Wyndham Clark is on a bit of a roll this season, and much of it is due to his newfound love for the Ping Scottsdale TEC Ally Blue putter. It was the No.1 selling putter this month at Fairway Jockey, and they even made note to say that lots of customers are ordering a counter-balanced build just like Clark’s. I actually built up my own version of Clark’s putter to test for myself, so let’s talk about why it’s become such a popular build.
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Clark got me thinking quite a bit about my putter choice. I also had the privilege of getting to go through a PLD fitting with the Ping team at their headquarters in Phoenix, trying out their eye-tracking performance that led to the development of the new Scottsdale TEC series of putters. Funny enough, this is the third time I’ve actually built this putter.
I ended up building mine at 36 inches instead of 38 because I’m significantly shorter than Clark is, and I installed a BGT Stability Polar shaft to go along with the build. I had to lead tape it, because Clark did, but I didn’t quite get my head weight up to 400+ grams like his is. Mine stayed somewhere around the mid 380s mark.
What’s so great about a counter-balanced style build like this is the free-swinging feel that it provides players. It just seems easier to consistently stroke the putter on a repeatable path. By having more weight in and above your hands, it makes the hands feel like they are taken out of the equation a little bit, and the putter head itself is given more control.
With the Scottsdale TEC specifically, players will also notice a more calming focus before they stroke the putter thanks to Ping’s “Eye Q” alignment aid developed using Quiet Eye Theory. If the combined feeling of increased focus and increased stability can help settle down Clark while he’s playing for millions, it can probably help us on the weekend as well.
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