Metal-X #1

The Metal-X #1 stands as a single-release line, its identity fixed at one edition rather than a run of successors. Odyssey's own page describes it plainly as featuring "a rounded heel-toe weighted blade with a crank-neck hosel and full-shaft offset," a shape that put it squarely in the blade camp alongside the rest of the Metal-X family rather than the mallets that would share the insert technology.

The line's whole case rests on the Metal-X insert, and the maker's prose leans hard on that pitch: "The Metal-X insert puts a consistent, true roll on the ball with amazing feedback and feel." The stated mechanism is friction, with the maker explaining that the face design "maximizes the mechanical lock with the golf ball dimples to increase friction, which creates a much more controlled and consistent roll to help you sink more putts." Underneath that hard face, Odyssey describes a softer layer doing the work of feel: "The Urethane inner layer provides soft touch and saves weight to optimize performance." The German and Italian versions of the maker's page echo the same two-part construction, a metal face married to a urethane inner shell, told in each market's own words but pointing at the same insert.

Finish was part of the sell as much as performance. The maker's page frames the Midnight Black treatment as a response to player feedback rather than a cosmetic afterthought: "This high tech finishing process produces a durable Midnight Black Finish that reduces glare, and we added it after gathering extensive feedback from Tour players." That combination, a rounded blade shape, a friction-driven insert, and a glare-reducing black finish, is what the #1 carried as its identity within the wider Metal-X release.

Beyond the maker's own copy, what's on record for this putter comes largely from outside reporting rather than from Odyssey or from our own bench. Thehackersparadise.com's account describes handedness as "RH Standard and Belly, LH in Standard Only" and lists a head weight of "343g (Standard) and 400g (Belly)," while haggin oaks' listing notes belly availability as well. Those figures sit at odds in places with the maker's own stated standard head weight, and readers weighing the two should treat them as separate sources rather than a single confirmed number. As a line, the Metal-X #1 reads less like an evolving lineage and more like one well-documented release, its story told mostly in the maker's own promotional language and in scattered retailer notes rather than in successive generations.