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As most of you have seen, I was fortunate enough to be chosen to receive a new 2-Ball Eleven though a contest right here on the forum. In case you missed the thread and video about @Luke WilliamsCG and @Canadan discussing these putters, here is the link:
https://www.thehackersparadise.com/...ing-the-odyssey-2-ball-eleven-putter.8941754/
After a good bit of rolling putts with various setups of Eleven and Ten putters at Edwin Watts, I chose to order the 2-Ball Tour Lined S (short slant) model at standard lie and 33.5" with the stock Odyssey - Pistol 2022 grip and Stroke Lab 3GEN Red shaft. This putter has the White Hot face insert in it.
A little about my putter history:
Some inital observations from my brief time spent with the 2-Ball Eleven:
Our greens were just punched and sanded 1.5 weeks ago so certainly are not things of beauty at this point.
I will continue to post updates in this thread as I get more time and experience with the Eleven. If you have any questions about this putter, feel free to post them in the thread and I will do my best to answer them.
Thanks for reading this lengthy post.
https://www.thehackersparadise.com/...ing-the-odyssey-2-ball-eleven-putter.8941754/
After a good bit of rolling putts with various setups of Eleven and Ten putters at Edwin Watts, I chose to order the 2-Ball Tour Lined S (short slant) model at standard lie and 33.5" with the stock Odyssey - Pistol 2022 grip and Stroke Lab 3GEN Red shaft. This putter has the White Hot face insert in it.
A little about my putter history:
- The only time I have ever owned a non-metalic insert putter was a Dual Force Rossie II with a Stronomic insert which I got around 1999 and used for a couple of years.
- I have dabbled in mallets (mostly smaller) over the last 20 years but none ever stayed in the bag for more than a month or two. I always went back to a milled blade, so that is the type of putter I have used for 99+% of my rounds over the past 20 years.
Some inital observations from my brief time spent with the 2-Ball Eleven:
- This putter is insanely easy to align to the chosen target line. I don't know whether this is more attributable to the 2-Ball or Tour Line alignment aids, or a combination of the two, but I just know that it works and gives me a very comfortable feeling that the putter is lined up properly when I am standing over the ball.
- Distance control have been very impressive and quite comforting for me. I was honestly expecting to have to putt a longer stroke on the ball with the White Hot insert than I did with a milled steel putter thinking that the harder surface would generate more ball speed on putts. I did not increase the length of more stroke the first time I got out on the course with it and found the opposite to be true. I have traditionally left a lot of putts short when using milled blades. Probably to the tune of at least 1 out of 4 putts of 6 feet or longer. During my first round with the Eleven, I left exactly one putt short of the hole and all other putts ended up in the hole or no more than two feet past the hole. So I used the same stroke to achieve better results. Definitely a win-win!
- The putter is very well balanced and the head / face flows very naturally during the stroke. When I went to demo these putters, I honestly really expected that I would end up liking and ordering the double bend face balanced model. Like almost everybody else, I do have some arc in my stroke and had trouble properly releasing the putter head without conscious manipulation with the face balanced model. 2 years ago, I was fit into faced balanced putters during a Club Champion fitting and have only been using either face balanced or SeeMore bace balanced at impact putters ever since. I remember a couple of the Grandaddy guys saying they used face balanced putters before being fit into Tri Hot blade putters with toe hang at the Grandaddy so I would definitely recommend trying before buying.
- The sound / feel of the White Hot insert is nothing short of magnificent. Once again, this is coming from a guy that would only use 100% milled putters previously.
Our greens were just punched and sanded 1.5 weeks ago so certainly are not things of beauty at this point.
I will continue to post updates in this thread as I get more time and experience with the Eleven. If you have any questions about this putter, feel free to post them in the thread and I will do my best to answer them.
Thanks for reading this lengthy post.