Spider Tour Black

The Spider Tour Black arrived in 2017 as the darker sibling in TaylorMade's Spider Tour line, and per thehackersparadise.com's reporting it came with a MySpider full customization option along with a variety of alignment aids, necks, and even a version that came with BLAST Technology. That same reporting notes the Spider Tour Black is the head Dustin Johnson used to win the BMW Championship during the 2016 FedEx Cup playoffs, and that he continued a hot streak with it, rattling off victories in three straight starts stretching from February to March.

The maker's own page prose we hold describes the Spider Tour Red rather than the Black specifically, calling it a putter that delivers "Tour-proven performance to every golfer" and crediting the Pure Roll insert, "45° grooves with a softer polymer," for helping "your ball start and stay on its intended line." That copy names Jason Day and Dustin Johnson as players of the Red. Whether the Black shared the identical Pure Roll insert language isn't something we can confirm from what's in front of us, but the two versions clearly sat side by side in the same Spider Tour family that year.

Reviewer opinion on the Black itself is mixed in an interesting way. One community note calls it praised for better insert feel and tour success, and thehackersparadise.com's own writer said the Spider Tour Black had the better insert feel to me, but then added that the top of the red with a sightline, before they dropped the T-Line with the black, was my favorite when I got fit. That's a real split worth sitting with rather than resolving: feel favored the Black, alignment preference in a fitting session pointed back to the Red.