Now putters are not the most exciting product and although I can already predict cries of it's the most huge club in the bag, we still tend to get less excited by them compared with the new driver. Well that's about to change because the new profile of the LabGolf DF3 is going to persuade the minds of the weaker monsters to convert our religion and lead you to putting utopia. You see the original LabGolf DF2.1 was like putting with a spaceship on the end of a flagpole and as effective as it might have been most of us are not able to stand so far away from the crowd. Let's be honest most golfers are more like and to sheep than shepherds. As many of you will know I am personally sold on the concept of LionGolf balance putters and for those of you who have been living under a rock here's a quick reminder of how this technology works. This is towhang and this is face balance. Each needs some form of manipulation to return to square an impact. With LionGolf balanced it stays square by itself and to be honest until you try and for yourself this review is meaningless and probably hard to believe that it might actually work. Now will this putter hole every putt because some of you will inevitably misinterpret what I have just said to me and exactly that so to be clear no it won't. You see as golfers we need to read a putt and be able to control pace so what does it do? It sets the ball off on your intended target line by keeping the club head square with zero torque. Now by torque I mean twisting and that's why they call this thing fully automatic. You simply have to learn to let the putt to do its thing and that's not easy either. You see we want to get all handsy and manipulate it's what we have had to do. With this less is more if you like let the balance of the putter face work its magic. Now many of you all want to know how this compares to the MERS and I will tell you within this video a quick note on prices is £450 in the UK and it's exactly the same price point as the MERS. I just want to give some immediate feedback before we go too far into the video. These are literally the first rolls I've had with this putter on this green and I'm going to say the one thing that is so surprising is just how nice this sits at a dress. It sets you up almost in a perfect putting position in my opinion and that's a lot to do with the way the the actual head itself sits on the ground. The way the sort of shaft lean is automatically adopted thanks to the way that that shaft is set into this club head and it just gives you a very comfortable position before you've even started. So you're not messing around like I've done many times in the past trying to find where my hand should be and how that head should sit at a dress. That's got to be the most difficult putter imaginable to test out the sort of feel and well control of pace really and that's again something that's very different in this putter than the MERS putter that I've tried and you've seen for the last year so in my hands I've got an acro shaft in this which is supposedly presents a much softer feel and again whether or not it's the putter face because as I understand that's not changed so the shaft has made a bit of a difference but it certainly got a softer feel than the original MERS that I tried. A couple of things on the comparison notes as well. What was very strange I've already mentioned that they shrunk down the size of the DF3 considerably from what DF2.1 but when you put an extra MERS that I had then yeah it's still quite a bulky putter but there's no way I would have thought there were any difference in size and stature without putting them side by side but as you can see it's a considerable difference. The one thing I like and prefer about the DF3 is the alignment aid that I chose which I mentioned that very simple T-bar it's it's right at the front of the club face and it's a very simplistic but very effective alignment aid and just seems to it again you know you give me your opinion they're side by side when I'm looking down on what I'm seeing is it is a much square at that front line gives me a much square sort of set up address in terms of that alignment so yeah I really like all the tweaks that I've made to this putter and their choices that perhaps I just learned from the setup in the MERS that I've adopted into the DF3 and you'll notice again the grip is different I wasn't overly keen and considered changing whilst I love the forward press concept the rounded feel of this shaft I've got on the MERS is far different than the pistol grip and again this is much more preferable from my personal idea of what is nice and comfortable at address but like I said one thing I like is there are so many options for you to choose from whether that be grip or whether that be alignment aid I see the interesting thing for me is that as much as this video will hopefully try and explain what it's like to use a lie angle balance putter I think unless you give it a go for yourself you just can't grasp the concept at all because it's so so different when I'm swinging this club head now and we've been through this sort of concept how it all works you can't grasp until you get it in your hands it is so so different but in my opinion so effective at the same time which I want to switch between the two the first notable difference I don't know the head weight of either but it seems considerably heavier in in the DF3 and again that's something that is a preference for me personally I've always gone for a fairly heavy 400 gram almost in a lot of the mallets that I've used for a gram plus so I like to feel that weight at the bottom I wouldn't take anything from the alignment or whether they both finish that simply just learn a little bit from the first one but there is a noticeable difference with that feel elements and I have no idea whether that's down to the shaft or down to any changes in their head but that is like I said from the previous discussion big big difference and the more new additions of the DF3 is for the lazy amongst us it picks up your ball really easy today's video is sponsored by our friends at Huck Golf the online golf retailer for all major brands and if you want new golf gear then please support us by supporting them two things to mention about quality is the quality of these greens that Wallace E Golf Club it's a big shout out to John on the team I can't believe just how good these are and that's why we're doing put a video in the UK on this golf course the other point to mention about quality is their head covers that lab golf produce if I've always said if you're paying big money whether that be a driver or a putter then it needs to be quality from start to finish now what I add in the MERS was a nice tan leather but I've got to admit they've ramped it up even more in the DF3 and it just oozes quality. Jim I don't think there's a great deal more I can do uh other than like I said you've got to try these things for yourself to fully understand the concept and just how good these lab golf putters are I've already said that I think they all very much moved the needle in the putter genre and I think more and more professionals tour professionals have put these in the bag I think that's going to inspire amateur golfers to give them a try because like I've already said we're very much more like sheep than shepherds when it comes to choosing our product line and we need some guidance and we need to follow somebody this stuff has been incredible I sort of suggested back in I think it was November of 2022 when I first tried the MERS that this would revolutionize the putting game I think that's maybe that's a big word to use revolutionize but I think you've got to see more and more of these clubs creeping into the bags of tall players and therefore see more and more of them at resale and in our bags at the amateur level it's just a really really good product it's expensive where you've got to go and try these out for yourself to fully understand and appreciate just what the concept is and whether it works for you because just because I say it's a positive idea it works in my hands it might not necessarily fuse away you can get one of these in your hands and give it a go right that's me done thanks for watching thanks to Wallace's golf clubs for allowing us to use these greens and thank you for watching I'll see you all soon