I Played a Tournament With This $700 Putter

I'm playing a charity scramble today and I'm going to trust this putter with every putt I hit. It's a $700 putter that the company claims is near impossible to not hit square. It keeps the space square to your stroke throughout the whole stroke. So let's see how this magic putter goes. Before we go into this, what the hell is Paradox? I've only taken it out of the box and stuffed it into the putter bag here. I've looked at the pictures online and I, yeah, I looked at it when I took it out of the box. It's wild. It reminds me of some STX putters, so sticks maybe it was called back then, that like Jesper Parnevik used in the late 90s. It's unlike anything I've ever seen before or held for that matter. In an era of odd-shaped putters, this definitely takes the cake. I mean, it may look weird, but if it does what they say it's supposed to do, who cares how it looks? I want to hit some putts real quick. So we're not talking zero torque. We're talking swing, balance, access technology, all BGT's claims and BGT is with it. These stability pro shafts have been in a lot of fantastic putters over the last five, 10 years. They know putter components and now they're doing a whole thing with their putters. If you, I'm not going to, I'm going to try to like dumb it down because the technology is a bit, it's a bit overwhelming, but at the end of the day, it sits really good. It looks really good. I don't love putters with the handle behind the face, but I digress. I didn't have to get a specific lie angle and kind of do whatever's more comfortable. It looks really good at address and that first putt I ever hit with it feels okay. Looking this way, you're like, what is going on here? But when you look down on it, you don't see the low heel and high toe design and weight. It's a, it looks quite normal and I totally whiffed that. They're saying it's not just going to stay square at impact. It's going to stay square throughout the entirety of the stroke. So even that total whiff there, I, there was no like further manipulation or residual effects of a, of an off center hit. It feels pretty good. There's some heady claims in here. I hit that one intentionally off the toe and that did not feel like there was any effect of that. I mean, it's a little more dead off the heel, but it felt quite square, but they say it's, it's meant to start the ball on line and be more consistent, which makes you the golfer have more trust in it. This is not where you figure that out. So let's, let's go to the putting green. So this thing is meant to make it easier for you to start the golf ball online. So the only way to do it is test it and see we're going to hit some various range of putts and see how easy it is to start the ball online and even doing it talking. Can we just basically slap away at this thing and start this thing online because that's what it's supposed to do in spite of yourself, easy to start online. Push that one. It does sit very nicely behind the ball, give it that much, definitely not as strange to look at. It feels okay too. Out on grass compared to the turf inside feels pretty solid, but if it's supposed to be this magic formula of starting the ball online, let's just, let's just see, we've got it lined up here. Who knows? I don't even know if I'm making good stroke here, but I'm just looking at the camera. Let's look this way. Started online. I guess I'm not hearing it hit the tee. I mean, those started online. Let's go longer out and see if it's just as easy. We've got nine paces here, so roughly 27 feet, and this is kind of that range where I think a lot of golfers could manipulate the face if they're trying to hit it or if they're de-selling because they took a too long of a backstroke for this range. This isn't a range where you're trying to make it, but this is a range where you do not want to three-putt. It feels really solid off the face. Really solid. Like I put a little hit on that. It felt good. Now let's, let's do the no look. It's very strange. No looking it, but they're not getting really yanked off course or anything. Little pull. I mean, my, my window is, or the gate is probably a ball and a little, it's not the tightest gate, but that's okay, 27 feet, and I mean, I, I can get the hands real low. I feel like if the hands get too high, it's a problem, but it, it soars really nicely and it doesn't feel dead off the face on this, this mid, mid range putt. I hit that a little on the heel side. I think I feel okay with this thing to go take it out for a tournament scramble. So let's go see if this magic putter can help us make a lot of putts. We're driving to a course called Blue Sky here in Jacksonville, which is not known for having good greens. So we could have some bumpy bumps out there. I did not bring my putter. I only brought the Paradox. We're going to see if this putter can help us make a lot of putts. I'm going to get my buddies involved and see what they think of it. It could be a, it could be a really fun day or it could be a really frustrating day. All right team, have a look at this before we start. Paradox. Cool. Very nice, uh, K's all I've got. Cool. So I'm going to use that and apparently if you guys want to use this magic putter, you can today as well. How much do you think this thing costs? Would cost? Probably just because I know it's like a special purpose built. Give us, give us a price. I don't know. I'm not saying anything. Give us a price. I'd say 400 ish. Ted? 500. Opie? I'd say. Well, how much did you pay for that thing? Woo. This right here was a gimme. So I would say probably like at least 400, three, 400. Okay. Well, let's see. It's actually $700 and it said, they claim it keeps the face square throughout the whole stroke. So let's put that to the test. Our first hole here. We got, I don't know, 12 feet for Eagle. Let's see if paradox brings it home. So Opie's going right in first hole. No practice strokes. Nothing. It's a good putt. Everyone's trying on the first hole. You don't have to. I'm going to use it. It's the only putter I have in the bag. Hit it. All right, Ted. Are you going? Oh, Ted's using it too. Greens look actually the best I've ever seen blue sky greens look. Ted. Let me try it. I want to see this thing. I get my, I got to get my practice butt in. Terrible. Good start. Paradox. Oh, I didn't hit it. Go. That was in. Both of us. Yeah. Okay. Third hole. They've, they've given me the ball here. The putt first wasn't my best putt. So this video is meant to be like, I use this butter, but everyone wants to use this butter and Ted says zero torque user. He's got the spider ZT and he doesn't want to, he wants to put this in the bag. It's like out by that old hole. I think hammer time, dude, Ted's just hammering these things in. Noah cuts the break that I suggest in half and just hits it six feet past the hole. Get in there. I read too much break. It looks pretty straight because the grain is not really doing anything. Yeah. It's going to, I'd say it's like right edge and firm push it a bit. Okay. I got to take Ted's thunder away from him here. I got to make it before Ted makes it. If anything, it moves that way. Paradox for eagle baby. You made every putt with that thing. This video was meant to be about me testing this butter and seeing how it works in a tournament. This is Ted's video. Just taking it over. Ted is taking over. Use it, use the spider ZT. What do you think difference wise? I'm a convert. You're a convert. I'm a convert. Paradox for me. Hopefully you're not hitting last. Hopefully I can freaking make something here. What? Dude, that didn't break it. Oh yeah. You'd think it would do that. Oh, the pressure's on Ted. Four for four. At this point, Ted, I feel like I'm your caddy because I'm bringing your putter to the green. We did not hit our best wedge shots here. Oh, I got to hit it. I got to hit it. About 26 feet. The expectations are very, very high for you. Go, go. It's so, such a good putt, dude. Watching that thing roll. Yeah. This putter's pretty impressive. All right. We drove the green. Got an up, up hiller for Eagle. I'm going to hit before Ted because I got to make this up before he does. Go, go, go, go, go, go, go. But even in doing that, like, did that feel like it still was... You added a little bit of this to it, but the roll is pretty solid. That was a lot of fun. We shot 19 under par. When we left after nine of filming, we were nine under. We shot 19 under par in that scramble. Really, really impressive stuff. We didn't win at 19 under. It was one of those fun tournaments where you... We didn't buy the mulligan pack, the throws and the kick and the red tees. We shot 53 and I think 48 won the tournament, but we had a lot of fun. And I'm going to give this to Ted. Ted, I have never seen him putt so well as he did with this because what I noticed with Ted and his zero-torque putter is he tends to miss the putts left. And I think a lot of people with zero-torque fall into that category because if you decelerate a little bit, it's very easy for that face to close. And you see, Ted likes to hit his putts hard, but when Ted gets in short range, he tends to decelerate and he misses putts left kind of inside eight feet. And that's meant to be the zone where zero-torque is supposed to feel like cheating, whereas this, he didn't miss anything left, however, this is designed to keep that face square throughout the stroke, almost in spite of the speed accelerating or decelerating, Ted rolled this thing so well, everything was online. And even myself, I struggle with distance control. I didn't quite hit it hard enough, but everything I missed was short and online. And you saw it on that front nine and it continued on the back nine. I made a couple more putts on the back than I did on the front. But this thing, 100% delivered on its promises. Yeah, it's $699. It's right there at the same price as a Lab putter, more than what Ted paid for his Spider ZT, which I think is $500. But this thing definitely is a better putter for Ted, and that's why I said I'm going to give it to him. But I think this is something that has a lot of complicated language and maybe a bit confusing, but at 100%, when they simplify it to, it's going to help you start the putt online and give you more confidence and trust, it 100% does that. I experienced it, but more importantly, Ted and your average golfer experienced that under pressure too, if you will. Very, very cool. What BGT has done with this, let me know. Do you have it? Have you tried it? What's your experience with it? Would you pay $700 for a putter? Would you use Paradox? Sound off in those comments and yeah, see you in the next video.