O-Works #2

The O-Works #2 arrived in 2017 as part of Odyssey's O-Works line, and the maker's own page describes it plainly: "a modified, squared off heel-toe weighted blade with sole weights, high contrast Versa alignment, Microhinge Face Insert, full-shaft offset and a Superstroke grip." That's a lot of technology packed into a shape the maker still calls a blade, and the record from mygolfway.com and hagginoaks.com backs that categorization, listing it as a blade shape.

The centerpiece the maker leans on hardest is the Microhinge Face Insert, described on the maker's page as a stainless steel plate co-molded into a Thermoplastic Elastomer Feel Layer. The stated purpose is straightforward: "provides incredible gains in topspin and roll at impact regardless of your stroke." Paired with that is the high contrast Versa alignment treatment, which the maker's copy frames as a way to "key in on the linear designs to highlight the proper face angle from address to impact," with added red highlight lines for target lining. The full-shaft offset and Superstroke grip round out the spec as shipped.

On accolades, the maker's page notes the O-Works #2 as a Golf Digest 2017 Hot List Gold Medal Winner, repeated twice in the same copy for emphasis. Availability is thinner in the record: hagginoaks.com reports it as not available in left handed, though that comes from a retailer listing rather than the maker directly.

Within the O-Works family, the #2 sits as one of the numbered blade variants built around the same Microhinge and Versa technologies the line was built to showcase, distinguished mainly by its squared off heel-toe blade shape rather than by any different insert or alignment approach.