2-Ball (general)

The Odyssey 2-Ball dates to 2001, according to thehackersparadise.com. The design places two white discs atop an oversized mallet, discs shaped and sized like golf balls, meant to help golfers line up more accurately. That alignment gimmick is the whole idea of the putter, and it's the detail every account of the 2-Ball comes back to.

The publication describes the 2-Ball as a blade, and it's this specific head that thehackersparadise.com credits with the model family's reputation: the site calls it one of the most dominant putter models of the past two decades, and goes so far as to list it as the biggest selling putter model in the history of golf. Those are big claims, and they come from a single outlet's reporting rather than from any sales figures or maker data in front of us, so they should be read as that outlet's assessment rather than an established record.

Within the 2-Ball line, this general release sits as the shape and concept that the rest of the family works from. thehackersparadise.com groups it under the 2-Ball shape series and shape line broadly, which suggests it functions less as a single putter and more as the reference point for whatever variations followed. What we hold here is the outline of that reputation rather than the specifics of any one head's dimensions or finish.