MGS Tested: Golf’s Most Wanted Mallet Putter2015: Meet The Mallets

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.