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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- Rasmus Højgaard what’s in the bag accurate as of the Zurich Classic.
Driver: Callaway Ai Smoke Triple Diamond (10.5 degrees)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Tensei 1K Blue 60 TX
3-wood: Callaway Ai Smoke Triple Diamond Prototype (16.5 degrees)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Tensei 1K White 80 TX
Utility: Callaway Apex UW (21 degrees)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Tensei AV Raw White 85 TX
Irons: Callaway Apex Pro (3), Callaway X Forged (4-PW)
Shafts: KBS $-Taper 130
Wedges: Callaway Jaws Raw (52-10S, 56-10S, 60-06C)
Shafts: KBS Tour 130 X
Putter: Odyssey Ai One Milled Eight T DB
Grips: Golf Pride MCC
Check out more in-hand photos of Hojgaard in the forums.
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- Rory McIlroy what’s in the bag accurate as of the Zurich Classic.
Driver: TaylorMade Qi10 (9 degrees)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Black 6 X
3-wood: TaylorMade Qi10 (15 degrees)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Black 8 X
5-wood: TaylorMade Qi10 (18 degrees)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Black 9 X
Irons: TaylorMade Proto (4), TaylorMade Rors Proto (5-9)
Shaft: Project X 7.0 (4-9)
Wedges: TaylorMade MG4 (46-09SB, 50-09SB, 54-11SB), Titleist Vokey Design WedgeWorks (58-K @59)
Shafts: Project X 6.5 (46-54), Project X 6.5 Wedge (60)
Putter: TaylorMade Spider Tour X3
Grip: SuperStroke Zenergy Pistol Tour
Ball: 2024 TaylorMade TP5x
Grips: Golf Pride MCC
Check out more in-hand photos of Rory McIlroy’s WITB in the forums.
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Ping PLD putters have been a very common site on profesional tours. Pros seem to gravitate toward the PLD line’s custom options and precision milling. We have seen the PLD line expanded over the years, but we haven’t seen too many, if any, large mallets.
This week we spotted a PLD putter in Nate Lashley’s bag that has a similar look to the old Ping Wolverine head shape. This putter is a large mallet with the famous “claws” on the outside and oval center that housed the alignment aid.
Nick’s putter has the PLD logo on the back but also looks like it might have an insert installed on the face. It is hard to tell but at the address picture, it looks like the face is a lighter material than the rest of the putters. The putter is center-shafted and should be face-balanced with a high MOI for stability and forgiveness on mishits. The sole is completely milled and has no markings of name or technologies that might be present in the head. A single white site line is on the top of the putter for alignment.
Nick’s putter is finished off with a chrome steel shaft and a Super Stroke Zenergy Flatso 2.0 grip in black and white.
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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.