TaylorMade has offered Spider putters for more than a decade, ranging from the compact Itsy Bitsy Spider to the massive Daddy Long Legs. Through the years the company has added different technologies and innovations to broaden the Spiders’ appeal while helping establish new trends.
What Spider putters all have in common is weight positioned back in the heel and toe areas, which boosts the moment of inertia and increases stability on mis-hits. That’s been the secret sauce for Spider putters – they can make a smaller putter play like a big one. That’s good, because most golfers avoid big, oversized putters even though they would benefit from their stability and forgiveness.
For 2023, TaylorMade has two new Spider putters, the Spider GT Max and the Spider GTX. Their shapes are familiar, but these arachnids are unlike anything TaylorMade has released in the past.