A PUTTER WITH BALANCE AND A SPINE TO BACK IT UP!

A Better Putter!

The Drop Putter hails from Australia. It is a well-known company down-under and where the makers of the official putter of the 1998 President’s Cup. Owner/designer, Peter O’Leary has incorporated a new concept into the Drop Reality range. It is called “Reality Balanced™”. Reality Balancing is the extreme opposite of what is applied to most putters. When suspended horizontally, the toe points straight up to the air, not straight down, sideways or at an odd angle as all other putters do. The term, “reality” comes into play when the putter is held lightly out in front at a normal putting angle. The head hangs in proper putting position without the inclination to twist that is shown by convention putters. O’Leary’s point is that Reality Balancing allows for a neutral, stable face alignment that stays square and requires no compensation during the stroke. You can read more about this concept and see the full product range on their web site, www.drop-putters.com 

And what about the spine?

The way conventional putters are designed it’s impossible to build them with a narrow spine as the point of contact with the ground. Because the heads are completely unbalanced the toe of the putter with either fall forwards or back.  So why wouldn’t you have a putter making the least possible contact with the ground. Have you ever caught the grass going back or coming forward with the stroke? It really turns into a disaster.

There is literally no catch with Reality’s spine, if your too low with the stroke it simply glides over any surface as though it wasn’t there.

The Spineä was developed primarily to expand the sweet spot in the vertical as well as the horizontal plane; the no catch effect was simply a bonus.

Our research shows that conventional putters have very narrow vertical inertia impact area. Sure heal toe weighting has widened the sweet spot horizontally but what happens in the vertical impact zone. There is still a lot of the face below this point where you can easily strike the ball as many golfers do thinking they are getting over spin on the ball.

All they achieve with this method is a strike on the ball with an inefficient part of the putter face; with a part of the face that wasn’t designed to hit the ball.