The 2 ball putter is an invention of one famous name in golf clubs: Odyssey. This is the putter with a two-ball insignia on the top of the golf head. Mind you, the insignia isn’t there to just try to be cute. Oh no, it’s much more interesting than that! If pilots have a way of telling through a system of lights at the airport where exactly to land the plane, the same goes for the 2 ball putter. Like M Night Shyamalan’s movie Signs, there’s something almost eerie about the design. But it has become a classic by now—and you hear a lot of buzz in the golf course that it really works.
Of course, the golfer still has to shoot the ball in the hole—the 2 ball putter can’t do that for you by itself. You have to have the requisite skill to get the ball going—that’s right, just like an experienced pilot! So if you’re the golfer who does his homework, you should have no problems making the 2 ball putter work for you. When it was launched in by Odyssey in 2002, it created quite a buzz. It was even voted as the Numero Uno putter that year.
You know who the 2 ball putter helps the most? Answer: the golfer who has alignment problems. Of course, the star feature of this putter is the 2-ball insignia, but the other features help as well. These are the urethane insert which provides a consistent, soft and durable putting surface; the weighting of the club head; and the expanded mallet which keeps the club head stable all through the swing.