Gear: Evnroll Zero putters
Price: $449 each
Specs: Milled 303 stainless steel with tungsten and steel sole weights and grooved face (Z2s, Z5s); Milled 6061 aluminum with tungsten weights and grooved face (Z1)
Available: Nov. 7
Who it’s for: The Zero putters are designed for golfers seeking maximum stability and consistency along with enhanced distance control.
What you should know: Evnroll’s Zero putters are designed to look familiar but greatly reduce face rotation and torque during your stroke. They also reduce the forward press some zero-torque putters create.
The deep dive: In order to be a great putter, or at least putt with consistency, you need to gauge the speed of putts correctly, judge how balls will curve and break, and develop a stroke that repeatedly brings the face of the putter back squarely to the ball so it starts on your intended target line.
Evnroll can’t help you read greens more effectively, but for several years its SweetFace design has helped golfers enhance their distance control. Now, with the release of its three new Zero putters, the Carlsbad, Calif.-based brand feels it has a technology that can help golfers return the face to the square position more often.
The Zero Z1 mallet, Z2s blade and Z5s mallet are all designed with that Evnroll calls Face Forward Technology. Basically, the designers of the putters took a classic plumber’s neck hosel, which bends away from your target and then goes straight down into the putter head, creating offset, and reversed it. Now, the hosel presses forward before dropping down, so the shaft points directly at the putter’s center of mass. The result is the hitting area shifts forward, creating on-set instead of offset, and face naturally wants to point forward, toward your target.
According to Evnroll, this hosel mechanism, when combined with tungsten and steel weights in the heel and toe areas of the sole, encourages the face to stay square to your stroke path, so regardless of whether you create an arc or have a straight putting stroke, the Evnroll Zero putters will encourage a square clubface at impact. In theory, that should help golfers start more putts along their intended target line.
This design also reduces the level of forward press, which optically can be awkward for golfers who want a zero- or reduced-torque putter but have been using a conventional putter.
Each of the Zero putters has also been made with Evnroll’s SweetFace grooved hitting area. The grooves are deeper in the center and gradually get shallower toward the heel and toe. According to Evnroll, this helps to normalize the speed of the ball across the hitting area, so putts that golfers mis-hit toward the heel and toe roll out to nearly the same distance as putts struck in the center of the hitting area, resulting in enhanced distance control.
The three Zero putters have been designed with familiar, modern shapes.
- Z1: This high-MOI mallet is designed using 6061 aluminum and
- Z2s: A wide-body blade, this club is milled from 303 stainless steel.
- Z5s: A classic midsize mallet, the Z5s is also milled from 303 stainless steel.
Here are several close-up images of the Evnroll Zero putters:
