The TRUTH About The LAB Golf Oz.1i HS Putter

LAB Golf has finally made a heel shafted putter… but is it any good?

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0:00 Unboxing Lab Oz1 HS
2:10 First Putts
3:18 Putting Green
5:06 Comparing To Original Oz1i
7:47 First Round Impression
9:35 The “tricky part” with LAB Golf
10:33 Final Thoughts

Lab golf putters have taken over the game of golf in 2024 and 2025. The most talked about innovation product thing in the game, every website, every reporter, every piece of coverage is about Lab Golf because they make really, really good putters that turn bad putters into good putters. And you’ve seen it on the PGA Tour. There’s a lot of players that since switching to a loud putter have reached levels they never even came close to before. I’ve tested a couple of them. I’ve tested the DF3 and the Oz one eye and I’m so impressed. But they just haven’t earned a spot in my bag because I like a lot of golfers struggle with the setter shaft. But right here we have the very first heelshafted lab putter. Going to open it. Going to test it. I’m going to give my thoughts and see if this thing can finally in our spot in the bag. I’m not lying, y’all. This is literally a live unboxing. I think what they’re doing is phenomenal. Let’s Let’s be real. Yes, they’re expensive, but yes, they’re making golf a lot more fun for a lot of golfers. To feel automatic inside six feet is an incredible feeling. And that’s what PJ tours practiced for hours a day to feel like and putters allowing just your Joe blow to feel like that. It save strokes because of that. That could be worth that price tag easily for a lot of people. So I went zero shaftling, zero degrees of shaft. Basically the same as my original Oz. Oh. Visually, not looking down at a center shaft is so much more appeal. I liked those putters. I made a lot of putts with them, but I just couldn’t look at it for a long time. And what I didn’t like about DF3, I exper I got it in Oz. I got a better feel off the face, better distance control on fast greens, but I just struggled to line it up. We feel really confident with that. Hopefully, this is the ticket. I’m going to roll a few putts and then we’re going to go to the golf course. It looks different. Like it I guess I’ve grown used to the center shaft when I look down. It’s still going through the center, but this riser takes it off the center of the putter face and to the heel, which is what so many people wanted. It’s so stable. But now I can feel with zero shaft lead, I could give that little forward press that I always do in my stroke and just rock it. Whereas the center shaft, I felt when I gave that little forward press, maybe I subtly messed with the lie angle or I opened the face a little bit and I struggled and I would miss the original oz. I would miss it left because of just that kind of subtle release in my stroke. But that is that’s really impressive where you go to the golf course and we’ll bring the original Oz and we’ll kind of see the difference out there. [Music] So 10 15 minutes just getting a feel for it. I mean it feels like a lab putter but it feels different. like it feels like I can release it but I’m not compromising something. I mean, it could be in my head, but I always felt with like obviously I didn’t I couldn’t release the DF3. And that was good and all, but I kind of had to change my stroke for the DF3, but with the Oz, the smaller head, felt like I could release it and I liked it. But that paired with a struggle of alignment became a challenge during rounds, putts, you know, like like this that that matter. Just couldn’t quite line it up. This definitely is easier to line up to my eye. [Music] And like I hit that one off the toe. That was a bad putt. But that’s the benefit of the the zero torque. like totally mis hit that but the speed and everything kind of maintained whereas with other putters that strike probably missed but talking about the original Oz just grab it see the difference so I have different markings pretty similar front line but I did a back line different I didn’t even do a back line on my original Oz the original Oz maybe it’s just because of my markings but it feels a wee bit smaller smaller, but not like really. I could be completely wrong. Could just be because of my markings. It is. It’s a touch smaller. The new one is a hair bigger. Blade length is like the same, but I find like this center shaft, it’s hard for me. I do this and the face opens. Whereas where that shaft is, I do this and the face stays square. I mean, this felt awesome. Don’t get me wrong, but I would find I’d do this and to my eye it’d be a challenge to line up. This one, like the original, I just kind of had I couldn’t really press it as much and I had to really just rock and and really have very little to no release. And that’s not comfortable to me. Whereas on first glance, on first go, this heel shaft I can line up a lot better. And when I do bump it a little bit, it doesn’t feel like the face opens on me. The feel off the face is a little different, but I wonder if that’s because I mean, here you have the shaft that you’re holding directly behind where you hit the ball. Now, the sensation of contact, it’s being diffused a little bit through the riser. They’re both fantastic putters, but when I see this next to this, I prefer this. When I first saw it, like you you saw it with me, it was like, okay, that’s different. Took a little bit. But now, when you get out here and you kind of just turn golfer brain on, you just walk up and, you know, do what you got to do. Again, that was a little off the toe. Yeah, this one is it definitely feels a little tingier, but I think that’s just where the shaft is relative to this. I mean, you do have a thicker part right here that the the shaft does go into. You have a much thinner part right here. So, obviously, that’s going to translate to a different feel of impact. First impression is pretty impressive, but I’m going to play golf tomorrow at a really difficult golf course in a Champion store prom, so that helps. But perfect greens to make some putts that matter. So, let’s go play Fork and Friends ProAm with this bad boy. So, 18 holes with this thing. It was a shamble. So, I got to putt on every single hole on probably the purest greens I’ve rolled in years. Rolling an 11 12 and perfect. absolutely perfect. Where you hit the ball, where it started is where it went. Subtlety, not a lot of obvious breaks. So, it’s it’s not the easiest course to make a lot of putts on, but if you get the reads, you can make a lot of putts. I made one I made one putt all day. And at first glance, that’s a little frustrating. But I didn’t hit a single bad putt all day. And when I puted from like off the green down on the the Zoya up, it’s Donald Ross. Even if I caught it a little like off the toe because you’re trying to hit it up that hill. The distance control, the start line control, it was so good. Not seeing anything go in, I think, can be misleading when we’re testing new putters because we don’t see it go in, we think it’s not a very good putter, and then it’s easy to think, “Ah, if only I was using my putter, I would have made some more putts today.” and we would have we would have scored a little bit better for the tournament for the prom or I would have scored a little bit better. You have to like shake away from that. You have to kind of just be very unaware. Don’t pay attention to the results. Did you hit good putts? Did the ball start on the line? How was your distance control? And this ticked all the boxes. Visually, I don’t love the high riser. I don’t love it cuz I like a short little little neck on my putter. I’ve used it for so long. It’s okay. Lining it up way way easier. Just the way the stroke felt with this was really good. But I I had to remind myself the ball going in the hole was not what I was paying attention to. It was challenging. Where lab can be a bit tricky is if I didn’t like these alignment lines, that could have been a problem. And when you’re building it online, you’re kind of guessing because there’s so many options on these markings. And I like these. Do I love them? Are they 10 out of 10? No, they’re not 10 out of 10. They’re probably about a nine. I would have loved this white just to be almost as wide as the three lines up here on the top. And then with the shaft, like I’ve been using the Acra shaft in all of these. Is that the right one? I don’t know. The feel seems fine to me, but talking to people that use Lab putters, there’s different shaft options. And maybe the TPT would be a bit better. Maybe the gears, I don’t know. And that’s where unless you do wi do it with like a proper fitter for your lab putter, there is a bit of guesswork and you got to hope at that price tag you don’t guess wrong because that would be just like unfortunate. But this product as a whole, it’s not like it’s gonna instantly go in the bag, but it’s gonna stay in the bag because what I experienced out there was really, really good. I just would have really liked putts go in. I got to putt with it more in rounds to get a better understanding of this being a potential gamer surefire X replacement. But the feel, the distance control, the start line control, it’s so good. Like, there’s a lot to be said about why these are so popular because they tick all of those boxes. And for a lot of bad putters, people that struggle, short range, active hands, it just it it becomes automatic inside 3, four, five, six feet for so many golfers. If you were already automatic in that area, you may maybe don’t reap the major benefits that some would in a lab putter. But them going in this direction, giving more golfers what they’re asking for away from the center shaft, still finding a way to keep it low torque with a heel shafted putter. Full marks. Lab is definitely not slowing down, especially since they’ve acquired all of this private equity investment to just continue to grow and expand and make better products and listen to golfers and give golfers what they’re asking for because I think if you pulled the hundred golfers that have switched to lab putters, pretty close to all of them would say, “Yeah, I’m really glad I did.” This thing’s going to stay in the bag for a little bit longer. Pay attention as I make videos if in Instagram like how we’re rolling this thing. But lab, thank you for the putter. Thank you for this experience throughout from DF3 to Oz 1i to OZ1 IHS. Let me know down in those comments below. Have you tested this yet? What are your thoughts? And we’ll see you in the next video.