Makefield Putters Make Sense

The company launched in 2022, but its MakeFit Kit is a recent innovation designed to help you create your own perfect putter

By Tony Dear

What do you get when you mix a qualified engineer, an entrepreneur with six businesses, a mad keen golfer, and a putter fanatic? We’re not talking about four different individuals here, by the way, but one man who ticks each box. The answer, obviously, is a new putter-manufacturing company.

Everett Farr, an alumnus of Drexel University in Philadelphia, founded his company, Makefield Putters, following the Covid lockdown during which he spent a lot of time with his autistic son and also watching putter-making videos on YouTube. The more he watched, the more eager he became to unite established putter technology with superior engineering. As he says on the company’s website “I found the engineering principles lacking.”

Makefield Putters (the name comes from the township of Lower Makefield in Bucks County, Penn. a sign that Farr and his wife saw when out driving with their son. “Serendipitously, we both said “Makefield” at the same time, and Makefield Putters was instantly born.”) debuted at the PGA Merchandise Show in 2022 with its initial offering, the Makefield VS, named in memory of Vince Sullivan a New Jersey club pro and a mentor to Farr. The rather odd-looking putter featured what Makefield called its ‘Path of Inertia’ technology which, with the help of adjustable weights, promised to “naturally guide the stroke, balance the clubface to the path, and provide centeredness of impact to produce an immediate, consistent roll.”

Like most putter manufacturers, Makefield would rather you didn’t use a standard off-the-shelf putter but rather one that’s been fitted specifically for your hand size, height, weight preference, and stroke.

To facilitate the fitting process for people who like the look of Makefield putters and appreciate the technology, but who are unable to visit one of the 15 Makefield fitters across the entire nation, the company recently introduced its MakeFit Kit. For just $20, prospective customers can have their chosen Kit delivered to their house where they can test the various elements of the putter to see which exact combination works best for them. Each MakeFit box contains two clubheads and four shafts with different hosel configurations, lie angles, and grip styles. There are also extra weights, washers, wrenches, and screws, so you can fully test the company’s X-3 Weight System.

You then write down your preferences on the Fitting Card that comes in the box and send it back along with the MakeFit Kit. Customers placing an order can hold on to their Kit until their custom-built putter arrives, at which point they have one week to send it back. The $20 they spent on the MakeFit Kit automatically becomes a credit for customers choosing to place an order.

If you’re wondering why you don’t just keep the best-performing putter set-up that you created yourself from the parts in the box and then send the unused/unwanted parts back, Nick Biglasco, Makefield’s Director of Brand Development, says the box parts are only meant to be demos and could have been used several times before they arrived at your house. “From a manufacturing standpoint, there is no difference between the components in the MakeFit Kit and those in an actual Makefield putter,” he adds. “But the pieces in the MakeFit kits may have been in previous kits. The shafts and heads are QC’d after every return, cleaned and repackaged for future Kit orders.”

The parts in the box are also tagged “Property of Makefield” as they are for rental purposes only. “Your order is fresh from our machines,” Biglasco continues.  “Your new putter is in mint condition and built, cleaned, and packaged for your use only. You also can choose from chrome/black shaft, various grip upgrades and other customizations.”

Fortunately, there is a Makefield fitter in Colorado – Gott Golf at Green Valley Ranch GC. But if you can’t make it there, the MakeFit Kit is an effective way of creating a customized putter that Makefield believes could save you “two or three strokes a round”.

MakeFit Kit – $20
Makefield putter models range from $349 to $399
All putters are CNC Milled and made from anodized 6061 T6 Aircraft-Grade Aluminum
makefieldputters.com

 

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