JJ Spaun Notches’ first win for this stylish putter type

While JJ Spaun’s U.S. Open victory’s definition shot was undoubtedly his clutch t-shirt driving the 71st time in the green and building a craze birdie, the most appropriate and memorable thing was that the putter later brought a hole.

Spaun needs to fall two feet on Oakmont’s sinister 18th green 64 feet to avoid the playoffs with Robert MacIntyre, Spaun benefits from the read Viktor Hovland, who is benefiting from Viktor Hovland on the same line and continues to send the ball up the hill, cross the hill, through the green, into the cup.

“We had a good line and read the speed very well,” Spaun said. “I was more focused on his efforts. I already knew the line, but it looked like he was doing a great blow to it because it started to rain in the last 10, 15 minutes. I was just trying to pick my line and hit it nicely. I knew it would be a little slow.

“About eight feet away, I was a little taller to see if it had a chance to get in, like going in.

The main first of zero torque push rods

This is the storybook that Spaun not only won his first major title, but also won the first major from Putter maker Lab Golf, and his style of ordinary putters. Spaun uses Lab Golf’s DF3 zero-torque putter, and his major win represents the first win for the zero-pressure rod.

After the lab introduced the concept to the U.S. market with its Direct Force 2.1 Putter in 2018, the use of zero-shift putters has been growing steadily in PGA Tour and entertainment gaming over the past few years. The shaft of the push rod passes directly through the center of gravity of the push rod, making them resistant to twisting.

The craze started taking off in late 2023, when Lucas Glover, who had been struggling with putting, turned to a long lab golf putt and won two back-to-back titles on the PGA Tour.

Many other OEMs have released their own push rods to zero torque over the past few years and their usage has steadily increased. Spaun himself added DF3 to the bag over the past winter.

The laboratory (which is the abbreviation for lie angle balance) says that its push rod is balanced according to the lie angle of the push rod so that the face of the push rod remains square by a stroke. Since the shaft passes directly through the center of gravity of the head, the head behind the shaft enters the pusher face, unlike the traditional model, the shaft is in front of the face. As a result, most lab models, including Spaun, have a forward axis tilt that allows the player’s hand to be preset in front pressing.

JJ Spaun’s laboratory push rod

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Spaun’s gamer is Lab Golf DF3, which was released early last year and is a more compact version of the company’s original Direct Force 2.1. He plays at a 34-inch play angle and uses the TPT graphite axis. It has a 2-degree front axle tilt, and he uses the lab’s “D” alignment auxiliary, which is a straight line from the face to the axis point.

“With DF3, we perfected every aspect of the design,” Lab founder Sam Hahn said of last year’s launch. “DF3 is much smaller, but since we’ve learned everything about building a lie angle balance putter, we’re able to maintain almost all forgiveness and stability [from DF 2.1]. ”

The flat rod with the Spaun equipped with a blackened Scotty Cameron grip, with the “press” grip used by the lab to make the push rod feel like normal, Spaun got 10.4 on the field and 10.4 in the field. In addition to the 18-year-old bomb, he also made 40-foot and 22-foot birdie putts in the latter nine times. That’s part of the 32, the lowest final of the U.S. Open title since Tiger Woods in 2000.

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