Changing putters is not my thing. I’ve only had a few. I just purchased an Odyssey Tri Hot 5k Double Wide putter. Did it make a difference? WOW… I’d say!!!
Would I buy it again? Absolutely ★★★★★
Sometimes a simple change can make all the difference. The design of the Odyssey Tri Hot 5k Double Wide putter offers more stability and allows me to release the putter.
I’m making 6 footers left and right.
Having said that, my technique was pretty good before I bought the putter. The key is a more stable putter head due to the design of the the putter and the fact is helps me square up the putter at impact.
My hope was that changing to a more stable putter would help me start to make longer putts. Even if it’s only one stroke a round. I’m guessing it’s going to be a couple strokes a round.
I still need to make the putts. It doesn’t do it for you, but it sure helps.
(More photos at the end of the article)
Odyssey Tri Hot 5k Double Wide putter
From Odyssey:
“The Tri-Hot 5K Double Wide is a wide blade with a crank neck hosel yielding moderate toe hang making it suitable for strokes with moderate swing arc and face rotation. Tri-Hot 5K putters transform the performance of a blade with multi-material front loaded tungsten weighting that improves CG positioning while dramatically increasing inertia. This putter is equipped with two 25 gram adjustable weights.”
Features:
- High Performance and Tight Dispersion From Stainless Steel Front
- Unprecedented Forgiveness For A Blade and Improved Roll From Tungsten Front Weights
- Interchangeable Front Weights
- Legendary White Hot insert
- Red Stroke Lab Shaft
- 3 degrees of loft
- 70 degree lie angle
- Toe Hang 42 degrees
- Head Weight 365 grams
My reason for the purchase
As I said above, my putting stats are pretty good. Even with my old putter.
Frankly, it was a hard decision to make the change.
Most high MOI or mallet putters feel very odd to me and over the years I’ve stuck with blade putters.
They finally made a blade that is even more stable than most mallet putters.
Still, the 365 gram head weight had me questioning the purchase.
The good news is they got it right.
I called Odyssey anyway to talk about the grip I use. It’s 124 grams. The grip is the Golf Pride Tour SNSR pistol grip 140 cc. It’s the larger of the two options for that grip.
The Odyssey tech support was extremely helpful in discussing options.
I mentioned I’d was considering adding 50 additional grams of grip or counterbalance weight to the putter.
My question was is that going to be a bad choice?
They make weight kits for this putter also. I mentioned removing more weight from the putter head.
The reason being I like a lighter head weight on fast greens.
Their suggestion was to try the the heavier putter grip before changing out the head weight. It was excellent advice.
The performance is really smooth and stable. Adding an extra 50 grams to the grip end because of the larger grip hasn’t affected anything adversely that I can tell.
Conclusion
My miss has been just a bit of a toe strike. As you know, that usually means leaving the putt short.
Then of course, my next putt would be pulled left.
I’m done with manufacturing a square putter face angle at impact with this new putter. It is really smooth.
Now, my normal stroke goes straight and slightly off center putts are still getting there.
Example: On my PuttOUT six foot mat, I made 8 six footers in a row right out of the blocks.
We’ll see if that carries over to the course. They just opened here over the weekend.
Give an Odyssey Tri Hot 5k a try next time you are at the golf shop.
Here are the putters online and there is a style for everyone.
Note: I found out there is a counterweight in the shaft under the grip. I attempted to put my Shot Scope putter tag into the end the grip and it would not go in all the way. I’m trying plan B this afternoon. I think it may go in if I shave off some of the tag thread. Otherwise, the options are glue or tape it on or manually record putts in Shot Scope.
