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Hawk - agree with you there. it is about what works for the user. I just can't putt with some of the bigger putter heads as I lose my touch. Another style that just doesn't work for me is anything center-shafted. It just does not fit my eye when I line up to the ball.
Good episode! High MOI isn't necessarily inherently better, but it can help people who have trouble with letting the putter twist maintain stability. I used to have trouble with this, and got so used to it that it's why I still like the look and feel of a mallet.
Am I the only one that finds the talk about putters and MOI for forgiveness weird?
How much twisting can actually be caused in a 4" stroke on a mishit? A extension of that, how do you miss the sweet spot on such a short stroke?
Hopefully nobody takes any of that the wrong way. My misses are usually pulls but I always feel that I'm putting a good roll on the ball regardless of blade or mallet.
I think it comes back to the margin for error. MOI matters because any twisting, even a couple of degrees, plays over a lot more time to roll. If I'm trying to lag 25', factoring in a hill, not hitting the hill where I want it to, or losing pace because I didn't put it dead center on the face, can have a massive impact on where the shot ends up.
And unlike other clubs where you're trading forgiveness for control and shot shaping, with a putter there's no shot shaping. You want it to roll straight down your target line and only have the contours of the ground affect it. So why wouldn't you want maximum MOI?
Am I the only one that finds the talk about putters and MOI for forgiveness weird?
How much twisting can actually be caused in a 4" stroke on a mishit? A extension of that, how do you miss the sweet spot on such a short stroke?
Hopefully nobody takes any of that the wrong way. My misses are usually pulls but I always feel that I'm putting a good roll on the ball regardless of blade or mallet.
I've had the same thought many times. I do get it in ways, since your margin of error is so much smaller with a putt (4 inch target as opposed to yards or feet), but I've just never felt it was a huge issue for me. I do miss the center of the face, especially as the stroke gets longer, but I can think of numerous blade putters I've tried or owned that still perform fine in that situation. There is relevant science there, but I just think there's a point where it crosses the line into a marketing bullet point.
I think when it comes down to some segments of golfers MOI means much more than it will to those that practice their putting stroke and have a solid putting stroke. Missing the center of the face of a putter is actually fairly common. One of the companies did a study that showed the average golfer missed the center of the face by more than half an inch something like 47% of the time. I know I have the study somewhere and will try and find it.