We Tried It: The 2022 Toulon Garage Putter Designer

There may be numerous cool gear within the golf gear world that doesn’t all the time match neatly into Most Wanted Tests or Buyer’s Guides., however you continue to wish to know the way it performs. In our We Tried It collection, we put gear to the take a look at and allow you to know if it really works as marketed.

What We Tried

Odyssey’s Toulon Garage Putter Builder V3.0

Meet The Knowledgeable

Dave Wolfe – The ever-curious MyGolfSpy author and putter fanatic. In the case of golf merchandise, I consider that impulse management is one thing to be managed.

The Toulon Storage is Once more Open For Enterprise

We had our first peek into the Toulon Storage back in 2017. Whereas cool, that first model of the Toulon Storage was slightly clunky. Nonetheless, it was by far the perfect on-line customized putter constructing device available on the market. After a short closure for reworking, a brand new and improved Toulon Storage opened in 2019. This time round, the interface provided a considerably smoother stream by way of the design course of.

Then the storage doorways closed in 2021.

For me, this closure evoked pleasure moderately than concern. I knew that the storage was extra cocooned than closed, shutting the doorways quickly in order that it might emerge greater and higher in a few months. As predicted, by March 2022, the Toulon Storage had completed its metamorphosis and was as soon as once more prepared for patrons.

What wouldn’t it seem like this time round? Would this third incarnation of the Toulon Garage comply with the upward pattern of the earlier rework?

What’s New with Workforce Tou?

Earlier than we get to the reconfigured Toulon Storage, let’s have a look at the brand new 2022 line of Toulon Design putters. This 12 months, the Toulon Design putters had some significant design changes. Sure, you’ll nonetheless discover some acquainted Toulon options. The Stroke Lab shaft and deep diamond groove face milling are nonetheless there. Nonetheless, the milling isn’t precisely the identical. Horizontal strains have been added to enhance roll.

Issues have modified at Toulon, although. Most notably, the putter aesthetics have improved considerably. The brand new look makes the outdated putters look, properly, outdated. Workforce Toulon killed it with the up to date minimalistic design. Toulon putters have all the time been the most costly putters within the Odyssey line. With the brand new aesthetics, they now look the half.

Weights Ahead

The opposite important design change got here with the putter weighting system. Throughout the board, the brand new Toulon putters now characteristic a brand new face-forward weighting scheme. Like the brand new Odyssey Tri-Hot 5K putters, the Toulon’s adjustable weights are on the entrance corners of the putter. This can be a departure from earlier Toulon putters, the place the pinnacle weight was adjusted utilizing a plate on the only real.

What does this weight shift accomplish? What can we often discuss with putters? Second of Inertia (MOI) and Heart of Gravity (CG). Transferring the weights allowed Toulon to spice up MOI and transfer the CG ahead, which ought to enhance putter stability and roll. The purpose of the Tri-Sizzling 5K line was to provide blades mallet-like stability and playability.

Did it work? Let’s examine the 2022 Most Wished putter scoreboards. With the Mallets, the Odyssey Eleven and the Toulon Memphis placed in the top five. The blades didn’t end fairly as properly. The Tri-Hot 5K Two placed third at five feet, however many of the Odyssey blades completed center of the pack within the total rating.

Whereas that monitor report just isn’t a ringing endorsement for the brand new expertise, I’ll not be discounting it simply but, particularly with the mallets. The Toulon Memphis is a particular putter, and it was my first option to customise this time round within the Toulon Storage.

Purposeful, or Solely Cosmetically Customized?

I requested this similar query again in my Callaway Customs Rogue ST Driver article. Admittedly, the driving force customization you get for the worth is primarily beauty. For probably the most half, you will have the choice to customized paint a inventory driver. Whereas I like my Ventus-themed driver, non-cosmetic design choices had been restricted or ripe with upcharges.

That isn’t true with the Toulon Storage customization. This technique provides you a great deal of purposeful choices. First, you decide the pinnacle. Then you may select from completely different necks, alignment schemes, weighting, shafts, grips, and have the putter minimize and bent to your specs. These are issues that have an effect on efficiency. Deciding on completely different construct choices will end in putters that play very otherwise.

Naturally, you then decide the paint fill at a number of places on the putter. You have got all types of paint selections. The portray is secondary within the course of, although. First, you construct the putter you need, making the most of many non-retail choices. Then you definitely paint and engrave your stick to really make it yours.

However, Do They Make a…?

A few of you’re feeling slighted every time an organization rolls out new putters. Sure, left-handers, I’m you. So many occasions, when a brand new putter line rolls out, all you are able to do is shake your sinister fist on the sky in frustration—lamenting that after once more, the love for the lefty is missing.

Excellent news, that photograph above is legit. I didn’t flip it horizontally simply to mess with you. Those that journey the opposite facet of the ball may have three fashions to select from. Positive, that’s fewer than the right-handers get, however it’s up about 300% from what you often get in a putter launch.

Is {that a} center-shafted Toulon Design Memphis? You wager it’s. That signifies that workforce center-shaft additionally will get an possibility. OK, so it’s only one mannequin, however like with the lefties, that’s greater than the same old allotment.

What about these in search of a center-shafted, left-handed putter? You, sadly, are receiving no love from Workforce Toulon this time round. Provoke rage mode.

On My Display screen: Toulon Storage Daytona Seashore

Since I’ve already constructed a few blades within the storage, this time round, I used to be going mallet. If you happen to missed them, my first Toulon construct was this blacked-out Rochester. The Toulon Storage 2.0 putter was a flow-neck San Diego.

Selecting the pinnacle took extra time than anticipated. Of the 9 accessible fashions, 5 are mallets. I used to be so impressed with the inventory model of the Memphis that I virtually went in that path. The Memphis feels so good. Curiosity conquered consolation, although, and I made a decision to go together with the brand new Daytona Seashore mannequin because it was new this 12 months.

The design choices have modified because the final time I constructed a putter within the Toulon Storage. One of many first issues you’ll discover is that you just solely have one end possibility. The black end is attractive, but it surely was good to see what the putter might seem like in non-retail colours corresponding to silver and bronze.

The excellent news is that customized end was the most costly of the choices, often bumping the putter value by $100. So, you lose a few of the end choices, however you avoid wasting money. Maybe we have to blame Covid for this. I’d not be stunned if Toulon was frightened in regards to the sourcing and time required for the opposite end choices. Maybe they dropped the choices to streamline manufacturing and ship putters extra quickly to shoppers.

Again to pricing for a bit. These putters price $600, putting them $150.01 above the retail variations. That $600 price ticket is now the flat price. It stays the identical no matter your neck or no matter different choices you select.

In My Fingers: Toulon Storage Daytona Seashore

So how did the Daytona Seashore prove? Like with earlier builds, I believe the ultimate product is properly represented within the pc mock-up. Additionally, like in earlier builds, the ultimate putter is rather more spectacular whenever you see it in individual.

Odyssey does a terrific job packaging the Toulon Storage putters. They arrive in a flowery Toulon Storage-branded field. The field accommodates your putter, but it surely additionally contains a few stickers, a ball marker, a pitch device, and the good steel spec sheet. It appears like you might be getting a particular putter whenever you open the field.

Like the brand new inventory Toulon Design putters, the Daytona Seashore is a magnificence. I really like how the yellow and black theme got here out. Increasingly more, I’m beginning to checklist the Lamkin Deep Etch grip as considered one of my favorites.

There are a few issues that I might have modified in my design had they been choices. First, I might like to see twin sightlines as an alignment possibility. That is purely a private choice, but it surely looks like that alignment scheme might match on the highest.

It will be good if Toulon Design had a weight equipment for his or her new putters. Perhaps one is on the way in which. Regardless, including a weight equipment as a checkout possibility can be useful for these not completely positive in the event that they wish to go lighter, inventory, or heavier.

The one actual miss within the designer for me is the shaft choices. You select between metal, 2Gen Stroke Lab, and 3Gen Stroke Lab shafts. The issue is that the colours are minimal. The 3Gen shaft is accessible in inexperienced, purple, or grey. The 2Gen shaft is available in black, and the metal shaft is simply in chrome. I needed a black metal shaft for this putter. That possibility existed beforehand however is now not accessible.

I like how the putter turned out, however the black shaft would have accomplished the look. Once more, perhaps as soon as all issues provide chain calm down, some additional head and shaft end choices will turn into accessible.

Last Take: Odyssey’s Toulon Storage Customized Putter Program

Odyssey’s Toulon Storage customized putter design system is the gold customary for on-line putter constructing. I mentioned that again in 2019, and I’m repeating it in 2022. Whereas a few of the end choices have gone away, you continue to have an enormous variety of potential construct and aesthetic mixtures. This lets you construct one thing you’ll not discover in your native golf store. The perfect half is you could design your putter from the consolation of your pc or telephone.

Whereas the Toulon Storage doesn’t supply something when it comes to becoming like PING’s new Custom PLD program does, it additionally prices half as a lot. If what you want, particularly if what you want can’t be discovered at retail, head to the Toulon Storage. Even in the event you aren’t out there for a brand new putter, it’s enjoyable to see what you may construct. Simply depart the bank card within the different room and also you’ll be protected.

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