Tour Retief Goosen WITB – 2022 Charles Schwab Cup Championship

[atursky]

[NSiman17]

Holy s*** that putter

[JDTex]

3 minutes ago, nsgolfer17 said:

Holy s*** that putter

I 2nd this motion. wow..........

[J_Tizzle]

Does he have the Jumbomax on all his clubs or just the driver?

[wam78]

I need to know what is going on with the irons… very intrigued.

[avg_joseph]

2 hours ago, JDTex said:

I 2nd this motion. wow..........

3rd!!!

 

That's a putter only a mother could love!!!

[Valtiel]

2 hours ago, nsgolfer17 said:

Holy s*** that putter

 

2 hours ago, JDTex said:

I 2nd this motion. wow..........

 

9 minutes ago, avg_joseph said:

3rd!!!

 

That's a putter only a mother could love!!!

Yeah good lord....

We can assume it started its somewhat tortured life as an Odyssey O-Works 2-Ball:



With what looks like:

1) The bottom cavities filled with resin/epoxy(?)

2) Some sort of weight under the epoxy in the heel?
3) The entire top and bottom ground down
4) 2-Ball inserts removed/ground off and replaced with a sight line
5) Face insert changed

6) Back weight changed

7) Shaft replaced by an intoxicated welder

And i'm sure a few other crimes against humanity that i've missed. 

[avg_joseph]

3 minutes ago, Valtiel said:

 

 

Yeah good lord....

We can assume it started its somewhat tortured life as an Odyssey O-Works 2-Ball:



With what looks like:

1) The bottom cavities filled with resin/epoxy(?)

2) Some sort of weight under the epoxy in the heel?
3) The entire top and bottom ground down
4) 2-Ball inserts removed/ground off and replaced with a sight line
5) Face insert changed

6) Back weight changed

7) Shaft replaced by an intoxicated welder

And i'm sure a few other crimes against humanity that i've missed. 

[chip75]

11 minutes ago, Valtiel said:

 

 

Yeah good lord....

We can assume it started its somewhat tortured life as an Odyssey O-Works 2-Ball:



With what looks like:

1) The bottom cavities filled with resin/epoxy(?)

2) Some sort of weight under the epoxy in the heel?
3) The entire top and bottom ground down
4) 2-Ball inserts removed/ground off and replaced with a sight line
5) Face insert changed

6) Back weight changed

7) Shaft replaced by an intoxicated welder

And i'm sure a few other crimes against humanity that i've missed. 

 

You forgot, "Chained to the back of an Indy car and driven around the track a few times".

 

Goose is the only chap whose hot putter looks hot and like it was set on fire.

[stevechooster]

What exactly is going on with the zoomed in area where the shaft inserts into the putter head? As comments above mention, it looks melted...? lol

[grm24]

4 hours ago, wam78 said:

I need to know what is going on with the irons… very intrigued.

Outside of the driving iron/wedges aren't they just 2018 X-Forged irons?

[Valtiel]

2 hours ago, stevechooster said:

What exactly is going on with the zoomed in area where the shaft inserts into the putter head? As comments above mention, it looks melted...? lol

Just an educated guess, but the stock O-Works 2-ball has flow neck style shaft mount, kinda like this:



It seems like that was completely ground off/cut off/removed, leaving the shaft to run through the hole left behind where it appears to have been weirdly welded into place. To go through this much effort to modify a putter in this many ways can only speak to some weird attachment to it. Either that or it's some weird frankenstein from someone else that he just happened to really like in a "Fred Couple Squareway 3-wood" kind of way, because he doesn't appear to have actually had it in the bag for very long based on past WITBs. Curious what the story is. 

 

32 minutes ago, grm24 said:

Outside of the driving iron/wedges aren't they just 2018 X-Forged irons?

I assume it's all the specific grind patterns on them. 

[jaffabell]

5 hours ago, wam78 said:

I need to know what is going on with the irons… very intrigued.

I would say they are bent weak to get rid of the offset, by a couple of degrees... so then had the original numbers ground off and stamped with the new iron number, representing the new weaker lofts

[chip75]

1 hour ago, jaffabell said:

I would say they are bent weak to get rid of the offset, by a couple of degrees... so then had the original numbers ground off and stamped with the new iron number, representing the new weaker lofts

 

It looks too clean to be a stamping, I'd assume it was for some kind of toe-relief to remove a bit of bounce, but we can't really see the leading edges.

[rukahs]

amazing that we all crave the best and latest piece of equipment and he's putting with that monstrosity... hey, if it works...

[grm24]

6 hours ago, Valtiel said:

I assume it's all the specific grind patterns on them. 

Perhaps. It was a pretty open ended comment.

[Fuscinator]

20 years ago, I could swear I saw that same putter in the dollar bin at Play It Again.

[Puttersaurus Rex]

31 minutes ago, Fuscinator said:

20 years ago, I could swear I saw that same putter in the dollar bin at Play It Again.

(4 year old putter)

[sailfishchris]

Frankenputter !

[Fuscinator]

1 hour ago, Puttersaurus Rex said:

(4 year old putter)

Joke.

[b3b3]

One of the Truly great Equipment Nerds of our time. Great to see! Been a Huge Goose fan since I started playing. Remember the ProGear Putter he won the 2004 US Open with. That technology was sold( C Groove)  and became Yes Putters.  I actually have a couple of those.

[golfinbrad]

3 hours ago, sailfishchris said:

Frankenputter !

You have to be a hockey player.  

[Bigarch]

@BIG STU Did Goose come raid your storage shed?  Those irons and that putter look like something you put together!  Total Frankenstein's! 🤣

[Wham49]

the putter looks like something I would find at the Goodwill

Edited November 11, 2022 by Wham49

[mat562]

On 11/11/2022 at 7:22 PM, Wham49 said:

the putter looks like something I would find at the Goodwill

 It looks like something you'd find in the ashes of the Goodwill after a catastrophic fire.

 

 

Edited January 22 by mat562

[Chopper Dave]

Looks like he just hits everything with a belt sander until he likes it

[GrandStranded]

I’m not going to lie, most of these on site witb’s look like ads for an OEM to me. This one was amazing!

I only looked at this one because I just put a Yes! Tracy back in my bag and Goose rolled one back in the day, in fact I think he won an Open with one? I was curious to see what putter he was using now. Little did I know he done went…

[j-daniel]

all of that griding to the hosel/leading edge and no address pictures. that would have been interesting.