Chicago Stroke Lab Putter - Pistol Grip

This release is the Stroke Lab pistol grip version of the Toulon Design Chicago, a mallet built on the wide blade shape from Odyssey's One Wide, according to the maker. The maker's page describes it as a double bend blade with some toe hang meant to encourage minimal face rotation and arc, though the spec sheet from Carl's Golfland lists this particular build at 0 degrees of toe hang, worth noting as a point where the maker's descriptive language and the published spec don't line up neatly.

The head is milled with what the maker calls a Deep Diamond Mill pattern, cut with deep cross-hatch grooves across the face that are engineered to control sound and feel by managing vibration, and a smaller groove inside each diamond intended to improve the quality of roll off the face. The maker's page pairs that face work with the Stroke Lab shaft, describing it as a multi-material shaft that saves weight and redistributes it elsewhere in the club, while the Carl's Golfland listing gives the practical numbers behind that idea: a 360 gram head, 3 degrees of loft, 70 degrees of lie, and half a shaft of offset, with the shaft itself noted as extremely light and built to shift mass toward the head and grip for tempo and consistency. The grip is the Toulon Design Stroke Lab pistol grip, and the finish is the charcoal smoke finish that runs through the 2020 Toulon Design Collection.

Set against the rest of that 2020 lineup, the Chicago's identity is the wide-blade shaping borrowed from the One Wide, dressed in the same Deep Diamond Mill face and Stroke Lab shaft technology the maker applied across the collection. This pistol grip build is one configuration of that head, and the spec sheet is the clearest record of how it was actually put together.