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How does the Quantum
Putter compare with the _______________ putter? |
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I get questions like this all
the time about other putters on the market and since there are thousands
of other putters out there; instead of my doing individual comparisons
(which could easily turn into a full time job for me), I have created a
"do-it-yourself-comparison" which is fun and easy. Plus this gives you the
benefit of coming to your own conclusion without my bias entering into
your thinking. Click here to get
started, and for the fun of it, I'll send $100 to your favorite charity if you can find a putter
that is technologically superior to the Quantum. |
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I always hear that
wrists should be locked when putting and I have a hard time believing
that so tell me please, what is your opinion? |
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It is my opinion that big
muscles should be used for big movements, small muscles for small
movements. A tack-hammer is swung with wrists to get small precision
movement, a hammer is swung with both wrists and arms to get a more
powerful precision movement, a sledge hammer is swung with wrists and
arms and body to get even more powerful precision movement. Anybody
who has ever swung a hammer of any size for a living will tell you
that wrists should always be involved no matter how much power is
needed - golf clubs are really in fact hammers, so same the is true,
whether driving, pitching, chipping or putting. |
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I just got back from the
Senior Club Pro in Palm Springs where I missed the cut by three strokes.
I have complete confidence in my Q Putter but my stroke is a little shaky,
Please tell me how should I use the practice aids correctly? |
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It is very simple - just
convert your putter into the practice mode and insert the four pegs and
then use whatever drill/practice routine you always used before. The pegs
will help you with proper setup and then whenever you miss-hit the
sweet-spot, you will know it because the ball will not go where you
expected it to go. If your putts seem to be going long, then lessen the
putter's power by lessening the loads in the canisters; or, if they seem
to be falling short, increase the putter's power by increasing the loads
in the adjustment canisters. There is really nothing more to it than that.
We have tried to make the practice aids as unobtrusive as possible so that
your practice mimics play as closely as possible. All you need to do is
practice and improvement will naturally follow. |
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Why do I need to spend all that money
for a Quantum Putter? |
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a Quantum Putter you have to pay the price - we have a good product and we
will be selling it at a good price. If we sold at a lower price we
would not be able to cover our manufacturing and assembly and quality
control cost; our sales commissions and fitting fees; and still make a
reasonable profit. Obviously, we are in business to make a reasonable
profit. Yes of course, the price might come down in the future when we
begin to sell larger
quantities, but as a custom made club it will always be priced at the
"higher end" of the range - so if you want to wait for a while
to improve your golfing performance, that's okay - we will be here for you
whenever you are ready; but if you want to improve now, then you will have
to pay the price now. |
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All I need to do
- according to your principles - is find a center-shafted blade
putter that has a weight I'm comfortable with, a straight shaft with
proper length, add a symmetrical grip if it hasn't one, have the
loft adjusted or move my hands forward to achieve negative loft
(which I once found worked well for me but didn't know why at the
time, thanks for that technical info), most of the newer ones have
good launch sighting guides and I can add the dots for face
alignment. Am I wrong? |
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right! But we have looked hard and have not yet found a true
center shafted putter of any kind currently on the market and if you
know of one we would appreciate it if you would tell us about it. A
true center shafted putter would have a perfectly straight shaft
that vectored exactly into the center of gravity of the putter head,
and the Quantum is the only such putter that we know of with this
extremely important technology. But, if you are thinking of
adjusting the loft by bending the shaft, forget about it - that will
destroy sweet impact dynamics and cause annoying shaft vibration
upon impact; the only way to adjust loft is re-milling the face
which is beyond the capability of most club builders. If you want
all the features and benefits of a Q Putter, I really think it would be
easiest to simply get a Q Putter. |
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I don't think
the Quantum Glides are that important if the bottom doesn't
have sharp edges. Am I wrong? |
| Yes you are wrong.
Sure a major benefit of the glide plate is that it prevents leading
edge bite and trailing edge drag, but there is much more to it than
that. It also raises the head up off the surface of the green such
that the center of gravity of the head is in exact alignment with
the center of gravity of the ball and that is a requirement for
sweet impact. And it also "combs" the green during glide such that
assures the face of the putter remains perpendicular to the stroke
during impact. |
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Do you not
think that the putting practice guide device by MEDICUS is better
than your practice face? |
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First let's acknowledge that "MEDICUS" is a trade-name of Medicus Golf
Company and their website
www.medicus.com. You can put most any
contrivance onto a Quantum Putter that you can put on any other
putter for practice if you wish; but, in our opinion, all
such contrivances do more harm than good because as most good
coaches will tell you, "practice should mimic play as much as possible".
Of course everybody is
entitled to his opinion and some would disagree.
In any case the Medicus Contrivance supposedly helps with your stroke,
whereas the aids embodied in the practice face of the Quantum Putter
help with X-Y-Z alignment and hitting the sweet spot, none of which
is helped by the Medicus Contrivance. |
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I
bought a new putter recently which is similar to your putter and it
didn't help me much, then I tried others that gave me better
results. What would make me think that your putter would give me a
quantum improvement? |
| We know of no putter
currently on the market that is similar to the Quantum Putter so if
you found one, please let us know which it is and where we can find
it. On your other point, there is more to putting results than the
putter you are using, in fact it seems like there are four factors -
Technology, Fitting, Technique, Judgment. You can have the best
putter technology (Quantum) but if your putter is not properly
fitted or you are using bad putting technique, you will never
achieve good results. After you are using the best technology with
perfect fitting and practice good technique, then you can work on
putting judgment which is a lifelong challenge and what makes golf
the great game that it is. |
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I have read that
many good golfers don't like center shafted putters. Perhaps they
have their drawbacks as well as advantages?
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| I am a physicist and
not a psychologist, so I can talk with you about facts and the laws
of physics all day long, but I don't have a clue when it comes to
why people do what they do. It should be obvious that there are no
drawbacks to using perfected technology. Any golfer who uses
imperfect technology is playing the game at a severe disadvantage,
no matter what his level of play. |
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You say that
there are no other true center shafted putters! Are you saying the
others just kind of stick the shaft sort of in the center without
being careful to place it exactly in the center? Why would this be
so? Are they all idiots and only you thought of putting it dead
center? |
| Yes, astounding as it
may seem, I do mean that so far we have found no other putter
currently on the market that is truly center shafted. If you find
one then please let me know. I wouldn't call other putter designers
idiots, but I would have to say that they don't understand basic
physic. Any physicist would put the shaft
at the dead center of any impacting tool (and a putter is an
impacting tool), in fact he would never think of putting it
anywhere else. |
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I
play mostly on the fast greens of Hawaii and on the slow greens of
the Pacific Northwest (Washington) so which Quantum Head would be
best for me? |
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Quantum head decision is dependent upon your intuitive stroke
strength and our Factory Fitter can help you with that. Then when
you play the slow WA costal greens, you should adjust your Quantum
Putter to its highest setting (use the heaviest brass power
adjustment weights), and when you are play the fast HI greens, you
should adjust your Quantum Putter to its lowest setting (use no
power adjustment weights at all). |
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Just what is it
in most strokes that makes people hit the ball off-center? I'm no
great putter but I always hit it on center of face, unless it's a
very very long putt that requires a long backswing. even then, if
one holds the left hand firmly, there's little chance of the face
turning at impact. it seems the whole putter industry has been
selling new putters based on a need that doesn't exist. All the
heel/toe exaggerated weighting, all the MOI tech, etc. Years ago
there were great putters using simple blades, and you yourself state
you think putting was better then than now with all the gimmicks. I
can understand better balance, better feel, better materials, milled
faces etc. I don't understand that putts are missed due to twisting
faces. I don't accept that. If you can't hit the center of ball with
the mark on the putter, and you can't hold your left wrist firm
enough so if you're a tad off it won't matter, than you have no
stroke and nothing will help you until you get one. |
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Yes I agree most talk
about "MOI" is "BS". Golfers intuitively
strike the ball at the center of the face and we have proven that
time and time again during Quantum Demonstrations where we have the
new client do his first putt (a 30 footer) with the practice face
which exaggerates any miss-hit - not only don't they miss-hit, most
of the time the actually sink the putt.
Better feel comes from better balance. Better materials and milled
faces don't do anything - in fact you could make a very good putter
out of an old 2x4 scrap with a dowel rod shaft and if it had perfect
balance, it would do better for you than any other putter currently
on the market (except for the Quantum of course).
But hitting the ball at the center of the face is not all there is
to it. Even if you hit the ball at the center of the face, when the
shaft is not vectored into the center of gravity of the head, the
head will twist upon impact. This twist is bad for precision
putting.
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RIFE claims
their patented grooves lift the ball out of its depression and
impart immediate topspin. the majority of golfers on the senior tour
seem to agree. is this not true? if it is, isn't this a more
dependable way to get the topspin than your friction method, which
can be variable depending on the condition and evenness of the turf? |
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First let's acknowledge that "RIFE" is a trade-name of Rife Putters LLC
and their website is
www.rifeputters.com. Many
putter makers besides RIFE claim that their grooves lift the ball
out its depression and impart immediate topspin and it is in my
opinion as a physicist that this is all marketing "BS". One of the presentations
at the World Scientific Congress of Golf last March totally debunked
the idea that grooves on a putter face do anything at all.
Many golfers follow "conventional wisdom" like sheep following their
shepherd; none it seems think for themselves. The way topspin is
imparted upon the ball is a natural law of physics and not up
argument - you either understand the concept or you don't. Here is the concept again: Topspin is
imparted upon a ball by a combination promotion force of impact upon
upper hemisphere of the ball and the counter force of friction
imparted upon the lower hemisphere of the ball.
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I am intrigued by you putter and would like to purchase one. Do you
have any programs for PGA Golf Professionals? I am a PGA Master
Professional and 7 time PGA Player of the Year.
Also, I pulled out a center shafted bulls eye with a 35 " shaft and
std lie angle yesterday and it feels and performs very well.
If I purchase you putter, should I just match up the specs to the
old Bulls Eye?
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I am pleased that you are intrigued by
our putter technology and I hope you do become a Quantum Client
soon. No, I am sorry we do not have a program for
PGA Golf Professionals - everyone pays the same for a Q Putter. We
would love to see you on television putting with a Q, but we are a
small company who simply cannot be giving away putters to
professionals for the sake of publicity. Sure most would probably
think that is foolish, but for now we need
to earn money on each unit we sell and we cannot afford to give
away units in order to have them show up on tour. As a
tour player, performance is what is most important for you - we
will give you that... and a free cap.
We always hear that about the
old Bull's Eye every time someone dusts it off to give it another
chance. That old putter is clearly better than any other putter
out there except the Quantum which has taken that good old
technology and advanced it to the next level.
No I wouldn't simply match up with the
specs of that old putter - instead let us help you get perfectly
fitted. I won't cost you anything and that way you will not only
have the best technology, you will have a putter that fits you
perfectly. After that it is all up to you and you will not have to
worry about the tool you are using ever letting you down.
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I am looking for a putter that I can use Right or Left Handed. Is it
legal to change it during a round?
Do you have any
dealers?
Do you have any
used ones?
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Quantum is the only putter we know of
that is L/R hand adaptable. No, it would not be permitted by USGA
Rules to make the L/R change during a round of golf - you need to
decide on the practice green how you want your putter configured
and then keep it that way for the entire round of play.
No, we do not have Dealers, we sell
our Quantum Putters directly to Clients via internet.
No, we do not have any used ones -
sometimes a putter is rejected because it does not pass
inspection; then it is recycled; or, if the defect is not too bad,
we will donate it to a school golfing program. |
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I
have a Left Handed Ben Ross SR7 putter, which I feel is similar to a
Quantum Putter. How
do you think it compares with the Quantum Putter?
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We do not
have a Ben Ross SR7 in our "putter barrel" so I had to get information
from the web in order to answer your question (there is apparently not an
official Ben Ross website). From what I could
see, it seems like this is one of the better old technology putters. If
the shaft is straight and the grip is symmetric and made of a good
material that has a tactile finish then in that aspect it will be as good
as the Quantum. But I can see that the shaft, while it seems to vector
into the Center of Gravity on the x-axis (front to back), does not vector
into the COG on the y-axis (heel to toe), and that is bad for sweet impact
dynamics. It also appears that the leading edge is sharp and that will
cause dreaded green bite. It also appears that the face has maybe a 2 or 3
degree loft and that will be bad for a bounceless rolling launch. And it
appears that the z-axis height (bottom to top) is so shallow so that ball
impact will always be imperfect. I couldn't tell from their website
whether or not they offer custom fitting for shaft angle, shaft length,
head weight, or grip size - if not then that would be a major
disadvantage. It was very hard to see, but it also appears that the face
of that putter either has an impact pad or maybe it is just grooved - if
it is just grooved that won't be a problem (but it also won't do any good
according to scientific study), but if it has an soft impact pad that will
be a major disadvantage. This putter has no practice convertibility, nor
does it have any power adjustability, features you would expect in a new
technology putter. It is also not R/L Adaptable nor is it Shaft/Head
Interchangeable. But it is cheap and so it will appeal to "price buyers".
But "value buyers" and "performance buyers" in the know will always choose
a Quantum. |
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