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AI is coming for us all, writers, accountants and teachers included. In fact, not even golf club designers are safe these days. It was four years ago that Callaway first introduced artificial intelligence into its clubs with the Flash Face, and now the brand has once again made the leap to bring machine learning to its Odyssey putters. This is the Ai-ONE line, and it’s all the rage in the golf industry right now. Naturally, we had to find out why first hand.It may come as no surprise that reviewing a putter during November in the Northeast is a bit more difficult than it sounds. Our first attempt was met with a dismissive laugh from the golfing gods, who served up freshly aerated greens at a course in Connecticut. Hardly the ideal conditions for giving a new putter a proper test run. We’re...

AI is coming for us all, writers, accountants and teachers included. In fact, not even golf club designers are safe these days. It was four years ago that Callaway first introduced artificial intelligence into its clubs with the Flash Face, and now the brand has once again made the leap to bring machine learning to its Odyssey putters. This is the Ai-ONE line, and it’s all the rage in the golf industry right now. Naturally, we had to find out why first hand.It may come as no surprise that reviewing a putter during November in the Northeast is a bit more difficult than it sounds. Our first attempt was met with a dismissive laugh from the golfing gods, who served up freshly aerated greens at a course in Connecticut. Hardly the ideal conditions for giving a new putter a proper test run. We’re...