Evnroll ER5V Hatchback Putter

Mallet Putter

Evnroll built its name on one idea: a putter face that makes your bad putts roll like your good ones. The ER5V Hatchback carries that idea into a mid-mallet shape for 2025. Guerin Rife's Sweet Face milling means a strike off the toe or heel comes off with the same speed as one dead center, so a putt you'd normally leave three feet short from a mishit ends up cozied up to the hole instead. That's the whole pitch, and on this model it lands.

The Hatchback name fits the shape. It's a compact mallet with a squared-off back end and a broad footprint, not a big rounded blob of a putter. You get the forgiveness and stability of a mallet without the head looking like it belongs on a different sport. It's a mid toe hang design, which is the detail most people will overlook and shouldn't. Most mallets are face balanced for players with a straight stroke. This one hangs its toe partway down, so it wants a slight arc through the ball.

That makes the ER5V a specific tool for a specific golfer. If you release the putter a little on the way through, the mid toe hang matches your stroke and squares the face without you fighting it. Pair that with the face technology and you have a putter that forgives both your contact and, to a degree, your face angle.

Design

The ER5V is milled from a solid billet of aluminum with a steel sole plate for weight, and the face carries Evnroll's variable-groove pattern. The grooves are deeper toward the center and shallower toward the toe and heel, which is the mechanism behind the consistent ball speed across the face. It's not marketing. Roll a few off-center on a flat green and the distance control is genuinely tighter than a standard flat-milled face. Up top there's a clear alignment aid running back from the face to help you set the line and see the face angle at address. The mid toe hang, roughly a 30 to 45 degree lie of the shaft angle relative to horizontal, means the head is built for a stroke with some inside-to-inside movement rather than a pure straight-back-straight-through path.

Who It's For

• You have a slight to moderate arc in your stroke and a face-balanced mallet has always felt like it was fighting you.
• Your distance control suffers on off-center hits and you want the face technology to bail you out on speed.
• You want mallet forgiveness but dislike the oversized, bulky look of most high-MOI heads.
• You value a milled feel and a firmer, more solid sound at impact over a soft insert.
• You trust a single alignment line and don't need a busy set of dots or wings to aim.

Technology

About Evnroll

Evnroll's patented Sweetface Technology uses variable-width grooves to progressively increase friction toward the edges, gently guiding off-center hits back toward the target line.

Specifications

Frequently Asked Questions

Is the Evnroll ER5V Hatchback face balanced or toe hang?

It's a mid toe hang mallet, not face balanced. The toe hangs down partway when you balance the shaft on your finger. That means it's built for a stroke with a slight to moderate arc. If your stroke is dead straight back and through, a face-balanced putter will suit you better, and Evnroll makes those too.

What does the Sweet Face milling actually do?

The face grooves vary in depth across the face, deeper in the center and shallower toward the toe and heel. The effect is that mishits leave the face at close to the same speed as center strikes. In practice your off-center putts finish much closer to your intended distance instead of coming up short, which is where most three-putts start.

How does the ER5V feel and sound compared to an insert putter?

It's milled from a solid billet, so it feels firm and solid with a bit of a click at impact rather than the muted, soft feel of a polymer insert. Players who like feedback and a crisp sound tend to prefer it. If you want a dead, quiet feel, this isn't that putter.

Who should choose the Hatchback over a blade like the ER2?

Go with the ER5V Hatchback if you want more forgiveness and stability on off-center hits and you like a single alignment line to set your aim. The ER2 midblade is for players who prefer a smaller head and a more traditional look. Both share the same face technology, so the choice comes down to shape, alignment, and how much forgiveness you want behind the ball.

Will the ER5V help with distance control on long putts?

That's where it earns its keep. The consistent ball speed across the face means your lag putts from 30 and 40 feet don't get punished as badly when you catch one slightly off center. You'll still need to read the green and make a good stroke, but the putter takes some of the guesswork out of speed on mishits.

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