The RPM Ruru is RPM’s dedicated putter — a straight flight with a very small late fade. Zero turn and a single point of fade means it does very little on its own; it goes where you throw it and settles.
Three glide is low enough to keep it from floating past the basket on a miss, and the single fade is just enough to bring a long putt back to centre without pulling it off line. It has a small bead and a deep rim, which is the profile most players want from a putting putter rather than a driving one. Infinite reviewer averages of 2.7 / 3.2 / -0.1 / 1 confirm the flight, and note that RPM publishes the Ruru as a 2 speed rather than a 3 — either way it is firmly putter-paced.
That puts it in the middle of RPM’s three putters: the Tui turns over, the Takapu finishes hard, and the Ruru sits between them as the neutral one. It works inside the circle first and on flat approaches inside 250 feet second. The neutrality is also the limit — one fade will not hold up in a headwind, and there is not enough glide to make it a distance approach disc.
The ruru is the morepork, New Zealand’s small native owl, dark brown with pale spots and golden eyes, nocturnal, hunting by pouncing from a perch. RPM notes it carries close to twenty alternative common names, several of them imitating its two-pitched call. RPM names its lineup for New Zealand native wildlife throughout. PDGA approved in December 2016 and made in Strata, Cosmic, Atomic, Magma and Glow, including an occasional scented Strata run.
How much the Ruru turns and fades depends on how hard it is thrown. These three shapes are drawn from the manufacturer’s numbers, not from measured throws.
Measured by the PDGA when the Ruru was certified. Each card names discs that share the number, so you can feel it in the hand.
