White Hot OG #5 SB

The 2021 White Hot OG #5 SB puts Odyssey's original insert formula back into the #5 head, a face-balanced mallet built on a single bend shaft. The maker's page is direct about who this suits: "best suited for strokes with minimal arc and face rotation," which places it squarely with players looking for a straight-back, straight-through stroke rather than an arced one. Thehackersparadise.com describes the head the same way across its coverage, calling it the "classic #5 SB (single bend) for the mid-mallet option," though that description comes from the publication rather than from Odyssey or from a verified spec sheet.

What Odyssey is selling here is the insert's return as much as the head shape. The maker's copy leans hard on that history, calling White Hot "the most iconic, most played, and most decorated putter insert of all time" and noting it "set a standard in insert technology for nearly 20 years." The OG treatment wraps that insert in "a rich silver PVD finish, and a fine milling on the finishes," and the maker frames the whole release as bringing back "the original formulation" rather than a reworked one.

Within the 2021 White Hot OG line, the #5 SB was offered on both stepless steel and the new red Stroke Lab shaft, each fitted with a gray DFX grip per the maker's page. That gives buyers a choice of shaft technology on the same head and insert, with the single bend construction the constant that ties the #5 SB to the face-balanced, low-arc stroke Odyssey names directly in its own description.