Odyssey Ten Putters Deliver High MOI and Superb Alignment

Odyssey has been among the most popular choices for putters for decades, and with good reason. Each Odyssey putter line is loaded with technology to help golfers make more putts.

In 2021, Odyssey has unveiled the new Odyssey Ten putters, a family of high-MOI mallets with a total of 10 different clubhead options, though each of them feature Odyssey’s trademark Ten clubhead shape. This Ten shape pulls a ton of weight behind the clubface and pushes weight to the perimeter, generating extremely high MOI and reliable forgiveness. 

Sean Toulon, a legendary putter designer and the general manager of Odyssey Golf, joined 2nd Swing for a discussion on the latest Odyssey putters and offered his insights into all of the technology packed into the Ten models.

One of Odyssey’s most notable designs over the years has been its famed 2-Ball design, which has been a staple in golf for years. The Ten series includes 2-Ball design options that generate supreme forgiveness. 

“In some ways, now this might be hyperbole, but in some ways, it’s like trying to improve the Mona Lisa,” Toulon said about improving the 2-Ball design. “The original 2-Ball, the inertia number was only 3800. Twenty years ago, that was great. By today’s standards, it would be considered low. By really reimagining the shape, we ended up with a shape that yielded us almost 5500 MOI.”

In total, there are five different clubhead options in the Ten series: Ten, Ten Triple Track, 2-Ball Ten, 2-Ball Ten Tour Lined, and 2-Ball Ten Triple Track. Each clubhead has a face-balanced option or slant neck providing roughly 30 degrees of toe hang.

Key on these putters is the wide range of alignment aid options available. Of course, the headliner is Triple Track, which uses three parallel lines, a thicker red line in between two thinner blue lines, to help golfers line up at their target. 

“That is called Hyper Vernier Acuity,” Toulon said of the Triple Track design. “It’s dependent on how your brain recognizes a pattern. This is the same technology that military fighter pilots use to land planes on aircraft carries, and that’s a very important thing to get right!”

Toulon says that over the past few years of testing with both amateurs and professionals, he has noticed alignment is off most of the time, and this includes professionals. Additionally, he adds that if a golfer’s alignment is off by one degree from 10 feet, a perfect putt will miss the whole completely.

The research Toulon and others at Odyssey have collected shows that amateurs frequently line up putts two or three degrees off-line, and it can change drastically from putt to putt. The alignment aids available with the Odyssey Ten putters, specifically Triple Track aim to fix those issues.

“I’ve done this at least 2,000 times with someone, and every time the player improves significantly from the very first putt,” Toulon said.

Toulon notes that the Triple Track design can be a bit “busy” for some golfers, which is why the 2-Ball and Tour Lined alignment aids are also available. For instance, No. 2 player in the world Jon Rahm uses the 2-Ball Ten design because he’s more comfortable lining up the circles rather than the lines. 

Aside from the extreme forgiveness and the alignment aids, the big technology in the Odyssey Ten putters is the Stroke Lab shaft, an innovation Toulon and his team are very proud of. He notes how putters have changed over time, specifically the heavier swing weights, that have made putters harder to control.

“We started to look at how the grips are lighter, the clubhead is heavier, and the shaft hasn’t changed in 50 years,” Toulon said. “So we said we need to lighten the shaft and stiffen it dramatically.”

“As a golf club designer, I get geeked when I see 2% or 3% improvement. These numbers were off the charts.”

The Odyssey Ten putters offer just about any technology a golfer could ask for. Golfers interested in a new Odyssey Ten putter are encouraged to schedule a 2nd Swing Tour Van putter fitting and start rolling in more putts with an Odyssey Ten model.