What Toulon’s Small Batch Vista putter and Rolex have in common

If one have been to pose the query: What does Toulon’s newest Small Batch Vista putter have in common with a Rolex watch? It’d be pure to imagine it has one thing to do with the worth.

Limited to simply 75 items, the heel-toe weighted Small Batch Vista goes for $1,800, which isn’t precisely low-cost for a putter. The similar might be mentioned for a watch bearing the Rolex identify.

But worth isn’t what ties these merchandise collectively. It’s really the numbers and letters stamped on Vista’s toe bumper — “904L,” a callout to the chrome steel used to craft the putter. The 904L is something however commonplace chrome steel. The “superaustenitic stainless steel” comprises a noticeably larger nickel, copper and chrominum content material than different metal variants, making the fabric extra proof against corrosion.

For a putter, which means you may count on a noticeable uptick in really feel — because of the larger nickel content material — and sturdiness with 904L.

Rolex stays one of many few watch corporations to make use of 904L in their items for related causes and has been utilizing the chrome steel because the Eighties, as a consequence of its capability to deal with excessive temperatures and resist corrosion.

And what in regards to the Vista identify? The blade is known as after town of Vista, California, which sits roughly 40 miles north of San Diego. It’s the place Toulon founder Sean Toulon has resided because the Nineteen Nineties and raised three boys — Tony, Joe and Preston — with spouse Kathy.

It additionally occurs to be the locale the place Toulon Golf was born. To say Vista is woven into the material of the Toulon household can be an understatement.

According to Toulon, the Vista profile is expounded to the San Diego and Small Batch San Monica fashions, but it surely has some distinct options as properly. The topline is flatter in the middle than the opposite two fashions and gives barely beveled edges for a bit extra “crispness.”

The shoulders have been additionally redesigned with a convex form and milling marks which might be seen on high. Both bumpers have been angled upward from the cavity to the heel and toe, giving them a symmetrical look with the tri-sole design that’s discovered on plenty of historic putters, together with Tiger Woods’ iconic wand.

Toulon Golf Small Batch Vista specs

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Jonathan Wall

Golf.com Editor

Jonathan Wall is GOLF Magazine and GOLF.com’s Managing Editor for Equipment. Prior to becoming a member of the employees on the finish of 2018, he spent 6 years protecting tools for the PGA Tour. He could be reached at jonathan.wall@golf.com.