The Bottom Line
The Zen Tour Oracle is both a putter and a putting trainer, but we liked it much better as one than the other.
Pros
- Face balanced and very true to promote back-and-through stroke.
- As a putter, great feel results from soft insert and weighting.
- Used as training aid by some Tour players and top teachers.
Cons
- As training aid, reception from recreational players was lukewarm.
- Tendency for long putts to come up short until adjustment is made.
Description
- Zen Oracle Tour is both a USGA-conforming putter and a putting trainer.
- Comes with 20-minute video in which instructor Rick Smith goes over several training techniques.
- Extended mallet head design has a hole in the middle of it, an aperture into which a golf ball fits.
- "E.S.P." insert is not a face insert; rather the material is poured throughout center of gravity.
- Mallet, aperture, sole wings and insert material move weight rearward and around the perimeter.
- Face-balancing and other qualities promote large sweet spot and straight stroke.
- Markings on top of clubhead, plus aperture help with alignment.
- Comes in left and right, 33-inch and 35-inch standard models with Winn grip.
- Also available in belly (43-inch) and long (48-inch) styles.
- MSRP is $159.80 for standard and $199.80 for belly and long.
Guide Review - Zen Oracle Tour Putter and Putting Trainer
"We liked it much better as one than as the other" we wrote above. It was as a putter that the Zen Oracle Tour received high marks from our testers. But those same testers were a litty testy with its training-aid techniques.
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