TOUR MISS has been researching and singing the praise of using centre shaft putters for many years.

Now this research has seen Sweden’s Kris Broberg become the latest to reap the rewards of using a centre-shaft putter and claiming a maiden European Tour success in capturing the BMW Masters in Shanghai.

And while the Swede used an Odyssey 2-Ball putter to win a maiden European Tour victory Broberg revealed an interesting tale how the putter found its way into his bag.

Kris Broberg with his Odyssey 2-Ball centre-shaft putter & only route to victory in the BMW Masters. (Photo – Fran Caffrey/www.golffile.ie)

“Last week in my coach’s studio in Sweden, I’m putting indoors and I was like, I don’t putt it good,” he said.

“So I just look in his coach wife’s bag — she stopped playing now. Nice centre-shafted, Odyssey 2ball, so maybe use that one. I tried it, sampled it, and the stroke went much, much better with the technique. So I just — yeah, I keep it. It was pretty good.”

And after being ranked 60th on the Race to Dubai heading into the BMW Masters Broberg has now easily cemented his place in the 2015 season-closing event.

Kris Broberg singles out a change to using a centre-shaft putter as pivotal to his maiden European Tour victory in the BMW Masters.
Picture: Golffile | Fran Caffrey

“I don’t have any celebrations plans tonight as I am flying to Dubai so maybe next week in Dubai and after the tournament,” he said.

“But my expectations for this week was just, I want to play my into the final event in Dubai. It looks good after two rounds. I always say to myself, there’s two more rounds to go, and one more round to go. Just very, very happy to win.”