Let’s Talk Golf Putting Launch
When the center of mass of the putter head impacts the center of mass of the ball, the ball is launched. When things go right the putter transfers its momentum to the ball and the ball is launched down intended line with the proper speed. But three things can go wrong: Twist, Loft and Bite.
Twist is Detrimental
When the ball is impacted away from the center of mass of the head, a slight amount of angular momentum is imparted upon the head at the instant of impact, and that causes the ball to be launched slightly off the intended line and with a small amount of adverse lateral spin. None of this is good for precision putting. A center shafted putter enables the golfer to intuitively impact the ball at the proper impact point, and this alleviates the problem. The Quantum Golf Putter is center shafted and that makes it better in this regard than any heel-shafted putter.
The massiveness of the Quantum Golf Putter helps reduce the twist caused by off-sweet-spot impacts. Impact that is off-impact causes a slight amount of angular momentum to be imparted upon the head, but if the head is massive that will give it plenty of inertia to resist twist. So the massiveness of the Quantum Golf Putter makes it better at resisting head twist than any other less massive putter.
The most insidious cause of head twist is mis-shafting. When the shaft DOES NOT vector into the center of mass of the putter head, then head twist is inevitable on every putt. Here is why: The offset from where the shaft should vector and where it actually vectors can be as much as a couple inches. When the head impacts the ball and the power vector is offset a couple inches from the head’s center of mass, ball impact causes a very significant rotational moment to be applied to the head which results in very significant head twist. This very significant head twist is increases exponentially with the length of the putt.
The manufacturers of mis-shafted putters claim that their putters have a beneficial “high moment of inertia” to overcomes this problem, when in fact they have a “high moment of inertia” that causes the problem. This is what happens when putters are designed and marketed by folks who do not understand physics. The only way to over come the moment of inertia problem caused by mis-shafting is to correct the shafting. The Quantum Golf Putter is perfectly shafted and that makes it better than any putter that is mis-shafted.
Loft is Detrimental
The striking face of a field club is such that upon impact the ball is lofted up into the air with backspin. This loft angle varies from driver to wedge, with the wedge having the greatest loft and backspin and the driver the least. But once again, the green game is different than the field game. On the green it is beneficial to roll the ball instead of lofting it. So a golf putter should be designed to roll the ball, not loft it. But ironically, almost every other putter on the market today embodies loft on the striking face, most in the range of 4 or 5 degrees, some even more. The greater the loft angle the greater the launch bounce and backspin and the less putting precision. The Quantum Golf Putter has a zero loft on the striking face and that means no loft and no backspin. That makes the Quantum Golf Putter better than any putter which lofts the ball upon impact.
Bite is Detrimental
Many golfers will never admit it, but sometimes they “duff” a putt; in other words, their stroke bites into the green during glide enough that it actually stops the putter head dead in its tracks. When this happens, it not only destroys any chance of making the putt, it also gives your golfing buddies an opportunity to make fun of you at the time and even later at the “nineteenth hole”. Dreaded green bite can be prevented by minimizing the amount of leading edge and rounding over the leading edge that remains. Seems obvious doesn’t it? But unbridled creativity among putter designers tends to increase the problem instead of reducing it. Creative putter designers concentrate their efforts on what they think improves the appearance of the putter, not on what improves its performance. They like high-tech edgy appearance so they design putters with sharp leading edges. These sharp leading edges exasperate the bite problem. High-tech looking blade putters can have as much as four inches of problematic sharp leading edge; mallets with their oversize and stylish wings and openings can have as much as double that. The Quantum Putter has none of that because all of its leading edges are nicely rounded over, and because of its patented glide grooves which minimize leading edge down to less than ½ inch. This makes the Quantum Golf Putter the best of all other putters in eliminating dreaded leading edge bite.
The Preferred Putter 