Vault 002 Duke

The Rife Vault 002 Duke stands alone in the Record as a single release, the Vault 002 edition, with no earlier or later entries carrying the name forward into other years. There is no arc to trace here in the usual sense of a line evolving across seasons, only the one putter as it was put into the world under this designation.

What golfalot.com reported of the Duke describes a blade built along smooth, heel and toe weighted lines, finished in a black and white look, with a single alignment line for the golfer's eye. The publication's account also points to Roll Groove faces on the putter, milled in what golfalot.com called precisely spaced grooves, paired with 2 degrees of loft. None of this comes from Rife's own materials as held here, and none of it has been verified independently, so it should be read as one outlet's reporting on the piece rather than an established figure.

Because the Vault 002 Duke has not yet returned in a second release, the Record cannot speak to how the design might have shifted, been refined, or been reissued. What stands is the single entry itself, and the golfalot.com account of what that release looked and played like at the time it was written up.