Improve Your Short Game With The 16 Best Putters Of 2023

Scotty Cameron putters have been one of the most popular brands on tour since 1993. The Phantom X5 putter has been newly redesigned with a modern look from specifications to setup. This putter features a solid precision milled 303 stainless steel face followed to the body and wings, an added aluminum sole plate and stainless steel sole weights. This helps with stability and creating a face-balanced feel through the stroke.

Scotty Cameron calls this a new “mid-mallet” because of its combination of wings and blade look. The topline, curved back wings and the dark sole plate’s flange milling helps to line up your putts confidently and correctly every time.

Taylormade’s Spider Tour putter is one of the most-used putters on the PGA Tour. Last year in 2021, 65% of the top 100 PGA Tour players used a mallet style putter. The Spider GT is a great mallet because it is made with a lightweight 6061 Aluminum core and the 145 gram top plate eliminates excess weight in the middle of the putter. The heavy side steel weights help with distance control and stability to force the putter’s face to stay square throughout the duration of the stroke. 

On the Spider GT, 18% of the weight is centered in the middle to stabilize deflection when you miss the center of the club face. This new Spider is engineered with a firmer co-molded insert, manufactured of black TPU urethane with silver aluminum that beams at a 45° angle to help improve topspin. The shaft is newly engineered for maximum stability with a softer section located 5 inches from the tip to give you a greater feel and improve dispersion.

The Special Select Newport Putter is one of the most iconic putters to ever hit the golf world. This Scotty Cameron can be seen in the bags of many famous tour players, but you don’t need to be winning majors to play this putter. This classic blade design is milled from solid 303 stainless steel and has an increased sweet spot to minimize errors off the club face.

It also features a thinner top line, milled flange sight line, soft tri-sole, re-designed plumbing neck and Scotty’s tour-inspired three red dot theme. The Special Select Newport has heavier, customizable tungsten sole weights that give a modern looking finish to an iconic design.

Lining up a putt is one of the trickiest parts about putting. The S7K Standing Putter allows you to stand it up, aim it right online and get behind it while it sits upright on its own to check your alignment. The three lines on the flange make it easy to see where the head is pointed in relation to your target. And yes, if you’re wondering, the S7K putter is completely legal.

The S7K has an ultra-light shaft and grip so that the putter is able to stand alone on any green. The grip features a brushed foam surface to promote light grip pressure. When stroked, the golf ball feels soft at impact on the S7K and helps forgive mis hits with its high Moment of Inertia ranking.

Robert Bettinardi is one of the best putter designers in the game. Thanks to the close attention he pays to design details and precision milling, his putters produce a great roll on the greens. The Studio Stock 28 Putter features Roll Control Face Milling from a solid block of 303 stainless steel. This version of milling is engineered to get the ball into a true roll faster while still producing a comforting sound off the face. This putter is made in the USA and finished with Bettinardi’s signature, smooth Diamond Blast finish to appease the eye. The SS28 comes with a tour-grade shaft and Lamkin SINK Fit grip in both standard and jumbo sizes.

Odyssey’s White Hot OG Putter has been a staple of the brand for years. This putter is best for ladies who like to keep putting simple. The double bend face-balanced mallet is best suited for strokes with minimal face rotation and arc, or more of a straight back and straight through stroke. Staring down at a putter with various alignment lines can be overwhelming. Odyssey’s two ball look allows you to easily set up to putts without overthinking. The White Hot OG comes with a two-part urethane insert that allows for a pleasant sound and feel as the ball strikes the club face.

If you are a golfer who has trouble settling into one type of stroke or likes to experiment with different putting styles, the Ping Heppler Tyne 3 is the mallet for you. This putter is adjustable in shaft length and extends from 32 t0 36 inches. It’s machined with a solid face for golfers who like to feel a firmer impact and stroke in a slight arc. A single line and the wings on the head help with easy alignment and set up. The Heppler is made from multi-material of cast aluminum and steel to provide extra forgiveness and aid in consistency. This mallet is available in a couple different grip options based on your preference of look and feel.

The Pinemeadow Golf PGX Putter is affordable and functional. This is a great putter if you’re new to the game or not ready to splurge on the latest and greatest upgrade. This mallet comes in a brilliant white finish that stands out on the green. The putter weighs in at 380 grams, making it “tour-weighted” and suitable for all levels of play. The longer alignment aid makes it easy to line up putts and square the club face to your target, while the three lines help with placing the ball in the center of the club face at address to ensure you hit the sweet spot during your stroke. This helps produces a pure roll on any green.

An ideal putting stroke is straight back and straight forward through the ball. Golfers try any number of grips and arm movements to develop that move. Still, there are those players who struggle with straighter, uninterrupted movement. Their putter turns and arcs in their stroke in a rounder path more akin to a general golf swing. If the putter has too much lag in the shaft, the ball will push or pull out of line on its way to the cup.

To get the putter faces shut, the putter needs to be well-balanced and possess zero lag. It to extend directly into the head, and that’s what this TaylorMade does with its weighted, U-shaped design.

While expensive at $400, the Series 02 Drac mallet putter comes to us from a boutique golf studio at Sacks Parente where great detail and careful assembly goes into every stick.

This vampiric, bat-shaped implement aids any player who’s less than sure with their hands. It’s designed and manufactured with a fanged U shape to produce better balance, stability and a reassuring feel on contact.

It doesn’t hurt that it looks great with its signature red and black appointments. Even if you miss a six-footer for par, you’ll still be playing with the best-looking putter on the green.

No club coming out of PXG’s Scottsdale facility gets into your bag on the cheap. That’s because the people behind the golf manufacturer consider the company to be more about research and development than sporting goods. Exhaustive research went into the adjustable weighting of the PXG Battle Ready Putter, and the attention detail is obvious at first glance.

The 100% miller putter uses weighted heel-toe wings and two replaceable sole weights that can be removed and adjusted to fit the player’s putting stroke. Of course, as with all PXG implements, it only comes in black.

At first glance, it might be a highly-advanced putter—or it could be a small-scale model of a stealth bomber. Either way, the Cleveland Golf Frontline Elite Elevado Putter catches the eye with its black and chrome finishes wrapped around an aggressive winged design.

A highly advanced piece of kit, the Elevado employs a softer tungsten blend and Cleveland Golf’s proprietary Speed Optimized Face Technology for more consistent contact on all strikes, and material for a forward CG and straighter leads to more accurate putts. 

According to Cleveland, all Frontline Elite Putters feature a grip, hosel and alignment scheme designed specifically for a slight arc or straight stroke movement. Season to taste.

There is only one putter on this list that can lay claim to complete hand manufacturing, and that’s this Greenwood Tour Series Natural Putter. It’s hand-finished from North American Black Walnut and wrapped in a premium grade Cabretta leather grip. Hand-sewn lacing creates a rib on the back of the grip to act as a hand guide.

There was a time when all putters were made of wood (as were all clubs), and Greenwood turns its eye to that classic era. Its standard weight of 340 grams allows for good touch and feel while the 0-degree loft lets you make a sound stroke, whether you arc or swing straight through the ball.

Until a couple of years ago, a broomstick putter was more often referred to as a belly or anchor putter. It’s a club with a much longer shaft—about 46 inches, whereas the average standard putter might go 36 inches. The player would put two hands on the grip and tuck the end of the shaft into the torso, holding it steady and making putting more of a full body movement.

Then the USGA and the Royal & Ancient got together and changed the general rules of golf so that any club could only be guided by two hands. While it’s no longer legal to anchor the putter into the body, a broomstick putter can still be used to “sweep” the golf ball instead of stroking a putt with a standard shaped club. This Bell broomstick unit offers good balance and a flush (non-offset) blade head to enhance that sweeping motion.

Miura is a small Japanese firm that makes elite, forged golf clubs for luxury-minded golfers who can afford the best craftsmanship. The club face is made of milled Japanese stainless steel.

This company puts human hands to work as often as possible, and that same process goes into the KM1. At $999, it’s easily one of the more expensive off the rack putters you can buy—but you can feel the quality on every shot.

While metal is the dominant material in today’s putters—replacing the wooden elements of past centuries—a few small manufacturers make stone putters to provide more assuring weight in the putting stroke.

Rune Stoneworks provides that weight in a mallet design, and they create a pleasant dark aesthetic with a head carved from African Wonderstone with an inlayed band of Italian alabaster crystal. When all is said and done, this putter looks good and plays even better.