#5 SB

The Odyssey #5 SB carries a single release on record, the White Hot OG #5 SB of 2021, and it arrives already carrying decades of lineage in its name. Odyssey's own product page describes the #5 as a face-balanced mallet with a single bend shaft, built for players with minimal arc and face rotation in their stroke, a description the maker repeats across its listings for both the stepless steel and Stroke Lab versions.

What the 2021 release revives is the insert, not the shape. Odyssey's page positions White Hot as the brand's most iconic and most decorated putter insert, noting it set a standard in insert technology for nearly two decades. The maker frames the OG designation as a deliberate return to that original formulation, paired here with a silver PVD finish and fine milling, and offered in either a premium stepless steel shaft or the multi-material Stroke Lab shaft.

The Hacker's Paradise, reporting on the same release, describes the head as a classic #5 SB single bend in the mid-mallet category, consistent with Odyssey's own face-balanced framing, and lists the White Hot insert as central to the build. On this record, the #5 SB's arc begins and ends at that single 2021 point, a shape with a long pedigree getting one specific, dated outing under the White Hot OG name.