Schauffele is the one professional with customized pink and black paint on the putter face.
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It’s all concerning the visuals
Xander Schauffele’s 6-footer can be performed on PGA Championship spotlight reels for years to come back — the ball catching the left edge and spinning into the outlet for a tournament-defining birdie. But let’s return just a few moments, earlier than the putt was struck, when CBS cameras zoomed in on the Odyssey Toulon Las Vegas Prototype putter and Callaway Chrome Tour golf ball that might quickly take away the 30-year-old from the “best player to never win a major” dialog.
Schauffele’s mallet is unimaginable to overlook on the course because of the pink paint on the pinnacle. It’s a colour he’s come to embrace over time, exterior of a short stint with the identical putter in a silver end. Visuals matter on the high degree {of professional} golf, and Schauffele’s not often seen a must shake issues up.
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Go again just a few years and also you’ll discover an Odyssey O-Works Red #7 CH in Schauffele’s bag. The head colour matches up with the Odyssey Toulon Las Vegas Prototype he began utilizing final 12 months on the Arnold Palmer Invitational. So, too, does the black insert on the face. Or a minimum of it appears to be like like a black insert at first look.
The insert discovered on the O-Works Red #7 CH was merely a White Hot painted black to tone down the distinction between the 2 colours. However, when Schauffele selected to go away from White Hot final to strive a distinct really feel with the diamond-milled groove sample discovered on his present wand, Odyssey designers had to determine a approach to maintain the visuals constant sans insert.
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Schauffele wished to see a darkish end on the face that mimicked the black White Hot insert on his outdated wand, so Odyssey added black paint to a big part of the face. The solely half that didn’t obtain black paint was a small part on the high the place it transitions from the crown to the face.
“Transitioning from the topline and figuring out where we wanted the red paint to stop was tricky,” Toulon stated. “If you stop it at the edge of the topline, it can get chipped or look that way easier. So we took it over slightly to make sure it didn’t look choppy.”
Even although Odyssey painted the face to the underside — inserts sometimes float in the course of the face — Schauffele discovered the customized job handed the attention take a look at at tackle.
“When he got the putter, he looked down at it and said, ‘Hello, old friend,’” Toulon stated. “It’s what he’s seen a lot of putts go in with over the years. It’s a comfort thing for him.”
Schauffele and the putter have been inseparable ever since.
New neck
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Brooks Koepka’s Scotty Cameron T5.5 putter remained within the bag through the main championship, however it was deemed a “new” putter for one particular cause: the neck.
Instead of sticking with the slant neck that earned loads of protection through the Masters, Koepka moved into the identical T5.5 with a plumber’s neck. According to a Titleist rep, Koepka appreciated the feel and appear of the 5.5 however wished to see it rotate extra just like the Anser-style blade he’s used for many of his profession.
Quick-hitters: Viktor Hovland switched from Titleist’s Pro V1 to Pro V1x golf ball so as to add spin via the bag. … Michael Block turned the primary professional to place a full set of TaylorMade’s Proto irons (5-9) in play.
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