What 30 Days With The Year’s Best Zero-Torque Putter Taught Me About My 20-Year-Old Scotty Cameron

I have been staring at zero-torque putter data for years now. Every testing cycle it creeps a little further into the conversation and with every testing cycle the numbers get harder to ignore. It has been sitting in the back of my head the whole time.

I am a decent putter, not amazing. I can look back at my playing career, college and professional, and point to specific tournaments I lost because of my putter. Putting is where a lot of golf gets won or lost so losing there is not some unique failure; it is just golf. But I have had my 20-year-old Scotty Cameron blade in my bag that whole time and after watching this data develop for this long, it was time to find out for myself.

So I put the Odyssey Ai-Dual S2S #7 into play, the top-ranked zero-torque putter in our 2026 Most Wanted testing out of 26 models tested, with a PuttView Handicap of -8.1 and a 48.9 percent make rate. I wanted to know if it would hold up for someone who has putted one way for two decades.

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First Impressions: Everything feels different

The first time I picked it up, it was the look. The grip is bigger than I am used to. The shaft placement feels off to me, not wrong exactly, just not where my hands expect it to be. The weighting is different. The size is different. None of it is something I could point to and say I do not like. It is just completely foreign to what my hands and eyes have known for 20 years.

I spent a little time on the practice green with it that first day and then went straight to the course. Over the last 30 days, I have played around a dozen rounds with it, most of them at least nine holes, and I have logged a lot of extra time on the putting green outside of that. Here is what stood out.

It took my job away

For 20 years, squaring up the putter face has been my job. I manipulate the head through the stroke to get it where it needs to be at impact. That is just how I have always putted. The zero-torque design does not want that from me.

It wants straight back and straight through and it resists the manipulation I am used to providing. If you already putt straight-to-straight, this transition will be easier for you than it has been for me. For me, it has meant learning to stop doing something I have done for a long time.

Learning to trust it and do less

This connects to the same idea. Once I pick a line and trust it and let the putter do what it is built to do instead of trying to help it, I do not have trouble making putts. The hard part is getting out of my own way long enough to let that happen consistently.

Better from long range than I expected

I assumed short putts would be the easy part and long putts would take the adjustment. It has been the opposite. On short putts, the larger head has me seeing too much and doing too much and my stroke has not been consistent there yet. It just has not clicked. Long putts have been a different story.

My distance control has been noticeably better and I think I am making more consistent contact closer to the center of the face than I ever did with my blade.

More putts are dropping from mid range

I do not play with any kind of shot tracking right now, which I know I should fix, but most of my golf lately is casual rounds with the family or a quick nine on my own when I can sneak away. Even without hard numbers, I know my own game well enough to know that 10- to 15-footers have historically been a weak spot for me. I have been making more of them lately. My confidence seems to be improving.

It still takes time, and that matters

I have written in other pieces in this category that zero-torque putters are not magic. What the data consistently shows is that they make it easier for the average golfer to be more consistent, to miss by less, and to leave shorter comebackers. That tracks with what I have felt.

But I would not tell you I have fully arrived yet.

There have been more than a few times this month where I looked at the Scotty in the garage and wanted to put it right back in the bag, simply because it is what I know. Twenty years is a long time to build a relationship with a putter. If you’re thinking of testing a zero-torque you can’t expect it to fix your game in the first round. For me, this is a marathon, not a sprint.

Where this leaves me

In the end I want to play the putter I am best with. I do not think I have found the ceiling of what the Odyssey Ai-Dual S2S #7 putter can do for me yet.

So I am giving it another 30 days.

At that point I will have a real decision to make and I will let you know where I land.