HONESTLY the weirdest golf club I’ve ever tested!
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- Today Rick Shiels gets his hands on something truly unique - two putters; one is the lightest putter in the world, and the other is one of the most expensive putters he has reviewed on the channel. Both crafted by Zenturion Golf! Tune in to see if these cutting-edge designs lives up to the price tag!
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Hi I’m Rick Shiels, welcome to my channel RickShielsPGAGolf. This TH-cam channel is designed to help you play better golf, also to help you enjoy your golf more!
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"The lightest putter in the world" sounds like a great marketing tag for about 3 seconds until you think about it. Putting is almost entirely an exercise in weight distribution. Your goal can't be to remove that variable completely when creating a viable product.
Right, you'd think they would have done all the weight saving so then they could add perimeter weighting to make it more stable/forgiving and bring it up to a typical weight
Exactly. Based on the physics of the golf swing, putter stroke etc, why would they think making it lighter at the head is a good idea?
Add to that that the average golfer will have longer putts that will need some weight behind them. To me it will force the user to have to hit the ball much harder, causing the introduction of more mistakes with stroke and/or off center hits
Even more so weight helps you to keeb the club stable and under control.
i had my light putter, and its by far not the lightest, moved by wind in my backswing in a big international competition which threw me off massively and cost me at least 1 stroke, so a putter lighter than mine is just stupid if youre playing on a windy day
Polyoxymethylene, or 'plastic' for short.
Oh you were being literal 😂 I looked it up
Ugh. I came to say the same thing. He's so sold on the "complexity" of the chemical name for an incredibly common plastic.
Stupid shape, stupid offset, stupid weight, stupid price, stupid alignment slots.
You don’t have to use it mate 😂
@@GW23111hilarious 💤
It’s just stupid!
@@knightriderkitt3000arh now I understand it 😂
@@torstenhvalse6505 Just call me Spark Notes. Shortening “book length” comments to a single sentence since 1943.
I designed a putter shaped like a pyramid that is 43,200 dollars. If anyone wants one, send me the money, I will then produce it and ship it to you.
Sounds really great... it will go with my collection of magic beans
Sweet. I can put it next to my authentic dragon scale that I use when I want to tell dragon tales
One of very few negative reviews I've ever heard you give but I think it was well deserved
Screwing metal weights into soft plastic. Genius.
Tells you absolutely everything you need to know about the experience of this design team and the direction they were given. ‘Lightest possible. Don’t care about anything else.’
But still you would think even the dumbest engineer would know to coat the weights in the same material they will thread into. Especially if its POM. It is a great light weight and very rigid polymer but rigidity increase fragility
And he totally cross threaded it and ruined them, so that didn't help.
@@pirtatejoeif it’s that easy to break a 600+ dollar putter it’s not worth it.
@@terrellkoenig3790 Oh, obviously the thing is garbage. Just saying, didn't help that he cross threaded the weight then wrenched it in anyways and stripped them out.
As a design engineer I can say that this is 100% the result of user error. I love Rick, but he completely destroyed that thing. He cross threaded it and jammed it in there with the allan key. POM otherwise known as Delrin is an amazing plastic and I use it all the time with threads, it's very strong. I think Rick breaking the product and blaming bad engineering is a really bad look. In fairness to Rick, it's very easy to cross-thread stuff like this so a warning should be included with the product but this is really just user error. They didn't even mention in the video anything about warranty or anything, maybe if this happened to you they would send you a free replacement but that wasn't discussed which is sloppy for a review channel this big. I think the putter is stupid, but Rick really just threw it under the bus because he broke it.
What an embarrassing attempt at a product, in general. Stupid material combinations, no knowledge of putters or of golfers, and sent it to market before ever even testing it. And to make it the most expensive putter...wow.
So it’s marketed as the lightest putter and they give you weights to make it heavier…
6:54 "two in eleven; can we finish strong?" - basically my game
When threading any screw or weight... to avoid cross-threading... I always turn the screw in the opposite direction until it clicks, then the threads are properly lined up and can be tightened. I do this because a golf buddy of mine cross-threaded his brand new Titleist 913 driver head years ago the 1st day he owned it.
It has to feel really unstable, I used a putter that was only 30 grams lighter than mine and I could not keep that head stable. I feel like heavier is generally better with a putter, specifically a heavier head, but thats me everyone putting style is different.
The last two putter reviews had the balls leaking left close to the hole. Sure the mat is flat.
exactly- came here to say the same thing
Depends on his shape, if the Ping was built to perfectly match his natural shape, a more universal club wont flatter that, whilst the Ping will.
Was going to say exactly the same thing. On track most the way then pulls off to the left
either that or, what I suspected, the nap hasn't been properly brushed. Looks like there's footprints all the way down. I bet it's supposed to be smoothed out before each use.
Im thinking the same. The way the ball moves theres no way that mat is streight and 100% flat. And that makes the content unreliable
is it me or the putting surface is not completely flat ? I looks like some putts start straight and then break
its not you, a ton of people noticed it on his last putter review. Its not level at all and even more noticable on his last video.
I believe that surface can change to whatever slope or curve you want. He might have it set to be a ridge so any off line putts will break.
Oooo. Thats cool.@davass82
@ it can change to however he likes it, but if he’s trying to hit straight putts and there curving off line then you can tell it’s not leveled right.
rick needs to warranty that putting matt. it had to have cost a fortune and it is terrible
The threads looked damaged before you even found the weights Rick. Check out the first close up view ! What a crap product especially for the price 😮
They should really be using steel thread inserts if the material is that soft. Really not that well thought out or tested for that matter.
Feel bad for the company owners, this review probably killed this product.
@@Joelflowers513 Not sure its just the review that kills the product. The product may have had a hand in its own demise!
@@paulskibum you're probably right. I checked out their website and they say they got the idea from putting with an old hickory putter, so they wanted to design something that felt soft (like hickory putters) with the forgiveness of modern putters.
Cool idea with maybe some room for improvement. Can't knock small shops for trying to innovate the game.
@@Joelflowers513 Yeah but you're not innovating anything with prices like that. POM isn't expensive at all, trying to sell a plastic putter for $600+ is not gonna work. This company better check itself before it checks out, which will probably be sooner rather than later.
Should have at least used coarse threads which might have been more durable. Ideally an aluminum insert for the metal weights to thread into.. Those POM threads looked quite fine
Not surprised you couldn't get the weights in - POM is quite easy to damage and it looked like it had been damaged in the initial shots.
It’s from Temu 😂
url? :D
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Sunday uploads from Rick are life.
Thanks för your honesty! Make your presentations worth checking out
Rick, you need to give Lombardi Putters a go! They have some of the most unique putter heads coming out and connect with the community like no other golf brand! I am definitely an example of that and won a contest where I designed a putter on a piece of paper and they actually made the putter in real life as part of their lineup right now. They have another contest open and you could try to submit an entry of a design for them to create from scratch and we can make it happen!
Is something wrong with your putting surface? It doesn’t make sense to me that the glowing line of light is straight but you see the ball curving near the hole
The putt was offline, why is that hard to understand? A putt can start off straight and then slowly move off course, mate.
@cjpoulos5397 imagine not even watching the video and seeing that these balls are literally wobbling back and forth on that mat.
@cjpoulos5397 this has to be one of the worst formulated thoughts. You literally used the same information to say the opposite argument. How can a putt start on line and then move off line without there being some slope in the surface?
Some of the putts broke left and some broke right. It seems like the surface is level and just amplifies even the slightest pull or push at impact. That's why straight putts can be so difficult.
@ I would’ve thought a push or pull would’ve went offline right away instead of late. That’s why I was wondering about the surface.
They were so preoccupied that they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should
My current putter head is 406g lol. I can't imagine shaving that much weight. I also can't imagine having to hit a 40 or 50 footer with either one of those things
You’d have to take a baseball swing at it lol
When you talked about having to concentrate on your stroke it made me realize that an extremely light putter like this could possibly work as a training aid.
All of your unintentional movements with wrists, arms, etc... will be exaggerated due to the light weight. Not an awful idea if you can sell it for like $30 along with some sort of cheap putting board knockoff.
Lighter putters just make you get too handsy and that leads to push and pulls. The beefy putters help so much in transferring inertia to the putt so your hands don't have to. Especially on the three and four footers, which saves the scorecard.
Listening to your description and issues you had with hitting the ball straight, I want to say it's a training aid for face control.
Kind of thought the same - if you have to concentrate so hard, while tiring, is surely a good thing
Yeah, the super light weight would kill me also. It’s like when you play miniature golf with the kids… I wish I could bring my ping 😂
I was looking at the quality of that thread with all the swarf and crap inside and was very shocked. I'm not surprised you cross threaded it lol! Terrible design.😮
I'm pretty confident that the shots are after Rick destroyed the threads by crossthreading it
I still putt with a "Heavy" putter. It's the Mid model and people are always shocked if they pick it up. I've never found anything that gives me as much confidence inside six feet. It has a deadish feel, but I got used to that long ago.
Always an honest review, I don’t believe I would want a super lite putter.thanks for saving me $1,200
You're normally on fire in the HIT studio with these putts. Was the floor level calibrated? It almost looked like a handful of the putts veered offline.
A very expensive training aid but one positive might be that it is actually designed to make you focus intently on every putt.
Completely off the rails though. Saved a few rich golfers the embarrassment of having one in their bag. Great review Rick.
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Good point on the playing in the wind. I play a links course, currently, the average windspeed is 31kmh and gusts to 42. That'd never work.
Rick, love to content and channels you have. Need some advice. Looking for a new putter but don’t want to spend over $300 - $400 like a little weight. Looking at Cobra, Ping, Odyssey, Scotty Cameron.
ah yes, bad idea worse execution. Honestly all these fringe putter reviews make my day, pure golf comedy.
Putting is like a pendulem on a clock, the weight at the bottom was paramount to the clock's efficiency. Taking all the weight away, is counter productive, unless you then add the weight as far to the back and sides as possible, as they do with the 10k drivers, making it more stable. Whoever engineered this, forgot some of the principles in making good putters.
In this video Rick discovers the concept of cross threading. 🤣
Hoping H.I.T will be able to review the Lombardi putter range! Very well priced, extensive range but oozing quality.
12:26. That’s what she said 😂😂
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Always thought it's not the putter that's the issue for most people. If you can't read a green or control your speed, no putter in the world will help you
Should do a comparison of the most expensive and cheapest clubs you have reviewed.... possibly a on course challenge with the lads.
In January they will be £49.99 in Sports Direct
3 out of 17 with the first one is nuts, personally i prefer a bit of weight to my putter.
Force =mass x acceleration. So less mass, maybe that helps when putting on a fast surface? You can hit a light putter and the heavy putter with the same force and the lighter putter will go slower and shorter.
I literally can not imagine a scenario where I’d want a light putter. Having had multiple heavy and counter balanced putters improve my consistency so much makes this seem asinine. And the price tag is actually nuts.
Something going on with that matt Rick! Goes half way bang on straight then kicks left on you. Get a long bit of 4x2 lay it on the line and hammer it down. That black putter turn the weight in it as if your turning them out and it will click then turn it back in and it should go in!
But your matt needs attention.
Your misses with the first putter may be because you do better with face-balanced putters. That may explain why you holed more putts with the weired feeling but centre-shafted/face-balanced black putter. The black model is certainly intended to be used with the weights of one's choice on.
It would be interesting to see putter reviews with Quintic or SAM PuttLab. Just so we can see the putting stroke data along with the opinion.
I picked up a Golf Gods 💩 emoji putter for $50. It’s the same shape and face balanced, roles nice. Bought as a joke for a work golf day. It’s going in the bag
Thanks for the review. You saved me a thousand dollars.
Boccieri heavy putters! The guy who invented them was a NASA scientist/engineer ! I have one, helped me beat the yips and WONT be leaving my spare club bag just in case!
OMG...
Your putting carpet is flawed.
With good speed it breaks left at the halfway mark.
When you hit it very firm , it goes straight.
If you hit it right center, it moves enough right to miss the hole.
They could have milled it into a blade shape and added tungsten weights at the bottom. It would make an awesome putter with very high moi. Titanium is very expensive hard to mill, hence the price I suppose.
Yah, as someone who works in the manufacturing industry I can say that the price isn't a huge ripoff, that thing would be expensive to make.
Reminds me of the Align putter from the 1970s. Probably pick one up for £20. Happy Christmas.
I’m curious if the thread issue is due to different materials. Those weights look to be firmer material than the head. It may have been smarter for them to make an exterior weight carrier made of the same material as the putter and the central core of the weight is where the different material lies to change the head weight of the putter.
I think I'll be buying one after this review ! :D
I am a machinist and titanium is a very strange material. Machining it is very different than any other metal. So im not surprised
and 37 cents……………. Why 37 cents for a over $1200 putter?????????
Taxes 🤦♂️
I love your videos on these club reviews, but for putters I'd love to see you go on a practice green and take some long putts. Like, what if the strength of these putters are for 30+ foot putts? Would be interesting to see, though these look like garbage lol
Taylormade Tc.1 putter from the late 80s...
I'm okay with competitively priced products failing reviews as at least they're trying to compete but falling short, but products priced stupidly high with clickbait headlines to sell failing just feels better. Horrid price and a horrid product.
Thanks for the review. Looks like I won't be spending + $1,200 on those those putters... 😅
Always wind back first to feel where the thread starts.
They really missed an opportunity to leverage the materials: heel-and-toe oriented tungsten or even just stainless steel weight pods or screws could've really done something toward superlative MOI instead of "lightest putter ever".
LOL just needed to watch longer, lol my bizzo! Mea culpa!
I’ve always preferred a little bit of weight to my putters. Just a personal thing for myself of course, but I have heard other guys say the same thing. They prefer some heft to the head of the putter. I don’t see the advantage of a lightweight putter, especially a super light weight putter that weighs less than the credit card I’ll have to use to buy it.
Titanium and a huge price does not equal a better score.
France makes some good putters, the Argolf brand for example or Herria if you want something more original
I thought those threads looked messed up when you were showing the bottom of the putter, plastic threads are only going to be good so many times before it’s stripped out
Ricks the little nose wheezing is throwing me off 😂😂
I liked the alignment aid...thats where it stops.
without perimeter weighting, you have to put normal style. You can’t use the claw grip. You need to keep your right arm straight thru contact cant do that with the claw. Rely on the shoulders
At this rate, every golf product manufacturer in the world is going to start thinking it's the worst idea ever to send their profit to the H.I.T studio for review! 🤣
If you make dumb products you deserve bad reviews.
The designers should have glued in a metal threaded insert ready for the weights. As people have said above metal threads into plastic threads is pretty laughable 😂🤦🏽♂️
Ain't no way I'd even consider a putter over $300 much less this one!
The price on their website is 824 Euros, which is $862... where does the price tag of 1247 come from?
Someone's worked really hard on those putters
What a waste of time
I think we need to start testing putters with a long drive contest.
you should after doing your studio reviews, take whatever is being tested and test it on 3 holes to get real world results. the results will either confirm or change it. artificial putting surfaces can't come close to the real thing. it would also be better to have the course pro or fellow youtubers and current tour guest use them and get their results.
You should have opted for the optional tungsten weights.
To be fair, the results were not that bad, particularly with the second putter.
As with the last putter review I am far from convinced about the alignment of that very expensive putting mat
Guess the gimmick failed 😂 I actually enjoy a solid heavy weighted putter head
I’ve always preferred heavy putters, being more forgiving, this looks so unstable through impact
I have no idea why a company would want to make and promote "The Lightest Putter Ever Made." I put lead tape on my putter to add weight to feel more stability, especially in windy conditions. A light putter is just plain stupid. IMO.
I wouldn't hold it against the putter that you missed a bunch of them. Several of them wobbled left to right, some actually hopped off the matt, and many were heading in but turned a foot left in the last 3 feet of travel. You matt needs calibrated and conditioned.
Also Rick says it's easy to line up when clearly the face is open.
Because it is so light it doesn’t square up
The prices are ridiculous for a putter, but I suppose someone will buy them. Plus the build quality doesn't look too good 😩. I much prefer a heavier putter to give a more stable platform for putting.
Bettinardi putters here in Canada at GolfTown……$1304. And they do t take Canadian Tire Money either.
WOW! UUUMMMM No!
I could see the light one being a training aid fo reduce shakiness. But not at that price
They missed an opportunity...
Why wouldn't they just forge a solid piece of titanium or just use the POM "plastic" head so its super light then just parimeter weight the hell out of it at the factory with tungsten to bring it upto a normal weight and make it extremely stable...
You could even weight different areas differently so you get more closing or opening of the face during the swing. Think draw or fade bias...
I think more focus should be placed on pace than on line.
I bought (used) a fairly light Honma putter ... and came off of it - too light to feel comfortable.
Well, gotta be hard moving the putter on-line with a poorly aligned/installed grip.
I used to collect Scotty Cameron Tour (Circle T) putters. I have seen with my own eyes a guy cut a check for 50k for a putter 😂. Crazy the stupid stuff you can afford before you have real responsibilities.
You could technically say LA Golf has the world's lightest putters if you removed the tungsten weights lol
Rick crossthreading the screw 😂
The grip on the light putter was not in straight that would make you pull the club
This putter is a joke. Why would I want a light putter? So it can wiggle and waggle all over creation? Consign this accursed thing to oblivion.
This was hilarious. Could put a pretty decent bag together for the price of the Ti Dorito. The recycled Coke bottle Dorito is pure comic gold. They should have stuck the shaft into the head about an inch behind the face and called it lie balanced. Look out LAB 😉👌
You can use it for gardening too.
The 37 cents are the best of this putter...😂😂😂. You will get 2.5 LAB Putters!