A recently released photo of the next Odyssey Square in Square Max Putter has placed golf on social media.
Power in question has a wonderful resemblance to Golf Laboratory DF2.1 OR Df3 (Take your choice) – as much as much in the golf community are already calling it a wild knackoff. WHEREAS Odyssey She has not officially not officially announced, the story suggests she will make her way to add retail. And, with that, the inevitable debate begins: is this just another example of golf copying culture or Odyssey is stepping on the line like a drunk trying to sail cords in Phoenix Open?
Join me, do you not, in the dark breaks of my mind as I argue with myself if the seemingly wild lab Odyssey is a step far away.
“Dude, Odyssey just removed the lab”
Were they?
(Yes)
The similarity is pretty cursed and visible. But the best question is Does it really? Let us not pretend that the boys who were thrown into the lab gang after years of counterfeit scotties games that they buy eBay are suddenly concerned with intellectual property.
Two years from now will anyone remember, but the hardest dress?
Nah
“Of course, it matters! Laboratory created something unique.”
Golf is a copy industry. It has always been, it will always be. UNIQUE Comes with a 10-minute time.
Look about – 10k drivers are everywhere, almost every ball manufacturer has a knackoff pro v1 … and putter companies?
Dancing Jesus on a Pogo stick.
If you don’t have a fang and a spider -style commodity, are you trying too? Wilson’s 8802 has made more rounds than beverage carriages in your member’s silk and the number of Anseri reimensions is rivaled only by a number of Tiger operations.
“This is not just another commodity – it’s the whole concept of the lab.”
Lab has built a popular visual identity in a crowded market, but their hands are not completely clean. One might suggest that Laboratory Oz Mallet It looks like the grafted version in the center of Odyssey Odsy Rossie to the Mill’s ion Rahm from a machine that can not cut the curves. If we are going to call the square in Square Max, as some commentators have, a temple version of a lab, then should we also accept the resemblance of OZ with Odyssey (even if you can’t get Odyssey on Pink)?
And while we are in it while Laboratory connection.1 It can still store the design bases of the company, is also just another receipt about the anser.
How long does it take for a form of putter to be on the market before it is considered a fair game? I really don’t know.
“Fine. But Callaway is a billion -dollar company. They don’t need to steal from the little boy.”
To quote my brother and maybe someone before him, “Monster truck do not give him a fuck.” And Callaway (Odyssey’s parent brand) is absolutely a monster truck. Also, my brother directed a Tacoma at the time, hardly a monster truck, but I think it is neither here nor there.
However, Callaway is a behemoth doing the visible great things of behemothy but Laboratory It is not working either from the basement of CEO Sam Hahn, nor.
Lab is the brand no.3 Putter on the dollar in front of names like Taylormade and Ping. They went from the niche in the main course that Patrick Reed went from Captain America to Pariah Social.
Success invariably comes with a goal and, for now, Lab is wearing a giant neon bullseye.
“And wasn’t it the Blackbird type of PXG of the first lab of the lab that no one noticed?”
Now that you mention it (I said to yourself as a crazy person), yes, flip that bad guy and there are definitely some laboratories inspired. You can even say that all those zero torque, lie things by balancing aside, pxg made a version of Df3 Before the lab (or odyssey) did.
No one said a word.
Can I get a kaboom, baby!?
“But like Bush League was that Callaway’s vacation and desired legal team sent the lab for its use of ‘broom’?
Bush-League AF. The absurdity of the golf industry in its absolute best. There should be a price show for this kind of thing.
The irony here is rich. Callaway threat Laboratory On the name “broomstick” just to return and recreate Odyssey what probably looks a whole as a laboratory design is the type of corporate hypocrisy that deserves an eye or three.
FFS, Callaway.
You cannot form copyright (apparently). You can mark words for ordinary household words when used in a specific context.
It is stupid, but I think Callaway did not create the system.
At least Lab had the creativity to put it in a marketing victory by re -evaluating their long dates as “cleansing”. (I would have gone with “Cheater Sticks”.)
All part of a game in the industry played for no reason other than that legal teams justify their existence as full -time employees.
“This is dearer than the red red war between Odyssey and Taylormade.”
My Lord, was he sometimes forgotten (and somehow I can’t)? They both spent the best part of a season trying to redinite each other’s placeers in a competition that was as fine as it was in vain. It was the peak golf industry – everything ego, no substance.
At least there is a real technology involved this time.
“And doesn’t it look like Odyssey is also borrowing from the Lab flu?”
Yes, this is absolutely some bullets. Laboratory There are patents around them UNIQUE The syllable patterns and Odyssey version certainly seem to borrow more than a little inspiration. The lab may actually have some legal teeth (though I’m sure the lawyers equally Callaway are sure they have stuck enough around the edges).
Perhaps surprisingly, this is a part of the story that feels over the line for me.
Probably probably just issues time before Callaway take a break of them-their life circle, baby. Likes like Karma, in addition to costing $ 50,000 legal fees.
“So you are saying this is actually good for the lab?”
I actually didn’t say this but now that you mention it, there may be a silver lining for the lab. If Odyssey’s putter performs, does not prove that concept of lab design? More people who ask, “What is everything the lab?” is not a bad result. It is a courtesy of free marketing for the R&D budget of the competition. Nothing sells new locals like Fomo.
“So everything is just the right game in the world of golf equipment?”
More or less, yes. The forms are copied and torn. They always have. Fang, spider, anser and probably og rossie. Of course, there is something less liked about a giant corporation cheaply and indistinctly borrowed from smaller companies, but the reality is that golf devices have always been a “follow leaders” game with a truly mixed innovation.
And guess what, the real innovators are always copied.
“So, after all, does that matter too?”
All that is worth her salt is copied. You notice twice first and then stop taking care. Does anyone remember the first or second company to steal inspiration from Anser?
Golf equipment lives in a world of repetition and inspiration. And if the lab is really in something, this will not be the last time we see another company borrowed from their models.
Bringing this full circle: Is Odyssey Copying Lab?
Hell, yes. I may not be convinced otherwise, but this is also only business as in an industry where originality is as rare as a scratched golf player who forgets to mention his handicap or a country club that actually wants to be accessible.
The golf industry likes to talk about innovation, but loves a more secure thing. Maybe instead of getting angry who is copying who, we need to ask why big companies with all the resources that push the borders in the first place. But this is a conversation for another day, preferably after having a nap and a dose of anti-psychotics.
What do you think others?
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