Spider Blade

The Spider Blade arrived in 2013 as TaylorMade's attempt to stretch the Spider name across a shape that had never carried it before. According to thehackersparadise.com, TaylorMade brought the Spider namesake over to a mid-mallet and blade putter, neither of which resembled the previous offerings, and that departure shaped how the Blade was received. It didn't look like a Spider, and that seems to have worked against it: thehackersparadise.com's review calls it mixed, noting that a lot of people overlook the Spider Blade because at first glimpse it is not very Spider-ish.

What the same source praises is the engineering underneath that unfamiliar shape. thehackersparadise.com reports a high amount of MOI for a blade putter, an unusual trait for the category and one that seems to be the Blade's real selling point once a golfer looked past the head shape. That tension, a putter that reads as ordinary but performs atypically for its type, is the throughline of the coverage we hold on this release.

The Blade also carries a notable credential: thehackersparadise.com reports that Justin Rose won the 2013 US Open at Merion with this putter. That's the kind of result that tends to follow a putter around, though it comes from the same single editorial source as the rest of what's on file here, not from the maker or from our own testing.