Have Odyssey lost the plot.

madandra

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Guys, as you know by now I detest everything 'gimmicky' about golf. I remember years ago standing teasing my brother in laws late Dad (The Wee Joe Mo) about his new purchase ... a Texas Wedge !!

Since that rainy day in June '99 I thought that I had seen the last of them. It even got to the point I turned on the Golf Channel reassured that even the KING PIMP of pishy products would never waste air time on a Texas Wedge.

Well today I have just choked on my Haggis, Neeps and Tatties when perusing through this site I saw something that will haunt me for a very long time.

THE ODYSSEY MARXMAN X-ACT PUTTING WEDGE

Like Dougie Donnely's side shed, I couldn't take my eyes from the uglyness of this ... (due to the respect I have for our golfing forefathers I refuse to call this a club) ....... stick.

Everybody knows Callaway (Odyssey's parent or guardian) have brought the level of golf amongst the choppers to a new level, but why the hell did they think someone would waste the space in their bag for a CHIPPER.

Let us not be fooled by their clever marketing description of PUTTING WEDGE ...... If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck and looks like a duck its a fluffin' duck so this is a ..

CHIPPER.

So here are my questions for you:

DO you or WOULD you carry a chipper?

If you do or would, are you over 50 years of age?

Would you pay £90 for one?

In this, the age of the hybrid/rescue is their any need for this monstrosity?

Please tell me I am not alone in thinking someone at Odyssey should be bagged for this.
 

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I would never carry a chipper for as long as I have a hole in my @rse.

I would not pay 50p for the most pointless club invented.

I can so need for this club when a)putters are fine off of the fringe and some green side rough, and 2) A 5 iron usually has the same loft.

Why would you screw around with a chipper with all the other clubs at your disposal?

I think they are just a needless gimmick designed to catch the gullible/desperate.

Also, I cannot think of what club I would drop to make place for a chipper.
 

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A guy in my fourball carries one, h/cap is 16 but rarely uses it, out of 10 greenside shots, id say possibly 1 pays off, if he used an 8 iron or similar he would have done better more of the times. If worst came to worst, whats wring with a 3/5 wood and grip down the shaft?
 

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I am over 50, and I have in the past used a chipper, but I must say the they are worse than useless. Contolling the distance is almost impossible. I found that it either ran like a rabbit or checked so much that it scalded the green. Maybe I had the wrong one, or I was just crap at using it, but either way, it's not for me.
 

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the only chipper i got isa chippa ona me windscreen.

and i dont even want that one either!!!

Fair point boys

what a waste of time they are. one bloke bought one monday nite up the range. he even said ah its only 16 quid if its no good i'll put it in the bin for that price. I said i'd rather spend 16 quid on balls and put em in the lake ha.
 

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Made me laugh FLOPSHOT. Thanks for that.

I guess that these companies are only trying to make money, and if they can introduce a gimmicky club that sells, then its jobe done. Its only later after people have been using it that they find its rubbish.
 

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The only chipper should be the one sell fish & chips.

As usual there well be players who will purchase the club and odyssey will make a tide profit.

The phrase " A fool and and his money are easily parted" comes to mind.
 

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In a mad moment of desperation I bought one form JJB SPorts for £9.89 (not (£9.99). Used it for 2 rounds then bunged it in the practice bag. Worst investment in clubs I've ever made! Made me feel like a tennis player. Luckily have grown some bolls since and learned to use the 7 or 8 iron. Feel I must apologise to all real golfers out there. Sorry.
 

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Chippers are absolutly fine nothing wrong with them what so ever if you need to use one then by all means do so.

But i prefer to cut my potatoes with a knife.
 

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It will go down a bundle in the states, bet I get to play with someone with one in April.

Not my thing at all, but it may be great on temporary greens, where a putter is useless, and an iron is harder to square.

Not for £90 though.
 

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I dare hardly mention this now.
I have seen a double-sided chipper that I thought may be worth considering - especially as I was stuck in the roots of a tree at the time and was trying to reach around the trunk to play a shot.
So, considering that there is occaisional need for the cack-handed shot, what club do you recommend - and what do you drop?
 

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Drop the ball, one shot penalty stylie.

You cannot possibly consider carrying a club for the sole purpose of chipping out left handed from behind a tree. How often does this happen..... don't you have fairways on your course?
 

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I've seen it on the web site, what a great product, let me at it NOW!

I want I want I WANT.

Glorious in every way, deeply sexy and no doubt a super score saver.

It says it offers 3 different types of shot (all with the same putter swing) pitch, chip and bump and run - all from the same club. REMARKABLE and in no way misleading the consumer, no sireeeee, straight from the heart. You will lower your scores, hit 3 of the most important shots in golf better (with no need to learn any technique!) and all from a club that's basicaly a posh 7 iron

I'm sold - I'll break out the asylum, burglarise (as americans do) a few pro shops and steal them all......Mwha, ha, ha

Then take over the world in the name of Pinky and the Brain.

What a find....I can barely stop myself from having a trouser accident.

Dave
 

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So, considering that there is occasional need for the cack-handed shot,

Hmm, a pitching wedge probably, practice it for 10 minutes one day, and your life will be perfect. Last time I had to play this shot (four? times in 14 years!) I got it to 2 foot, then missed the putt 'cause I was laughing at my jamminess so much.

Dave
 

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You have to count the double faced chipper as TWO clubs in your bag.

I think I'll give that a miss - (just as I do the fairways, murph) - though I do only have 12 clubs in my bag at present (hoping a g10 3-wood will materialise).
 

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I have never been accused of being two-faced. I suppose people assume that if I had another face I wouldn't be using this one.

Sorry about losing the thread.
 
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