We help you choose a putter, properly.
Premium putters cost six to nine hundred dollars. The buying process — ten putts on artificial turf at a single retailer — isn't designed for that level of investment. NextPutter is.
No NZ retailer carries the full premium range.
If you're choosing between a Scotty Cameron and a TaylorMade Spider, you have to visit at least two retailers. Each carries a partial range — by brand exclusivity, distribution agreement, or category strategy. Even Golf HQ, the country's broadest-range premium putter retailer, is short four of the twelve major brands.
Aggregating across that fragmentation requires a player without their own range to defend. That's where NextPutter sits. We're a service, not a retailer.
We get paid by the retailer, only when you buy.
You pay full RRP, the same as walking into the retailer. The $100 trial fee is credited to the price if you keep the putter. NextPutter retains the $100 from the retailer's margin — paid out of their cut, not added to yours.
That structure matters. We have no incentive to push you toward a more expensive putter, no incentive to discount, and no inventory we need to clear. Our job is delivering customers who actually buy, and the fastest way to do that is to make sure you're sure.
Swap fee is $30 — that covers most of the round-trip courier on a swap, while keeping the friction low enough to encourage swapping when the first putter isn't right. NextPutter pays courier on every other movement.
We're selective about what we do.
Not a fitter
We don't measure stroke arc, lie angle, or face rotation in a fitting bay. The trial mechanic is the fitting — fourteen days of real use on real greens tells you more about fit than any launch monitor.
Not a retailer
We don't hold stock, don't sell at our own price, and don't handle warranty. The retailer keeps that relationship — the only thing we change is the buying experience.
Not a discounter
You pay full RRP. The value we offer is risk reduction, not price.
Not a subscription
Each trial is one-off. No memberships, no recurring fees. If you trial three putters in a year, you pay for three trials.
Tauranga-based, founder-run.
NextPutter is run by Greig Neilson out of Tauranga. The business is bootstrapped, NZ-owned, and deliberately small-scale. Family-supported logistics, two retail partners for launch, eight brands in the catalogue.
The catalogue grows as the partner relationships mature. Year two adds boutique premium brands — L.A.B. Golf, Bettinardi, Evnroll. Year three brings the model across the Tasman. That's the plan, anyway.
If you've got a question about a brand we don't carry, an unusual request, or feedback on the trial — write to sales@nextputter.co.nz. It comes straight to Greig.