Heppler Anser 2

The Heppler Anser 2, released in 2020, put Ping's original blade shape into a contrasting copper and black finish, with tgw.com describing the head as a solid milled steel face over an all-steel body, and golfalot.com noting the classic heel-toe weighted blade with no grooves in the milling, just a flat, machined face. The shaft carried a black chrome finish and adjustable length, with golfalot.com and tgw.com both putting the range at 32 to 36 inches. Pricing is reported inconsistently across sources: golfalot.com lists £250 GBP, mygolfway.com lists 299 EUR, and pluggedingolf.com gives a range of $235 to $270 USD, figures that don't reconcile to a single number and are worth holding separately rather than averaging.

Reviewers were split on the colorway more than the shape itself. Golfalot.com found that the black back section almost seemed to disappear down by the ball, which made the whole putter seem thinner than usual, a criticism echoed elsewhere in the record as a knock against the copper-and-black scheme. Pluggedingolf.com came away more favorably on feel, writing that on the green, I had immediate chemistry with the Heppler Anser 2, and separately described the sound as crisp and low-pitched at impact, rising slightly on mishits, with a solid, medium-soft feel on short putts that firms up on longer ones.

Set against the rest of the Anser line, the Heppler Anser 2's case rests less on the geometry, which reviewers treat as the familiar blade with heel-toe weighting, and more on the finish and feel package built around it. The copper top line was noted for keeping focus on the ball, and forgiveness was felt by at least one account to be as good or slightly better than an average Anser, even as the same visual treatment drew the sharpest criticism of the release.