Rossie

The Rossie name goes back to 1991, per The Vintage Golfer, and the line has carried a mid-mallet identity through more than three decades of Odyssey putters since. One community member at thehackersparadise.com recalled the Rossie as a putter their father favored for years, a small marker of how far back the shape's loyalty runs in real bags, not just catalogs.

The mallet stayed mostly a shape story through its middle decades, with Odyssey's own product pages describing face-balanced mallets, double-bend shafts, and full-shaft offset across releases like the Metal-X Milled Rossie and the Works-era Rossie I and Rossie II. The 2013 White Hot Pro Rossie carried the Gun Metal PVD finish and the Laser Milling insert cutting process that Odyssey's page describes, and it picked up a Golf Digest Hot List Gold Medal that year, with Golf Digest calling it their testers' favorite blade. Community sentiment on the early White Hot builds was mixed on the insert question: golfreview.com found the Rossie had a slight edge over other putters tested, while noting hesitation about urethane inserts costing feel on lag putts, a tension that runs through several eras of this line.

The 2021 White Hot OG Rossie brought a visible design shift, with thehackersparadise.com describing a thinner topline and modernized overall flow alongside a double bend and slant neck option. Reviewers there liked the shape and the feel, a continuation of the White Hot insert's long reputation, echoed by golfreview.com's take on the White Hot XG Rossie, which called the insert's look a little funky but praised the feel it produced.

The most recent chapter turns toward titanium. The Ai-One Milled Rossie V T DB, per amateurgolf.com and underparreviews.com, moved to a stainless steel body with a CNC-milled titanium face insert, a navy blue PVD finish, and adjustable sole weights, at a reported $449.99 MSRP. underparreviews.com called it a premium mallet that earns its price through build quality, feel, and technology, while community opinion flagged the firmer titanium feel as a departure from the softer White Hot sensation Rossie loyalists have known, and the face-balanced setup as narrowing its audience to straight-stroke players. Across more than thirty years, the Rossie has moved from a simple mallet promise to a putter carrying some of Odyssey's most advanced face technology, with the shape itself the one constant reviewers keep coming back to.