Variation of neck styles on mallets

[mistaklavin]

This could be answered elsewhere but I couldn’t seem to find it anywhere. 
 

With mallets being so prevalent on tour, I can’t help but notice that so many of them seem to be double bend instead of short slant or other forms that have toe hang. Is there a physics based or rational explanation for why most players with mallets tend to be in a DB neck? Or is it just that most players (as a generalization) tend to be suited to that style of neck?

[getitdaily]

Double bend is face balanced, limits face rotation. 

 

For pros, I have to assume, they are trying to eliminate a variable. 

 

Putting is path and face at impact. If you can limit how much the face rotates then you make the stroke more about path and path only. 

 

High moi and face balanced is about as little face rotation as you can get. Then it becomes a path game.

[mistaklavin]

32 minutes ago, getitdaily said:

Double bend is face balanced, limits face rotation. 

 

For pros, I have to assume, they are trying to eliminate a variable. 

 

Putting is path and face at impact. If you can limit how much the face rotates then you make the stroke more about path and path only. 

 

High moi and face balanced is about as little face rotation as you can get. Then it becomes a path game.

 Interesting and valid point. If limiting face rotation is the intention, then over the course of the next few years we should only see increases in putters like LAB, right? 

[getitdaily]

4 minutes ago, mistaklavin said:

 Interesting and valid point. If limiting face rotation is the intention, then over the course of the next few years we should only see increases in putters like LAB, right? 

Not necessarily.

 

A lot of guys do better with toe hang and some face rotation. 

[MattM97]

A lot of pros usually you'll hear them say "It's what I'm comfortable with" so they just use what they're comfortable with and don't really experiment with. But there are plenty of guys that do and you are seeing a lot of plumber neck mallets lately and guys trying different things.