LAB Golf DF3 Putter Review! Club Junkie Reviews

LAB Golf just released their new DF3 putter with some major changes. Updated and more compact look is easier on the eyes and is a little more angled look. The deeper face milling gives a soft feel and muted sound.

Hey what’s up everybody welcome back to the club junkie podcast it’s another Thursday burning through the weeks it’s already almost what is it Valentine’s day we’re halfway through February so uh well actually it’s a day after Valentine’s Day since this will come out on Thursday I’m recording it on a

Wednesday night so yes my wife is married to a very romantic guy who is recording podcasts on Valentine’s Day evening instead of uh you know taking her out to a fancy dinner but I guess that’s what happens when you’re in your you know in your 40s and you have kids

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Distance find out more about the prov1 and prov1x including which is the best choice for you at titleist.com so here we are we’re back again it’s crazy um I actually got to play golf last week which was uh pretty awesome my buddy John hit me up early in the week

He said hey looks like Thursday Friday going to be nice let’s get out and play so uh we planned on playing nine holes ran out to the course and uh we played about 13 holes I think it was something right about that um so pretty cool uh we

Got to actually go and play just went out and ran out played St Clair Shores my usual course where I have my league all that you guys know it um got to play with uh you know we got paired up with two other gentlemen one of which uh

Follows me on Instagram which is awesome so thank you Nick it was awesome meeting you uh Nick was a was a good player man he had a he had a nice nice set up in his bag uh had some cool head covers and uh it was fun we had a good time playing

And um you know just chatting it up and it was just one of those I think we were all appreciative just being out in the middle of February and playing golf in 50 degree weather I mean I think we all just appreciated being out there so it

Was a good time we uh we had a blast and uh yeah I was out there playing hit some good shots uh actually hit it okay uh putting was brutal because uh you know the the greens were so bumpy and you know they hadn’t been rolled or mowed or

Anything like that they were slow and bumpy but uh hit some decent shots I hit some bad ones uh but definitely hit a few good ones as well and uh I for myself I’ll give myself uh kind of a a C+ to B minus there I I think I played

Better than average uh or better than what I expected to shoot in terms of an average and uh it was good so had a bunch of stuff out there had the uh um the Wilson Staff the new Wilson Staff CBS uh had my new sm10 out had uh what

Is it the Cobra dark speed X and uh qi1 out there um just had a bunch of everything you know brought up a bunch of clubs and uh just just had fun so it was a good time got to play and then uh have been hitting a few balls at the

Indoor spots uh you know and using the old launch monitor and stuff like that so keeping it keeping it going and you know just trying to get through I feel like we’ve got a little more time and we’ll get into uh spring here spring type weather I’m hoping March gives us

Some Springtime weather early I’m really hoping so uh but it was good uh good week hit some balls and anytime you get to play golf in Michigan in February you’re you’re coming out on top you’re you’re playing with house money at that point so but when I was out there the

I’ve been messing around with h with a new putter that I’ve been rolling inside uh on you know putting mats and uh you know the carpet and everything uh for a while now and I finally got it out to the course uh as well which was pretty

Awesome but that new putter is the new lab df3 so I know uh this is kind of one of those Putters that a lot of people have been excited about and if you’re not fam with lab golf uh they’re they’re based out of Oregon and they’ve been making uh

What they call lie angle balance Putters uh for or lie angle balance Putters for for a long time and basically what’s that what that means if you hold a traditional putter uh in your hands and you just like rest it on your your fingers uh the putter has what they call

Tow hang so the the toe of the putter falls down uh to a certain degree and depending on the neck style and the head shape and all that uh you can have a putter that hangs almost 90° straight down uh and then anywhere in between and

Then of a putter is has the face pointing straight up in the air it’s called face balanced uh and face balanced Putters are typically a lot of mallets uh or blades with double Bend shafts or super long necks uh those are typically face balanced and then anything with like a shoulder slant neck

Flow neck uh you know single Bend stuff like that you’ll typically see some type of tow hang with uh so the difference is is that Li angle balance is that uh the putter head basically stays uh or the putter face stays pointed at the Target

The whole time so if you just rest this putter uh on your fingertips and you don’t you know don’t manipulate it at all then you’ll see that the face just points towards the target if you’re a right-handed player it points left so the face points left if you’re watching

This on YouTube you can kind of see what uh what L angle balance is um but yeah points uh points left and what they can do is uh they’ve actually got a little device called the revealer that uh you put a putter in there and it can freely

Rotate and they show how you can take a lab putter any of their putters and put it in the device it’s got two handles on it and the putter just spins in there and it will putt like normal because the the face doesn’t want to it’s always pointed at the at the hole

Or the target whatever you’re uh uh aiming at um which is pretty interesting it’s it’s it’s something unique um you know there’s there’s maybe a couple others that have been out there I know Odyssey messed with like the toe up putter that was similar in that style uh

And they kind of gave up on it I know there’s a couple other competitors out there to lab uh that make uh you know a similar putter design um but they’ve been doing it for a while and the the df3 is kind of the brand new

Model they had uh one that looked very similar called the DF 2.1 and a lot of people complained about how it looked it’s really it’s kind of a big putter uh it has this unique look where it’s got kind of this uh block of a face it’s

Kind of more squarish and then it has this back that’s more rounded uh with a big hole in the middle of it and for the people who have seen the DF 2.1 it is it’s it’s kind of a big putter uh and it uh was not the most beautiful thing in

The world and the best part about lab golf is that they don’t take themselves that seriously in a sense is that they make fun of it and they’re like yeah it’s it’s not the most beautiful putter in the world but it works and and that’s

The whole thing so uh the df3 is the newest version uh it’s more compact uh much smaller than the DF 2.1 was it’s a little bit thicker when you set it down when you look at it like from the side it’s definitely a little bit thicker uh

It kind of looks more a little more blocky uh which I kind of like uh and then the Milling on it is is definitely superb I mean when you look at this thing it’s it’s milled very well the bottom of it has a bunch of Weights

That are in there uh you’re told not to touch them they are permanent when you order your putter uh they have kind of a cool online fitting system that’s super simple but they basically when they put on the shaft grip uh everything they adjust these sole weights so that the

Putter is perfectly balanced and if you take them out and mess around with them the putter will no longer be perfectly balanced and uh you probably have to send it back to them or do whatever to to get it fixed but uh the df3 looks

Really good A lot of people I know uh especially the golf the Brix forums have been excited to see this putter uh they’ve been kind of waiting for it to happen um and it’s kind of unique when you look down on it uh the shaft goes

Into kind of the center and it’s not Center shafted where like Center shafted Putters the shaft goes into like you know right behind the face right in the middle of the putter this is set back and it’s almost kind of in the middle of the putter in the center so it’s a

Unique kind of look uh when you set it down uh it definitely is not anything traditional that you’re used to it’s this is not an an answer head or or anything like that that but I think this new one really has a much better look it’s much more pleasing to the eye and

The the more compact look is uh is is definitely reaching a lot of people as I see a lot of comments on it um the other thing too they say that they that they’ve increased thei on this putter compared to the DF uh 2.1 as well uh so

This thing should be more stable on M hits and uh you know have a higher Moi for for those not so perfect putts uh the one I’ve built up is a standard df3 head uh it’s in the Platinum finish which is kind of a deep silver I kind of

Like it it’s almost like got a texture to it when you look at it it’s almost like a uh like they kind of be blasted the head and then painted it silver but it looks really sharp zero glare whatsoever uh they make it in Black if

You do a custom order I think they make it in uh in Black in um I think even red I really like they they make one called uh cappuccino which I really like which is kind of like a bronze color I have a AZ Max uh from them in cappuccino I

Think it looks really good uh but they have a hand handful of colors uh that you can get this thing in they make it blue black red cappuccino which is kind of one of my favorites uh the Platinum which is really good they make an orange

A pink uh and a green so bunch of different colors uh they also make you know on the top line again if you’re watching this on YouTube I’m showing that mine I just did kind of a a twin sight line like dual uh small lines that

That cover the top line of the putter they make I mean I don’t even know how many putter alignment options out there but it is a ton um when you look at the alignment marks they’ve got something like man I don’t even know there’s got to be 20 yeah I

Mean a through z there’s 26 27 28 29 30 there’s like like 31 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 different alignment options for the top of the putter uh and everything from naked you can do nothing on the top uh all the way to pretty uh I don’t want to call them

Crazy but pretty Advanced and pretty uh uh you know heavily lined type of LM manads that have there and they even have one that kind of looks uh that basically takes that whole Top Line and splits it in three so it’s kind of like a a light silver whatever color the head

Is say black or platinum black and then another white so it’s almost kind of like a a versa from odssey which is pretty cool um and the one that I actually really like too that I was really debating hard about getting uh was they make one that actually goes the

The line actually goes onto the back flange so there’s a little kind of Arrow uh that points at the Target right at the dead center and then the line actually goes through all the way uh to the back of the putter so it’s like a single line that goes all

The way back which is pretty cool I almost ordered that one I just didn’t know how it would look with the shaft uh so I went with simple uh you know two lines uh in the putter head and uh it’s a simple clean look and uh if you’re if

You’re again know this Putter and you see it the hole in the back it does pick up the ball very very easily takes a little zero effort uh to pick it up you just basically walk over place the putter on top of the ball zero pressure pressure basically has to be applied

Other than like the weight of the putter picks the ball up you’re good to go which is which is really nice especially you know if you’re not making a ton of putts that day uh but no the but the big thing is the L angle balance and what

It’s supposed to do is basically take all of the manipulation of the hands you know every putter that has that tow hang uh through the stroke your your hands are kind of manipulating it so as you take it back it kind of usually kind of rotates uh open as they call the door

Opens as the the putterhead goes the toe wants to swing open uh and then as you bring it back the toe wants to swing shut and you have to kind of time it uh perfectly to hit the ball uh to hit the ball straight and basically lab is

Taking that out of it it’s because the face is always going to be pointed at the Target you don’t have to worry about you know manipulating or anything like that when I first tried uh the first MZ that I ever got my hands on well actually it’s a lie when I first tried

The first 2.1 uh that a per of of a guy I knew had one uh it was it was really a very different feel and very uh you know different look of course but different feel and I remember uh just you know trying to basically let the club do the work

You know as they say just pull it back and let it go and uh I think that’s where lab Golf Putters really really uh Thrive so I’ve tried the 2.1 I did that I I put it with that just a little bit uh knew a guy who had one uh and then I

Had an original MZ which they they still make which is the smaller version uh of the MZ which is kind of like a Fang putter uh and now I also do have a mz. One Max so and now a df3 so I’ve got uh a couple Putters from them and they’re

Extremely high quality when you look at it the Milling all that the face has these horizontal grooves uh that uh you know they say does do add a little bit of Top Spin and and put a little better roll on the ball it’s not a big thing

That they mark it but it does help with that uh and then these things here uh you know are just like I said the Machining work and all that really really nice really high quality and and these aren’t cheap so I mean when you

Look at uh um a df3 like this isn’t a cheap putter so it better look uh better look pretty nice and uh you know at 450 bucks for you know a a stock df3 that’s not cheap so when you look at it you can definitely tell that this is not just

Some cheaply made cast uh piece of metal on the end of a stick uh it is a uh a highquality piece and it is really done well and they think of a lot of uh uh things to it uh my build is like I said df3 Platinum head uh and then I’ve got

The uh the Acra uh putter shaft so lab and Acra got together they built these uh these graphite putter shafts so did mine in the white which kind of a matte white with just the uh the black Acro logo and lab logos on it uh basically just says engineered for lab golf by

Acra uh this is a pretty popular shaft from them uh but it’s a nice shaft the same shaft I have in my mz. One Max uh and then grip wise went with the Press pistol 2 degree which was something NE different and new uh that I really like

And I’ll talk about that in uh in a little bit but since I was familiar with you know lab Putters it was you know pulled out of the box and originally like the look is really good I think the new head cover uh looks awesome all

Magnetic it’s got really you know a lot of fuzz inside of it so it’s soft and they got a cool little logo thing where they they have this blue uh Stitch logo and then there’s a bunch of tiny little logos embossed in the synthetic leather uh and then they basically say that it

Was built and balanced in uh in cruell Oregon so on the backside too which is pretty cool so really nice head cover right out of the gate uh so you know again you know when you’re spending money you’re getting a even a quality head cover there but it’s magnetic uh I

Love magnetic head covers sick of uh of velcro covers you know you can’t take them off while somebody else is hitting whatever I’m a huge magnet guy but uh and then pulling the putter out again as I said really a good-looking putter love the Milling love all the work on it it

Just looks really good uh and imp paired up you know Platinum head with a white shaft I think matches up and then you know white and black grip uh but overall looks really good I ordered this actually the same specs as my MZ mes1 Max and when I ordered that I actually

Did uh the online uh video F fitting which was kind of cool so you basically all you have to do is is take your gamer putter uh you know go into uh like a doorway where there’s a straight vertical line somewhere and uh you know line up take you know and act like

You’re putting and have somebody you know video it and take a couple putting strokes and uh you send it to lab they kind of analyze it and it uh you know they’re able to figure out kind of the best L angle and all and length and all

That from there and my mz. one when they did that uh you know pretty much set up perfectly so ordered the exact same uh specs in this so just copied them down and they came in and they are pretty much identical identical length everything uh they just look a little

Bit different so one’s one’s the cappuccino one is this uh this Platinum but I I do like the look um I I’d say if I if I had to choose uh I would probably take the mz. One Max over this just in terms of pure looks uh and again shape

And and all that is is kind of the eye holder but I really do like this I think they did a nice job shrinking down the package making it look uh uh you know a little easier on the eye and then uh you know just take taking it out put having

A few putting Strokes with it it’s exactly what you’d expect a lab to be if you’ve had a lab before I mean it is you know the face just stays straight pointed at the Target and if you do the same thing before just pull it back you

Know pull it back really light grip pressure and let it go through uh the putter is going to do the work and it’s get the going to get the ball started on the on the line you intended it to uh and then it’s just basically did you

Read the Putt and did you hit it with the right speed and then that’s all but uh and know those are still two very tough variables but lab is at least taking one of those variables kind of out which is making sure the face is

Square at impact and uh it it if you don’t manipulate the face you don’t turn it whatever you let the putter do its thing it’s going to be uh you know going to be square uh at impact for you so um I was so I pulled it out really liked it

Took a few swings and then you of course threw a couple balls down in the office on the old office carpet and and took a few putts and initially I was really impressed with the with the sound and feel the sound is extremely muted uh it

Maybe just has a hint of metallic to it but it’s very quiet uh and it’s very soft uh the the horizontal lines on the face uh you know there’s less material there so you do get a really soft feel to it uh and uh and the sound is you

Know kind of got that just a little bit of click with a hint of metallic to it um I wouldn’t even call it a click it’s more of like a a very light thud with a hint of metallic to it and the ball just goes and I I really like the sound and

Feel I think it’s actually slightly better than the Mez uh Max I think it’s a touch softer and it’s a touch more muted than that putter is uh but really really soft and but it’s not so soft where it’s mushy I mean it is responsive

You’re going to know if you m hit it if you hit it off the toe hit off the heel anything like that uh you’re going to feel that that little bit of vibration uh and you’re going to hear just a slightly louder little thud uh when you

Do that which is which is nice so rolled it around the carpet really liked it and it was really familiar the only thing that was a little bit different was this grip so this is a pistol grip the uh the mes 1 Max has is has a a a press what is

It called I got it right here it’s the uh the Press uh number two 1.5 and it’s more of kind of like an oval shape it’s got a rounded back to it uh kind of like no taper on it this pistol grip’s a little more more traditional it’s got

Some taper uh it’s got that kind of flared but butt end to it uh and there’s just a familiarity when you put it in there when you put it on your hands and it sits in the palm of your fingers it just sits there really nicely and there’s something familiar about it from

A traditional putter that I think they makes this a much easier transition uh than you know the the kind of oval shape of the uh the press 2 one and A2 but the Press pistol I really like uh I think it’s a great upgrade here and then it’s

Also got a little micro texture that is uh you know small little round lab logos all throughout here they’re pretty tiny I don’t even know if YouTube they’re going to show up uh on there I don’t know if they’ll uh they’ll be able to to

Show up there but but really a nice kind of like micro texture on there uh that I think in you know the warm hot humid weather is going to feel really really good and have no no slip to it uh but uh you know the grip I really liked I

Thought that was kind of one of the you know not only is the head and everything improved but I thought this was a big uh big upgrade and I use pistols on everything else I mean I’m just kind of a pistol grip guy and putting this in

Your hand while it’s it’s a touch bigger than a lot of the ones I use it’s still very comfortable very easy there’s you know the top is flat so it’s got a good place to rest the thumbs um and it’s not too big where you’re kind of feeling

Like you’re kind of man you know manhandling it it’s a good size and you know my even my hands which I wear like a a medium large to large glove fit around it just really comfortably so I really like the Press pistol 2.0 it’s still got that kind of angled

Installation just like the other uh uh lab grips where it kind of goes into one side and uh and kind of comes you know through the through the grip at a different angle it’s not straight through uh and that’s actually there because the shaft comes in at an angle

Uh kind of some forward press into it so it kind of neutralizes a little bit of that uh but I love the feel of the grip uh and then of course the ACA shaft I think also softens up the putter field just a little bit um you know just by

Playing other graphite chaps and other Putters but it does soften it up just a touch so I got to go play this uh out on the course which is nice and like I said the greens were not great uh the greens were bumpy and and and they were slow

But I still got to go play and have real putts and have different lengths and all that and uh and I really like this butter I think they they definitely you know the soft feel and this and the the muted sound carry over onto the course

Uh you actually hear a little less of the metallic to it uh when you’re out doors but the feel is still really soft um you know when you miss it somewhere on the face you’re going to know a little bit you’ll still get a little bit more vibration you’ll hear that thud

Kind of increased just to touch out there but it is definitely you I feel like you lose a little bit of that metallic uh sound to it out on the course uh and then the role is is really good now I’ll say it’s really good because I was watching all my playing

Partners who were playing traditional Putters uh there were two guys with a CA with Camerons and a guy with an odyssey uh and starting off their ball had their balls typically had a little more initial hop skid anything like that you just saw a little bit more movement in

The beginning of the putts uh this thing here while there was still a bunch of bumpiness and the ball was still kind of jumping around it kind of got it got off to a smoother start and then it kind of was stuck at whatever the green was

Going to do uh but the initial start of it was really kind of it started out with some Top Spin got going and uh and it really did uh did roll the ball pretty well even on greens that uh were not smooth um added stability I think they definitely is some added stability

Especially over the DF 2.1 uh you know I I I’m far from a perfect putter I’m far from a guy who hits the dead center every time but when you do miss it I think this head does stay uh online better I felt like the 21 back in the

Day would kind of flop open a little bit if you missed it or kind of want to shut itself a little uh this thing here pretty much stays pretty Square I thought felt kind of the same thing with the original MZ as well I felt that you

Had to be a little more precise this putter I feel like you get get away with some of those swings and you get away with some of that contact that isn’t dead straight and the ball still goes straight uh there was you know at least

One or two shots that I can just think of that you know hit it a little bit off the toe because that seems to be where I’ve been been missing putts a lot lately uh or pretty much any club lately uh but missed it off the toe just a

Little bit and you almost turn away because you know the put’s not even close and then you look and the ball kind of like rests you know either right next to the hole or goes by really really close whatever uh the the stability on this thing really does keep

Those putts much much straighter and uh you know the same L angle balance just tends to work the I almost never thought about it’s it’s almost one of those like afterthoughts you never really think about you know is the face squared you know am I hitting it towards the the the

Target that I have it it’s just always is as long as you’re lined up there uh it’s it’s really solid there but I think thei is definitely increased I think it definitely is more forgiving than the 21 and I would say it’s more forgiving than

Uh my MZ One Max as well not by a ton but I think a little bit um and then when you get out there speed or distance control was actually really simple I mean the first green walked off you know walked up granted they were slow so you

Could be a little bit more aggressive but all through the day I mean speed was no issue never really had to worry about it never hit a putt that I thought like oh that literally like took off or jumped off the face or anything like

That um I walked off on what is it hole one two- putted for for unfortunately a double cuz I hit 10 o right off the t uh but once I got it on the green it was a you know easy two putt from uh from probably 15 feet and then actually made

About a a 10 foot Birdie on two that was interesting because I hit it on the perfect line and the ball started jumping and it started jumping to the left like it was going to miss the hole because it was a left to right breaker

And it started going left and I was just like okay like I hit a good putt I’m like I think that would have been a great putt had the the green B smooth and at the last second it basically came in at the side door and just fell into

The right so I made Birdie on two with it uh but like I said I hit a good putt I knew I hit a good putt uh I just knew those greens were kind of taking control and uh but I putted really well all day I mean I wasn’t uh again with those

Green you’re not going to make a ton I didn’t make a ton of birdies but I did putt really well I don’t think I had a three putt all day uh we like I said I think we played 13 holes uh didn’t have a three putt every putt I felt pretty

Confident that I was going to get it if I wasn’t going to make it I was going to get it close uh and I was just going to kind of tap in for that that par or whatever and that’s pretty much what I did uh all day with it which was uh

Which was pretty nice it didn’t take a whole lot to get used to uh again i’ I’ve had experience with with lab Putters so this isn’t the first one I’ve ever rolled but I think even if you’re somebody who was to get this you know brand new redit the gate never really

Rolled one uh I think you would actually still be pretty good there I don’t think the the the face is too hot or anything like that distance control is really good uh you know especially with this this fully milled face so overall that part was really good uh the the

Alignment was solid as well sometimes I know people especially like me when these when I first got my my first Mez ever I was a little worried about alignment because the shaft kind of goes into the dead center of the Cloe head and I typically like a longer sight line

Throughout the putter uh but alignment was actually really easy I actually found that the new uh shape the face of It kind of the the major Top Line the the the block section that goes in front of the shaft uh where the face is I found that was actually really good to

Kind of line up as well uh as kind of a I don’t how do you say vertical but that the heel toe to see if that face was open or closed I actually felt that worked in tandem pretty well with the double line sight lines uh the sight

Lines for me were more alignment on the ball and then uh you know noticing if the face was pointed in the directions I wanted to actually worked pretty well uh I felt like that being a little bit more chisel a little sharper edges compared to the 21 I think actually helped me

Line it up that way a little bit as well it kind of framed the ball well and uh and and I again I had no problem kind of lining up putts and or anything like that it was nice also to play a course that you know that’s not tricky it’s not

Uh you know there’s no green out there that you haven’t putted from every single spot so it’s uh it’s an easy thing to uh to figure out and you’re not really tricked by it but uh alignment I thought was really easy I would like to see

Uh one of those uh one of those d3s that has the line that actually carries over to the back of the putter I think it’ll be pretty interesting uh you know to see how that works and I think for my eye that might uh be even better uh than

Just the two single lines but for right now I lined it up really well um you know the the acro shaft in it really good from from long putts uh to to short putts it’s you know it seems to be a little bit stiffer than a traditional

Shaft uh and it also but it’s not crazy stiff so it still has a little bit of feel and uh you know even on Long lag putts that you’re getting up there you’re not feeling that the shaft is kind of you know wobbling or flexing throughout the uh the stroke there and

Uh yeah I mean short putts I think lab Putters are absolutely deadly I feel like you can pick this up off the rack and like a three or four foot putt walk up and just make them you know they’re just going to be automatic longer putts

They may take a little bit of getting used to only because you’re not manipulating manipulating that face you know as you are with a standard putter so bringing it back and hitting a harder putt without trying to like release release it in a sense uh is is a takes a

Little bit of getting used to and a little bit of practice time uh but I feel like one or two practice sessions on the green a round or two and and you’ll have kind of that down uh it just takes you know that those that first put

That you’ve got a 30-footer uh or you know something like that is is definitely a little interesting and you’re and you’re thinking about it in your head but once you do it a few times and and hit those putts it’s uh it becomes Pretty Natural um so yeah

Overall again the Press grip I really liked out on the course it was comfortable it just you know it was one of those things didn’t even think about you just put it in your hand and went uh and that’s what I liked about it with the the other press

To5 um not that I thought about it but it was just it was a little different feel than all the other grips that I typically use so it was just something slightly different this one it just you know it it just worked you just kind of

Fit in your hand and went um so overall I think it’s a great a really good putter I do and again I know people always like oh you say everything’s great I I think this is a really good butter I think L angle balance definitely there’s something to it um

You you know will this be my gamer I don’t know I don’t know if it’ll beat up my MZ MZ One Max uh they do have a slightly different feel uh as I was down here in my basement kind of putting with this I grabbed my MZ mes One Max and I

Was kind of putting with that and they do have a slightly different feel and I think with this with more mass back here on the back end where the kind of the hole is and that uh I think it does give it just a little different feel than the

MZ One Max and maybe I’m just more familiar with it uh but I like kind of the the feel I like the feel of both but I like the mes One Max the hair better uh in terms of feel but this thing I think definitely is a little bit more

Stable and that’s probably where uh that feel through the stroke is just slightly different is that there is more mass kind of back behind the shaft that there isn’t uh in the mees in the mes one so that design just is the two fangs um so

So a little different so right now I think I prefer my older Max just in terms of the feel of it uh but the forgiveness and and the sound and feel is is really really good with with the df3 so um you know I I really like the

Putter I think it’s great I think if you’re someone who I know I always say like if you’re struggle putting or whatever but if you’re just not like I don’t think lab is that company that you only use because you’re struggling I think it’s just something if you want to

Take a variable out of your putting game which is you know is the face squared impact their Putters are are are are definitely worth trying I mean whether it’s something like the df3 uh they do make something a little more traditional uh in the uh the link uh they make one

Called the link one that’s kind of more of a traditional blade style uh that they have uh and then you have something like the mes one and and the mes One Max and mes one which are uh you know a little bit more of that Fang uh type

Look that’s so popular as well so uh but the great thing is no matter what the shape they all do the same thing and they all have that that same L angle balancing so uh that’s pretty cool but they uh I think there’s something to it

I think there’s you know it’s not just a bunch of snake oil I think the uh the the LI Li angle balance definitely does does work and it can definitely help a lot of golfers who uh uh you know maybe struggle with putting or maybe just struggle getting that face uh you know

Squared impact it definitely could help so um very cool Putter I really liked it I I thought it was uh pretty impressive the build is really good it’s definitely going to make it out uh to the course again when the greens get a little nicer

Cuz I definitely want to roll it on some nicer faster greens I think it’ll be really good for that and uh yeah the df3 it’s uh a good job lab did a nice one with this one and uh it’s pretty exciting to see it’s going to be

Exciting to see uh how many people put these in play uh and either upgrade from like a DF 2.1 or you know move into these from uh you know another traditional putter so if you’re looking for something different uh you know something kind of inspire or uh you know

Inspire your putting or to you know just get it maybe back on track fire a little spark underneath it uh you know checking out the lab Putters is definitely something worth doing and whether you can go and get fit by an actual fitter around you or you do like the online

Fitting either way they’ve got a way to to make sure that you get a putter that fits you really well uh without just guessing and that’s pretty cool so uh and then like I said they have your uh specs right online like you can log into into your account and your specs are

Right there and if you you order a different putter a new putter whatever you can just copy the specs and be good to go so uh that’s all I did there but uh a nice job by lab I think this thing looks really good and I think it’s a

Great Evolution from the original 2.1 uh into this three so if you go to labg golf.com so just labg golf.com you can check out uh all the details on the df3 you can check out the you know the other Putters they make the link one the mes1 max the mes one uh and

Even the DF 2.1 the directed Force 2.1 you can check all those out uh it’s kind of fun go mess with the configurator you can go out there and build your own df3 custom color whatever uh you know make it uh kind of make it your own check it

Out uh and then they’ve got a couple other uh you know shaft options and stuff like that that you can kind of mess around with so uh really cool but I I was impressed with with the three I think they did a really nice job with it

And I think it’s a a putter that a lot of people are going to put in play I know that there’s some people on tour of already been uh uh messing with it and uh and trying it out so we’ll see uh We’ve SE more people on tour with it and

You know playing more and more but lab golf have you know on tour you’ve definitely seen a lot more of their Putters uh making it on there as well but that’s all I’ve got I’m going to going to stick it to one I know people um you know read some comments whenever

People don’t you know that I get a little wordy and I get a little long and I get that understand I’m just trying to be as thorough as possible with uh with everything and uh yeah but that’s uh that’s the df3 from Lab golf so pretty impressive putter check out again like I

Said lab golf.com uh I want to say thank you to everyone for all the questions this week we Q&A on uh Instagram at Club junky pod if you want to follow me there uh try to do a little Q&A answer some questions talk some golf gear always fun

Thank you all for throwing questions out there the other night uh and then if you’re watching this or you’re wherever you’re listening to this whatever podcast platform please like subscribe whatever uh it would be great I app appreciate it and if you’re watching this on YouTube I appreciate it as well

And uh excited to uh to review some more stuff throughout this year so got a lot of stuff ready to go I also have to make a list of of what’s going to be you know when so but that is the lab golf df3 putter and uh yeah that’s all I’ve got

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