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Level 96 Versa

• YankeeJim 25,827 Posts

  Wed, Feb 5 2014 5:40 AM

  slillico:

  I'm looking for a putter that i can ding, will go a consistent measurable distance and not nearly as often jump off the face in some unknown direction.

  Thx fat, anyone else care to confirm what he said.

  Confirmed. Note what he said about getting the speed right.

• slillico 393 Posts

  Wed, Feb 5 2014 12:53 PM

  YankeeJim:

  Confirmed. Note what he said about getting the speed right.

  Thank you to all who responded, I like to say i bought it, went to kia invitational, restarted first game when i hit the flag on 1, played 2nd game with the putts just missing but noticed the difference right away, this putter loves to be dinged and starts on line (YIPPIE and FINALLY), so played the front nine of that game to minus -6 and restarted. Played the next round with my new found knowledge of this putter, front played to -7 but learned even more, the back on the other hand, well just look here. Figures it has to be a random drawing :-(

  I'm completely sold, the lvl 70 versa is firmly planted in the garden holding up the tomatos.

• YankeeJim 25,827 Posts

  Wed, Feb 5 2014 12:58 PM

  LOL. Now you know about precision and balance. Well done.

  What do you use to gauge the strength? Just curious.

   

• fatdan 3,379 Posts

  Wed, Feb 5 2014 1:00 PM

  Congrats !!!!!

  The 70 was so good for my game it's hard to believe it is that much better than the 70 isn't it....by far my best investment...

• rqueen 57 Posts

  Wed, Feb 5 2014 1:07 PM

  If I'm understanding you, you are speaking about the ball coming off the face of the putter when it is hit perfectly?  If so then I would have to say that it is a programmer "fix".  From what I've been able to tell on a couple of different putters that I've had and all of them have done it.  Apparently the program is telling the ball to break with the break of the green but it is not programmed (almost always on softer putts) to come off the face of the putter and THEN start following the break of the green.

• Jimbog1964 8,378 Posts

  Wed, Feb 5 2014 1:07 PM

  slillico:

  the back on the other hand, well just look here. Figures it has to be a random drawing :-(

  

  U DA MAN:)

• slillico 393 Posts

  Wed, Feb 5 2014 1:26 PM

  YankeeJim:

  What do you use to gauge the strength? Just curious.

  Swingmate

  By the way Jim, i expect you to take the lead here when the newbs start screaming "is this legal again and for about the 1000 time.

• slillico 393 Posts

  Wed, Feb 5 2014 1:42 PM

  rqueen:

  If I'm understanding you, you are speaking about the ball coming off the face of the putter when it is hit perfectly?  If so then I would have to say that it is a programmer "fix".  From what I've been able to tell on a couple of different putters that I've had and all of them have done it.  Apparently the program is telling the ball to break with the break of the green but it is not programmed (almost always on softer putts) to come off the face of the putter and THEN start following the break of the green.

  All the putters are doing this to some extent or another. But I missed the cabo flat par 3, 3 times straight, that par 3 has for me at least, always been, for the most part, ding and it's in and sometimes even when missing the ding. That told me clearly, something is very wrong.

  What you are referring is something that everyone has to adjust for, the break beginning immediately off the putter face. my concern as a ding putter was a little different.

• YankeeJim 25,827 Posts

  Wed, Feb 5 2014 2:11 PM

  slillico:

  By the way Jim, i expect you to take the lead here when the newbs start screaming "is this legal again and for about the 1000 time.

  LMAO. Was the big question when the R1 came out, too.

  Incidentally, you might not realize it but you happened to have stumbled across the last piece you need. The Nikes get it Versa close. That 25 was the turning point and I daresay if you apply yourself, you'll be trying to qualify at Pinehurst as a TL. The 26 at Cabo to win week 4 was mine and that happened a week after I got that putter. A month later I was all growed up. LOL. You're next.  ;-)

   

• slillico 393 Posts

  Wed, Feb 5 2014 2:26 PM

  YankeeJim:

  A month later I was all growed up. LOL. You're next.  ;-)

  Just played OLY RG, first 2 putts missed high, found myself reverting to old putter line. If this thing stays performing like this, I can get used to that real quick.