2-Bar Hybrid Tour Blade

The Rife 2-Bar Hybrid Tour Blade is the tour blade take on Rife's 2-Bar Hybrid line, a mallet built around adjustable weighting rather than a face insert. thehackersparadise.com reports the head weight adjusts from 345 to 360 grams via interchangeable weights loaded into the two bars, with a zipper pocket included to hold the extras. The same source lists RollGroove Technology milled into the face in place of a soft insert, along with a do-it-yourself lie adjustment feature, a Winn custom AVS grip, and shaft lengths of 33, 34, and 35 inches. That publication also puts loft at 1.5 to 2 degrees, availability as right hand only, and MSRP at $199.99.

Rife has tour credentials attached to this model line. The maker's own site notes that Katherine Hull won the ANZ Ladies Australian Masters at Royal Pines with the 2 Bar Hybrid, part of what the page calls the 16th Professional Victory for RIFE Putters in the last 12 months at the time of that post, with other Rife models in play among the week's top finishers.

Community opinion on the Tour Blade centers on feel and function over collectibility. One commenter credits it with an improved make percentage on 10 to 15 foot putts and praises the grip feel along with the adjustable weights and lie, while noting it will not suit anyone looking for a soft, squishy insert, and adds plainly that this is not a collector's piece. thehackersparadise.com's review lands positive as well, describing itself as giving the putter two thumbs up. Between the adjustability the maker built in and the tour win on record, the Tour Blade reads as a working man's mallet rather than a showpiece, and the record here backs that read from more than one angle.