I’ve seen too many putters with bent necks leading to incorrect lofts. In this video I show you how to check and fix a putter with a plumbers or slant neck.
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I’ve seen too many putters with bent necks leading to incorrect lofts. In this video I show you how to check and fix a putter with a plumbers or slant neck.
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I started to cry for the putter. Seeing a hammer made me cringe. But this actually worked. And I willing to try it when I get the extra putter to mess with.
Love this one AJ. Thanks for sharing!
Nice video AJ – I like the thought that's gone in to this and the fact you're demonstrating it on a very nice custom Anser Milled! Cheers
Got an odyssey 2 ball …how do you alter that style of putter
Pretty sick Ping WRX Anser right there….
Would it be more beneficial to heat the putter shaft in the area you would be hammering first?
How do you know what delivered loft you’re presenting in a putt?
What app did you use
Have you ever used this method for making a putter more upright or to flatten it out?
My putter is always broken. The ball just doesn't go in the cup.
Very interesting video! Im going to have to check my putter, do you think an angle finder or a protractor would work to find the angle or degree of the putter face?
Hey AJ, Do you know if their is a standard loft on a putter that you would buy at the store? Or is their a loft that is considered ideal?
What bend would you recommend trying to change if you wanted to make a plumbers neck putter more upright? The lower, from head to hosel or the upper from hosel to shaft? Maybe take a couple degrees from both?
Thanks A.J just bought an old Scotty Newport 2 detour and felt there was to little loft on it, now I can check it and fix it, have been using your vids for my repairs since you started, all the best from Tasmania.
Thanks AJ! If I wanted to change the lie of the putter to make it more upright, would I use the same process, but strike the putter on the back of the neck?
I was always told that cast clubs, even malleable ones such as Ping, could only move a maximum of 2° either way from standard. Forgings could be bent a little further due to the grain structure of the material, but castings are prone to fracture.
It's something I'd be very wary about committing to especially as you have moved a relatively thin and therefore weaker section around 4° from where it was.
Hi AJ! You are a truly master craftsman. A combination of old and new school in one. Always like your videos! Kudos!
Great video .. thanks for the info. Keep up the great work !
Great instruction video.
I have my blade putter at 2°. I watched a Second Swing fitting video he was fitting someone and mentioned that a mallet (similar to the Scotty Cameron phantom x 11.5) puts the weight in back for MOI but this back weight also makes someone tend to swing up on the ball adding loft. I got fitted to 2° loft on my blade Newport 2 to offset my own swing where I tend to swing up on the ball and this lower loft helps. Would you suggest I go to 1° or 0° loft on the 11.5 since this is going to possibly make me swing up even more with the weight in back and wings? It made sense when I watched. Just thinking I should take off more loft with a mallet than a blade. Agree?
If you bend a short slant neck forward to essentially add loft, or at least lean the handle more forward to fit a feel, would it change the amount of toe hang of the putter at all? I have a spider fcg putter that looks like it has about 1/2° of loft at address to me.
Hi AJ. I have an odessey putter with a dent half way down the shaft. Would you replace the shaft or repair the dent by pushing a rod down after removing the grip? Thanks Patrick
I'd love to see a video on bending loft/lie on different types of necks of putters and different types of putters. I can't find a thorough one on Youtube. Thanks AJ!