2006 Rife Putter – Put That Helmet Back On – The Vintage Golfer

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Hello and welcome everybody to 2006 in 2006 we have bars on Putters and Brad Pitt andelina Jolie had their first child and George Clooney was the sexiest man alive but I was in college I don’t remember any of that I remember something about Facebook was like people

Were like people in college were using Facebook now it’s all like grandparents but like back then it was like college kids he was like it’s cool it’s exciting it’s Facebook well Mark Zuckerberg can live on his personal island with his billions and R guran re

Is how you say his name sorry if I’m mispronouncing it came out with this putter one of the great alltime putter designers up there with Scotty Cameron now with I believe he’s with even roll even am I saying that even right either way he put two bars on a putter what on

Earth is going on with this and you can take these off and adjust them I guess let’s get get this on the review table and have a closer look just looking at it at a dress I don’t see how anybody could ever recognize this there’s nothing to identify it so we better look

At the so all right so up here it says two bar blade actually says two bar with a line then blade and then we have a two with a line underneath it so you don’t confuse it for a seven not sure anyway then we have these this

Mil face pattern which is what they use on the face we’ll get to that in a second but they M it so that’s the same as the face so we could putt with the sole right and get the same forward roll that they talk about down here it says rif

Putters and let’s talk about the AF portion all right so there are these two huge bars sticking out uh at first I thought these were hex sockets but I don’t know if you can spin those off not 100% sure either way uh they have what looks like a little screw here

And they have have these big metal rods right here just sticking out of the back with a little white alignment line a little Center Notch right there can you see that little Center Notch which lets you know if you’re looking directly over the putter or not pretty interesting the

Feral not a feral the hosle right here has these three circles pretty interesting uh so I guess this is a shaft over huzzle I guess design the face is really interesting if you’ll notice like where the weights screw in here they don’t align with the weights

On the face there’s a weight on the face and a weight back here they’re not linear so on the outside here and then right all right cool so the face is all where all the technology is there are grooves on the face and I guess that

Helps with forward spin as they say on their website so pretty interesting putter here the rest of it pretty straightforward we have a stepless putter shaft here uh just a white DTG paddle grip right here nothing uh really that spectacular of note but it does have a

Unique look and I’m probably just going to stay here in studio as it’s freezing outside in Wisconsin and the greens are closed by the way so I’m just going to put around in here and talk a little bit about how this putter feels okay here we are rif

Putter not sure how this is going to work out with audio my phone is down on the floor and I’m talking to my phone on the floor all right so we’re going to use a r putter here uh the grip isn’t spectacular it’s a DTG just white grip

As you saw um I’m just looking at this uh it does feel like a heavy malet Putter and looking down at it I feel like it’s pretty easy to align I’m looking at that White Center Line not these two huge metal rods I am a little bit let’s have a

Look that one uh it feels really really stable like I feel very confident about it my concern is on long putts I wonder how precise I could feel with this like with distance control but yeah seems to go where I point it and it’s very consistent I’m

Going to aim a little bit to the left here cuz I missed that one right lovely so as a putter it actually looks in feels pretty good this feels like a good putter it feels like a heavy Mallet putter is what it feels like to

Me I like the way it rolls off the face I can’t really tell with my putting anything miraculously different from other Putters but it’s supposed to have that face technology there and it has these two big jutting shafts that just stick out of its backside and you oh they were

Limonad they weight it helps with a moment of iner okay all of that that’s great but do we want to see it it’s like when kylo Ren takes off his helmet you’re just like I have a wish that he puts that helmet back on put it back in there put

That head back in that helmet you know it’s like do we need to see this I get it there are people who want to see technology since the 60s since ping came out even before then ping was like look see these huge lumps of Mass

On either side on the toe and the heel that builds confidence when you’re putting it’s visible technology okay so that’s what gur and R does here do I like it I kind of love it I kind of do because it’s a diva of a putter it’s

Like look at me I going to be yes you know they make a mallet putter where these big shafts are gently CED with some aluminum sticking out back here but it’s still still the same idea right so I love this I would totally take this out and play this because it is

Ridiculous it’s just like what is why are you what how I remember when I see these things on the golf course throughout my golfing career and i’ just be like yes those are crazy those are just crazy enough and I love that about these Putters you the technology do I really

Buy that no because most of my lifts are like my misses are like left and right very rarely is it like stopping on the lip like short like if you would have got a better top spin off of that and you you didn’t didn’t skip you would

Have very rarely is that the case okay so would this help maybe I’m not really interested in that I’m interested in this is just a cool Putter it is to me a mallet putter I would put this in a mallet putter head cover SL that in my bag good to go

2000s rocking an awesome 2000s golf set totally all day every day and to me I feel like this is a discount even rule that’s just how I think gur it’s a gur and R designed putter it’s super cool and outrageous let me know your thoughts in the comments below do you really just

Not want to see kylo Ren’s you know face just put the helmet back on just I know it’s been a while it’s been a hot minute but that’s what came to mind when I saw it’s like it’s kylo Ren’s face so that said I’m excited to read

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