ON THE GREENS
Are Mallets Better than Blades?
Traditional lines are blurred, which gives you more options BY MIKE STACHURA
WHEN IT COMES TO HOW to improve your putting, the debate over whether a blade
putter or a mallet is a smarter solution seems as dubious as deciding whether vanilla or chocolate is a better flavour of ice cream. (Chocolate, obviously.) The issue really isn’t whether blades provide a simpler, more natural look at address and better feel for distance control, or whether mallets provide more built-in forgiveness and align- ment features for more consistency – even at the game’s highest level. Case in point: Scottie Scheffler (right) is a recent convert from blade to mallet. No, it doesn’t matter whether you gravitate towards a mallet or blade. With the plethora of fitting tools and stroke analytics available to sort out how one style works better than anoth- er, the starting point in your search for
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