RG-1

The RG-1 is a half-circle mallet built around a design meant to be read from above: thegolfwire.com described it as allowing a player to see the club, ball, target line, and hole without tilting the head or relying on peripheral vision, and it credited the putter with a patented design that lets it stand alone on the green. golfbusinessnews.com echoed the alignment angle, calling the design innovative and patented, and reported the 2017 launch happened at the Masters. Construction, per thegolfwire.com and pluggedingolf.com, centers on a machined aluminum face, body, and hosel bonded to a stainless steel sole plate, CNC milled, with an extremely low balance point and a shaft and grip built as one oversized, ultralight unit, described elsewhere as carbon fiber. thegolfwire.com also reported retail availability in golf stores by May 2017, alongside an account that placed the putter as Kickstarter-only.

Reception in the Community leans favorable but not unanimous. golfmagic.com and golfbusinessnews.com both framed the mallet as a successful release, with golfbusinessnews.com quoting the maker's momentum on tour and among other athletes enjoying the alignment benefits in addition to the great feel of the putter. pluggedingolf.com's review is a direct testimonial: I purchased the first mallet when it came on the market. I loved it. I didn't think the feel was bad, I loved the higher swingweight, and alignment was fantastic. I went from a good putter to a deadly one. Set against that, other Community feedback flagged the heel-shafted setup specifically, with some preferring a center-shafted version instead, a point of disagreement the record simply holds alongside the praise rather than settling.

Within the Bloodline line, the RG-1 sits as the mallet entry that golfmagic.com noted arrived earlier in 2017, with the maker's later refinements aimed at tour demands described as built on the back of that release. golfbusinessnews.com's usage note, that the putter saw play in professional tour and celebrity events including the U.S. Open and the American Century Championship, points to a putter that moved beyond its Kickstarter and retail origins into competitive rounds, though the record holds that as reported detail rather than confirmed fact.