“The most stable shape in the OMOI lineup, with a center shaft and face-balanced setup that suits a pure straight-back-straight-through stroke. Good option for members moving from a mainstream mallet who still want Mizuno's forged feel.”
The OMOI 05 is the oddball of Mizuno's heavyweight putter family and all the more charming for it: a half-moon full mallet, center-shafted and face-balanced, forged from 1025 mild carbon steel and CNC milled like its siblings. Added in the 2023 expansion of the OMOI line, it is the only center-shaft offering in the range, and reviewers found the layout made squaring the face to the target feel almost automatic. Golf Monthly praised a soft yet responsive strike off the milled face that made pace control easy, and like every OMOI it ships with a weight kit so you can dial the already-heavy head to taste. Finishes span double nickel, blue ion and black ion.
The only center-shaft, face-balanced head in a well-reviewed boutique line — beloved by the small center-shaft crowd but barely marketed, which is textbook sleeper territory.
Golfers with straight-back-straight-through strokes and anyone who aligns better looking down a center shaft; suits mid-to-high handicappers and steady-tempo players of any level.
One of the three 2023 additions that grew M.Craft OMOI to six heads, and Mizuno's first center-shaft entry in its modern milled-putter era that began with M.Craft in 2020.
Face-balanced full mallet at heavyweight spec with adjustable port weights; the mass and balance strongly resist face rotation on off-center strikes.
Calibrated across the whole catalog — a tour blade scores low here on purpose; it means control, not ease.
Appears less often used than the mainstream OMOI blades because center-shaft demand is niche; when OMOI heads do list at 2nd Swing they run roughly $95-$135, far under the $350 retail.
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