“A milled tour blade putter in the Tour World family - clean shaping and soft feel for the better player who wants a classic flat-stick to match a set of forged Honma irons.”
The TW-PT is a hand-milled, Sakata-made tour blade (also offered as a mallet) built from SUS303 stainless steel with dual 14g tungsten weights sunk into the sole to raise MOI. At the request of Japan Golf Tour pro Komei Oda, Honma drilled holes through the hosel/neck to shift weight away from the heel and lower the CG, aiming for a more stable stroke without changing the classic blade silhouette. It carried a tour black finish and a milled sightline, and Honma has since discontinued the model -- current listings describe it as no longer available direct from the factory.
A well-made, well-regarded niche JDM putter with a genuine tour-input design story (Komei Oda's drilled-hosel request), but no evidence of forum cult status, scarcity-driven price appreciation, or tour-win legend beyond its design pedigree. It reads as a quietly good, now-discontinued boutique putter, not a chased collectible.
Better players who prefer a traditional blade look and a slight-arc stroke but want a bit more stability than a pure blade offers. Golfers who mishit toward the toe/heel or want maximum forgiveness should look at Honma's mallet-style TW-PT variant or a modern high-MOI mallet instead.
Part of Honma's Tour World putter family (later followed by a black-nickel, CNC-milled TW-PT ST series), aimed at matching a set of forged Honma Tour World irons. Sits in the same tradition as other Japanese-made tour blades of its era (Miura, Bettinardi) -- craftsmanship and feel over MOI-chasing distance-style engineering.
As a classic-profile blade it starts from a low forgiveness baseline, but the dual 14g tungsten sole weights meaningfully raise MOI versus a plain blade of the same shape, and the hosel drilling was specifically engineered to stabilize the head through impact. Still well short of a modern high-MOI mallet -- this is 'forgiving for a blade,' not forgiving in absolute terms.
Calibrated across the whole catalog — a tour blade scores low here on purpose; it means control, not ease.
New-old-stock examples with headcover have listed around $345-425 on eBay; realistic used private-party pricing runs roughly $200-300 (one used listing at $211.99 off a $278.99 regular price; other used eBay listings sit near $300). It holds a modest premium over mass-market blade putters of similar age because of its Sakata-made, tour-input construction, but is far below Scotty Cameron/Bettinardi collector territory.
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