I have tried putters with better feel - the Yes putters, the new half mallet that Ping has out, and especially the Cleveland milled face putters, but they don't line up as easily for me, and the feel is only marginally better anyway. If you need a putter that puts a good roll on the ball, and lines up very easily, this is it. I also tried a Tommy Armour mallet that I liked better, but it was out of my price range at the time. I found one with a 33 inch shaft (I have long arms), and it strokes very well. I have always liked mallet style putters, as I feel they give a really good roll, and are easy to line up, especially with the 3 lines on top. I found this putter for a really good price at Chuck Brown's before they closed down, traded the Ping, and ended up paying $9 for the Odyssey. I struggled with distance control with the Ping, but was simply not getting enough feel from it, and it weighed as much as a softball bat, which doesn't help. I switched to this putter from a Ping L'il B belly putter last year. The Rossie II is great on fast, hard greens as well as stable on short putts. Featuring great balance and feel, nice weight and three alignment lines that make it easy to line up putts has made this an impressive piece of gear.
The Odyssey Rossie II is a great putter for beginners.
Odyssey was later purchased by Callaway for a tidy $130M. Players at the Senior PGA Championship a week after the Masters in 1996 had to buy their own Rossies from the pro shop because the Odyssey rep ran out of putters. The insert and Faldo's win caused such a stir that golf shops couldn't keep up with orders for months to come. We see inserts in putters today, including just about every Odyssey putter (including the White Hot 2-Balls). Both of those features were (and remain) fairly common, but the Rossie was the first putter with an insert. Faldo's putter that week was the unassuming Odyssey Dual Force Rossie 2, a mallet-shaped putter with an S-bend shaft. One of Nick Faldo's six majors occurred in the 1996 Masters, the year of Greg Norman's historic collapse.
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