Kevin Burns entered the golf industry offering club repairs from his Californian garage in 1989 but just two years later he set his sights on designing and creating some of the best putters in the world. While Kevin Burns Golf may not be a household name, the brand has seen plenty of success on tour with the putter used to claim multiple PGA Tour victories and notably the 1999 Masters, where Jose Maria Olazabal used the Signature Series 9304 putter to help slide on the coveted green jacket.
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While the company’s putter designs and the materials used have moved on a little in the last 25 years, can they be used in another major championship and how do they fare against some of the best putters I have recently tested? I took the 9307 putter to the course to put it through its paces and find out.
The Kevin Burns 9307 putter at address
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While it feels like the majority of putters launched within the last year have been larger mallet putters, I’ve always loved a bladed putter and over the past 15 years of my golfing career, I would say just two of those years I have had a mallet putter in play. It’s purely a matter of personal preference on what suits my eye and feels good in my hands. You may think because of its smaller size creating a good-looking bladed putter would be easy but ensuring the proportions are right with the shoulders, bumpers and blade length is not an easy task. Kevin Burns appears to have mastered this, however, and this 9307 putter may be one of the best-looking wands I’ve ever had the pleasure of looking down on behind the ball.
The precision-milling and hand-finished quality of the Kevin Burns 9307 putter
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As someone who relies on the topline of a putter for alignment, I was pleased to see it was fairly thick without shrinking the flange behind the ball. I opted for a single sightline on the top which is one of the options when designing a fully custom build on the Kevin Burns website. There is the ability to choose length, loft, head weight as well as neck style, face style and even logo and engraving options.
Sam De’Ath testing the Kevin Burns 9307 putter on the course
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These putters are the true definition of custom-built and you can tell from the beautiful precision-milling how much time and effort is spent on each one. As the necks are screwed into the head, you can purchase additional neck styles later down the line if your stroke changes or you…
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