By Dave Wolfe
Most Wanted Mallet Putter 2015
Last week we unveiled the Carbon Putters Ringo 1/4 as the Most Wanted Blade of 2015. This week, the competition shifts to the larger putter brethren, the mallets!
We have assembled 28 mallet putters from various manufacturers and put them to the #Datacratic test to determine if any of them can actually help you to make more putts.
We have putters from the large manufacturers, as well as some from small putter shops you may be hearing about for the first time today. All are on equal footing. All of them have the chance to be the 2015 Most Wanted Mallet.
How We Tested: Strokes Gained
Like we did with the blades last week, we will be assessing mallet accuracy by measuring strokes gained. We will be scoring the mallets based upon the number of strokes that are needed to get the ball into the hole. Like we said with the blades:
We don’t want a putter that always gets it close, we want on that always puts it in!
When all is said and done, we are able to see which putters promote poor, average, or excellent performance in the hands of our testers. A truly Most Wanted putter is one that allows our players to gain strokes on the field.
For more details about the test itself, visit our How We Test page.
Testing Parameters
- Number of Testers: 10
- Testing Handicap Range: 2-20
- Testing Location: Haggin Oaks Golf Complex, Sacramento CA
- Ball Used: Bridgestone 330-RX
- Distances Assessed: Five, Ten, and Twenty Feet
- “Holes” at each Distance: 5
- Total “Holes” per putter per tester: 15
- Total “Holes” per putter: 150
Putters Tested
Here are the 28 putters evaluated during this season’s Most Wanted Mallet test.
(Which putter do you think will take home the “Most Wanted” seal?)
Bellum Winmore NOLA
Bettinardi iNOVAi
Bettinardi Kuchar #1
Bputters Panther
Brainstorm Golf Happy Mallet
Cleveland Classic 2i
Cleveland Smart Square
Cleveland Smart Square CB
Cleveland TFI Smart Square
Edel Golf E1
Kinsler Raptor
Kronos Mandala
MLA Golf Tour Classic
Nike Method Matter M4-12
Nike Method Matter M5-12
Odyssey Versa 2-Ball Fang
PING Cadence B65 Standard
PING Cadence B65 Heavy
PING Cadence Ketsch Standard
PING Cadence Ketsch Heavy
PING Cadence Rustler Standard
PING Cadence Rustler Heavy
Radius Classic York
Scotty Cameron Futura X5
TaylorMade Spider Mallet 2.0
Wilson Staff Infinite Grant Park
Wilson Staff Infinite North Side
Wilson Staff Infinite South Side
Which One Will Be the Most Wanted
That’s some mighty metal! The mallets are definitely a diverse bunch.
Do you have a favorite? Let’s hear your predictions below!
Come back tomorrow and we can see whose guess was right and, more importantly, which mallet earns 2015’s Most Wanted honors.
andrew
9 years ago
good lineup- Ketsch(s) look to be favorites, but I’m interested to see what happens. hoping for good showings by the Wilsons, particularly the Southside- I’ve been wanting to get my hands on one since they came out.
also, why not even a little blurb about each of the putters?