About Those New Odyssey Works Putters

Golfweek has an article about the new Odyssey Works putters at their website. They'll be available at the end of the month, so I thought I'd take a look at what all the fuss is about.

Although the Golfweek article shows only one of the putters -- technically, it's the "Odyssey Works Tank Versa 2-Ball Fang Putter" -- there are actually 11 new models in the Works line. And it's a good example of what Golfweek says distinguishes the new line:

The goal of the new Odyssey Works line of putters is both simple and bold: Create a family of putters that combine as a number of the corporation?S key technologies as feasible.

Let's sum up the variety of tech Odyssey is combining in these new putters.

There's the Versa tech, which is the black-and-white high contrast design -- they call it "Visionary High Contrast Alignment" -- that's supposed to help you square the face better at impact by making the face angle more obvious.

Some have the Tank tech, which is a heavy head / counterbalanced grip combination. As I've written about before, counterbalancing is being used by many players as an alternative to long putters.

Then there's the Fang tech, which appears to be the perimeter weighting (the rounded wings) you can see on the putter pictured above.

You know what the Two-Ball tech is. You can see the two ball-sized circles that help you aim the ball straight at the hole. (Obviously, the actual golf ball gives you a "straight line" of three balls.)

Finally, there's the Fusion RX insert. Basically they took the Metal X insert, which has what you might call a wire mesh bound to a thin piece of urethane backing, and they took the thicker soft White Hot insert... and surprise, they combined them. Essentially, the Fusion RX insert is a Metal X wire mesh bound to the thicker White Hot urethane insert.

The exceptional Odyssey Works models each have a one-of-a-kind aggregate of these technology. The putter proven above has they all, while others may additionally only have a pair. (The commonplace tech is the Fusion RX insert with the Versa colors.)

They're supposed to begin transport on January 30 but you may see they all right here at the Odyssey internet site's Odyssey Works web page. Be organized to spend a couple hundred bucks in case you want one.