as I grow older. I really have high hopes with it.
Sanzabar
Oh So Colt!
My goodness... so pretty. One of my favorite head shapes and a sight dot!!!!
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- #18
I think I am ready to say it. This is my all time favorite putter. I have been averaging between 32 and 33 putts since I got it. I had 3 birdies today and 33 putts, hitting 11 greens. The thing that I am finding is that I am lag putting as well as I ever have. So happy with this acquisition.
- Staff
- #20
Agree, the Fleetwood/Matera is a great shape.
- Joined
- Jul 10, 2015
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- Southeast, South Dakota
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That's great that it's working for you. I'm a big fan of that shape.
I played 12 with my new Matera today, it has lovely balance.
It’s much bigger than I expected, see comparison shots with a Forza and a Betti #28 Slotback. Definitely a mallet, not a blade. Really like the way it plays.
It’s much bigger than I expected, see comparison shots with a Forza and a Betti #28 Slotback. Definitely a mallet, not a blade. Really like the way it plays.
