“We combined the patented visual alignment technology of our putters with the grip technology that P2 Grips offers to help golfers at all skill levels improve their accuracy and their distance control on the greens.” “Each of the MLA putters is effective at helping golfers make more putts,” said Valery Turco, marketing rep for MLA Golf. Writing a review on a new putter becomes serious business if you become captivated by its superior merits and this golf equipment review is not a bunch of babble: the MLA Adixion putter is the real deal for me.Ĭan a new putter change your attitude toward the game? Can a new putter that you feel comfortable with generate confidence? Can a new putter improve your scoring?Ībsolutely, positively yes! The MLA putters come in three chocies one is a blade with a bulky background one is a smaller mallet style in the vein of the Odyssey Rossie the third is a larger cavity mallet. I committed to using it all season, and even though the dreaded three-putt popped up often, it wasn’t a deal breaker. I liked the way it felt, looked and especially the way it made contact with the golf ball. With a great deal of skepticism and reluctance, I started practicing with a model called Target Series Adixion, conventional length (34 inches) and using the left-hand low technique.īy golly, after hitting thousands of putts over a six-week stretch, the MLA putter became my new best friend. MLA putters have no dot, no lines, instead the top of the putter head is marked with a thick, white line that looks like it’s been bent into an angular C shape, that curves around the top of the putter and serves as an alignment tool.Įarlier this year a colleague – Joe Wieczorek (The Media Group) – introduced me to a new putter from MLA Golf, a global player in high performance golf clubs and equipment. The price is $299 at their site MLA.golf if you want to purchase or for complete technical details.Golf breeds copy-cats, but there are exactly zero decent players with a “scissors-like” putting motion, so it was time to change. The MLA Tour XDream is a solid, efficient putter and if you like the looks of the unique crown alignment aid it could be a very good choice. Also at 375 grams the Tour XDream is at the upper end of what might be considered ideal weight range for typical green speeds. MLA does make several blade models, which we did not test. The flattened horseshoe alignment aid took time getting accustomed to and several players, who tried the Tour XDream felt a smaller, blade style head would work better. As a result, the wrists arch slightly, which facilitates the modern shoulder, big muscle stroke. The stock grip is a Forward brand designed with extra thickness under the flat top of the grip, where the left palm sits in a normal placement of the hands. Putting a 5-gram weight in both the heel and toe positions added balance. The milled 375-gram head has two changeable weights in the sole and three additional weights are included with purchase. Feel was excellent and distance control was never a problem, even on very fast surfaces. I used the Tour XDream for ten rounds on greens from Florida to Alabama and it did help correctly line up putts, particularly left to righters, which for a right-handed player are the most trying. There’s a much longer and more technical explanation of why the white horseshoe works, but the proof is in the putting. Lennart Högman, Ph.D, who has studied the brain’s perceptual process for over 20 years. This large white flattened horseshoe is distinctive in shape, prominent in appearance, visually striking and meant to aid a golfer’s brain to correctly perceive the proper line of a putt.Īccording to the company, based in Switzerland, MLA stands for Multiple Line-Detector Activation and the clubhead pattern is the result of working with Dr. I agreed to include the MLA Golf Tour XDream in the rota of clubs for the “Ten Rounds with…” series, and I’m glad I did.įirst, the putter’s most obvious feature separates it from the rather crowded field of flat sticks, namely the alignment aid on the top of the putter head. “If you can’t say something nice don’t say anything at all.” I have lost track of the number of putters I have tried over the years, many of which, never made it into a column, since I believe what my mother always told me, My first reaction was, “Oh goodie, another putter.” A friend, who handles publicity for several golf equipment companies, called to say he had just taken on a new putter company and would like me to test their product.
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