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By now, I’m sure that you’ve seen that pretty much every brand has released their own version of the Lab Zero Torque putters. And I have been using them for quite a while. So, I thought I’d share my experience with them to show you how they can potentially help you game. Also, at the same time, maybe some of the downsides that you might see with using a zero torque putter. Hello and welcome back to the channel. Now, for anybody wondering before we start what a zero torque putter actually is, well, they were basically designed to help stop as much twisting of the club face, which should help you to get the ball started on your start line a bit easier. And they do it by having the shaft position directly above the center of gravity of the head as opposed to being obviously out the heel that you tend to find in most other putters. And you can see it when you balance it on your hands. With a face balance putter, you’re going to see the face point straight up towards the sky. And then anything a bit more toe weighted, you’re going to see the toe pointing towards the ground. With a zero torque putter, then you’ll see that the toe will point up towards the sky. So that you have the face pointed in the direction that you’re hitting the ball in. Now, the best and the most common way of demonstrating this is by using a device which shows you basically what’s going on. So, when you set a normal putter into it, like a tow hang or a face balance putter, you’ll see that it’ll want to twist open straight away as you take it back. Whereas, if you put anything that’s classed as zero torque in there, it should remain with the face pointing towards a target. And this actually supposedly helps with the forgiveness as well. So, because the weight is positioned in the center, if you’re hitting the heel or the toe, this should actually help it stop twisting as much as a traditional putter will do as well. Now, you’ll probably find that most brands are claiming that what they’re offering is superior to other brands and what they’re offering, but I think ultimately they are all doing a pretty much similar thing. There’s probably at least 12 different brands that I know of which are doing a zero talk option now. And there are still a couple of others as well like Scotty and Ping which do have some prototypes on the tour which have been knocking about for a while. I think we will see them come to retail at some point. Let me know in the comments if you have tried any Zero putters yet. For me, I do quite like most of the zero torque putters out there. In particular, I’d probably have to say most of the lab models and especially this Tailmade Spider. I think that is probably the best looking one out there at the minute. But the one that really did stand out to me is this Kantic Neutron. The interesting part about these is that they do remain zero torque no matter what lie angle you change it to. Like with the Lab and every other brand, you’d have to send it back to be rebalanced. Some of the other brands don’t even offer a different lie angle. But with this Kantic, you can just do it for yourself. But on top of that, the Cantic alongside the Lab are the only ones offering an arm lock model. I am actually in the process as well of making the spider into an arm lock. So, I’m probably going to make a video on that as well shortly. So, if you want to see that, make sure to subscribe if you haven’t already. But, I would say that the can with the carbon face on it definitely works better for me with pace control. It’s just so easy to get the pace on it. I do find it easier holding more putts with a style like this than I do with my traditional ones. And I think a lot of that is down to, if you’ve seen my shorts before, I do hit the toe of my putter quite a bit. That’s just something I’ve always done. I’ve never struggled with my puts in. I actually feel like that helps me with getting the pace. So just having a zero torque where the MOI is so high feel like that is definitely something that helps with offc center hits and just keeps the face more stable helping to keep the ball on the line easier. I’ve seen a lot of people commenting this on social media when you use a putter in one of the revealers or something similar to that. Obviously there’s no one actually touching the grip like there would be when you’re actually hitting a put. And to be fair at the start before I’d seen it in action I probably thought the same thing and I did potentially think that it was a bit of a gimmick. But when you go from using a zero torque putter for quite a while and then when you go back into like a more standard and traditional type, I feel like I can feel the face really wanting to open up more in the backstroke and then feeling like you really need to close up more as you’re swinging through because feel does have a lot to do with it, especially in putting. So, I think a good way to think about it is that the zero torqus give you less face movement, which does really eliminate one part of the putting stroke and stops you having to worry as much about squaring the face up in time, which should allow you more to concentrate on getting the pace instead. Also, if you’ve been using a slant or face balance putter and you’ve been opening the face on the way back and then closing it coming through, moving to a low torque or zero torque could take a little bit of getting used to because if the face isn’t open on the way back, but you’re still feeling like you need to close it to square the face up even though it already is square. Then you might see that you miss a few puts to the left. At least that’s what I was finding at the start to begin with. And I mean, part of that might even be because the shaft is in the middle of the head. And that again is just something that we’re not really used to, which I think is maybe why we might see more brands going towards what PXG and more recently what Lab have been doing where the shaft is still sitting directly over the center of gravity in the middle of the head, but it’s not actually entering the head in the middle and it basically like offsets into the heel again. And that just gives a different option as well for people who don’t want to look down at the shaft going into the middle. I’ve heard a lot of people saying that they just couldn’t put up with that. But that is another thing that you have to consider is when you normally have a head with a big alignment on it, how is having a shaft going right into the middle of it going to impact how you line up the face? That’s a dress. And I’d probably say that with a lot of these, it isn’t quite as easy to line up with them as it is with a normal head. It’s not overly difficult, but you’ve not got as much room to work with as you do when the shaft goes into the heel. So, I mean, anytime you change a putter, it is always going to take a bit of getting used to. But something like a zero tors, like a more traditional style, is definitely one of the biggest changes that you can see between putters, which I do think is partly why you do see quite a lot of zero to talk stuff in secondhand shops and websites. I just don’t think people are really giving them enough time to adjust to it. It really does just take out one aspect of putting, and it is arguably the biggest change that we’ve seen in the putter market for probably like the last 50 years. I’d love to hear your thoughts and your experience and your feedback on the ZeroTalk hype. As usual, thanks for watching.
