Madison H1
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The Record
Written from the sources it cites · machine-drafted for the Community to correctThe Madison H1 is Toulon Design's traditional blade entry in the Madison line, built as a heel toe weighted head for players with moderate arc and face rotation. Odyssey's own page for the 2022 Toulon Design lineup describes the Madison as "a tour proven classically designed heel toe weighted blade best suited for strokes with moderate arc and face rotation," and notes that the line "have been completely reimagined to improve performance witha new Deep Diamond Groove mill pattern, split weighting system, our new Stroke Lab shaft and midsize pistol grip." That maker's-page language lines up with what golfsupport.com reports specifically on the H1: a Deep Diamond Groove Mill Patterned face, a pistol grip, a Stroke Lab shaft, and a matching headcover, sold in 33, 34, and 35 inch lengths.
On the weighting, golfsupport.com's editorial writeup describes 40 grams moved from the shaft into the head and heel, which tracks with the maker's own account of the Stroke Lab shaft saving "40 grams of weight, which is redistributed to the head and grip end of the putter" to rebalance the stroke. Golfsupport.com's reviewers were enthusiastic about the head itself, calling the deep diamond groove milling one of the best treatments on any blade putter currently sold, with one write-up stating plainly that it "makes the Toulon Madison design one of the best blade putters on the market." That same source credited the Stroke Lab shaft with helping tempo and consistency, echoing the maker's own claim that Stroke Lab is meant to improve exactly that.
Set against the Madison line's history, the H1 reads as a continuation rather than a departure. Earlier Madison releases, like the 2017 H8 AR and H8 MR, leaned on tungsten and stainless sole plates and CounterCore grip weights to hit specific head weights and toe-down angles, with Odyssey's page for those versions noting the pattern was "designed after rigorous testing of 25 different mill patterns." The H1's split-weight, Stroke Lab approach shows the same blade shape and diamond milling philosophy carried forward into a different weighting system, with the sole plate and grip counterweights of the H8 generation replaced by the shaft-to-head weight transfer described for the 2022 line.
Sources: odysseygolf.com/toulon-design (captured 2022) · odysseygolf.com/toulon-design (captured 2019)
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The Madison line
Releases of this line from the Putter Talk record. Similarly named models are separate putters with their own pages.
What the Community says
“The old school blade head with the new deep diamond groove mill pattern makes the Toulon Madison design one of the best blade putters on the market.”
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