O-Works Red and Black Putters

The 2018 O-Works Red and Black putters brought the line's Microhinge face insert into two new finishes, according to amateurgolf.com, which reported the release hitting retail on February 23, 2018, in an all-black finish and a red finish, at a starting price of $199.99. The insert itself, per that same reporting, carries over the line's stainless steel Microhinge plate co-molded into a Thermoplastic Elastomer Feel Layer, the same insert technology that had already drawn attention elsewhere in the O-Works catalog.

That attention is worth noting. Odyssey's own blog pointed to Golf Magazine's Club Test coverage of the O-Works V-Line Fang, where the panel called it "one of the best in the test" and praised the Microhinge face for producing "a smooth, consistent roll." That review wasn't of the Red and Black release specifically, and it isn't the house's own testing, but it speaks to the reputation the Microhinge insert had built across the O-Works line by the time this colorway arrived.

Against that backdrop, the Red and Black edition reads as a finish variant rather than a mechanical departure: the insert, the plate, the feel layer all carry over as reported, with the black and red treatments as the news. Whether that's enough to distinguish it within a crowded O-Works lineup is something the reader can weigh against the rest of the family.