It should also be stressed that if there are improvements, they will be measurable but not noticeable to the naked eye. PUREing your putter shaft definitely won’t hurt your performance, but you may not see any improvements either. I suspected that given the lively feel of the Fujikura MC Smooth PUREing that shaft might make a bigger difference, but I was incorrect. Half were right about steel and half were right about graphite. Interestingly, our testers were no better at identifying the PURE’d steel than the PURE’d graphite. Regardless of confidence, not one golfer in our test correctly identified both PURE’d shafts. Our testers spanned a large range with confidence – as high as 8 and as low as 3. With steel, there was not any difference.īecause start line is such a critical element in making putts, even a small improvement merits rating this myth as plausible.Īfter hitting both steel or graphite putters, I asked each player to identify the PURE’d shaft and rate their level of confidence. It would also be interesting to run this test again on an even longer putt.įor start line, we saw a slight advantage for the PURE’d graphite shaft. This is one segment of the testing where a putting robot would have been useful, as I suspect some players unintentionally swung a bit harder to compensate for their mishits. With both steel and graphite, PUREing did not show any benefits for preserving distance or distance consistency. On our longer putt, we had players intentionally strike a series of putts on the heel and toe and evaluated the results. Understanding this myth is much more straightforward, though the results were still muddled. We saw only positive affects of PUREing, but they were not that large and they were not seen in all golfers. This myth also receives a rating of plausible, though it leans slightly closer to confirmed. Though this is not related to consistency, it was interesting to see that PUREing slowed the rate of closure for both steel and graphite shafts. No metrics were negatively affected by PUREing. With the steel shafts, PUREing shrank the range on angle of attack. Again, no player lost more than 2% consistency with the un-PURE shaft.įor our twenty foot putt, PUREing reduced the range of face angle-to-path numbers, though the averages and medians were nearly identical. With graphite, three players improved their consistency score by more than 2%. The other five players were within that margin with both steel shafts. On the short putts with a steel shaft, we saw two players improve their consistency score by more than 2%. This myth cannot be confirmed, but it is possible that that a given player will improve their strike location with a PURE’d putter shaft. The other four testers did not show a difference. The PURE shaft outperformed the standard shaft for two testers and underperformed for one. When we tested long putts, our results were mixed also. These results were true for both graphite and steel. PUREing the putter shaft did not negatively impact anyone, but five testers were equally proficient with PURE and un-PURE shafts. On short putts, we found that PUREing a putter shaft improved the impact location for two of our testers. These putts were measured with Foresight CGQuad.ĭuring all testing, the participants were blind to which shafts had been PURE’d and which had not.Īll testing was done at and with the help of Club Champion. In the second stage, a different group of seven golfers tested the four putters on a twenty foot putt. Each player hit each putter seven times, aiming to make an eight-foot putt. First, we had seven players test all four putters on SAM Puttlab. Thank you to SWAG, Fujikura, and KBS for their support of Golf Myths Unplugged. One of the KBS shafts was PURE’d, one was not. One of the Fujikura shafts was PURE’d, one was not. Two putters were shafted with KBS CT Tour shafts (steel) and two were shafted with Fujikura MC Smooth shafts (graphite, review HERE). All four heads were SWAG Handsome One putters. Myth # – Golfers can feel the difference between PURE’d and not PURE’d putter shaftsįor this Golf Myths Unplugged, we used two pairs of nearly-identical putters. Myth #3 – PUREing a putter shaft improves performance on mishits Myth #2 – PUREing a putter shaft improves stroke consistency Myth #1 – PUREing a putter shaft improves impact location It’s taken several years, but we’re back with a follow up: should you PURE your putter shaft? I went in skeptical but came away convinced that every golfer should PURE their shafts. One of the best Golf Myths Unplugged that we’ve ever done was about the effects of PUREing a golf shaft.
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