LINK.1 Stock
Putter Talk's cited, Community-built account of this putter. Facts are sourced, photos are contributed, opinions are the Community's.
The Record
Written from the sources it cites · machine-drafted for the Community to correctThe LINK.1 Stock is L.A.B. Golf's blade putter, built around the same Lie Angle Balance technology that defines the rest of the line but housed in a shape meant to read as familiar to anyone coming from a traditional blade. Lie is verified at 69 degrees, and lengths run 33, 34, and 35 inches, corroborated across sokimnewyork.com and proamgolfusa.com. The maker's page lists 100% CNC milling in the USA from 303 stainless steel, a 2.5 degree loft, a matte black steel shaft, a simple rubber grip, and perimeter weighting from four screws on the heel side and six on the toe side. Manufacturing is described by the maker as Eugene, Oregon, though proamgolfusa.com and labgolf.com place it outside Eugene and in Creswell, Oregon respectively.
theclubhouse.blog frames the LINK.1 as the only blade L.A.B. offers, hand balanced to zero torque with the shaft joining the head at the center of gravity, and notes it can be customized in shaft, grip, lie angle, loft, color, and alignment lines. firstcallgolf.com reports a Golf Digest 2023 Hot List Gold Medal in the Best In Blade Putters category, and lists an MSRP of $469, against sokimnewyork.com's figure of $479.
Reception splits along the line's usual fault: sokimnewyork.com and The Equipment Junkie call it possibly L.A.B.'s best putter yet, with sokimnewyork.com noting that blade lovers get the look they want without the tradeoffs blades usually carry. theclubhouse.blog is less convinced, disliking both the look and the feel even while conceding the design's purpose, and flags a cavity some found too large and a presence some found too big behind the ball. Sound and feel drew the sharpest split, with reports of a dull, thunk contact and a standard steel shaft that some felt did little to soften it, set against praise for the improved squareness at impact that the lie angle balancing is built to deliver.
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The LINK.1 line
Releases of this line from the Putter Talk record. Similarly named models are separate putters with their own pages.
What the Community says
“While I don't like the look or feel of the Link.1, the test served its purpose.”
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