In this video, I take apart the new Happy Gilmore Limited Edition Putter from odyssey and fit it with an actual hockey shaft designed for golf putters.
I can’t work out why this collab didnt happen between Odyssey and Calibre golf but it seems a much better alternative with this Calibre shaft than how they made them just using a longer grip..
Watch the process and my thoughts on the performance with the happy gilmore putter but also with a scotty Cameron putter as well.
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⌚️ Time Stamps;
00:00 – Intro
00:25 – Unboxing
01:03 – Fitting
02:31 – Odyssey Testing
03:32 – Scotty Testing
04:49 – Try it yourself!
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Odyssey I think did a pretty good job with their limited release Happy Gilmore putter. Although I don’t think it was perfect and I think they missed a trick by not using a shaft manufacturer that specializes in making hockey shafts for golf clubs. Hello and welcome back to the channel. So this is Caliber Golf who do specialize in making the hockey putter shafts and they were kind enough to send me one out to try. And the timing couldn’t have been any better with the release of the new Happy Gilmore putter and film. So I’m going to get this fitted in and we’ll see what it looks like. So this is basically how the caliber shaft is sent out if you opt to fit it yourself. Now they assured me that it is easy enough to do but normally they would have you send your putter into them. They fit it in house and then they ship it back out to you already done. Or I mean you can actually buy readym made clubs off their website directly with the shaft already fitted in it. So basically you just need a 10-in part of a shaft that will stick directly into the head. So I mean you can just use a regular shaft and then just cut off what you need or just find like a generic one that you can use for that instead. So that part goes into the huzzle of the putter as normal. Then the other end then slots into the end of the caliber shaft. Seems pretty straightforward enough. Time will tell. Let’s find out. So, the first thing you need to do is remove the original shaft if you’re planning on putting a different one in and saving your current shaft. Now, this one in the Odyssey came out a lot easier than I was expecting. Odyssey are normally quite difficult to remove, especially when trying to save the fereral. Now, I didn’t know for sure the size of this Odyssey huzzle, but luckily this part does fit in. I do just need to find another fereral for it, but that is just a case of gluing it back in as normal, just using a bit of epoxy. Part that goes into the caliber shaft maybe seems a bit more complex from what I’ve been reading. You sent these two things with him, which I’m a bit unsure on what they do. Looking at the instructions, basically you just screw this part into the bottom of the caliber. There’s like a locking mechanism inside it, like a few inches down from the top, and then you use this other part basically to screw that in. They actually say to glue that part into the inside of the caliber. I’m going to leave that unglued for the time being just until I know that everything fits and everything’s good to go. And what I think you can do if you don’t want to ruin your original shaft is just find like a cheap one from somewhere or even just ask a pro shop or just try and find like a spare iron demo shaft and that should work instead of a normal putter shaft. So, as you can see with this one on the Scotty Cam that I’ve put in. So, we’re just going to cut 10 in or so up from the huzzle and then that will hopefully just screw into the end of the caliber again. Now, if you wanted to cut down the caliber shaft itself, you can actually do that as well, which again, they say is relatively straightforward. But this length actually seems pretty good for me. So, I’m not going to be messing about with that at the moment. See, I’m not going to glue it in just yet, as I do want to swap the shafts over when I’m down at the course, just so I can see how it works on a normal putter as well. It does stay in really snug, so it’s not going to move around or anything. And it is actually that easy to change. So, this shaft actually, believe it or not, is fully legal to use in competition. And it is obviously meant for actual putters, not just hockey style ones like this Odyssey. As you can see, on top of it being quite a bit thicker and longer, it is quite oddly shaped as well. And you wouldn’t find any grips or shafts for that matter quite like this. And looking at the material of it, it seems to be quite rubbery, but it actually feels really firm. It is made of carbon fiber like most hockey shafts are, I believe. Now, for me, I usually use armlock putters, so it does feel quite natural and easy to grip it like that. But it does also feel like I want to grip down it further towards the head and just hold it like a hockey stick. Like that’s just the natural feeling that I get from holding it. Maybe that does come partly from playing quite a bit hockey when I was younger. But something I did notice when I was setting up like this with my lower hand further down is that my shoulders did seem to open up quite a lot as a result. And I was rolling it quite nicely even with this Odyssey head that has a line angle of 57°. So it does sit a lot flatter and you can see the toe pointing down quite a lot. So this Odyssey is quite a cool club to have. Like I think it probably is a one of one. But I actually want to see how this shaft performs properly. So I think it’s time to swap the heads over and see what it’s like on the Scotty Cameron. The first thing I noticed is that it does make the ball feel a lot softer off the face. Like you can’t really feel any vibrations going up the shaft. I wouldn’t really say it impacts the pace control at all, but it does just feel a lot better actually than it normally does. Again, holding it like an arm lock, it feels really good and natural, but holding it actually like a hockey stick with the bottom hand a lot further down just makes you feel like you’re a lot more in control of the putter head. And I did watch Rick Shield’s video before I tried this out and he was saying that he was struggling with the long distance. like it’s a bit more difficult to generate the same sort of power when you’re holding it like that. They use my first two long range putts holding it like a hockey stick. I mean, if you watch hockey players, they do actually grip further up the hockey stick when they’re trying to generate more power. But when you’re just putting, you obviously don’t need to hit it as hard as they’re hitting a hockey ball. And you can, as you’ve just seen, get the same amount of power still that you need. Just doesn’t feel as comfortable. But I definitely think it’s something that you could get used to. Like the more I was doing it from further back, the better it started to feel. But I mean, there’s nothing stopping you from just holding it like normal when you’re doing like long range puts and then just gripping it further down when you’re closer to the hole. I mean, some people that use a claw grip, they do the same thing as that. But yeah, that is the idea behind the shaft. It gives you an unlimited amount of ways to grip it while being able to get a lot closer to the ball and just makes you feel like you’re a lot more in control of it. I mean, if you wanted to see for yourself what it’s like, you could probably just try out on your own normal putter. You just obviously grip down right by the head. shaft’s obviously not as thick, but you get a pretty good idea of what that would feel like and it should give you a pretty good idea whether this type of shaft would work well for you. I am actually going to put this into my actual gamer soon. I’m just waiting for another part to come for it. At the minute, the shaft that’s in it is like three times as big as a normal one and it’s quite an expensive upgraded one, so I don’t really want to be cutting that. I do want to see how it goes in a competition though because it does feel really stable and you do feel like you do get a lot of control. Yeah, make sure to check out Caliber Golf if you haven’t already. As usual, thanks for watching. And I’ll see you all in the next
