“A face-balanced high-MOI mallet, offered in standard and belly lengths, built for a straight-back-straight-through stroke. Stable and forgiving; cheap and plentiful on the used market.”
The 2005 Voodoo Daddy took Never Compromise's Voodoo mallet — already a tour-validated design under Cleveland Golf — and pushed the forgiveness engineering further: a CNC-milled aircraft-aluminum head with toe-and-heel stabilizer bars set farther back from the face than the original Voodoo, dropping the center of gravity lower than anything the brand had built before it. The extra face-to-back distance and added backweight were aimed squarely at a straight-back-straight-through stroke, with an extended sight line to help square the face at address. Vijay Singh, in the middle of a run that took him to World No. 1, put it in play — real validation for a putter from a mid-market brand competing against Scotty Cameron and Odyssey on tour visibility.
MyGolfSpy's retrospective on the brand calls the whole Voodoo line 'iconic,' and the Voodoo Daddy specifically racked up a 4.8/5 average across 10 reviews on golfreview.com plus consistently positive coverage from Today's Golfer, Golfmagic and best-putter.com. That is real, multi-source enthusiasm for a putter most casual golfers have never heard of today — the definition of a sleeper rather than a widely remembered icon.
Straight-back-straight-through putters who want a face-balanced mallet with strong alignment cues and forgiveness on a mis-read stroke path. It was also sold in a belly-length version for anchored/long putting (pre-2016 anchoring ban), so it suited that stroke style too during its run. Not the choice for an arc-stroke player who prefers toe-hang balance.
Released in 2005, two years into Cleveland Golf's Never Compromise ownership and the year after the brand's original Voodoo, extending a mallet line that MyGolfSpy later called the company's signature era. It competed directly with early Odyssey two-ball-style mallets and TaylorMade Rossa's forgiveness-focused putters, at a moment when high-MOI mallets were becoming mainstream rather than a novelty.
A genuine high-MOI mallet: toe-and-heel stabilizer bars plus a sizeable backweight push the CG lower and the effective sweet spot wider than a standard mallet, and reviewers specifically noted it resists twisting on off-center hits. It sits near the top of this Never Compromise batch for forgiveness, just behind the specialized Sub 30 insert design.
Calibrated across the whole catalog — a tour blade scores low here on purpose; it means control, not ease.
Cheap relative to its review reputation: complete Voodoo Daddy putters (standard or belly) typically sell for $40-$90 on eBay and 2nd Swing depending on shaft length and grip condition, with no meaningful reconditioned-retail premium since Never Compromise is not a heavily graded-used brand. It is an inexpensive way to get a genuinely well-reviewed 2000s high-MOI mallet.
Reading is one thing — hitting is another. Book a bay and see the numbers for yourself before you buy anywhere.
