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Purely speculation here, but my guess is that because a center shafted putter isn't common among a lot of the recreational and top am players most people get comfortable with looking down at something that is heel shafted.

 

While nowhere near the level of the PGA or professional ranks, I have attempted to use a center shafted putter a few times over the years and something about it just never feels or looks right, to me. I always go back to a Dale Head style putter with a plumbers neck regardless of what else I have tried. At some point, looking down at something you have confidence in, even if it's the putter you found in the bargain bin for $2.99, is going to be what you prefer to play and will most likely make the best stroke with.

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For the past 40 years, most often I've played a center shaft putter. I never knew why until an ophthalmologist discovered that I have a depth perception problem in one eye.(Which I now close). So maybe that was trial and error and it always looked right to me. I've moved on to a center shaft Boccieri heavy putter. This latest orthopedic move is sponsored by frazzled nerves.

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For the past 40 years, most often I've played a center shaft putter. I never knew why until an ophthalmologist discovered that I have a depth perception problem in one eye.(Which I now close). So maybe that was trial and error and it always looked right to me. I've moved on to a center shaft Boccieri heavy putter. This latest orthopedic move is sponsored by frazzled nerves.

True on that last sentence... thinking about a counter/balanced putter once in awhile these days.
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I was thinking about switching to a heel shafted putter because I read somewhere that no great putter ever putted with a center shaft. I guess Hogan wasn't bad, but he was a better player than he was a putter. My friend (who coincidentally putts with a center-shafted Bullseye) said that he doesn't care what I putt with as long as it gets me around the course faster. I didn't know I was being slow, but I know I was over the last putt, and I looked at my shoes and wondered why I had worn that pair that day.

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Purely speculation here, but my guess is that because a center shafted putter isn't common among a lot of the recreational and top am players most people get comfortable with looking down at something that is heel shafted.

 

While nowhere near the level of the PGA or professional ranks, I have attempted to use a center shafted putter a few times over the years and something about it just never feels or looks right, to me. I always go back to a Dale Head style putter with a plumbers neck regardless of what else I have tried. At some point, looking down at something you have confidence in, even if it's the putter you found in the bargain bin for $2.99, is going to be what you prefer to play and will most likely make the best stroke with.

 

I think it may psychological.

 

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I was thinking about switching to a heel shafted putter because I read somewhere that no great putter ever putted with a center shaft. I guess Hogan wasn't bad, but he was a better player than he was a putter. My friend (who coincidentally putts with a center-shafted Bullseye) said that he doesn't care what I putt with as long as it gets me around the course faster. I didn't know I was being slow, but I know I was over the last putt, and I looked at my shoes and wondered why I had worn that pair that day.

 

Nice reference! Wish I could find Dead Solid Perfect & get a copy.

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I was thinking about switching to a heel shafted putter because I read somewhere that no great putter ever putted with a center shaft. I guess Hogan wasn't bad, but he was a better player than he was a putter. My friend (who coincidentally putts with a center-shafted Bullseye) said that he doesn't care what I putt with as long as it gets me around the course faster. I didn't know I was being slow, but I know I was over the last putt, and I looked at my shoes and wondered why I had worn that pair that day.

 

Nice reference! Wish I could find Dead Solid Perfect & get a copy.

 

https://www.raredvds.biz/

 

I picked up a copy of that last year from there

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I was thinking about switching to a heel shafted putter because I read somewhere that no great putter ever putted with a center shaft. I guess Hogan wasn't bad, but he was a better player than he was a putter. My friend (who coincidentally putts with a center-shafted Bullseye) said that he doesn't care what I putt with as long as it gets me around the course faster. I didn't know I was being slow, but I know I was over the last putt, and I looked at my shoes and wondered why I had worn that pair that day.

 

 

corey Pavin. Great putter - center shafted.

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I was thinking about switching to a heel shafted putter because I read somewhere that no great putter ever putted with a center shaft. I guess Hogan wasn't bad, but he was a better player than he was a putter. My friend (who coincidentally putts with a center-shafted Bullseye) said that he doesn't care what I putt with as long as it gets me around the course faster. I didn't know I was being slow, but I know I was over the last putt, and I looked at my shoes and wondered why I had worn that pair that day.

 

Nice reference! Wish I could find Dead Solid Perfect & get a copy.

 

https://www.raredvds.biz/

 

I picked up a copy of that last year from there

 

Nice! Thanks! A relative bought me the VHS for a birthday when I was an adolescent. The VHS tape got worn in a certain scene (it was in and out of the basement VCR more times than a bad grip) and is now basically unwatchable.

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Hi GolfWRX, my name is Christosterone.

[HI CHRISTOSTERONE]

I don't know how it happened but I currently putt with a 2010 odyssey backstryke d.a.r.t.

It feels good, tell y'all, my internet friends.

 

-Chris

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I was thinking about switching to a heel shafted putter because I read somewhere that no great putter ever putted with a center shaft. I guess Hogan wasn't bad, but he was a better player than he was a putter. My friend (who coincidentally putts with a center-shafted Bullseye) said that he doesn't care what I putt with as long as it gets me around the course faster. I didn't know I was being slow, but I know I was over the last putt, and I looked at my shoes and wondered why I had worn that pair that day.

 

Nice reference! Wish I could find Dead Solid Perfect & get a copy.

 

https://www.raredvds.biz/

 

I picked up a copy of that last year from there

 

Reading these posts led me to a Google search of Dead Solid Perfect & found this trivia: Kathryn Harrold, Randy Quaid's ex-wife in the movie, was married to Lawrence O'Donnell of MSNBC fame from 1994 to 2013.

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> @"Ashley Schaeffer" said:

> I was thinking about switching to a heel shafted putter because I read somewhere that no great putter ever putted with a center shaft. I guess Hogan wasn't bad, but he was a better player than he was a putter. My friend (who coincidentally putts with a center-shafted Bullseye) said that he doesn't care what I putt with as long as it gets me around the course faster. I didn't know I was being slow, but I know I was over the last putt, and I looked at my shoes and wondered why I had worn that pair that day.

 

There's been several really great putters throughout time that have used a center shafted putters.

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> @tgoodspe1991 said:

> > @"Ashley Schaeffer" said:

> > I was thinking about switching to a heel shafted putter because I read somewhere that no great putter ever putted with a center shaft. I guess Hogan wasn't bad, but he was a better player than he was a putter. My friend (who coincidentally putts with a center-shafted Bullseye) said that he doesn't care what I putt with as long as it gets me around the course faster. I didn't know I was being slow, but I know I was over the last putt, and I looked at my shoes and wondered why I had worn that pair that day.

>

> There's been several really great putters throughout time that have used a center shafted putters.

 

Grover Scomer being one.

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> @King_Slender said:

> I can't think of a player on Tour using a center shafted putter.

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> Why are they so rare?

 

People using center shafted putters on tour is rare because center shafted putters being manufactured is (unfortunately) rare. Some years there will be no manufacturers making center shafted putters. Many pros are paid to play particular manufacturers equipment, and when it comes to putters usually they are told to pick something among the latest product line. One of the reasons Justin Rose left Taylormade was because they told him to play one of there new model putters, but he didn't like any of them. I play with a center shafted Spider Tour Red putter. My first round out with it I one putted five of the first seven holes I played, and was five under through those seven holes. Unfortunately they don't offer it in any other colors, and they don't offer it in their most recent Spider model.

Last I saw Ernie Els was using a center shafted putter.

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