SeeMore Putters Review: Why it's time for Payne Stewart's old putter brand to shine again

In the grand annals of storied equipment manufacturers, SeeMore, a putter workshop from the small town of Franklin, Tennessee, isn't a name we've come to associate with modern-day notoriety.

It is, however, a bit of a legend in the game. SeeMore putters are, to equipment fanatics at least, instantly recognisable for a number of reasons. Their branding and design language, which combines a sleek black with white and red accents, hasn't really changed all that much in the last 30 years – even if their putters have.

More importantly, however, SeeMore's putters achieved major success in the hands of one of the game's true greats. It was a SeeMore that the late, great Payne Stewart used to win his second US Open title and third major championship, sinking a now iconic 15-foot putt on the 18th at Pinehurst to take home the trophy. 

Tragically, Stewart would pass away in a plane crash just four months later, but SeeMore's status as an icon of '90s golf was by then well established. Hundreds of thousands of SeeMore putters left the shelves in the late '90s, making it one of the best-selling putter manufacturers of its era.

That was then, however, and this is now. In the 30 years since, we've seen the rise of brands like Scotty Cameron, Odyssey and, more recently, L.A.B golf, all of whom have taken up increasing space in the specialty putter space. Meanwhile, more and more small mom-and-pop workshops have also arisen to crowd the boutique putter market even further.

Thankfully, SeeMore is still around, providing a wider range of putters than ever before while maintaining a steadfast commitment to the feel and look that made its clubs so popular back in the day. But how do they perform when tested against the big boys? Thankfully, SeeMore was kind enough to send us one of its latest release, the Mini Giant HTX, to find out.

Looks and feel

SeeMore's HTX Mini Giant is something of a mash-up of old and new. The finish on the putter is distinctly old school and throws right back to SeeMore's glory days. The mixture of fonts, grounded with SeeMore's classic Times New Roman-esque logo, feels distinctly '90s, as does the glossy black colour scheme offset by pops of red and white. SeeMore's putter range as a whole is typically finished in this way, however they do also offer many of their models in a classic bronze finish as well.

The shape and profile of the HTX Mini Giant, however, is distinctly modern, with a mallet-like shape that resembles a more geometric take on wingback mallets like Odyssey's #7.

The most distinctive feature of all of SeeMore's putters, including the HTX Mini Giant, is the RifleScope alignment aid that sits on the topline of each putter, providing an aid that helps you set the putter square every time. Using it simply a matter of lining up the shaft of the putter so it hides the red dot on top of the putter and is framed by the white lines on either side. Combine that with the alignment aid on your ball, and you know that you're not just aiming in the right direction, but are perfectly square to your intended target.

It's a novel piece of tech, and once again, is a carry-over that feels pretty old school at first glance. However at address it's clear that SeeMore have elected to keep RifleScope around because it simply works. It not only helps you ensure you're square to your target every time, but are grounding the putter correctly every time before your backstroke. 

As a tool to inspire confidence, it's remarkably effective, and one that would be great for golfers of all levels who feel they could do with a bit more structure to their set-up before putting. It may not, however, suit putters who tend to forward press a lot in their putter stroke.

Performance

The Mini Giant HTX is quite a progressive putter by modern standards but, ironically, makes use of tech that SeeMore has been employing in its putters for more than two decades. Like most of the brand's putters, it's centre shafted with a fair amount of onset to be what SeeMore calls Face Balanced at Impact. 

Basically, it's a low-torque putter designed to return to square at the moment of impact, delivering a true roll every time with minimal effort – however only SeeMore can boast of employing this technology for over 25 years.

Milled from high-grade aluminium, SeeMore also uses distinctive copper weights on both the toe and heel to create a wonderfully-balanced sense of weight management. 

In testing out on the fast, changeable greens at Hillside Golf Club, the SeeMore was a dream to to both align and swing, with a muted click off the face that felt premium in the way only high-end milled putters do. It was also fantastically stable owing to its face balanced design and additional weights, which in combination with the RifleScope tech made for one of the most stress-free rounds with the putter I've had in a long time. 

In fact, I've kept it in the bag since testing it for the first time, and expect I will for some time to come.

Should you buy a SeeMore Putter?

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SeeMore HTX Mini Giant Putterfrom £380.00 at Scottsdale Golf

SeeMore remains one of the most criminally underrated putter brands around, and one we believe has unfairly fallen out of the modern-day putter conversation. Its putters are good looking, fantastically well-made, and designed with a ton of tech that, despite SeeMore having long perfected, many major putter manufacturers are only really just catching up with.

Priced at around the £400 mark, they're by no means the cheapest putters around – nor are they particularly customisable off the shelf. But in comparison to many modern low-torque putters, many of which are now selling for upwards of £500, they actually represent pretty good value.

As such, we can heartily recommend the brand if you're on the hunt for a putter with major-winning pedigree but a slight degree of difference in the bag.

To find out more, visit SeeMore Putters' website.