White Hot XG Marxman
Putter Talk's cited, Community-built account of this putter. Facts are sourced, photos are contributed, opinions are the Community's.
The Record
Written from the sources it cites · machine-drafted for the Community to correctThe Marxman sits in the Progressive line of Odyssey's White Hot XG series, built around a mallet-type head rather than the 2 Ball design that defines most of that lineup. Streetdirectory.com describes it as carrying a semi-circular ring of metal added to the rear of the club head, which the publication calls Saturn Ring Technology, paired with long alignment stripes for aiming. That same outlet reports the design is meant to redistribute weight and improve MOI, reducing twisting on off-center putts, though this is the publication's characterization rather than a verified spec.
Streetdirectory.com also notes the Marxman came in a center-shafted, no-offset configuration as the mallet-type model, though the outlet elsewhere lists both full shaft offset and half-shaft offset among the Progressive putters, and separately references both in-line weighting and mallet-versus-blade variants across the line, so the exact configuration for the Marxman specifically is not always cleanly separated from the broader Progressive group in that reporting. The same source lists availability in standard length and a long-shafted version, a left-handed version of the mallet model, and pricing given as $169 USD in one place and $189 USD in another, a discrepancy the outlet itself doesn't reconcile.
On reception, streetdirectory.com writes that the remaining five putters in the Progressive line are 2 Ball putters and that "these have become popular with PGA Tour pros," a line that reads as commentary on the Progressive family broadly rather than a Tour-usage claim specific to the Marxman's mallet design. Community sentiment attributed to the model itself, praising it as popular with PGA Tour pros, echoes that same framing. Within the White Hot XG family, the Marxman stands out as the non-2 Ball entry, its identity built on the ring-weighted rear cavity rather than the two-ball alignment cue that carried most of the line's reputation.
Sources: de.odysseygolf.com/putter (captured 2014)
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The White Hot XG 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 remaining five putters in the Progressive line are 2 Ball putters, and these have become popular with PGA Tour pros.”
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