Odyssey Launch New Tank Putter To Combat Anchoring Ban

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Odyssey has unveiled their new Tank model, which has a drastically higher MOI to make it feel like an anchored putter.

The heavier putter is designed to help those golfers looking for added stability through the stroke, featuring weighted components with a calculated balance point for a higher MOI, increasing the putter’s resistance to rotation during the stroke and twisting on off-centre hits.

Additional weight also helps promote a pendulum stroke that keeps the wrists from breaking down, providing consistent control.

Austie Rollinson, Designer at Odyssey Golf, said: “With Tank, we wanted to enhance the stability of the putter by increasing the moment of inertia of the entire club. We feel this achieves most of the benefits of anchoring without actually touching the body.

“In redistributing the weight in the putter to achieve this increase in inertia we focused on placing the balance point in each length option in relatively the same position as you would find in a conventional putter. So at each length Tank is offered, the balance point is in a slightly different place on the shaft to provide the golfer with an optimal counterbalance and stability.”

Chris Koske, Global Directory, Odyssey Golf, said: “At every golf club in the world, we’ve heard golfers say, ‘I just want something a little heavier.’ With the proposed anchoring ban in discussions, we thought it was the right time to service golfers with an alternative and stability-focused method to putting and putter design.

“We didn’t just do heavy – each component is carefully weighed to ensure a proper balance point and ultimate stability. We brought two prototypes out to Riviera and one went in to play immediately. We therefore brought forward our tour introduction the week of Doral.”

The conventional length Tank putters (34″/36″) have an MOI that is 34% higher than a standard putter (with a 19% increase in total club weight), and the longer options of Tank (38″/40″) putters have an MOI that is 109% higher than a standard putter (with a 32% increase in total club weight).

This added weight works to quiet the hands during the stroke to provide consistent control while a double barrel alignment clearly frames the golf ball at address. Traditionally, MOI has been measured only at the head level, but by weighting all of the components in harmony to dial in a balance point, the team at Odyssey has raised the MOI of the entire club.

The heads will weigh (400g) and the heavier shaft (150g), while the balance point is positioned on the shaft for a similar feel to a conventional putter.

The popular White Hot insert that claimed more than thirty victories across the worldwide tours in 2012 returns with a new and improved insert that is laser milled, which allows Odyssey to achieve extremely tight tolerances and to better match insert shapes to the various head shapes.

RRP: £139.
Available: April 12th 2013.
Website: http://www.odysseygolf.com

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