Evnroll EZPZ review: the putter for everyone who tried zero torque and put it straight back

The demo rack at any half-decent fitting studio tells you where putting has ended up. Three or four zero-torque mallets, every one of them with the shaft disappearing into the middle of the head, none of them looking like anything you grew up with. Golfers pick one up. They set it down behind a ball. Then a good half of them put it straight back and reach for the thing that looks like a putter.

That half is who the Evnroll EZPZ Reverse Torque is for, and at around $450 it is the first properly credible answer for them. Guerin Rife has spent two years watching the whole industry chase zero torque and has shipped the opposite argument: keep the traditional offset, keep the normal address picture, and slow face rotation down rather than trying to switch it off. It is the one I would put in a bag this autumn if the zero-torque experiment left me cold.

What Rife actually did

Zero torque works by running the shaft axis through or very near the head's centre of gravity, so the face has almost no inclination to open and close through the stroke. It is effective, and it is also why those putters look strange. To get the shaft into the middle of the head you give up offset, and usually you give up the sightline geometry your eye has been trained on since you were a teenager. Plenty of golfers can putt with that. Plenty of others never stop noticing it.

The EZPZ leaves the shaft roughly where a conventional putter has it. The hosel leans forward and points slightly toe-ward of the centre of gravity, and the consequence of that geometry is that about 60 per cent of the head's mass ends up below the shaft axis. The term for the result is heel-down balance: the heel carries more momentum through the stroke, the face becomes reluctant to flip, and the arc you already own gets damped instead of deleted. Evnroll's claim is a square zone twice the size of a conventional putter's, meaning the window of the stroke in which the face stays effectively square to the arc. Treat the number as a manufacturer's number, because that is what it is. The mechanism underneath it is not marketing.

The hardware backs the idea up. It is a fully milled high-MOI mallet built as a light 6061 aluminium chassis with a heavy 303 stainless weight wing across the back, which is where the stability comes from and why the thing looks more like a piece of engineering than a casting. SweetFace 2.0 milling on the face, and UST Mamiya's ALL-IN multi-material shaft as standard rather than as an upcharge. REVERSE TORQUE is stamped on the hosel, in case anybody in your fourball needs telling.

The comparison that matters

The honest way to read this putter is against the two that made the category. The L.A.B. Golf DF3 is the purest version of the zero-torque argument and the reason the rest of the industry moved. It works. It also asks you to accept a shape and a shaft position that look like a piece of laboratory equipment, and it asks you to putt with almost no rotation at all, which is a genuine change of technique for most club golfers rather than a fitting tweak.

The TaylorMade Spider ZT is the mainstream translation of the same idea, softened into a familiar family of heads and considerably easier to look at. If you have tried one and got on with it, stop reading. Nothing here beats it for you, and swapping between two putters that ask different things of your hands is the fastest way to putt worse for a month.

The EZPZ is only interesting because it declines the premise. It is not trying to be a better zero-torque putter. It is arguing that the large majority of golfers putt with a slight arc, that the arc is not the problem, and that the fix is to make the face rotate more slowly rather than not at all. If you want the fuller version of that argument, we wrote about it when the thing was announced: why Evnroll went the other way.

Who should skip it

Anyone already putting well with a zero-torque head. Anyone with a strong arc who genuinely enjoys releasing the putter and holes everything from eight feet doing it, because you will feel the heel-down balance fighting a release you do not want damped. Left-handers, for now, because there is no left-handed head. And anyone who buys a putter for the roll rather than the balance, since SweetFace 2.0 is good but it is not new, and it is not the reason to spend here.

The availability catch, stated plainly

The EZPZ went on sale on 15 August 2026. It is right hand only at launch, in 33, 34 and 35 inch, plus a 38 inch Tour Spec for the long-armed. Left-handed heads are slated for winter. Evnroll's own store is currently taking pre-orders and quoting shipping in two to three weeks, which is worth knowing before you plan a purchase around a club championship. That is not a knock on the putter. It is a small brand with a genuinely new casting, and the queue is the price of being early.

What I would do

I would not order one blind, and I would not order one because zero torque is having a moment. I would take your own putter and this one to a studio floor with a roll tracker, hit twenty putts from ten feet with each, and look at one thing only: face angle at impact, and how tightly it clusters. If your dispersion tightens without the stroke feeling foreign, that is the whole case for the money, made in ten minutes. If it feels like nothing, you have learned something worth more than $450.

The reason I rate it highly anyway is the argument, not the finish. Almost every putter release this year has been a variation on somebody else's idea. This is a designer with a face-milling pedigree looking at the biggest trend in his category and building the counter-proposal, aimed squarely at the golfers the trend left behind. That deserves a look even if you end up keeping the putter you own.