The Taylormade Spider FCG putter just might be your new secret weapon on the green.
When it comes to your weapon of choice for sending the golf ball home, there’s quite a bit of choice. However, most putters fall into a handful of categories, which include hefty but well-weighted mallets, and the more-nimble blades. Each have their merits and their drawbacks. Until now.
The new Spider FCG putter from Taylormade, the newest addition to the company’s Spider putter line up, promises all the forgiveness of a mallet, and the precision of a blade, thanks to a new forward centre of gravity design.
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While Spider putters are best known for the advanced materials used in their construction, the newest addition also includes some pretty impressive construction, which allows the putter to feel like a mallet while performing like a blade.
Designed for players with an arced putting stroke, the new Spider FCG features an all-new True Path T-sightline, an ‘optically engineered alignment feature’ (read: a line down the middle) and a centre of gravity that’s heavily weighted towards the front of the mallet, in contrast to traditional mallet construction, allowing the toe to rotate around the centre of gravity.
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This effect is created through the use of adjustable tungsten weights in the putter’s heel and toe, as well as a CU29 Pure Roll insert, crafted in pure copper, the heaviest ever made by the brand. The Pure Roll increases topspin and improved forward roll while providing a firmer feel and blade-like performance.
More than just green smarts, the new Spider FCG looks great too thanks to contrasting colours, sharp lines and copper accents that hint at its internal potential.
The Spider FCG is available in three different hosel types, each meant for a different style of putting stroke. The Short Slant hosel offers 46-degrees of toe hang (squarely in range with most blade models) to fit golfers with a significant amount of face rotation. The L-Neck has 25-degrees of toe hang for golfers with moderate face rotation, and the Single Bend is the most face-balanced of the three, better aligning with golfers who have minimal rotation in the putting stroke.
Hail, the king of the greens.
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