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The Oz is part of Nike Golf's "Blue Chip" series of putters, so named for the blue aluminum face insert whose lightness of weight helps distribute more weight to the heel and toe.
The Oz is a half-moon shaped mallet, with the rear being a semicircular stainless steel ring that contains 66 percent of the clubhead weight.
The Oz is heel-shafted and face-balanced and is engineered with a deeper center of gravity to reduce skidding for a pure roll.
Tour Edge Equator
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Tour Edge calls it the world's first center-shafted, heel-weighted putter. A 100-gram weight - 30-percent of the clubhead's total weight - tungsten plug in the heel stabilizes the head through impact by counteracting what Tour Edge says it "the counter-clockwise motion associated with off-center hits."
The shaft is anchored directly behind the "impact zone," and three vertical toplines help with alignment.
The Equator is the smallest - the closet to a traditional mallet - in this sampling, so it's a good starting point for golfers wary of making the jump into oversized.
Ben Hogan Big Ben by Bettinardi
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The Big Ben received a big boost from Jim Furyk, who - when the putter he wanted to use was ruled noncomforming by the USGA - switched to a smaller version, the Baby Ben, just in time to win the U.S. Open.
The Big Ben is shaped like a bubbly letter "H" (OK, maybe you have to view it from the sides to see that) and its center section is honeycombed. Hence, that section is called the "Bee Hive Center Cavity."
The Bee Hive puts 38 percent of the clubhead's weight directly behind the ball, aiding acceleration through the ball. It's center-shafted and face-balanced with alignment lines on top, and milled from a solid block of aluminum.
Bob Bettinardi is known for his elegant designs, and if ever a solid-bodied big-headed putter could be described as "elegant," the Big Ben is it.
TaylorMade Rossa Monza
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From TaylorMade's Rossa line of putters comes the striking Monza, which in shape will remind everyone of the 2-Ball. And TaylorMade isn't afraid to remind folks of the 2-Ball in its marketing of the Rossa Monza: "The Monza also boasts a visual charisma that's easy on the eyes, as opposed to the awkward-looking designs of certain putters that resemble either a sleeve of balls on the end of a stick or a high school metal shop project gone awry."
Bravo! Points to TaylorMade for not backing down from the 2-Ball juggernaut.
And that excerpt from the Rossa Monza microsite is on target. The Monza, with its white alignment stripe down the center of a black head, and bracketed by two red tungsten bars, and with its red face insert, has plenty of "visual charisma."
Bobby Grace Amazing Grace MOI
Touted as "the world's only triangle-shaped bi-metal putter, which features a large cavity and the highest moment of inertia of any mallet-putter to date," the Amazing Grace MOI may be the best mallet that most golfers have never heard of (but if you haven't heard of it, you will soon - MacGregor recently purchased Bobby Grace Putters and the MOI is starting to show up on the PGA Tour in growing numbers).
As Chou explained earlier, "moment of inertia" is a fancy term for describing a clubhead's resistance to twisting. A high MOI helps keep the clubface square for impact.
High MOI is the goal of the Amazing Grace MOI, which the company claims is "the most forgiving putter ever made." The Amazing Grace is made from milled aluminum and copper, copper-tungsten and pure machinable tungsten, with a soft face insert. The putter is center-shafted with a white siteline running down its center.
