Spider GTx Putter

The Spider GTX arrived in 2023 as TaylorMade's effort to merge two of its most established putter shapes into one head. Golf.com's coverage attributes the design to Bill Price, the brand's senior director of product creation for putters and wedges, who described the GTX as building on the performance and shape of both the Spider Tour and Spider X lines. Golfalot and firstcallgolf frame it the same way, as a combination of features drawn from those two earlier models, and firstcallgolf calls out the distinctive wing structure at the rear as a visual signature carried over from the wider Spider family.

The construction leans on aluminum, with golf.com citing a 6106 aluminum body and the maker's page listing lightweight aluminum construction generally. A 154 gram stability bar sits at the back, verified across golf.com and fairwayjockey, and golfalot puts that bar at roughly 45 percent of the putter's total weight, a figure golf.com corroborates as well. Up top, a 194 gram cap keeps mass low and away from the face, per golfalot's reporting. The face itself carries the Pure Roll2 insert, described by the maker as co-molded TPU with 45 degree aluminum beams, a firmer insert than earlier Pure Roll versions according to carlsgolfland's account. True Path alignment, a white line down the center of the head, is listed on the maker's page and echoed by tgw, fairwayjockey, and golfalot alike. Hosel configurations include Small Slant, Single Bend, Armlock, and Center Shaft, and the putter shipped with a KBS 120 Chrome Stepped shaft, a SuperStroke Pistol GTR 1.0 grip, and an MSRP of $349, confirmed by both firstcallgolf and golf.com.

Reviewer reaction centers on the insert and what it does or doesn't tell the golfer at impact. Pluggedingolf.com praised the GTX for stability, forgiveness, and the breadth of customization available through the MySpider program, but also noted that feedback requires focus to distinguish a good strike from a mishit, since the insert felt firm and a little tingy off the face and most putts felt about the same. Golfalot.com landed in similar territory, calling the putter an impressive addition to the Spider range while saying it would have preferred a more muted sound and feel, since it favors the instant feedback of a softer face at strike. Golfmonthly, weighing the GTX against its stablemate, suggested that golfers who struggle to find the right balance in a standard putter like this one might be better served by the GT Max instead, a comment that positions the GTX as the more conventional half of that pairing rather than the specialized one.

Against the rest of the Spider line, the GTX reads as the synthesis model, built to take the stability language of Spider X and the shaping of Spider Tour and put them in one head with a firmer, more consistent-feeling face than the inserts that came before it.