Works Versa

The Odyssey Works Versa line, as our record holds it, is built around the Fusion RX range, a single generation carrying seven models, two of which came with new heads, according to golfalot.com. The idea behind Fusion RX was to pair Odyssey's established White Hot urethane insert with a thin stainless steel mesh, a construction golfalot.com describes as similar to the steel mesh used in the Metal-X range, but thinner.

Odyssey's own materials frame Fusion RX as a fusion of its most trusted insert with new roll technology, describing the pairing of the White Hot insert with an ultra thin stainless mesh as a way to get the ball into a pure roll faster. The maker's page for the Works Sabertooth Tank model ties this insert to the broader Works Versa platform, combining the Fusion RX face with the Sabertooth head's dual fangs for added MOI and alignment, alongside Versa's high contrast styling, Tank counterbalancing, a double-bend shaft, and full-shaft offset.

Reviewers who put the Fusion RX insert in hand landed in different places on how it actually felt and sounded. Some praised it for sounding better at impact, with more feedback like a steel face and a very consistent roll, while also noting that feel came across as muted compared to both White Hot and steel, and that grass could get caught in the steel mesh. Golfalot.com's own take was more measured, calling it kind of in the middle of the two, neither White Hot nor steel cold, and suggesting it might not be right for players expecting the feedback of either extreme, since the feel seemed muted by comparison to both.