I Test Putters For A Living And Here Are The 9 Best Putter Deals I've Found This Christmas

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published 21 December 2023

The putter is the most important club you will have in your golf bag. It isn't as glamorous as having one of the best drivers in your bag and it probably won't be your favorite club, but it's an indisputable fact that you will use it more than any other club so it's pretty important that you have one you are comfortable with.

That's easier said than done as the best putters come in all manner of shapes and sizes and the choice can be overwhelming. Some golfers prefer a traditional blade putter, but the average player is probably better served with a mallet putter, or something that is designed to be very forgiving.

I'm a putting obsessive and I have tried virtually every type of putter known to man. Whether it's the original classic Ping Anser, the new Odyssey AI-One Rossie S, which is used by Jon Rahm, or the weird and whacky IB Putter Sweet Spot recently launched by Ivan Ballesteros, you name it and I've probably tried it.

I even went to Ping's Putting Lab in Loughborough for a two thousand pound PLD Custom Putter Fitting in my ongoing search to find 'the one'. Even if you are happy with the putter you have, sometimes its good to have another one on stand by if things go a little stale and you need to change things up a bit to get your mojo back.

Here at Golf Monthly, we have guides for whatever you need. From the best putters for beginners to the best cheap putters we've got you covered, and now I'm going to share with you some of the best Christmas putter deals I've found.

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Dave is a distinctly average golfer with (fading) aspirations to be so much more than that. An avid collector of vintage Ping putters and the world's biggest Payne Stewart fan, in 2021 Dave turned his front garden into a giant putting green to work on the weakest area of his game. Progress has been slow but steady! In addition to his work reviewing golf gear and writing features for Golf Monthly and T3, Dave is the founder of the Bang Average Golf website.

Dave’s lowest round is a one over par 73 around Kirkby Valley Golf Club in 2018, which included a bogey on the 18th to ruin the one and only chance he’ll ever have of shooting an even par or better score. That errant tee shot on 18 does not still haunt him to this day though, in fact he hardly ever thinks about it. No, honestly, he doesn’t. Not at all. Never.

Dave splits most of his golf between Hurlston Hall Golf Club in Ormskirk, Lancs, and Berrington Hall Golf Club in St Helens and has a handicap that fluctuates between 9 and 12, largely depending on how poor his putting is.

Dave’s current What’s In The Bag?

Driver: Wilson Staff Dynapower Titanium, 9.5°

3 wood: Cobra Speedzone, 15°

5 wood: Tour Edge Exotics 722, 18°

7 wood: Callaway Mavrik Max, 21°

Irons: Cobra Darkspeed, 6-PW

Wedges: Cleveland CBX ZipCore (graphite), 48°, 52°, 56°

Putter: Ping PLD Oslo 3

Ball: Wilson Staff Triad

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