The new line (Tour Blade F&T) features a more traditional blade shape. The updates to MLA’s 2017 lineup are largely a response to the feedback received from MyGolfSpy and others. A good sized contingent of testers, and I suspect readers too, felt like while MLA might win Miss Congeniality, with its unusual shapes and non-traditional color scheme, it wasn’t competitive in the beauty contest that is the putter corral. The thing is…while we have plenty of data to suggest otherwise, there’s still a large segment of golfers who believe that how a putter looks impact how it performs. Our data suggests there might just be something to MLA’s alignment story – especially on longer putts, where testers reported feeling like MLA putters were easier to align with, and aim at, the target. You don’t have to fully understand the science to appreciate MLA’s performance in our tests. It’s certainly a different way to think about alignment.

When you can get several groups of these activators working together – as MLA claims it alignment system does – the theory is that it improves your ability to aim putts.

These detectors help us help us figure out what we interpret as straight. The idea, arguably the science, behind the design, is that the brain has 100,000 of these things called line detectors. – see what they did there?) alignment system. We think the strength of the design stems from the company’s Multiple Line-detection Activation ( M.L.A. MLA Golf’s original line of putters was a surprise top-performer in our Most Wanted Putters Tests.

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