“The Method 003 is a heel-shafted mid-mallet giving more stability than the blades while keeping the polymetal groove roll. A middle ground for those between blade and mallet.”
The Method 003 took the same Polymetal Groove Technology as the 001 and 002 and paired it with a heel-shafted mid-mallet head, adding tungsten heel-and-toe weighting and a ported build that relocated roughly 30 grams of mass from face and body to the perimeter for higher MOI. It was the most stability-focused of the three original Method shapes, and reviewers noted even strikes missing center still produced a good, consistent roll from that groove-tech-plus-perimeter-weighting combination. Golf media described the broader Method range as genuinely popular on tour for combining traditional looks with superior roll, and the 003 aimed most directly at players wanting maximum forgiveness alongside the face tech.
It shares the Method line's real tour pedigree (Glover's and Cink's 2009 major wins with Method prototypes) and drew consistently positive, specific reviews of its own for stability and roll quality, but there is no independent scarcity or forum-reverence pattern attached to the 003 shape specifically — it is a well-regarded, functional mid-mallet rather than an object of pursuit in its own right.
Players who want the Polymetal face's roll benefit combined with real stroke forgiveness from a mid-mallet head — a good match for someone who occasionally misses the center of the face and wants the head shape, not just the face technology, to cover for it. A traditionalist who strongly prefers a blade's compact look at address should choose the 001 instead.
Completed the original three-shape Method launch (Anser blade, heel-shafted blade, heel-shafted mid-mallet) that let buyers pick a head shape while sharing one face-technology platform — the same strategic logic Nike used across the whole Method generation through its later Core, Origin and Concept lines before exiting the golf equipment business in 2016.
The most forgiving of the three original Method shapes: tungsten heel-and-toe weighting and a ported design that moves roughly 30 grams of internal mass to the perimeter raise MOI meaningfully above the 001's blade or the 002's toe-weighted blade. Reviewers specifically confirmed that off-center strikes still produced a good roll, the direct, observed result of that added perimeter stability — still a mid-mallet, not a full high-MOI modern mallet, so it does not reach the top of the putter forgiveness scale.
Calibrated across the whole catalog — a tour blade scores low here on purpose; it means control, not ease.
Trades in a similar private-party band to the other numbered Method putters, roughly $60-140 in 2026 depending on condition and shaft length, with its added forgiveness sometimes commanding a small premium over the 002 among buyers specifically seeking mid-mallet stability.
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