 right okay yeah let's start this off with what i think is quite an interesting fact did you know 60 percent of tour players use mallet style putters yeah i think that's a pretty interesting fact and quite a surprising one but it just shows that even at the top end of the game that forgiveness that MOI that is provided that stability that is provided from traditional mallet style designs such as the spider are still the choice of the tour professionals but what i am told is is those tour professionals and many average golfers would prefer the look after more traditional blade like putters but as you know and i know well most of us will know trying to use one of those blade like putters is not as easy as it looks yeah so we're going to look at three different putters two of them will be coming from the truss style of putter and we'll discuss them shortly and one will be coming from the spider the new spider s which we all know about spider we all know well it's performed we all know how well it is sold in terms of product but there's very much a new design in terms of the spider s we'll be testing all three on course but first of all let's just take a look a closer look at the design differences and what is truss all about right let's start things off by looking at the the truss product because that is by far the most that when it's a new kid on the block and it's by far the most different than what we've seen i don't have a look at the logic behind it and where they came up with this radical design they tested they being tailor made tested 40 000 golfers putting strokes all different levels all different types of ability and there was one common theme that they found and that was the common point of strike on ports was center to toe okay so and i think again i can on a personal level i can i can vouch for that that's certainly i often look down on my where i'd address and i seem to have the ball my contact point will always be towards that toe end what they've tried to do is address that situation and in the spider s that we'll get to shortly it is very much all about stability all about m or y it's a very forgiving putter so that no matter where that strike point is across the clubface the the role will be effectively exactly the same sort of forgiveness that they've achieved there but in the truss what they've done is they've they've built a truss is obviously uh that i know is from the building game is from a roof truss and what they've tried to do is there are two points of contact so there are rather than traditionally this is a center shafted putter rather than a traditional sort of one point of contact that we'd normally see you can see with the two elements of the truss the angle of the truss it connects into separate points and it makes sense it makes sense that that would be more stable than having one point of contact i think that's fair to say they also become and i think all of these putters will be the same if i just get that out on a on a balance point they're all very much face balanced putters so again what they've done is it what they've achieved again you can see it just a little bit of close up there uh on this more fang like putter you'll see once again those two points of contact there very much different than what we're used to seeing i'm going to say in terms of looks the putters look superb in terms of the finish i really do think that in terms of the truss element it was a real shocker when i opened the box it's a it's so different it's so so different than what we used to seeing but the thing that i like about it is that i kind of again i like a story when a story has got some logic to it and you can sort of say okay two points of contact definitely give more stability that club face yeah i get that i think that makes sense we can all agree that seems a fairly common sense style of approach so for me i get it whether i can get over the looks is another thing the center shafted one is very different and we'll talk about this when we get on the course and the fang like putter that i'm going to call it not noticeable from above at all that there's these two points of contact so they're very much different visually but we'll see what it does in terms of stability and have they achieve what they intend to do which is make the more the better player profile if you like the blade style putters with the forgiveness is what you'd find in a mallet that's what they've tried to do and then of course we'll have a close look at this which is a whole new design on the spider it's called the spider s there's a lot of tungsten waiting either side if you can just have a little close up on that they're the two points of contact that i'm looking at there and then there's again a tungsten back bar in here which again is all about stability all about forgiveness all about moi it is the highest rating moi putter within this that the spider range so that's enough talking let's get on the course that's what they say they do i kind of like i said in the truss elements i kind of i always listen to a story and i always first of all have to process it and see if it makes any sense it makes sense it could work the fact is does it work let's get on the golf course and uh and do some testing well it's okay so yeah we're back down at conway golf club and the idea of today's video is uh well it's not to test the putters in terms of performance because reality is that i'll be testing the performance of my own putting stroke so there's lots of variables in there what we're going to try and establish is whether or not truss works in the sense of do i think it offers any more stability by that double point of contact if you like which is what taylor made our claiming and i'll also briefly talk about how these things look at a dress out on the course because like i said it's quite an unusual one from the top of the ball now they're probably going to blow away we're going to start things off with the putter that i most like in terms of its design and style which is the fang like putter that i'm referring it to i think it's a tm1 from reading on the bottom of here this one from above in terms of that double point of contact looks no different to me it's very very similar to what i'd expect to see from the top of a putter it's stunning in the finish it's it's very nice to the dress and it's a very much a confidence inspiring putter it's starting oh wow that would have been interesting if we'd have hold it yeah let's just check audio is on so i started off with these on the practice screen and as you can see roll quite a few puts and again very difficult to test the type of how the putters perform in terms of roll and everything else because on winter greens here at conway at the moment so we're never going to run ultra smooth in terms of being able to like i said test out this product in its full but what i'm able to do once again with a putter and all i can sort of test it on is is pick a line it feels very firm off the face really like it three different rolls there three nice rolls line that i intended so for me that does what it says i'm going to switch right over to the ultra stable um spider putter and we already know this thing from previous models is like i said incredibly stable and i want to switch right over to this so opposite end of the spectrum we know so what taylor made are suggesting is that lots of people on tour 60 percent are playing a mallet style putter but would prefer the more traditional look so a traditional blade really and that's what they've tried to achieve with with trust don't forget is that stability that we're going to find in the likes of this putter there's a real difference in terms of the face inserts on these as well it's a real interesting one for me i'm going to move this one out the way and totally difference in terms of the feel it's probably what i would suggest a lot softer with the spider and opposite ends a lot firmer feel in terms of what's coming off of the trust models there is without doubt a totally feel at a dress as well totally different feel at his address and nearly hold that one in terms of this element of stability and it's how you quantify stability and what it does in terms of the clubface like i said the only real way to test this is by measuring on some scientific sand putting labs something like that to see if kind of things like we're keeping that clubface more square at impact is the kind of moi working in terms of are we getting the roll off the clubface evenly when we sort of got those off center hits so that's a scientific method this is very much based on opinion rather than fact but they are very very different in their feel off the face and for me in terms of overall stability of a clubhead in terms when it's moving sort of back and through the ball then the spider models are going to take some beating because they're exactly that we're going to have a few more puts with the trust models and just concentrate on that face and see if i think like i said that it's keeping it just that little bit more stable through my stroke and that's the interesting bit and hard to claim in terms of spider s almost feel like i won't get another shot with it because it does exactly what i'm expecting it to be ultra stable super it just sits at a dress i mean i'm not a lover of the looks of this thing to be quite honest with you but in terms of sitting at a dress just you stand to the ball it is very very nice indeed this thing i still want to quantify the trust element and the stability bit so i'll hit a few more puts before i give my assessments that's a really interesting putter this is so this is tb2 it's this is where from address you really do notice that two pronged uh sort of attachment to the blade like this our blade like putter it's a center shafted blade putter but we've got this uh twin points and that's really notable from above if i'm honest with you when it first came out the box i didn't like the look of it at all the performance on the greens however sort of changes your opinion on it and that's the thing again i think looks is always i mean don't get me wrong you've got to have confidence above the ball especially with putter but it's something that really defies what i first seen i thought i would never sort of entertain if you like in terms of a putter but it really is and i think to be honest with you if anything it's we're draining them if anything this is more noticeable in terms of stability and what it does than i noticed in the tm1 was it called it's really noticeable in this so it's it's got that tenor made a claim and again the ability to reduce twisting and i think like i said let's not go too serious and bog down with all this is that opinion it's not fact like i said but i think there's something in it with this i really do and i think it's very noticeable in this putter like i said more than tm1 in terms of overall clubhead stability it's in the bulk and mass of the mallet in the spider but it's a real interesting change this and i've got to say that for my mind and i go back to what i said originally in the intro you've got to base a lot of this thing on um does it when when a story comes out can you make it work in terms of your head and i think in terms of what they're suggesting it does yeah it would make sense wouldn't it surely would keep that head more stable i'm playing out on the greens i've got to say you know it really does it's asking me a question one that i never thought of be asking myself because when i first looked at them it was a very difficult one to get my head around but overall assessment we can't go on too much with putter reviews it is what it is it's opinion based trust has got something going there it's really interesting i'd be interested to know how many players start to put these models in their bag on tour and i think that'll be a much bigger indicator of how much stability trust gives than an opinion of an average golfer like me but excellent finish both products i'd have no qualms in sort of bagging any of these their top end in terms of price but if putter is on the agenda for you you're willing to pay top dollar for it it's an important club in the bag then seriously you need to give these a go