The grip is constructed from polyurethane, making Zero Taper one of only a few putter grips in Golf Pride’s lineup built with that material. The company says the polyurethane construction delivers a soft yet responsive feel while also enabling more precise shaping and texture placement. The dimpled pattern is designed to enhance traction, and visual cues are built into it to help golfers find the ideal hand placement every time.

One of the more distinctive design elements is the horseshoe-shaped backside. Golf Pride describes this feature as an ergonomic anchor point, providing golfers with a natural resting place for finger folds and guiding consistent positioning without forcing a specific grip style. The deeper side profile is also intended to improve face awareness, providing players with clearer feedback on the putter head throughout the stroke.

Zero Taper is available in two sizes, medium and large, and in three colorways: black, red and blue. Despite the different sizes, Golf Pride maintained a consistent weight profile across the lineup, a design choice meant to preserve the putter’s balance and sweet spot while making it easier for golfers to feel the head during the stroke.

The noticeable change is in the face. The body and hitting area of the original DF3 are made entirely from 6061 aluminum, but the DF3i has been a milled stainless-steel insert that is secured in place with screws in the sole. That construction mirrors what L.A.B. introduced with the OZ.1i and OZ.1i HS and allows engineers to maintain precise mass placement while altering sound and feel. The result is a firmer impact sensation and a sharper, more metallic auditory feedback that some golfers felt was missing from the original DF3.

Yes, the body remains milled from 6061 aluminum, with steel weights positioned in the forward portion of the sole. Those weights vary by putter length and are measured and installed by hand to ensure the proper lie angle balance is achieved. The DF3i also continues to use L.A.B.’s Press Pistol 2 Degree grip, which introduces built-in forward press through an asymmetrical shaft entry. At address, that setup keeps the shaft, hands, and primary hitting area more in line, while the rear hoop portion of the head sits back from the ball.

Visually, the DF3i still won’t be mistaken for a classic blade or a modern Tour-style mallet, and L.A.B. has never pretended otherwise. The brand’s growth has been driven by performance-first golfers and reinforced by Tour validation, with multiple PGA Tour wins in recent seasons from players using L.A.B. designs. The biggest win, of course, came last year at Oakmont, when J.J. Spaun won the 2025 U.S. Open using a DF3.

To accomplish that, Titleist reformulated the core to be faster without making it firmer. That’s a neat trick because typically, to make a ball faster, brands make the core firmer, which can increase spin and alter the feel. That would go against the goal of AVX, and target players would notice it immediately. Instead, the speed gains come from changes to the chemistry and materials inside the core.

The casing layer has also been made slightly thinner, allowing the cast-urethane cover to grow thicker and softer. That change may sound subtle, but it matters. A softer, more substantial cover helps wedges and short irons “grab” the ball more effectively, adding more greenside spin than the previous AVX while preserving long-game speed.

More interesting, though, is what happens when the weights move. Shifting mass toward the heel or toe alters both CG location and the club’s resistance to face rotation around the shaft axis, subtly influencing how easily the face closes or stays open. And PXG’s testing showed these changes were not theoretical; players could feel the difference and launch monitor data confirmed measurable differences in face angle and shot pattern when the 10 grams of total mass that is split isn’t split into two 5-gram weights, but instead into a 4-gram and 6-gram or 3-gram and 7-gram.

That adjustability sits on top of a manufacturing process PXG loves to discuss. The GEN8 irons are fully forged using 8620 carbon steel, despite their complex internal geometry, using a five-step forging process allows PXG to create thin walls, deep cavities and internal channels that would normally require casting. It is a more expensive approach, but one PXG believes is essential to both performance and quality.