There are great players who use toe hang putters, and great putters who use face balanced putters. Now, there are plenty of great putters on both sides of the spectrum. According to Rife, golfers who struggle with squaring the face properly may actually be better suited for face balanced putters, rather than ones with toe hang. So, if you’re a golfer who tends to push the ball, using a toe hang putter could exacerbate your miss. For righties, that means missing the target to the right (lefties who “push” will miss left). Without squaring the face up, golfers may have a tendency to leave the face open and push the ball.
Therefore, as the putter head moves more toward impact, the golfer must close the face to square it. As you change direction to make the forward stroke, the putter head continues to lag, causing the putter head to remain open. During the putting stroke, that toe-heavy weight distribution causes the putter head to open on the backstroke. Toe hang may actually make the issue of leaving the face open worse!Īs Rife explains, toe hang putters have more head weight on the toe side. Of course, having a square face at impact is crucial to hitting putts on line, but, as Rife explains, toe hang putters are not necessarily the answer to the open-faced problem. As such, they think that if they’re leaving the face open too often at impact that a toe hang putter will solve their issue. Some golfers think that since toe hang putters open and close more throughout the stroke that it means they are easier to square up at impact. Luckily, Guerin Rife, a longtime putter inventor and CEO of EvnRoll, helped clear things up. Face balanced designs, on the other hand, typically suit golfers who have a more straight-back and straight-through stroke with little or no face rotation.Īs discussed on our recent Fully Equipped podcast, however, there’s a common misconception about toe hang and how it relates to face closure.
In the most basic sense, more toe hang will better suit golfers who have arcing strokes these players tend to rotate the face open and shut more throughout the stroke.
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If the face of your putter points toward the sky, then it’s face balanced.ĭue to increasing demand for toe hang options in both the market as a whole and in the professional game, putter makers have increased the amount of hosel options that lead to differing degrees of toe hang.
The more the toe of your putter head droops toward the ground, the more toe hang it has. When the club is perfectly balanced and sits horizontal relative to the ground, take a look at the club head. You can figure out the toe hang of your putter by balancing the shaft on your finger, as illustrated above.
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