TaylorMade Kalea Premier Spider Mini Women’s Putter Review
TaylorMade has put an awful lot of time and investment into designing a brand new Kalea Premier line of clubs for ladies and the Spider Mini putter is the perfect choice for this truly premium set of women’s golf clubs (opens in new tab).
It has beautiful aesthetics featuring the same eye-catching coloring from the Kalea Premier women’s set (opens in new tab), including a royal blue sole and pretty tail pocket accents in honeycomb yellow. It’s footprint is 15% smaller than the standard Spider putter, which means there’s very little compromise in the stability and forgiveness of the head. It sits very flat and flush to the green and this really encouraged me to make a smooth, pendulum rocking action with my arms. It makes perfect sense to go with a mallet-putter style (opens in new tab) head because they are easier to use and the beauty of the Spider Mini is that is bridges the gap between mallet and blade due to its small size, so if you’ve always used a more traditional straight blade putter and are interested in giving the mallet-style a go this is the ideal compromise.
A simple long white sight line on the crown makes alignment easy and obvious, especially when paired with the new TaylorMade Tour Response Stripe ball as you can see below.
(Image credit: Carly Frost)
Performance is not just limited to the aesthetics though as TaylorMade has thought about little details to help elevate this putter. The Spider Mini is fitted with a specially-designed graphite shaft that weighs just 70kg and has low torque to help the club head resist twisting, which is especially helpful if you are prone to a little bit of a ‘yip’ action on short putts. Although the overall club weight is lighter, the balance of weight and stability in the head feels great.
However while I’m happy to see that the shaft length (33″) is shorter than the standard male counterpart I’d still like to see a couple more length options available to cater…
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