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Sunday was big for the Odyssey 2-Ball Putter… and stealing

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The Odyssey White Hot 2-Ball putter debuted in 2001. It has, in various incarnations, been a part of the Odyssey family of putters ever since. However, it’s fair to say that the now-iconic design remains on the periphery of professional golf’s radar.

So it’s interesting that, while they’re gaming different models (and thus different inserts), both Inbee Park and Kristoffer Broberg won this week using 2-Ball flatsticks with black alignment lines bisecting the white spheres.

Perhaps even more interestingly, neither used current Odyssey Works or Metal-X varieties of the flatstick. Inbee Park gamed her tried-and-true Odyssey White Hot 2-Ball to capture her fifth victory of the year. Broberg had a center-shafted White Ice 2-Ball in the bag.

Behold: The stolen White Ice 2-Ball.

Behold: The stolen White Ice 2-Ball.

And with respect to Mr. Broberg case, the most interesting item of all the backstory behind his gaming the White Ice.

In short: He stole it!

Not really. Broberg borrowed the putter from his teacher’s wife.

Practicing at his coach’s studio at home in Sweden early in the week, Broberg was looking for solutions following a poor putting performance. He took a peek in his coach’s wife’s golf bag, which was sitting in the studio. The Swede saw the White Ice 2-Ball, and decided to give the putter a try.

”So I just tried (her putter) and the stroke was much, much better and the technique, so I just keep it. And it was pretty good,” the BMW Championship winner said.

He used the putter to hole a 15-footer to topple Patrick Reed in the tournament-deciding playoff and capture his first European Tour title.

It’s safe to say there’s a woman in Sweden looking for a new putter today.

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  1. Joe

    Nov 18, 2015 at 9:54 pm

    annika

  2. John

    Nov 17, 2015 at 12:24 pm

    I still use (and have never tried anything else) A 33 inch, Odyssey DFX 2-Ball that I bought when it came out in …? (darker gray, with black insert). it works great for me – 3.7 Index

  3. mike

    Nov 16, 2015 at 9:02 pm

    Seems like personal comfort, emilliano grillo just won with Odyssey’s metal-X. Just because those 2 player won with a 2-ball means nothing.
    http://www.golfwrx.com/321254/emiliano-grillo-witb-2015/

    • TheCityGame

      Nov 17, 2015 at 10:41 am

      What it MEANS is that you can still win a golf tournament at the highest level in the world without the latest, greatest, perfectly fit, overly focus-grouped putter available for over 400 dollars. As long as you can roll the rock and the thing looks and feels good, you can swipe it from your golf teacher’s wife.

      You might think that’s obvious, as I do.

      But, it’s clearly not the general sentiment around these parts.

  4. RH

    Nov 16, 2015 at 4:12 pm

    Its beyond me why Odyssey won’t release a “standard” 2 ball with an etched alignment line. I know they did this in the past with the white ice and recently with the 2 ball fang but nothing else. Odyssey if you listening make one with a line and release it to the public!

  5. Richard

    Nov 16, 2015 at 1:56 pm

    I note it’s a Centre- Shafted model. I wish Odyssey would get back to more CS offerings; love that look. My current gamer is a 2006 vintage 2ball White Steel CS that has been in the bag more than not the past eight years. Though I had the insert customized last year with an aluminum one.

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