Let’s Compare Golf Putters
The first column of the Comparison Chart on the left shows seven evaluation factors, 
and each evaluation factor includes a number of evaluation points. The total number of evaluation points is 29. If we give each evaluation point a score ranging from zero (worst) to ten (best), then a perfect evaluation score would be 290.
QUANTUM GOLF PUTTER
The Quantum Golf Putter scores 290 of 290 or 100% in this Objective Evaluation. If each evaluation point was equal to a dollar, then the true value of a Quantum Golf Putter would be $290. The Quantum Golf Putter priced at $249, so it is selling at $41 below its true value.
BLADE STYLE GOLF PUTTERS
The blade putters are all patterned after the Ping Anser™ which came to market in the mid 1950s. Generally they score low in grip features, shaft features, and head features. And because of the lack of these features they also score low in putting benefits including stroke, glide, impact and launch. If each evaluation point was equal to a dollar, then the true value of a typical blade putter would be $28.
Blade putters range widely in price. Unbranded clones can be found for less than $100, and well marketed big brands can sell at prices well over $300. The Scotty Cameron Newport™ for example retails at $349. In any case, they are all way over priced. Unless you can find a used Blade putter for $28 or less, you are paying too much for the value you are receiving.
MALLET STYLE GOLF PUTTERS
The Mallet Style Putter became the rage soon after the market debut of the Odyssey 2-Ball™ back in the early 2000s. Since then marketers have touted the mallet as being “more forgiving” than blades, and doing this with great success. Exactly how a putter can be forgiving of its user is puzzling to say the least, but that saying seems to stick well with unknowledgeable gullible golfers. With their bent shafts and excessive front to back dimension, their only redeeming factor is that they are more massive than a Blade. That is not much but it does increase their evaluation score a little bit over a Blade. If each evaluation point was equal to a dollar, then the true value of a typical mallet putter would be $32.
Like Blades, the Mallets range widely in price. Unbranded clones can be found for less than $100, and well marketed big brands can sell at prices well over $300. Odyssey is still selling their now aging 2-Ball Putter for $300. In any case, all Mallet Putters are way over priced. Unless you can find a used Mallet Putter for $32 or less, you are paying too much for the value you are receiving.
FLATSTICK STYLE GOLF PUTTERS
Flatstick Putters dominated the market prior to WWII, with the classic Acushnet Bulls Eye™ being the prime example of this style. Bulls Eye Putters are still sought out by golfing aficionados and for good reason – it is a way better putter than any blade or mallet currently on the market. It is almost perfectly vectored, and brass made it massive for its form factor. Knock-offs of this original are still being marketed but many of them have lost sight of the original purity – they have loft, no longer are ambidextrous, and differ in many other ways to make them more spiffy for today’s market. The evaluation score of a modern day Flatstick Putter is 108 which makes it superior to either a typical Blade or a typical Mallet. If each evaluation point was equal to a dollar, then the true value of a typical Flatstick would be $108.
Unbranded clones of the original Bulls Eye Putter can be found for under $100, and big name marketers offer their version of this old classic in the price range of about $200. Original Bulls Eye Putters can be found used for under $100 and with their collector value added into the mix, that is a good buy. Nevertheless, if you pay more than $108 for a flatstick, you are paying more than its true value.
The Preferred Putter 