Method 002

The Method 002 is a heel-shafted blade, per putterzone.com's description of the head type. Best-putter.com places its design as a blend of Anser and Zing shapes, and separately calls the head most similar to a Ping Zing shape. Those two characterizations sit close enough together that the reader can take them as the same basic observation stated twice, once by comparison to a lineage and once by comparison to a single silhouette.

Best-putter.com's take on the putter itself is mixed: a simple, no-frills look, a good roll, but a high price tag. That same outlet also noted that a couple of tour pros dabbled with the 002, but not as many as the Method 001. The general community sentiment on record runs along the same lines, praising the plain look and the roll while flagging both the price and the comparatively thin tour adoption next to its predecessor. Nobody in the record disputes the shape comparisons or the roll quality; the friction is over whether the price justified either.

Within the Method line, the 002 reads as the more understated sibling to the 001, at least by the tour numbers cited here. Where the 001 apparently caught on with more players, the 002 seems to have settled into a smaller, more particular following, the sort that values a clean blade over a crowded leaderboard.