Odyssey’s Ai-One surfaces in Las Vegas. Here’s what we know

LAS VEGAS — It was only some weeks in the past that Jon Rahm debuted a covert Odyssey prototype putter in the bag in England on the BMW PGA Championship. Details stay scant, however for the primary time since Rahm began wielding the mallet, GOLF.com managed to seize in-hand photographs of Odyssey’s Ai-One and Ai-One Milled putters as they made their PGA Tour debut in Las Vegas on the Shriners Children’s Open.

What are they?

Thanks to a ability honed over a few years of golf gear, the very first thing I did after I noticed these putters on the observe inexperienced was flip them over and skim the only. Like detective Sherlock Holmes, my energy of deduction (and sarcasm) is powerful.

The new Odyssey Ai-One putters are supplied in two strains with probably the most distinctive distinction being discovered on the face. The customary Ai-One has a metallic face with an unconfirmed (white) materials or coating on the metallic, whereas the Ai-One Milled makes use of what appears to be a copper materials with a extra conventional milling sample on the face.

Based on preliminary photographs from the BMW PGA, GOLF’s Fully Equipped podcast speculated that Odyssey was probably leaning into its Artificial Intelligence learnings on the putter aspect. We can formally verify that’s the case, although we don’t know how large of a task it performs in the design course of.

Both fashions additionally make the most of adjustable sole weights for personalisation of head weight primarily based on size, and to extend general forgiveness.

What we (assume we) know

Golf gear is commonly about evolution and bringing usable applied sciences over from different classes in an organization’s steady of merchandise, and in this case, it appears like Callaway is utilizing the identical A.I. face know-how from its drivers and irons to stabilize ball pace on the putter face.

Thanks to a visual window in the cavity, we can see an asymmetrical thick and skinny milled sample on the again of the face of the Ai-One insert with a noticeable protrusion from the center space in direction of the highest of the heel.

The Odyssey staff was keen to go so far as to substantiate the brand new putter makes use of A.I. as a part of the face design however wouldn’t touch upon the advantages to golfers simply but. However, primarily based on their Tour debut this week with full-line branding, you won’t have to attend for much longer.

We will proceed to offer updates as extra info turns into out there.

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Ryan Barath is GOLF Magazine and GOLF.com’s senior editor for tools. He has an intensive club-fitting and -building background with greater than 20 years of expertise working with golfers of all ability ranges, together with PGA Tour gamers. Before becoming a member of the employees, he was the lead content material strategist for Tour Experience Golf, in Toronto, Canada.