Equipment
Sunday was big for the Odyssey 2-Ball Putter… and stealing
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.
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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Driver: TaylorMade Qi10 (9 degrees @8.25) Buy here.
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Black 6 X
3-wood: TaylorMade Qi10 (15 degrees) Buy here.
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Black 8 X
5-wood: TaylorMade Qi10 (18 degrees) Buy here.
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Black 9 X
Irons: TaylorMade Proto (4), TaylorMade Rors Proto (5-9) Buy here.
Shaft: Project X 7.0 (4-9)
Wedges: TaylorMade MG4 (46-09SB, 50-09SB, 54-11SB) Buy here, Titleist Vokey Design WedgeWorks (58-K @59) Buy here.
Shafts: Project X 6.5 (46-54), Project X 6.5 Wedge (60)
Putter: TaylorMade Spider Tour X3 Buy here.
Grip: SuperStroke Zenergy Pistol Tour
Ball: 2024 TaylorMade TP5x Buy here.
(Photo courtesy of TaylorMade)
Grips: Golf Pride MCC
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- Kevin Tway what’s in the bag accurate as of the Wells Fargo Championship. More photos from the event here.
Driver: Ping G430 LST (10.5 degrees)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Black 6 X
3-wood: TaylorMade Stealth 2 (15 degrees)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Diamana D+ 80 TX
5-wood: TaylorMade Stealth 2 (18 degrees)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Diamana D+ 90 TX
Irons: Wilson Staff Utility (2), Titleist T100 (4-9)
Shafts: Mitsubishi MMT 100 TX (2), True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100 (4-9)
Wedges: Titleist Vokey Design SM10 (48-10F @47, 52-12F @51, 56-14F), SM7 (60-10S)
Shafts: True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100 (48-56), True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400 (60)
Putter: Scotty Cameron T-5 Proto
Grip: Scotty Cameron Black Baby T
Grips: Golf Pride Tour Velvet Plus4
More photos of Kevin Tway’s WITB in the forums.
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Editor’s note: This is an excerpt from a piece our Andrew Tursky originally wrote for PGATour.com’s Equipment Report. Head over there for the full article.
The timing of Lowry’s putter changeup was curious: Was he just using a Spider putter because he was paired with McIlroy, who’s been using a Spider Tour X head throughout 2024? Was Lowry just being festive because it’s the Zurich Classic, and he wanted to match his teammate? Did McIlroy let Lowry try his putter, and he liked it so much he actually switched into it?
Well, as it turns out, McIlroy’s only influence was inspiring Lowry to make more putts.
When asked if McIlroy had an influence on the putter switch, Lowry had this to say: “No, it’s actually a different putter than what he uses. Maybe there was more pressure there because I needed to hole some more putts if we wanted to win,” he said with a laugh.
To Lowry’s point, McIlroy plays the Tour X model, whereas Lowry switched into the Tour Z model, which has a sleeker shape in comparison, and the two sole weights of the club are more towards the face.
Lowry’s Spider Tour Z has a white True Path Alignment channel on the crown of his putter, which is reminiscent of Lowry’s former 2-ball designs, thus helping to provide a comfort factor despite the departure from his norm. Instead of a double-bend hosel, which Lowry used in his 2-ball putters, his new Spider Tour Z is designed with a short slant neck.
“I’ve been struggling on the greens, and I just needed something with a fresh look,” Lowry told GolfWRX.com on Wednesday at the 2024 Wells Fargo Championship. “It has a different neck on it, as well, so it moves a bit differently, but it’s similar. It has a white line on the back of it [like my 2-ball], and it’s a mallet style. So it’s not too drastic of a change.
“I just picked it up on the putting green and I liked the look of it, so I was like, ‘Let’s give it a go.’”
Read the rest of the piece over at PGATour.com.
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Joe
Nov 18, 2015 at 9:54 pm
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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
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.
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!
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.