No, no, no. Not 400. I have tried too light and it is too easy to get jerky and too heavy requires more stroke and more stroke means more opportunity for error. I believe the Bettinardi putter heads are usually around 350, a good weight, a little more than most component heads but not overly heavy. ED ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark A. Patton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 7:56 PM Subject: Re: ShopTalk: Putter face height
> Not regarding face height, but an item I am always looking for in a > putter head: > Current putter heads are too light. Make the head heavy. I would love to > find a 400+ gram head that I like. > > Mark > > Graham Little wrote: > > > A friend is designing a line of putters and he asked for my advice on > > a number of matters. Without giving too much away it's a mallet style > > putter. He came up with a question today that has me thinking. What is > > the ideal face height and why? > > > > He gave me the following figures. A golf ball is 1.68" in diameter. ie > > 42.67 mm approx. Therefore, the equator of the ball is 21.34mm off the > > ground. Assuming that the putting stroke takes the putter a maximum > > 5mm and the aim is to hit the equator of the ball with the centre of > > the clubface off the ground then the centre of the putter should be > > 21.38mm off the ground. One theory he is working on is that he wants > > the face height to be approx 38mm. This will find the sweat spot and > > have the top of the face roughly in line with the top of the ball. > > Given a bit more weight lower in the face or body this should work out. > > > > My comment to him was that most putters I see are only 23 to 25mm face > > height. Let's assume an average of 24mm and therefore the middle of > > the face is 12mm. On thinking about it this means that to find the > > middle of the face (vertically) we would have to hold the putter > > approximately 9.34mm off the ground. This sounds like a lot to me. > > > > Hope this makes sense. Perhaps I should just ask the original > > question. What is the ideal face height and why? > > > > Graham > > > > ps apologies to the guys on this forum who hate the techo stuff > > > >
