C-Groove

According to forum.tourspecgolf.com, the maker behind the C-Groove line was originally known as Pro Gear, and changed its name to Yes Golf after Retief Goosen's win at the 2001 Open, with the putters renamed accordingly. That same source reports that most models before the name change were numbered, PG-and-a-number, before the line settled into the naming convention forum.tourspecgolf.com describes, models named after girls' names. best-putter.com dates the C-Groove range's production to 2000 to 2012, which places the line's run across that entire pre- and post-name-change history.

The C-shaped groove milled into the face, credited by forum.tourspecgolf.com and best-putter.com alike to designer Harold Swash, is the constant across the three entries this record holds: Yes! C-Groove Putter, Yes C-Groove Putters as a general range, and C-Groove as a general line under the Pro Gear-to-Yes Golf history. best-putter.com describes the groove as C shaped cuts into the face with slanted edges tilted down toward the ground, and states that only Yes had the right to manufacture putters with this groove. golfmagic.com's read on the purpose lines up with that design, describing it as intended to increase the ball's dwell-time on the face to promote an immediate forward roll.

Reviewers across the line's history kept returning to the same two threads. On the positive side, intheholegolf.com called it a putter that does what it claims to do, far better than any other putter in the game, and forum.tourspecgolf.com's take on the general line praised great roll, good looks, and a nice looking metal. best-putter.com's testing of the Yes! C-Groove Putter found the impression of a truer roll which is claimed by the company certainly appears to show through, and golfmagic.com's Mark liked the feel off the face and its performance from 10 feet in. But the criticism was just as consistent: best-putter.com's look at the general range didn't hold back, calling the designs uggggly except for more recent efforts, and forum.tourspecgolf.com's review of the Yes! C-Groove Putter itself said the quality was so-so, not up there with the milled stuff by Bettinardi, Cameron, or Gauge, though within the quality of Ping and Odyssey.

The face-balanced construction that best-putter.com attributes to almost the entire range surfaces as a recurring caution rather than a flaw outright, best-putter.com noting that design as unsuitable for anything but a straight-back-and-through stroke, while golfmagic.com's reviewer flagged the heavier head as something that would take getting used to before trusting it on longer putts. Across its three entries here, the C-Groove line reads as one built on a single milled idea carried through a company's rebrand, judged by reviewers less on beauty or finish than on whether the ball came off the face rolling the way Harold Swash's groove said it would.