Let’s Talk About Putting Impact
When the center of mass of the putter head impacts the center of mass of the ball, the ball is launched down the intended line. When the impact surface of the head is flat and hard, momentum of the putter is transferred efficiently to the ball. If the impact surface is padded or grooved the transfer is inefficient and detrimental to putting precision.
Padding is detrimental
Other putter makers embody pads into their design to cover for shaft vibration upon impact. But the Quantum Golf Putter suffers absolutely no shaft vibration, so there is no need for us to embody impact pads into our design. Besides, we like to have our Quantum Putter deliver efficient stroke momentum to the ball. Of course golfers can adapt to a putter that delivers momentum inefficiently simply by stroking harder.
But padding the impact surface is detrimental in a more insidious way: When the ball is impacted by the pad, the launch momentum is lessened, but that can be overcome with a stronger stroke. But when the ball is impacted a little higher of a little lower of the pad, the stronger launch momentum will be increased even further by the hard surface at the pad’s margins – this makes launch very unpredictable, and an unpredictable launch is bad for precision putting. You might be thinking that you always intend to strike the ball with the pad so this will not be a problem, but achieving that level of perfection is not all that easy.
The Quantum Golf Putter is unpadded so the impact is always efficient, and that makes launch reliable. Reliable launch is good for precision putting. Besides, the Quantum Golf Putter has no need to cover up shaft vibration, because it does not suffer this annoyance in the first place. All this makes the Quantum Golf Putter better than any padded putter.
Grooves are detrimental
Back many years ago when we first started manufacturing golf putters, we grooved our putter impact area because everybody else seemed to be doing that. But when we rigorously lab-tested our putter design we found that our putter launch was slightly unpredictable and that was puzzling. It took a long time before we discovered the reason – it was the grooving. We couldn’t believe it at first, but it turned out that the grooves on the impact area were interacting with the dimples on the golf ball at the slow stoke velocity, and launching the ball in a slightly unpredictable way. The stroke velocity is typically slow with putting, especially on short putts, and especially with grooving that had a vertical component. So this launch problem even though slight, was a problem we decided to eliminate. Grooving also causes a slight reduction in momentum and we didn’t want that either. The Quantum Putter Impact Area is un-grooved so it delivers 100% momentum to the ball and suffers no launch uncertainty caused by grooves on the impact area. That makes the Quantum Golf Putter better than any grooved putter
The Preferred Putter 