Odyssey
In the event you thought Odyssey was achieved including fashions to its common Ai-One line for subsequent 12 months, you’d be mistaken.
As a substitute, the corporate is releasing maybe its most intriguing set of additives to the road with the three Ai-ONE Sq. 2 Sq. putters.
Listed below are some issues to find out about Odyssey’s new Ai-ONE Sq. 2 Sq. putters.
The largest distinction between the Ai-ONE Sq. 2 Sq. putters and their cousins (in the usual Ai-ONE and Ai-ONE Milled strains) is a center-shafted design the place the toe of the putter hangs up, as a substitute of down or sq. to the bottom in a face-balanced putter. That is achieved by inserting the middle of gravity of the putter on the identical aircraft because the shaft, versus the toe aspect of it.
Due to this, the putter has an aversion to twisting and rotating all through the stroke, which is called a “zero torque” design. Zero torque-designed putters have considerably notably gained traction on the PGA Tour over the previous few seasons.
Whereas some gamers wish to see and really feel the putter face rotate in an arc all through the stroke, zero torque putters like the brand new Sq. 2 Sq. line promote a putter face that stays sq. all through all the stroke.
This additionally helps gamers who typically attempt to manipulate the face by influence by self-correcting itself and staying sq. with none enter from the participant.
A standard putter has about three levels of loft, however the brand new Ai-ONE Sq. 2 Sq. putters even have greater than six levels of loft inbuilt. That’s as a result of the shaft is positioned at an angle constructing in a ahead press.