RebelZero
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- May 29, 2010
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I've always liked having a single mold that I used for both putting and throwing. It made sense from a mold-minimizing standpoint: if I could putt with it and also use it for tee shots and approaches, awesome. Simple and effective. One disc that always felt the same in my hand, and it covered a wide variety of shots.
For the past several years, that mold has been the Judge. It's neutral enough to be pretty much point-and-shoot inside the circle and yet it has enough stability to handle rips from the teepad and is plenty versatile enough for short approaches. It's been my bread and butter. Classic Blend for putting and a mix of Classic, Fuzion, and Lucid for throwing.
I've always preferred beaded putters that are sorta shallow. Putting is all about feel and confidence and the Judge feels great in my hand. I've tried a ton of others but I've always come back to the Judge.
Recently, though, things have changed: I still love the Judge for putting, but it's not clicking for anything else. It just doesn't feel comfy anywhere but C1 and C2. I still trust it completely inside of 60-ish feet, but that's it. It suddenly feels alien in my hands for anything else.
I don't have any other discs with beads in my bag. I've never liked the feel of them on anything but putters, where my grip naturally has my finger fall right on the bead. Up till now, that bead somehow hasn't bothered me when I'm using the same putter for driving and approaching. But now it's making me crazy. I still love putting with the beaded Judge but throwing it for anything else isn't working at all. I really notice the bead and I don't like the feel of it at all.
So now I'm using two Judges for putting, but I've taken the rest of them out. I'm currently tossing a Pure for dead straight or turnover shots and an Eclipse Envy for stable - slightly OS shots. I feel good throwing those discs but it's added two more molds to my bag.
Now, I know it's all about what works, and mold-minimizing isn't a necessity. It's not like Philo is gonna come throw me in disc golf jail because I have more than five molds in my bag. But it feels a little weird.
I guess I'm wondering if anyone out there has a putter they use ONLY for putting. Is that common? It seems so counterintuitive to have three molds when a year ago I was perfectly fine with one. Am I overthinking this?
For the past several years, that mold has been the Judge. It's neutral enough to be pretty much point-and-shoot inside the circle and yet it has enough stability to handle rips from the teepad and is plenty versatile enough for short approaches. It's been my bread and butter. Classic Blend for putting and a mix of Classic, Fuzion, and Lucid for throwing.
I've always preferred beaded putters that are sorta shallow. Putting is all about feel and confidence and the Judge feels great in my hand. I've tried a ton of others but I've always come back to the Judge.
Recently, though, things have changed: I still love the Judge for putting, but it's not clicking for anything else. It just doesn't feel comfy anywhere but C1 and C2. I still trust it completely inside of 60-ish feet, but that's it. It suddenly feels alien in my hands for anything else.
I don't have any other discs with beads in my bag. I've never liked the feel of them on anything but putters, where my grip naturally has my finger fall right on the bead. Up till now, that bead somehow hasn't bothered me when I'm using the same putter for driving and approaching. But now it's making me crazy. I still love putting with the beaded Judge but throwing it for anything else isn't working at all. I really notice the bead and I don't like the feel of it at all.
So now I'm using two Judges for putting, but I've taken the rest of them out. I'm currently tossing a Pure for dead straight or turnover shots and an Eclipse Envy for stable - slightly OS shots. I feel good throwing those discs but it's added two more molds to my bag.
Now, I know it's all about what works, and mold-minimizing isn't a necessity. It's not like Philo is gonna come throw me in disc golf jail because I have more than five molds in my bag. But it feels a little weird.
I guess I'm wondering if anyone out there has a putter they use ONLY for putting. Is that common? It seems so counterintuitive to have three molds when a year ago I was perfectly fine with one. Am I overthinking this?