Odyssey White Series Putter Reviews

Phil Mickelson said he changed the length of his putter from 33½ inches to 35 inches (because, according to Lefty, he had grown an inch taller the last couple of years). The switch raised the question about whether he had changed the lie angle, too. And, in fact, he had — [...]

Continue Reading Make a Change In Putters – Lie Angle And Club Length

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The colorful arrangement of bars, circles, dots and metal wings on a new putter is not the artistic musing of some Eastern European modernist. It’s the science of optics. When we look over a putt, everything we see — the ball, the cup, the contour of the green — is only as [...]

Continue Reading Are your putter’s optics messing with your brain?

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PGA Tour pros change putters all the time, which makes them like the rest of us. Whether the need is for a quick fix, a mojo shakeup or a better technology story, players of all stripes are hardly reluctant to reach for a new—or at least different—putter.
But there are exceptions, notable examples [...]

Continue Reading Players who have stayed with one model Putters

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The big buzz in equipment these days is “maxing out”—optimizing the match between the driver and golf ball to yield launch conditions that maximize driving distance. One way to look at how effective a player is in achieving this goal is to look at Total Distance Efficiency, a ratio of ball [...]

Continue Reading Maximize your driving distance, do what tour pros do: Get thee to a launch monitor

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GOUGE: As the hardness of tour golf balls increased over the past decade, inserts came along to make putters feel softer. Two new face technologies (NIKE’s U.S. Open- and British Open-winning Method line and the ODYSSEY White Ice models) look to optimize the right balance of click and cushion. Not convinced? [...]

Continue Reading The Year Of The Insert

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