White Hot OG

Odyssey released the White Hot OG line in 2021, bringing back the original White Hot insert formula rather than a reinterpretation of it. According to thehackersparadise.com, the release arrived January 28, 2021, and the changes from prior White Hot generations centered on finish, surface milling, and weight placement rather than the insert itself. The same publication reports the insert as a White Hot two-part urethane formula matching the original in formula, composition, and processes, paired with a satin silver PVD finish and fine milling attentive to edge radii.

Odyssey's own page describes the White Hot insert as the most iconic, most played, and most decorated putter insert of all time, and states that the original formulation, feel, sound and performance have been brought back at the request of Tour players and golfers. The maker also describes pairing a silver PVD finish with fine milling on key surfaces, and credits the shaft, an updated Stroke Lab design, with being shortened in its steel section to cut seven grams versus the original Stroke Lab while adding stiffness. Thehackersparadise.com's own figures on the shaft align with this, listing the steel section as shorter and roughly seven grams lighter with a stiffer overall profile, and pricing the release at $219.99 for steel and $269.99 for Stroke Lab, per that outlet.

Head shapes carried over the familiar OG range, including the #1 and #1 WS blades, the #5 SB mid-mallet, the Rossie mallet, the 2-Ball, and the #7, per thehackersparadise.com. Community sentiment gathered on the release leaned positive on feel and roll, with the insert's reputation doing much of the talking; thehackersparadise.com's own review called it not just tech, but legend, while also noting personal disdain for the OG name itself even as it credited the putter's popularity everywhere. That tension, a lukewarm reaction to the branding sitting alongside enthusiasm for what the putter actually does at impact, is about as close as the record gets to a dispute on this release.