SMALL BATCH PARIS
The year 2024 brings with it a gathering of the world’s greatest athletes on the world’s grandest stage. Our latest Small Batch creation – Paris – pulls inspiration from the reigning gold medalist’s putter but adds a bit of flair befitting a putter named Paris.
The Address
This compact winged mallet borrows design cues from our original Las Vegas design. One of the unique design features is the shape of the top line. The top line flares to the toe and heel points – complementing the overall profile shape of the Las Vegas. This leaves the thinnest part of the top line in the center to provide a natural framing of the golf ball at address. This simple design element works to enhance the alignment aids provided by the simple top line and the lines created by the wings.
Taking notice of the trends toward small-to-midsize mallets with plumber’s neck style hosels, Paris uses a new slightly shorter version of our H1 hosel. This neck design was created to produce a 25-degree toe hang and a full shaft offset. These two factors make Paris swing like a traditional blade style putter with the added benefit of the alignment features created by the winged shape.
A traditional blade putter will measure just over 1 inch in thickness from front to back, making alignment more difficult for many golfers. Paris measures about 3 inches front to back and about 3 inches from toe to heel on the face. This geometry not only creates wonderful balance, but also a virtual square – allowing for great improvement in aiming.
Not Just a Pretty Face
aris also uses our major championship winning deep diamond groove mill pattern. This face design has authored some of golf’s most historic moments, including Schauffele’s win at the 2024 PGA Championship and the two lowest scores in major championship history at the 2022 US Open and the 2024 PGA.
This face mill is helpful in creating two important performance benefits – improved sound and feel and improved forward roll.
This technology was chosen for its performance benefits and the resulting sound, feel and roll are spectacular.
The Sole
The Paris sole provided us a larger canvas to use for graphic design. And while our design ethos leans toward ‘less is more,’ we wanted to embrace the namesake city with a bit of pop and panache. Flanking the iconic Eiffel Tower is a repeating Toulon logo and Paris wordmark laser engraving designed to bring to mind legendary French fashion brands. The mixed use of milling techniques is visually stunning.
The Finishing Touches
To create the appropriate ambience that could be associated with the elegance of the City of Light, we created a new finish in a stunning Champagne hue. Inspired by the crisp sparkling wines that France made famous, we apply a light mist to the slow milled 904L milled stainless steel body before we apply the Champagne PVD. The result is beautiful and helps to accentuate the geometric design of the head. Paintfill is a combination of both translucent and opaque applications that we think pulls the visual package together seamlessly.
Welcome to Paris, our latest small batch creation.
