![]() Fowler loved it, even though it was opposite from the blade-style putters he’d had success with in the past.įowler contacted Joe Toulon, a PGA Tour rep for Odyssey and requested a putter that was precisely like Romano’s Jailbird. The putter was a 2016 Odyssey Versa Jailbird, a black and white mallet fitted with a 17-inch SuperStroke Zenergy 3.0 grip. ![]() Rickie Fowler’s Odyssey Versa Jailbird (Michael Reaves/Getty Images)Ī few days before the start of the American Express in La Quinta, California, Fowler’s first event of 2023, he hit a few putts with a putter owned by his caddie, Ricky Romano. That’s when karma, a new putter and a new grip came to Fowler’s rescue. The following season, it was even worse at -0.253 (161st). Historically, Fowler had been an excellent putter, and he even led the PGA Tour in Strokes Gained: Putting in 2017 with an average of 0.852, but by 2021 he had slipped to 126th in that category and was worse on the greens than the average player on Tour at -.091. Opens, but this has been a comeback season for the 34-year-old Californian thanks to a remarkable return to form on the greens. Watching Fowler today, it would be easy to forget that he hasn’t qualified for the last two U.S. Shortly after Fowler signed his card, Xander Schuaffele finished his first round at the 2023 U.S. Open and tied Brendan Grace’s 62 in the 2017 Open Championship at Royal Birkdale. On Thursday, Rickie Fowler made history at Los Angeles Country Club by becoming the first golfer to card a 62 at a U.S. Open, Johnny Miller famously shot a Sunday 63 to win at Oakmont and set the record for the lowest round ever in a major championship. Top 50 Modern Courses in Great Britain & Irelandįifty years ago at the 1973 U.S.Top 50 Classic Courses in Great Britain & Ireland.Mexico, Caribbean, Atlantic islands, Central America.It’s the best performing blade we’ve ever made by far.īauer Media Group consists of : Bauer Consumer Media Ltd, Company number 01176085 Bauer Radio Limited,Ĭompany number: 1394141 Registered office: Media House, Peterborough Business Park, Lynch Wood, Peterborough PE2 6EA and H Bauer Publishing,Ĭompany number: LP003328 Registered office: The Lantern, 75 Hampstead Road, London NW1 2PLĪll registered in England and Wales. This spectacular combination promotes improved performance in speed control, spin control, speed consistency on off center hits and a much tighter downrange dispersion that limits off-target spin. Using massive amounts of tungsten, we’ve developed an inertia level exceeding 5000 IZZ for incredible forgiveness that’s unmatched in the blade category, all while moving the CG closer to the face. Stainless steel, tungsten, and 6061 aircraft grade aluminum have all been meticulously crafted to re-invent what a blade can accomplish. We’ve moved the CG positioning forward and leveraged new materials in ways that have never been realized in a putter. We developed Tri-Hot 5K with an audacious goal, to introduce a new blade putter construction that outperforms a mallet, in a classic shape that the best players on Tour love. A beautifully engineered modern blade putter, if you’re stroke is more arcing or you prefer a traditional narrower blade the Tri-Hot’s other four models are every bit as good Odyssey on the Tri-Hot 5K putters We love the feel and roll of the White Hot insert and how the two tone (black and silver) steel and aluminium body combines to create a subtle alignment cue when squaring the putter up to your target. Of-course you’ll need a fitting session to decide which is best for you. To ensure golfers have the opportunity to tailor each of the Tri-Hot models to their individual weight and balance tastes interchangeable sole weights in the sole can be either aluminium (light), steel (standard) and tungsten (heavy). And out on tour it’s no secret that pros who shave 0.25 strokes from a round (yes that’s a single shot over a four-day tournament) earn an extra $600,000 a season. But don’t forget Odyssey’s goal was creating a more forgiving blade that tour players would love. Initially that might not sound like ground-breaking numbers. Putts also produced a 20% tighter dispersion ellipse, with a 15% improvement in distance control, which all in say Odyssey is enough to equate to gaining at least a shot per round on the dancefloor, just by switching putter. On a mechanical putting robot Odyssey say thanks to the Tri-Hot 5K models boasting 14% more MOI than the corresponding Scotty, their models hit putts into a 44% smaller area than their chief competitor. More so than any other brand Scotty Cameron is the go-to choice for blade putter enthusiasts, it makes sense then Odyssey compared their 5K models against a blade fans favourite model, the Scotty Cameron Newport.
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