- The new Stability Tour 2 Polar shaft features the same construction as the successful Stability Tour putter shaft.
- The new white finish features enhanced durability.
- MSRP $299
Let’s check out the new Stability Tour 2 Polar putter shaft from Breakthrough Golf Technologies (BGT).
For those of you not in the know, BGT was founded by Barney Adams. Yes, that Barney Adams—the man who founded Adams Golf and who designed that Tight Lies fairway wood that many of you still have in your bag. How many times has your Tight Lies fairway delivered your round-saving shot?
This time around, Adams has a different shot in mind. Rather than giving you gear to get to the green, Breakthrough Golf Technologies develops gear to help you putt better once you are there. Specifically, their game is putter shafts.
While boutique putter shafts are moving into the mainstream these days, such was not the case when BGT launched the first incarnation of the Stability Shaft. Putter shafts were essentially an overlooked element. Sure, some companies had previously dipped their toes into the putter shaft pool but no one was truly swimming laps. Steel shafts were cheap and consumers (and maybe companies) thought they were as good as anything.
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With the Stability Shaft, Adams told golfers that changing the putter shaft could make them a better putter. Some balked at this concept but if you look at the current putter shaft market, you’ll see other companies promoting their shaft innovations as well. We have Odyssey’s Stroke Lab shaft, LA Golf’s TPZ putter shaft, Fujikura’s MC putter shaft and other putter shafts launching on a seemingly daily basis. It’s getting to be a competitive marketplace and not a cheap one. Some of these shafts will likely run more than the cost of your putter. Yes, even more than your Cameron.
As was the case with his other designs, it seems Adams’s shaft design was a harbinger of things to come.
What Does a Stability Shaft Do?
Very simply, the Stability Shaft is a shaft that feels like steel but performs better. It feels like steel because it has the same weighting and balance point as a steel shaft. The original Stability Shaft was 125 grams, almost identical to the weight of a steel putter shaft. The Stability Tour, including the Polar version that we will look at in a moment, is a little lighter at 102 grams.
While the original Stability Shaft balanced a bit toward the middle of the club, the reconfigured Stability Tour moved that balance point to coincide with that of a steel shaft. That means the shaft should feel like a steel shaft when you swing it. But if it just feels like steel, why should you change?
Golf is a frustrating game. That video above showing random head oscillation makes it seem downright unfair. If the head position at impact includes a component of random variation then, even if you deliver identical strokes, the ball can go different places. Again, that is just unfair. You did everything right and the vibrational entropy of the steel shaft let you down.
That’s the intention of the Stability Shaft. It gets rid of some of the vicious vibrational variance and still maintains the feel of steel.
The Stability Tour 2 Polar
So what does the new Stability Tour 2 Polar shaft bring to the table? Let’s begin with the obvious. It is white. The Polar name is definitely referencing the new white finish that, according to BGT, is a “tactile, soft touch coating that won’t scratch, corrode or discolor.”
You may be thinking that a white version of an existing shaft is not newsworthy. Of course it is. This is golf that we are talking about. How are companies like Bettinardi Golf and others able to sell out of their new $125 putter covers time and time again? Do those covers enhance performance? No. They just look cool and that matters for many golfers. Unlike a sporty headcover, this shaft has technology that will help your putting.
I’m willing to bet some people reading this article were on the fence about getting a black Stability Tour shaft and are no longer reading along with us, having immediately clicked over to order a white one. They thought, “Man, that white shaft would look badass on my Bettinardi Inovai 7.0 Slant” and thus sent their putters off for a new Stability Tour Polar shaft. Obviously, these crazy, impulsive kids are my kind of people.
In the spirit of full disclosure, it was that little blue dot in the Polar logo that made me thing of the blue Inovai 7. While I love how the Inovai rolls the ball, it was its blueness that made it the candidate for the Stability Polar shaft. I like a putter with some pop and the aesthetics of the Polar combined with the Bettinardi blue pops large.
Installing a Stability Tour Polar Shaft
If you are curious about how to install the Stability Tour Shaft, take a peek at that video above. If it seems above your pay grade or you just don’t want to mess up a $299 shaft, you also have the option of sending your putter to BGT and they will take care of the build. For both of my Stability Shafted putters, I sent them in to BGT and I couldn’t be happier with their build skills.
Playing the Polar
Rolling the Stability Tour Polar/Bettinardi Inovai 7 took some getting used to. As you may know, I’ve been gaming an Edel with 90 grams of counter-weights set in the grip. After a bit of adjustment to the new build, I could recognize the signature feel of the Stability Shaft. As I mentioned, this Inovai is actually the second Bettinardi that I have reshafted with a Stability Tour shaft. The first was a Bettinardi Queen B 5 that had more than a little time in my bag in 2020.
My overall takeaway from the first build with the Queen B 5 was that the Stability Tour shaft increased consistency. The Inovai/Stability Polar combo produced the same results. As I putted multiple balls, I didn’t all of a sudden make everything. But what I did do was consistently hit the back of the previously putted balls. Yes, this does equate to missing the same putt over and over. But to miss it at the exact same speed on the same line is something I take as a very positive indication that the Stability Tour Polar shaft is doing its job. My putting was very consistent. Now I just need to fix that aim and pace…
Stability Polar: Cool, Calm and Collected
Come on, Maverick, you knew I had to slide in some corny reference to the Polar name. So many tag lines out there. Putt with Polar ice in your veins. Stability Polar will cool your nerves on the green. Ice your golf buddies with Stability Polar, no Smirnoff required. Endless opportunities for deep-toned voiceover content. I’m sure you have others to contribute.
Kidding aside, I think BST has a hit with the Stability Tour Polar shaft. I was a fan of the performance of the original Stability Tour. The Polar version continues that performance and gives you an aesthetic choice that may match your preferred putter panache.
When I wrote about the Stability Tour, many of you commented about how you had made the switch to a Stability Shaft and loved it. Has the honeymoon continued? What has kept you with the shaft or what caused you to move on?
Find out about the new Stability Tour Polar shaft and other Stability Shafts at BreakthroughGolfTech.com
Paul R
1 month agoSolving a problem that doesn’t exist!
I’m sure spending $900 for a putter with the aforementioned shaft will really help on bumpy greens.
Maybe concentrate on the short game so you won’t have to putt!
Andrew
1 month agoIf golf truly wants to grow the sport, it needs to start with price of products and how they market to the masses. The average Joe is being told their old equipment stinks and need $250 shaft for their putter. You can’t drive past 220 yards, we have a faster swinging driver with twist face that will straighten every drive and now you can drive 300 yards. . Now average Joe now can’t afford to play and continues to stink.
The cost to enter the sport is so prohibitive that when it comes time to actually drop $60 bucks to play a round, they are broke!. I use MyGolf Spy. to inform me on what is truly groundbreaking and then I wait a few years and buy it on the cheap, otherwise, I can’t afford to play.
wayne
1 month agoPlacebo has sure gone up in price recently!
Tim
1 month agoThis may be the dumbest marketing ive ever seen. Not once in my life has vibration led to club head twist….lol……gotta love golf marketing
Jay
1 month agoI wonder what percentage of the negative commenters on your articles have actually ever tried the equipment they are bashing…
If you don’t like, or can’t afford, the price of a product, that doesn’t automatically make it rubbish.
wayne
4 weeks agoThis is snake oil. At $30 or $300 or $0 I don’t need to try it to know it’s snake oil
Buckeye Doug
1 month agoA friend of mine bought the new stability shaft putter. He feels that he is putting better, but I really don’t see the difference in his game.
TheBrad
1 month agoI bought the tour version of this shaft last year and I really like the feel it has. I took the shaft out of my old putter after a round and installed this and made a couple of longer birdie putts. Would I have made them without this shaft? Possibly…Did I have a couple of similar distance birdie putts the weekend before and missed? Yes…This is a good product and you guys should definitely give it a shot. Some of you spend $450 on a Scotty and still 3 putt. Why don’t you try and spend money on the area where it could legit lower your score?
Neil
1 month agoCustom putter shafts, really? This just shows how stupid golfers are. A fool and his money are easily separated.
Can one of you geniuses calculate the forces on the average putter and the additional stability these shafts supposedly bring? My current putters standard steel shaft has never shown any instability at all. That’s not surprising really because the worst thing I have ever done to it is hit a 45g golf ball at approx. 3ms to make a 17-20m put across a double green.
I thought this site was about keeping it real and honest? Then I read the words “vibrational entropy” WTF!!! Well vibrations do decay over time and everything is moving to a higher state of entropy, but the real question is WTF are you doing to your putter to make it vibrate in the first place? No, this stinks of Marketing BS. Using words found is a physics dictionary to bolster your fragile claims.
Come on people use your brains, this is just another ploy to play on the neurosis of the average golfer. If only I can buy something to make me putt better.
I want a robot putter lined up with a laser on the hole and I’ll beat it never misses even with a Titleist Bullseye putter.
Custom putter shafts, give me a break, who buys into this rubbish? Sadly a lot of people who will never play any better even with their 1000$ Driver and 4000$ putter.
TheBrad
1 month agoNow that you’re done rambling, how about you rest one? Or you can go back to shooting 96. Makes me no difference l.
Neil
1 month agoTest what? You know what I have never said to one of my customers? That, pipe, the 12 inch one carrying natural gas. Yeah, well I don’t think it’s got enough holes in it yet. Let’s add another useless sensor and increase its leakage potential!
Normal steel shafted putter = 1 fixing point at the head
Bullshit Tour low entropy putter = 2 fixing points, one at the head the other at the physics breaking tour low entropy shaft???
The old adage applies, “if it isn’t broken don’t fix it”. The other one is “Bullshit baffles brains” well at least for some.
mackdaddy9
1 month agoWell this is a few months late of saving me $200 at club champion.
That said it does feel very solid in the hands on contact.
My issues have all revolved around installation. The head came loose after 3 weeks. I sent it back and waited 3 weeks to get it back. Then in two weeks the thing came loose again this time up at the point where the shaft connects with the metal shaft. they re glued it on sight at Club Champion. Now It looks to be about 3 degrees open on set up. Maybe its just my eyes playing a trick on me right. So I got a Mark-Tech laser putter 2 and a putting line. So I layed the putting chalk line and then lined up a putt at the hole with the laser on my putter and when I thought it should be lined up I had my buddy turn on the laser. The laser was 11 inches off at 10 feet away. I put it on every putter I owned only one was dead on the center of the hole and that was my oldest putter. To say the least that one is back in my bag and the balls are hitting my line if not the hole almost every time. I have dropped two strokes off my handicap.
Dan Zimmerman
1 month agoBS
Steven walda
1 month agoHave you guys done test of the putter shafts available to see what is the best? With data and feedback on each of them like you do with all other equipment? I would love to read up on them as I am looking at a few different ones specifically the stability and LA golf shafts.
Pete S
1 month agoGreat article. I’m intrigued by the newer putter shafts but I can’t justify buying one without getting to try it first.
Brett
1 month agoSo no different than the stability tour just white?
Barry R
1 month agoIs it possible to get these shafts a custom length or do they just come in a standard length? I didn’t see anything in the article and couldn’t find anything of the BGT website.
Geno
1 month agoSo…. I will bet you that I could take a custom made $640.00 TM Sim2 Driver, A custom TM 3 & 5 Wood at $400.00 each, TM 3 & 4 hybrid $280.00 each, with my P790 TI Irons $2643.00, A 60* MG3 TW Wedge $200.00 and a Cameron putter $640.00.(total of $5483.00) add to that a $300.00 putter shaft and my scores would be the same or worse than they are (I’m a 6.2 Hdcp) with my M2 Woods, 2007 Adams A3OS Boxer hybrids, and Cobra F7 One Length irons, and an old Vokey wedge and a custom made no name putter I built myself 7 years ago. So what are my choices…. spend $5783.00 with no guarantee of better scores or keep what I’ve got, shoot the same scores and bank the over $6k (with tax). What would you do???
Chris
1 month agoI agree with you in principal, but I think replacing wedge regularly would actually help your score. More consistent spin, and lower trajectories from wedges with fresh grooves really does make a difference.
Mike
1 month agoCustom driver for $640, no way. Try $540 for the driver and another $400 for an upgraded club champion shaft. Same thing for the 3 & 5W (add another couple hundred bucks for upgraded custom shafts). Same for the hybrids, (custom shafts). Now you’re up in the 7K range. What??? You mean maybe gaining a stroke or two a round is not worth 7 grand?
But I’m not hating on MGS for reporting about it. But as I’ve said before, how about doing reviews on clubs that 99% of average golfers will actually buy..
Gary McCormick
1 month agoWhat a load of nonsense.
In the video clip that is included (above) we hear Barney Adams asserting that steel putter shafts vibrate, producing sufficient angular displacement of the club face that putts are thrown off line; then moments later he says that the BGT Stability shaft delivers the face square at impact. As I explain in my article on the Stability Shaft from 2018 (http://willotheglenongolf.blogspot.com/2018/06/the-stability-shaft-how-good-for-your.html), vibration within the putter’s structure does not equate to angular deviation of the face, not to mention that the effect that is being measured occurs after the ball has left the club face, so even if the club face DID deviate it wouldn’t affect the ball’s path.
Barney’s second assertion, that the Stability Shaft delivers the face square at impact, is discussed in more detail on the BGT website, where they “explain” that steel putter shafts are so flexible that the club head of a putter wobbles during the downstroke, making it difficult to ensure that he face is square to the path at impact. This statement is ridiculous on the face of it, and a little bit of research will produce data that shows that steel putter shafts are stiffer in torsion than all but the heaviest, stiffest graphite composite or multi-material shafts.
If a fancy, over-complicated $299 putter shaft floats your boat, go for it. It is well within the realms of possibility that the particular weight and balance of that shaft works well with your biomechanics and a putter with that shaft will help you make more putts—but don’t try and tell me that it prevents the head from wobbling in the downstroke, or that it keeps the fa e square at impact, because neither of those things is true.
Dave Tutelman
1 month agoI generally agree with Gary McCormick’s review. Like Gary, I have the older Stability (not Tour) shaft, so my conclusions are based on that model. Unlike most golfers, I use an arm-lock putter, so this is a different shaft (a longer one). I sent BGT a clubhead without shaft, and they installed the shaft. If I had seen this excellent video before that had happened, I would have asked to install the shaft myself.
Like Gary, I concluded that most of the difference I experienced was due more to weight and balance than to vibration characteristics. I did find that it gave a more precise line to my putt, but I had less control over distance with the considerably heavier club.
I agree with Gary that the graphs are nonsense. On the graphs, all of impact lasts for just one frame. (At 2500 frames/sec, a frame is 0.4msec, just about exactly the duration of clubhead-ball contact.) So all that vibration difference occurs long after the ball is gone — and cannot possibly affect your putting results.. It might, however, give you a substantially different feel, which you may enjoy.; removal of the higher frequency vibrations may give the illusion of a “softer” impact.
Neil
1 month agoExactly, BS claims that cannot be proven. Sadly the average golfer is thicker than two short planks and seemingly has money to burn. I honestly thought this site was better than this…
Golf Marketing = Everyone wants to buy a better game.
Reallity = You need to practice to improve your game.
Howard Barker
1 month agoWell another way to rip off the golfing public $300 bucks & then fitting. How many suckers are dashing out & getting there ass kicked & possibly not improving there putting game. I have had the same Yess Bela putter for 10 years & I am still a good putter.
The latest gadgets always find there way into the club sellers websites who also profit from rash purchases.
BGT fan
1 month agoThese shaft leave less to chance. You can play great golf without them… but anything that gives me an even better chance to make a good shot goes in my bag, regardless of price. Nothing wrong with leaving something on the table as long as you’re having fun!
Mike P.
1 month agoI agree to an extent. I like a lot of new equipment and the benefits it provides but I try hard to not choose equipment that reinforces swing flaws or even rewards them. I always thought golfers wanted to improve their swing/game. I should have known better. That takes time and effort. Lol
John
1 month agoI have the original stability shaft, and it was an instant improvement over my traditional shaft in my spider X.
Neil
1 month agoAnd you have the data to prove that statement, right?
TheBrad
1 month agoSo if he doesn’t post a link to his handicap you won’t believe him? Clearly you aren’t interested in the shaft so move along.
Garu
1 month agoNeil is the type of guy that drives an old Saab because “it still gets me where I need to go”
Let people have joy in life Neil.
greg p.
1 month agoWhew! Glad I was wrong. Thought it was something that I was doing.
Chris Christoforou
1 month agoWhat a brilliant scam! Totally unnecessary, but could make loads of money. Only practice makes perfect not the shaft, not the head, not the grip. Find one you like the look and feel of, whatever the price, and practice, practice, practice.
Nicklaus F
1 month agoI can see a custom shaft for your driver, fairway woods and irons, but on a putter?? If you think that will actually help impove your game…. you better stick to playing pocket pool!!!