U.S. Open champ J.J. Spaun made a huge equipment switch this week, and he's in the hunt at Colonial

Amid golfers' frustrations, putters are kicked, thrown, flipped, slammed, snapped and sometimes find a watery grave. But few are punished emotionally, though J.J. Spaun might be one of the few to admit how he’s truly felt about his flatstick.

U.S. Open champ J.J. Spaun made a huge equipment switch this week, and he's in the hunt at Colonial. Amid golfers' frustrations, putters are kicked, thrown, flipped, slammed, snapped and sometimes find a watery grave. But few are punished emotionally, though J.J. Spaun might be one of the few to admit how he’s truly felt about his flatstick. “I found myself kind of resenting my putter at times when I’m out on the course,” Spaun admitted this week at the Charles Schwab Challenge at Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth. Yes, that’s the zero-torque L.A.B. Golf DF3 putter he used to win last year’s U.S. Open at Oakmont Country Club. The one with which he fashioned his most famous stroke—a 64-foot putt for birdie at the 72nd hoe that wrapped up Spaun’s first major win. But truth be told, the putter hadn’t really been working for him in the time...