Latrobe
Putter Talk's cited, Community-built account of this putter. Facts are sourced, photos are contributed, opinions are the Community's.
The Record
Written from the sources it cites · machine-drafted for the Community to correctThe Toulon Design Latrobe carries a single release on record, the 2017 Toulon Garage edition, and it arrives named for a place rather than a shape. Golfdigestme.com reported that Sean Toulon, senior vice president at Callaway, general manager of the Odyssey brand and founder of Toulon Design with sons Joe and Tony, framed the putter plainly: "This one is us paying homage to the King, of course." Latrobe, Pennsylvania is Arnold Palmer's hometown, and the name is the tribute.
Golfdigestme.com credited the design to Sean Toulon, Austie Rollinson, and Roger Cleveland, and traced its lineage back further still, to the Wilson 8802 model, itself based on the Tommy Armour Ironmaster. Bargolfinstruction.blogspot.com described the result as a versatile combination of old school design and modern technology, and noted that the toe carries more freedom of movement than the heel, a design note worth weighing against the era it's meant to evoke. Golfdigestme.com's reporting also put the head weight at 340 and 350 grams, and the finish as brushed satin and black.
The one era this line has on record is defined less by iteration than by ambition. Community opinion gathered around the Latrobe split along a familiar line: praise for the tribute to Palmer and for what one reviewer called a beautiful design sat alongside a warning that this is a difficult putter to mill well and a demanding one to play, with at least one voice admitting, "i am not good enough to use this style of putter or i need something more forgiving." Bargolfinstruction.blogspot.com took the opposite tack, calling it the ultimate feel putter and arguing that positive feedback on the good strokes will help you find the sweet spot more often.
With only the Toulon Garage edition on record, the Latrobe stands as a single, fully formed statement rather than a line that has visibly evolved. Whatever comes next for the name will have to answer to that first, tribute-laden putter and to the divide it already opened between reviewers who found it inspired and those who found it unforgiving.
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Releases
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What the Community says
““This one is us paying homage to the King, of course,” said Sean Toulon, senior vice president at Callaway, general manager of the Odyssey brand and the founder of Toulon Design with sons Joe and Tony.”
“This is the ultimate feel putter and the positive feedback on the good strokes will help you find the sweet-spot more often.”
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