Mezz.1

The Mezz.1 line opens in 2022 with the Mezz.1 Max, a wing-back mallet built to carry L.A.B.'s zero-torque philosophy into a shape more familiar to the putting green than the original Directed Force models. Golf.com noted that the Mezz.1 Max generated considerable buzz on the PGA Tour, and reviewers split on what it felt like to hold. Underparreviews.com called it the most forgiving and stable zero-torque putter in L.A.B.'s lineup, wrapped in a familiar fang-mallet shape that will not scare off golfers accustomed to traditional designs, while 2ndswing.com described outrageous stability and the most forgiveness possible in a wing-back design. Not everyone came around on the look or the sound: the aesthetics were called unusual, the price premium, and the soft aluminum sound was flagged as a preference some would not share.

From that Max platform, the line splits into builds rather than new generations. The 2ndswing.com maker's page lists Standard-Length, ArmLock and Broomstick as available builds, and the record carries a MEZZ.1 MAX Broomstick as its own release. Pluggedingolf.com called it plainly the hottest putter on Tour, a claim about tour presence rather than retail performance, but notable for how quickly the long-and-broomstick variant found play at that level.

Alongside the Max, the plain MEZZ.1 arrives as the line's attempt at disguise. Where the Max wears its wing-back shape openly, the MEZZ.1 is built, in customclubs.eu's words, to look pretty much like a normal mid-mallet putter while, unlike those other putters, it actually helps you hole more putts. Pluggedingolf.com framed it as a re-packaging of the same radical technology in a smaller, more attractive package, one meant to win back golfers who had been unwilling to give L.A.B. a go before. Carlsgolfland.com's read on the feel matched that intent: you'll get the feedback of steel, but won't be penalized in terms of forgiveness on off-center hits. Even here, though, the shape didn't convert everyone. Traditionalists were called out directly as a group the design won't win over, and the grip logo drew its own complaint.

The MEZZ.1 MAX Custom carries the disguise furthest. Both customclubs.eu quotes on it repeat the same line nearly verbatim, that it looks pretty much like a normal putter, but it actually helps you make putts, language borrowed almost directly from how reviewers described the standard MEZZ.1. Across its five releases, the Mezz.1 name has moved from an unmistakably strange-looking Max to variants built specifically to not look strange at all, while the reviewers keep circling back to the same tension: forgiveness and stability that reviewers praise consistently, set against a shape and sound that some still have to make peace with.