Callaway's Tour Blue Putter - It's a Blue, Blue, Blue, Blue, Blue World!
Written: Jul 24 '04
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Pros: The most attractive putter I've ever seen, hands down. It seems to work well too.
Cons: As with most Callaway products, it's ridiculously expensive! Otherwise, no cons.
The Bottom Line: This putter will catch your eye and the eye of every golfer on the course. It's gorgeous. The best looking putter I've ever seen, and it sinks putts too.
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| androoos's Full Review: Callaway Golf Tour Putters |
The Callaway Tour Blue putter is the latest putter to find it's way into by golf bag. One look at the thing and you'll know why. It is just downright gorgeous to look at. After some testing, I discovered it's not just a pretty face, the thing works, and darn well!
The facts...
The Tour Blue putter is just like it's name suggests: it's BLUE! The putter is made out of commercially pure titanium, and it's submitted to an extremely high-heat process which gives the putter a beautiful iridescent blue and gold finish, eliminating glare and allowing the golfer to better focus on the tast at hand - sinking that 35 foot snake putt!
Titanium is a light metal and was used in the putter by design. This frees Callaway to place the weight of the putter in an optimal location to help the ball get rolling true upon impact. They've inserted two postage stamp-sized tungsten plugs in the bottom of the club.
The Specs
There are three models of the Tour Blue putter: TT1, TT2, and TT3. The TT1 is a standard full-shaft offset blade putter with a shallow face and heel-and-toe weighting. The TT2 is a standard half-shaft offset model with extreme heel-and-toe weighting. The TT3 is a mallet putter with most of the weight of the putter head placed behind the face to increase it's Moment of Inertia (MOI). It, like the TT1 has a full-shaft offset. All models have a loft of 3 degrees and a lie of 70 degrees. Shaft lengths can vary from 33" to 36" to suit a range of putting styles and player heights.
The putter face of all three models is CNC machine-milled to a flat perfection. Small serrations from the cutter bit still exist, and when viewed from different angles, reveal the subtle circular cuts made from the cutter bit. A truly beautiful putter.
It's selling
Sales figures on the Tour Blue putter are booming, despite it's high MSRP of $299. The Tour Blue is a nice change of pace in the putter world, departing from the now-standard high MOI putters like the Oddyssey 2-Ball (which, ironically, is made by Callaway) the TaylorMade Rossa Monza, the Ben Hogan Big Ben and the Scotty Cameron Futura. Remember though, even though this putter is smaller than these big behemoths, the price is about the same.
My Tour Blue
I have a TT2 model with a 35" steel shaft and the standard Callaway Golf grip. The grip is small in diameter compared to other putters, so I may have it changed in the near future to a larger and more comfortable putter grip. The weighting of the club is perfect, it allows me to regulate the speed of my swing and the tungsten heel-and-toe weighting helps keep the putter face square to the ball, allowing a nice, smooth, fluid swing and a true ball roll without any backspin upon impact.
In conclusion, some advice
My advice is to test out putters at your local golf shop or at your club's practice green. Don't choose it solely on looks alone - make sure it works for you, and if it looks good too, then that's a bonus. You don't want to have a pretty putter that will draw attention to your game when you can't sink a single putt with it.
The Tour Blue was the choice for me. It wasn't big and awkward like these large putters, and it sank putts for me. I'd much rather have the ooohs and aaahs come from my sinking a 40-footer, but I get them twice after I sink that putt and people say "What's that blue thing you've got?"
Recommended:
Yes
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