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About the same size, overall. Toe hang on ER9 is minimal, like 10* maybe. Nearly face balanced.

eBay. Really liking my Daddy Long Legs more, probably gonna move it on soon. It’s a very stable, solid putter, but I just like the TM a bit more. Plus, I’ve still got my trusty EXO 7s for backup.

I think I've really nailed down the root cause of my issue. My swing has been lengthening, for the worse, not better. I've always played from a pretty compact backswing, but my increased level of activity lately, combined with more golf, has got me taking the club too far back. I've always exhibited some EE, so this extra "time" to square the club has me completely ahead of impact. I started forcing a 2/3 backswing, and contact/flight was so much better once again, without having to manipulate anything. I've gotta keep an image of Jon Rahm in mind when things get hairy. This could also explain why I sometimes lose connection late in a round, as my muscles & ligaments have fully warmed up and are allowing my body to rotate and enter way too deep into the backswing.

Not gonna lie, but without adjustable weighting like Lab, there’s no way to perfectly balance the head for lie/loft alterations. The shaft has to point directly through the CoG to be ZT or like Lab. You’d have to mess with the heel/toe weighting, to rebalance for lie adjustment. Now, with that said. 1-2* of adjustment in itself might not even change how the putter works for YOU. It will just be slightly out of “perfect”.

Yes, it absolutely would.

The part I think is unreal, is the flat bottom. It just wants to sit so square to my path. I can sorta grip, re grip or whatever, standing over the ball and the head just stays perfectly square.

If a person can get past the looks of a larger MOI mallet, and distance control with it is good, the face stability alone is worth using one. Since switching from a blade to a mallet, my path and intended line are SOOOOO much better. I think blade/anser style putters will be the minority soon, and possibly fall out completely, much like the 8802 and Bullseye of yesteryear.

If a person can get past the visuals of a larger MOI putter, and distance control can be honed, I just cannot see how a blade putter could ever compare for stability and face control.

I've been playing this all season now and it's still performing very well. If you're into medium compression surlyn, you doing yourself a disservice by not giving these a chance. Price and durability alone make this a no-brainer.

This putter just flat out performs! Making a lot of lengthy putts beyond my usual. FWIW, I removed all the CB, cut it down to 34" and installed a GM Tour leather stitchback. 🤩

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Understanding impact conditions and trying to create them for an extended period after impact, is a good way of looking at it. Case in point, myself, as I've fallen victim to a fast closure rate through impact. Hooks and pulls are my enemy most days, when my swing mechanics fall apart. Rather than slow my closure or try to time it up better, I've gone to a method of keeping the face square after impact, by actually "flipping" at impact, which counters and wrist "rolling" post impact. It keeps my face on-line longer and it faces skyward rather than left and down in my follow-through. I don't carry a ton of shaft lean into impact, so my face control is much easier this way.

Looks decent in slow mo. Post real speed, could be a huge tempo thing.

As much as some folks won't admit it, this is very true. The world was FULL of Don Draper types.

Yes, softer 2-piece surlyn will launch significantly higher.

This is quite common, as driver and fw's are much longer in shaft length than irons. The shallower shaft angle on driver is what creates the unique grip situation you described. Similarly, with irons you're required to accommodate the steeper shaft angle, causing your wrist/hand placement to differ. The steeper angle is the culprit, but there's no way around it. You may just have to grip slightly different, much like you described, or forcibly manipulate your hands to match your driver. Good luck.

OG SIM was supposedly quite fade bias, albeit several years old now.

Yeah, set it with a large reserve price, and if it doesn't sell the first go around, by then enough "collectors" will have heard about it to generate more buzz for the second time around.

Of the members on here, I'd wager at least 40% have 2 putters, and 10% have more than 5.

Hopefully not, but I've always been a player that can barely fade the ball unless I absolutely exaggerate things, so hopefully my natural tendencies will override any serious right misses. Also, something I've settled on now is standard interlock. I was hitting pretty darn well with the reverse overlap, and getting more accustomed to the feel of it, but every once in awhile I'd get a loosey goosey swing and shank the heck outta one. With interlock, my hands operate much more in sync. It gives me similar trail hand control, and more reliability. In the past, with interlock, I'd put my trail thumb on top of the grip, super tight against my index knuckle of the same hand. Now, its much weaker, completely over the grip and resting on tip of my index as it comes up from underneath. I haven't really tried manipulating my lead hand at all, aside from address. At impact it always seems like it's just holding the club, along for the ride so to speak.

The "throw" that I'm initiating now is solving the issue, actually creating somewhat open face to path. The "new" impact move I'm making is one in which causes the face to point skyward the first half of my follow through. Before I was inadvertently rolling my arms through impact, and too early at that. It's utilizing the same motion one makes when imparting fast spiral spin on a football.

Ever so slightly in to out. I’ve been consciously “attacking” the ball with my trail palm lately, flexing my inner forearm to keep the face square past impact, and point more skyward vs rolling closed. It is working great, and swing speed is up at least 5-7mph. Really working to “throw” the club face at the ball instead of twisting. Kinda like a Vijay release feeling but not coming off the grip like him.

I think some of it might be from my lead hand getting ever so slightly strong/er, at address, and me not actively working to keep it more neutral. These aren’t snap hooks, just 1-1.5* closed to path, high “overdraws”. I just know, that if I play the curvature, it will get worse.