Le Mans

The Toulon Design Le Mans line, as our records hold it, arrived entirely within 2022, appearing under three names within that single year: the Toulon Design Le Mans DB, the Odyssey Toulon 22 Le Mans Putter, and the base Toulon Design Le Mans. Rather than a lineage stretched across seasons, this is a line that opened with several editions bunched together in the same release window, each carrying its own designation but sharing the same design language.

The maker's own page describes the Le Mans as "an all-new multi-material crowned progressive mallet design best suited for strokes with minimal arc and face rotation," and frames the 2022 putters as "completely reimagined to improve performance with a new Deep Diamond Groove mill pattern, split weighting system, our new Stroke Labshaft and midsize pistol grip." That description carries across the editions we hold: golfonline.co.uk's reporting on the base 2022 release likewise describes a "multi-material crowned progressive mallet design" with a "medium depth double fly cut to improve forward roll and feel," language that echoes the maker's own claim of a face built to "control sound and feel by channeling vibration."

Where the editions diverge in our record is mostly in finishing touches rather than shape. The Le Mans DB, per golfsupport.com's reporting, came face balanced, with a "premium midnight black finish," a "Pistol 22 standard grip with Toulon Design branding," and a headcover described as "embroidered with the Toulon name & logo and Odyssey text." The 22 edition, reported by 2ndswing.com, is listed with a Midnight Black finish, the Deep Diamond Groove milling, a Stroke Lab shaft, and an adjustable split-weight system in the toe and heel, all consistent with what the maker's own page claims for the line generally.

Taken together, the Le Mans arc as we hold it is less a story of yearly redesign and more one of a single design idea, the crowned progressive mallet with Stroke Lab and deep-milled face, issued across a small cluster of editions in 2022. Readers weighing the DB against the 22 or the base Le Mans will find the differences concentrated in grip, headcover, and finish reporting rather than in the core shape or milling the maker describes.