KiaMa Imola 8

The Imola 8 comes to our record through a single custom build: a TaylorMade Rossa TP Imola head reworked by KiaMa with a black milled face. thehackersparadise.com is the source for this one, and its reporting is the whole of what we hold on the specifics, so treat the customization and finish as that publication's account rather than a verified spec sheet.

On the face itself, thehackersparadise.com described the finish as an unbelievably soft face, and that softness is the throughline of what's been said about this putter. It's not a claim we've tested ourselves, so it sits here as one outlet's word, not a measured fact.

The Community response gathered around this putter is notably strong for a custom, one-off build. The praise on record calls it the best putter owned, citing the soft face and the feedback it gives at impact. thehackersparadise.com went further still: I have never owned a putter this good. I have had a bunch and this one if far and above anything I have ever putted with. That's a high bar for any putter to clear, let alone a customized head built off a stock Imola, and it's worth reading as one enthusiastic account rather than a consensus.

Against the rest of the Imola line, the Imola 8 stands out in our files less for any documented spec than for the strength of the reaction it drew once KiaMa's black milled face went on it. Where other entries in the line may carry more conventional documentation, this one is defined almost entirely by what people said after they putted with it.