LAB Golf Performance For 1/2 The Price?

So this putter costs anywhere from five to eight hundred dollars and golfers swear by it zero torque technology. It's allowing them to make more putts than ever vice just released ones that cost more than half the price that they claim can do the exact same thing. So in today's video, we're going to test that we're going to pit these new zero twist putters from vice head-to-head against the lab and see if they can compete if they can hang or if this is just DTC marketing that you shouldn't pay attention to. Let me tell you one of the tests really surprised. So why zero torque? If we look at a traditional putter, we're going to see some toe hang. This blade has roughly 30% of toe hang. My spider has about 15% of toe hang. Some we see 60 some we see 90. What is toe hang? Well, toe hang is forcing the putter blade to open to close throughout an arc that can be really challenging for a lot of golfers to repeat especially as nerves get into play or faster slower greens there becomes an element of skill required to get that putter face back to square lab basically says they saw that when they created a lie angle balance putter that is going to sit square stay square to that target line throughout the entire stroke making it so much easier for golfers to square the putter face at impact regardless of nerves regardless of green conditions and you put it in the revealer. It does all of that and it just stays square and it goes square and now you're seeing every other OEM copy them. Well, now Vice is saying they've done the same thing a half to a third the price. These are their zero twist putters. They're calling it zero twist not zero torque because zero torque is more of the scientific term twist is much more of the conversational term. Basically the putter face isn't twisting throughout the stroke or at impact. They've released the vgp03 which is their blade only $199 and they've also released their mallet the vgp04 for $230 this thing like fully dialed can be like six seven eight hundred dollars off the rack. Even if you just get it stock. It's like 500 bucks. You get these stock for like more than half the price and you can customize the colors. You can't customize the lie angle. You can't do the same type of dialing or fitting you can in this but lab is saying the technology is there and they're making an effort to make this technology accessible for more golfers because that price point is just so much lower and so much more inviting and hey, if you like the aesthetic you like the look of it all they actually have released a new straight-up blade with the same milling and face as the zero twist, but this thing has got some toe hang if you like that arc stroke, they're not they're not overlooking you with this putter line release the vgp03 it's a nice classic blade. We're not testing that we're testing their zero twist ones against this beauty. Let's do the test. Let's see if they balance the way that allowed balance so I don't have a revealer but you can put these things on anything that balances them and let's it rotate and see if that face comes back to where it started at and how it does that if we look at labs, I mean they rotate and they just go right back to square interestingly enough the vice putters don't sit square right on the balance point, but they still rotate right back to it and there's no twist in the shaft because I put this into that balance and when you watch when I manipulate the face the whole shaft is twisting the the balance point. It's throughout the whole putter. You're seeing that the shaft twist. You're seeing the head twist. Whereas these zero torque and zero twist putters that is not happening. So that is encouraging that leads one to believe out on the golf course these putter heads should go right back to where they started just like this one did so let's go to the golf course and let's test them. Let's put this through some rigorous testing to see if they can do what this one does so test number one the dreaded gate test first foot do these putts start online. We're not concerned if these putts go in. I just really want to see if out of 10 putts how many can start online and go right through the gate. So even with the one off the gate from the lab, I'd still consider that a tie. So on to test number two distance control. So for the distance control test, I've got a 45 foot putt that I've paced out here roughly and I have a tee there's two and a half feet short of the hole and tee there's two and a half feet past the hole 10 putts. How many of them can get inside that kind of comfort zone friendship circle of roughly a two foot tap in for par because this is one of the things that a lot of zero torque low torque putters seem to lack is feel off the face when you get into the long range putts or if you're on Really fast greens where you really need to have good distance control. So let's see how these vice zero twist putters stack up against the lab. Totally miss hit that. Oh my gosh. Sit down. I've gone in and basically the same given two of them hit. Maybe it sneaks in. So that's four three four. But that that's the that's not good. And that happened with the first one too. I miss hit the crap out of that one. Wow. The lab was just a better grouping across the 10 both of the vice putters you saw a fair amount two to three each maybe four each woefully short and right but the last and final test is kind of those pressure putts if we miss hit them. So one thing that lab putters are so good at is these kind of short nervy putts inside 7 feet where a lot of golfers can get nervy and the hands can get active and we really like to manipulate the face. So I'm going to hit six putts to at each team is roughly six ish feet, but I'm going to go toe center heel because when you do line it up to the toe it comes off the toe. So I want to see how these things perform if we really miss hit them in these nervy ranges because the lab putters do perform really well. So let's see how vice can hang when it comes to the nervy putts that are just totally miss hit that still came off solid that feels good. That's a good start three for three. Oh, that's short. Yeah. I knew I missed that. Oh gosh. Okay, not bad. That's pretty solid. Same as the second one with the VG P03 ZT didn't I was going to get there go. Not very different a lot more similarities than I anticipated in the distance control. Maybe there's just a bit more loft at impact on these because you saw where they were missed. It was just harder for me to get it to the hole and maybe online but with more time and more practice any golfer would get more comfortable and understand how it comes up the face what it does the feel is good. The sound actually didn't like the sound on this one. I thought I would prefer this to this because aesthetically I quite like this but it felt more like kind of like an old-school ping answer putter and that kind of tingy off the face not my favorite this thing actually Sounded and felt really really solid very very similar to this play the sound but this thing aesthetically not my favorite but performance wise feel wise sound wise this thing hangs and if we think about the prices that's impressed. Yes, there's limitations. You have one shaft to choose from you have one lie angle to choose from you can customize the colors like vice is known for which is really a nice touch, but you don't have the customization that you have with the lab where you have four or five six shafts to choose from grips to choose from all the lines to choose from weight to choose from all those customizations with lab come with a price tag and that's what can make that putter get into the eight nine hundred dollar range after tax you lack the customization but as you've seen with the testing for this price point you get that zero-torque technology you get access to it for an incredible price that's hard to beat that's hard to argue it sure there's more cash a there's more sex appeal with the lab but if you want to test out zero-torque you can do it with these vice putters and you're not breaking the bank because the last thing you want is to test it and spend five six seven eight hundred dollars and not like it because it's not for everyone not everyone needs zero-torque is it a direct competitor yes and no I think this is a great entry point into the zero-torque world advice is made but it's also going to push these OEMs to maybe rethink their pricing because we've seen Wilson do it now we've seen that zero-torque is available and accessible and it maybe doesn't have to carry the price tag that lab first brought to it but other brands are now going to push the limits on pricing for this technology which could be great because it could bring the pricing of these down but vice is absolutely shaking things up with these putters let me know in those comments below are you gonna be loyal to this are these ones that maybe make you go hmm it's time to test them out because I'm not breaking the bank testing them out or are you just a traditional blade user and this thing for under 200 bucks tickles your fancy let me know in those comments and we'll see in the next