“Previous-gen black wood with the same controllable, lower-spin brief as the current model. A strong used-market buy for the better player who wants OnOff feel off the deck without paying current retail.”

OnOff is the premium golf brand of Globeride Inc. (formerly Daiwa Seiko), a major Japanese sporting-goods maker better known internationally for fishing tackle. The 2020 Fairway Arms KURO ('black') sits at the power-focused top of OnOff's range, positioned opposite the brand's more forgiving 'LZ' line, and carries a Power Trench sole design plus a variable-thickness face intended to maximize ball speed and hold a high, low-spin launch for attacking pins from the fairway. It is one of many annual iterations of the Kuro nameplate that OnOff has continued producing (a 2024 Kuro fairway wood exists as well), reflecting the brand's steady, tour-adjacent presence in Japan's premium equipment market.

OnOff is a genuinely respected Japanese premium brand with real engineering pedigree - enough that MyGolfSpy dedicated a 'Know Your Japanese Brands' feature to it - but it carries no broad Western cult following; its distribution in the US runs almost entirely through JDM/import specialists (2nd Swing, TourSpecGolf) rather than mainstream retail.

Best for mid-to-low handicap golfers who want a premium, adjustable, tour-styled Japanese fairway wood and are willing to pay an import premium for it; not the rational choice for a budget-focused high handicapper, who would get more raw forgiveness per dollar from a mainstream US brand's game-improvement fairway.

• OnOff is a brand of Globeride Inc. (formerly Daiwa Seiko), one of Japan's major sporting-goods conglomerates, per MyGolfSpy's brand profile.
• KURO ('black' in Japanese) is OnOff's power/distance-focused flagship line, positioned opposite the brand's lighter, more forgiving LZ range.
• Uses a Power Trench sole design and variable-thickness face aimed at high launch with low spin for attacking greens from the fairway.
• Features an adjustable hosel for loft fine-tuning.
• OnOff has continued the Kuro nameplate at least through a 2024 fairway wood release, indicating multi-generation product continuity rather than a one-off model.

The 2020 Kuro family competed against domestic Japanese flagships like Honma's TW747 and Bridgestone's Tour B XD-9, as well as against imported mainstream options such as Callaway Mavrik and TaylorMade SIM; OnOff has continued the Kuro nameplate in subsequent years, with a 2024 Fairway Arms Kuro documented by US import retailers.

As of 2026 this specific model was showing 'out of stock/no longer available' at 2nd Swing, its main US used-market channel; comparable-tier used JDM premium fairway woods with a stock Japanese shaft typically trade around $150-250 privately, against an original import retail likely in the $500-650 range (OnOff's Kuro driver retails near $650).