What do other manufacturers do ?

Thanks. I'm glad you like the videos and the information in them! - DD

Work with a good custom fitter, but I bet the Elyte Max Fast could be the one for you. Lighter club with higher loft options for more carry distance. - DD

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It comes standard with a Lamkin grip, but you should be able to use any grip with the Antidote putters. Talk with your local fitter. - DD

But that's the misconception .... no one swings back straight or follows through straight. You might think you do, but putters can't have a lie angle of 90 degrees (straight up and down); the USGA and R&A Rules state putters can't have more than an 80-degree lie angle. So unless you manipulate your hands, wrists and forearms on your backswing, the putter head is going to move back on a slight arc. It may be very small, but it's there. And from 10 feet out on a dead-straight putt, if the putter face is pointed left or right by more than 1 degree at impact, the bal will miss the hole. If golfers could do what you're describing, that would be great, but no one can. - DD

In other mini drivers, brands direct fitters to use a standard 3-wood shaft, but companies make the hosel longer to add an extra 1/2" or so in finished length. Titleist 3-woods come standard at 43" and drivers come standard at 45 1/2", so I suspect the mini driver will be around 43 3/4". - DD

For that reason the OO mini is the most versatile.

Titanium drivers started being released almost 35 years ago and the first 460cc drivers were released in the mid-2000s! You haven't been happy with a driver in two decades? - DD

@ Not to the point where I haven’t had to keep trying new ones! I used to swing the old steel ones 120+ mph. It’s not that I can’t hit them just prefer a smaller one.

I'm not allowed to say, but don't look for it to be mixed in with the other releases in the days and weeks ahead. - DD

The head size of the Original One mini (275cc) is the reason I've kept it in the bag over the others. I can hit it off the deck at that size.

And everyone loved and worshiped the 975D, so ... that would be a good thing. - DD

Exactly what I was thinking

Likely much lower CG and adjustable MOI and independent adjustable loft and lie. Just a much more modern head with much more forgiveness and more ability to tune launch conditions for a golfer with consistent delivery

Tour Soft will feel softer at impact, but AVX will spin significantly more on approach shots and around the green on chips and pitch shots because it has a urethane cover. From a performance standpoint, I'd go AVX. - DD

I'm not a club engineer, but I assume the thinking is that golfers who would be in the market for mini driver because they want something off the tee that is easier to shape is can hit draws or fades using their swing. A club like this needs to hit to a specific distance (hence the up-and-down adjustability) more than it needs left-and-right adjustability. - DD

A skilled golfer and consistent ball striker does not want added heel or toe weighting. We tune launch conditions by adjusting MOI via fore/aft weight adjustments. I personally find shaping a drive with modern driver, TSR3 in my case, is very easy. I have the back weight in middle of track and swapped with 6g weight, std is 8 or 10g iirc. I have 4.5g lead tape along width of sole at forward section, just behind face. This weighting was entirely developed and tuned by swingweighting to D3.5 and launch conditions tracked on a monitor. While I have tried my son’s QI10 Max and found it MUCH more difficult to control launch conditions, even that is tunable by swapping weights to reduce MOI. The higher the MOI for head, the more difficult will be to shape flight conditions I will add that prior to adding lead tape to my driver, I tried adding a weight plug to shaft and it was like a completely different driver, despite it being a perfect for me D3.5 swingweight. My dispersion was poor and face angle at impact inconsistent. Moving weights laterally on head can be effective if you’re consistent hitting that end of head, ie your misses toward toe should have sliding weight toward toe, otherwise it commonly adversely effects timing for golfer resulting in inconsistent face angle at impact.

Not not trying to avoid the question, but their performance should be close enough that a player's visual preferences should play a big part in the decision. The Oz.1i will have a more "clicky" sound and feel firmer. That could be good or bad. The DF3 looks non-traditional, but golfers who are new to the game may not have preconceptions about what a putter has to look like. - DD

No, the putter comes in two versions, an insert model and a non-insert model. You can try either, but you buy either one or the other. - DD

@@DavidDusekthen my next question comes from an amateur that plays on lightning fast greens in NC. Should the softer feel of aluminum be a safer way vs the balls coming off a bit hot with milled steel

Thanks for watching! - DD

With my limited experience, I'd say the larger head on the Oz.1i makes it swing a little more like the DF3. - DD

This putter makes no claims about being zero torque.

I have not. Counterbalanced putters are designed to enhance stability and became a popular option after the USGA outlawed anchoring, and there are several popular counterbalanced putters out there, but I have not tried a lie-angle balanced putter that is also counterbalanced. - DD

If the insert version of the Oz.1 becomes significantly more popular than the all-aluminum design, I would bet L.A.B. will explore insert-versions of other putters. - DD

Very similar in the way it swings. The biggest difference is the White Hot insert, which many golfers love. The Versa alignment stripes in the Jailbird also help align the face very, very easily. To me, the Square-2-Square has a softer feel than the PXG Allan, which for some golfers is good and others not so great. - DD

It's all about what works for your game. - DD