LAB Golf OZ.1i

The OZ.1i is the stainless steel insert version of L.A.B. Golf's OZ.1, distinguished from the rest of the line by that insert. Drivingrangeheroes.com reported the insert as mechanically bonded to a fly-milled, medium-depth stainless steel piece, and described the resulting sound as a "tock," moderately muted, more clicky off-center. The same publication logged the feel as firmer, and noted shaft lean options of 2º shaft lean and 0º vertical lean.

Opinion on the OZ.1i's feel isn't uniform. Community and reviewer sentiment collected on the model describe it as more responsive with better feedback, and drivingrangeheroes.com's own review called the stainless steel more responsive with better feedback in the hands, language that sits a little at odds with that same outlet's firmer-feel characterization elsewhere in its reporting. That gap between a firmer face and a putter praised for responsiveness and one of the better rolls seen is worth sitting with rather than smoothing over.

Against the rest of the OZ.1 line, the OZ.1i's identity is built around that insert choice, the material and milling are what separates it on paper, and the feedback it produces at impact is what separates it, by report, in the hands.