Putter Week 2010 continues…
I mentioned some crazy putters were coming during this year’s Putter Week. This crazy putter (pictured right) is the Bob Burns “Roll In” putter. If you like to experiment with your putting, your equipment, club configurations and have ADD, you’re going to want this putter.
Bob Burns Roll In – Features
The Roll In has a 350 gram aluminum mallet head with SEVEN weight ports. The putter comes with 12, count ’em, TWELVE weights and a tool to install or remove them. The weights vary from 2-10 grams. If you can’t find the perfect head balance and weighting with this putter, you might want to take up bowling or basket weaving.
Behind the milled face is a “T” shaped sight line to help you align your putts. Speaking of the face, tiny grooves are milled into the face to get the ball rolling correctly.
The shaft, available in lengths from 32-37 inches, is a center mount.
Looks
Traditionalists may not dig the looks of the Roll In. Behind the face in the mallet section is quite busy. Personally I don’t get distracted by the weights, ports and the rest. Heck, if my putter had a monkey on the back banging a pair of cymbals in his hands and kicking a bass drum with his feet I wouldn’t care, as long as I made putts.
Feel
With heavy weights installed and the jumbo grip, a smooth pendulum motion with the shoulders and arms occurs naturally for me. It is difficult to break the wrists or do any sudden movements which might take the putter off line.
Grip
My Roll In has a super jumbo grip. The super jumbo grip is massively bigger than a standard grip and four times the weight. If you have wrist breaking problems or other jerky issues with your putting stroke, this grip and the extra weight it adds higher up in the shaft will probably help.
Other than the jumbo grip pictured above, there are 16 other grip options for the Roll In.
Conclusion
This $125 putter is fun. It combines the art of putting with a set of Tinker Toys. All joking about it aside, it is a surprisingly good feeling putter. The weighting and balance are very nice and promote a smooth, pendulum like stroke. The adjustable weights allow for fine tuning by even the most detail oriented players.
Links
Bob Burns web site.
Bob Burns HOG Image Gallery.
THE GOLF SPACE CELEBRATES FOUR YEARS OF GOLF SOCIAL NETWORKING
I officially opened the doors of The Golf Space, golf’s #1 social networking site, during Masters week of 2006. Since then I’ve had the pleasure of meeting thousands of great new golf friends, reading their golf blogs, watching their golf scores and statistics, seeing their photos and best of all, seeing TGS members network and make golf new golf friends. Calling The Golf Space “Facebook for gofers” doesn’t quite do it justice. TGS was built by golfers, for golfers. The features and profile fields are all golf biased.
The goal behind TGS is the same simple one it was four years ago, be the web’s best golf networking site. Be the best “community” in golf anywhere and provide a free home base for golfers to congregate, talk golf, track their golf handicaps, blog, post photos, videos and make new golf connections both in the personal and business worlds. Every day I see people meeting, getting together to play, giving each other advice and helping each other out on TGS. When I see those great things happen I smile like a proud papa.
State of TGS
There are over 5100 Golf Space members and growing daily. Hits exceed 1,000,000 per month with over 75,000 unique visitors. Considering there’s no advertising budget, this grass roots growth is great. I’d love to see more members and growth increase, so tell your friends to join The Golf Space. It is free so there’s nothing to lose but much to gain in the way of friendships, business connections and perhaps help with your short game.
Future of TGS
I think the future is bright for TGS, especially based on how great the current core members are. I’d love to hear some suggestions on how to make TGS grow and how to make it better. Some items on the list for TGS in the future would be to improve the site, the look, add new features, make a mobile version for iPhones or blackberries, have TGS tournaments and get-togethers, beer and bratwursts. You name it. I’m always up for suggestions. Oh and I’d love to give away a bunch more free golf stuff too. Anyone who wants to sponsor some prizes and has giveaway or contest ideas, let me know.
Thanks to the current TGS members, sponsors and friends
Many thanks to the current TGS members, friends, admins and sponsors. Without your support and friendship this great resource for golfers would not exist. When the concept of TGS entered my cranium back in the winter of 2006, I nearly drove my car off the road. I’ve been passionate about TGS ever since, and I promise I’ll do whatever I can to help TGS continue to grow and improve in the future.
Tony Korologos
Golf Space founder and golf web geek
SIGN THE TGS BIRTHDAY CARD HERE…
My Aunt back east is a NUT (in a good way).
She sent me this very funny tea party sign.
Actually I quite agree with it.
I’ll continue with “Putter Week” shortly…
Worried about the knee
Played today at a course I normally play well but normally ride. This is a very hilly course and I was playing as a single so I used my push cart and walked instead of riding to get some exercise. Now I’m a bit worried about my knee. Now that the round is over and it has been an hour or so since I finished, walking downhill or downstairs is very painful just left of my left kneecap. That can’t be a good sign.
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Anyway, for a while there I thought I was going shoot 18 5’s in a row after starting with 7 in a row. Then later I made five more 5’s in a row. For the whole round I shot 14 5’s. That has to be a world record for me, and not a good one.
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