Everyone is excited to get a new golf club, but it can be even more exciting to get a new flatstick.
After all, the putter is the most used club in the bag, so it’s not uncommon for a lot of players to show a little personality with their putters.
Last week, Fully Equipped’s Wadeh Maroun received a new putter that certainly qualifies as showing his roots. Maroun got a brand new custom Lajosi putter. Lajosi is a bespoke putter maker out of Melbourne, Australia and they typically only do custom putter designs where customers pick everything from the neck, shape, face material, milling pattern, paintfill and more.
Despite being from Australia, Wadeh didn’t discover Lajosi until after he moved to the States and started playing golf. But he appreciated the opportunity to work with Lajosi to craft a putter that was perfect for him.
“I think a lot of people think that with putters, it’s like the major guys and what have you,” Maroun said on this week’s episode of GOLF’s Fully Equipped. “But there is so much that you can do with putters now with like those bespoke companies, like a Lajosi or even an Embrace Putters.
“The beauty of working with these kinds of companies is that you can get it to exactly what you want.”
Of course, there are still advantages to going with a putter from an OEM like TaylorMade, Odyssey or Scotty Cameron, such as their proprietary technology and millions of dollars of year that go into developing it.
But if budget is less of a concern and you want something unique, there are a lot more options when going the bespoke route.
“But if you’re someone that likes a milled putter that has very specific needs and wants,” Maroun said. “Like I need 5 to 10 to 15 degrees of toe hang. Like I need very little toe hang. But I like looking at a plumber’s neck.
“So working with these kinds of guys to get a long plumber’s neck in there, which helps that balance point out, which makes it more of a face balance, like you can’t do that with off-the-rack stuff. So it’s kind of cool to be able to work with these bespoke guys to get built out exactly what you want.”
Jack Hirsh is the Associate Equipment Editor at GOLF. A Pennsylvania native, Jack is a 2020 graduate of Penn State University, earning degrees in broadcast journalism and political science. He was captain of his high school golf team and recently returned to the program to serve as head coach. Jack also still *tries* to remain competitive in local amateurs. Before joining GOLF, Jack spent two years working at a TV station in Bend, Oregon, primarily as a Multimedia Journalist/reporter, but also producing, anchoring and even presenting the weather. He can be reached at jack.hirsh@golf.com.
