Fang

The Odyssey White Hot RX V-Line Fang is a hybrid mallet built around perimeter-weighted fangs and dual alignment channels, paired with the White Hot RX insert, a double-bend shaft, and full-shaft offset. The maker's page describes it plainly as "a hybrid mallet design with perimeter-weighted fangs, and dual alignment channels, an improved White Hot insert with our award-winning roll technology, a double-bend shaft and full-shaft offset." Odyssey's own materials date its availability to 26/2/16, and a women's version of the same head shipped alongside it.

The insert itself gets the bulk of the maker's pitch: a dual layer injected molded insert with a softer core, an oval pattern borrowed from the Metal-X and Works lines for quicker roll, and a textured clear coat on the face meant to add friction and speed the ball toward true roll sooner. Odyssey frames this as the next step for White Hot itself, writing that they've "reached the next evolution in White Hot feel and combined it with better roll to get the ball in to a pure roll faster to help control your speed."

Golfalot.com, reviewing the Fang model line rather than this specific release, noted that tour players had been moving from the 2-Ball to the Fang over time "due to the added gains in performance and MOI," an opinion about the broader shift rather than a verified fact about this particular putter. The same outlet also reported that the Fang did not exist as a model in 2000, which places this V-Line Fang release as part of a line that came later rather than one with roots at the turn of the century.