This particular putter pictured here is one of the crown jewels of my collection and I’m not looking to sell or add more. It may not be worth the most in today’s putter market, which I guess I don’t really know if that’s true because I haven’t been looking. Knowing exactly what I was actually looking at, I immediately jumped on it and it has been in my collection ever since. Then one day from the clouds, the putter pictured here popped up on eBay with a super low ‘Buy it Now’ and no reference to being Tour Issue at all. Was/is that putter worth it? I have no idea, maybe to someone, but it was out of any price range I was looking to be in by a mile. I decided I was ok with this and it was close enough to go after. This was the putter Luke Donald was using when he was lights out on greens and held the world number one ranking.Īt one point, I found a #7 that met all of the criteria EXCEPT it had Odyssey’s three-dot alignment aid on the topline. Occasionally, a larger head size, White Hot XG 7H, would pop up drawing my attention. Oh, and of course the butane finish was non-debatable. I wanted the small head size, a solid alignment line on the topline, the plastic silver cavity badge, the “XG” on the sole engraved rather than a plastic insert, and either a classic White Hot XG or a White Ice insert. I’m telling you, my criteria was specific. Like I said, prior to finding this specific putter, I’d seen other Tour Issue #7s come up on occasion. Oh, and they’d be STUPID expensive.įinding Just the Right Tour Issue Odyssey White Hot XG 7 Over years, I’d occasionally see a Tour Issue #7 show up, but never just right. But man, finding butane-finish, early-model Tour Issue Odyssey putters is a tough feat regardless of head shape. I remember going to one of those overstock golf shows with a buddy and seeing brand new WHT 7s as far as the eye could see for $45, then two years later, they exploded. They seemingly just disappeared from the internet and people were paying hundreds of dollars for these putters in used condition. This specific model was a larger profile #7 than Ian’s, but had a butane-ish finish. It’s worth pointing out that one of the hottest putters on the secondary market following that Ryder Cup was Odyssey’s White Hot Tour 7. This classic name is synonymous with legendary performance and the. That said, Poulter has regularly played #7s and one particular performance with a classic Odyssey White Hot XG 7 in 2012 drew a lot of attention and cemented “the Postman” as a European Ryder Cup legend forever. White Hot is the most iconic, most played, and most decorated putter insert of all time. Now, the #7 head shape by Odyssey isn’t necessarily as “specific to Ian Poulter” as last week’s Tour Issue Rife Antigua/Aruba. Since we’re already in the Ian Poulter theme/section of my “putter vault”, let’s just stay there this week.
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