Best Blade Putters: Innovation
Identifying the most deserving clubs for our Hot List equipment guide requires the ability to decipher among thin lines of excellence. That’s why we commit to extensive player-testing and spend hundreds of hours meeting with manufacturer R&D teams and our academic panel of scientists to better understand the nuances that make each club special. For example, the designs that push Innovation offer variations on the classic look while matching the proper version to the player’s stroke and other physical specs. Here you’ll see how our editors evaluated blade putters based on their interpretation of Innovation, with each putter earning a minimum score of 4.5 stars. Note that the star rating is for the collection of models under a specific family.
Odyssey
Ai-Dual
$350
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Hot List Gold
$350
A new face insert has the sound and feel of Odyssey’s legendary White Hot urethane insert with better initial velocity and roll.
The new insert features two layers of urethane—a firmer layer underneath and a softer layer on top—with deeper grooves angled at 19 degrees to create a quicker end-over-end roll.
Odyssey used AI to help develop this insert and its amorphous thickness pattern, an idea that was first seen on the Ai-One lineup of putters.
Those varying thick and thin regions of the insert, derived from more than 15,000 iterations, are designed to improve ball speed and control backspin on mis-hits for less variation in energy transfer and rollout.
The Double Wide model now features the half-ball alignment feature to better cue the golfer that the face is lined up correctly.
Top 5 in Performance, high-handicaps
Models: #1, Double Wide, Double Wide Half-Ball. Head weights: 350, 355, 360 grams. Lengths: 33-35 inches. Loft: 3 degrees
PXG
ZT Series
$250/$450
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Golf Galaxy
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Hot List Silver
$250/$450
Bringing the stroke-stabilizing technology of “zero torque” to traditional heel-shafted blades required rethinking the hosel into an S-shape so that the shaft better lines up with the head’s center of gravity.
The head’s center of gravity lies just inside the angle of the shaft’s axis. This dramatically reduces the torque effect on the head and face angle and puts the putter in a toe-up position. From here, the club stays square to the path naturally with little need for the hands to rotate the face back online.
The onset position of the hosel realigns the hands into a forward press. This makes a straight-back, straight-through stroke more natural.
The Mustang ZT's hollow stainless steel construction utilizes a face that’s about as thick as a dime. This face is supported internally by a soft, responsive polymer, like that found in the company’s irons, freeing up mass for perimeter weighting and customizable heel and toe sole weights.
Hellcat ZT is a single-piece construction made through a metal-injection molding process for consistent, precise, durable shaping that yields a soft feel.
In both models, the face’s pyramid pattern varies in density to create consistent rollout regardless of where the ball contacts the face.
Models: Hellcat ZT, Mustang ZT. Head weights: 370 grams (Hellcat ZT), 350-385 grams (Mustang ZT). Lengths: 33, 34, 35, 38 inches. Loft: 4 degrees
Titleist
Scotty Cameron Studio Style
$500
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Golf Galaxy
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Hot List Gold
$500
These familiar head and hosel styles received a bold upgrade in 2025 in the form of a carbon-steel face insert for a softer feel.
The insert is fused to the 303 milled stainless-steel body and an aerospace-level vibration-damping adhesive.
Although carbon steel can typically degrade, this insert uses a chemical process to protect the steel, enhance hardness and preserve feel.
The face insert features a chain-link-style milling pattern developed with tour-player input to produce a softer feel and consistent speed off the face.
New this year is the return of the iconic Santa Fe, which matches the body of the Newport with a slanted, curved, slightly offset hosel that Scotty Cameron calls a “jet neck.” It targets players with a flowing stroke.
Top 5 in Performance, low-, middle-, high-handicaps
Models: Newport, Newport Plus, Newport 2, Newport 2 Plus, Newport 2.5 Plus, Squareback, Squareback 2, Catalina, Santa Fe. Head weights: 345, 355, 365 grams. Lengths: 33-35 inches. Loft: 3.5 degrees
Bettinardi
Antidote
$450
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Golf Galaxy
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Hot List Silver
$450
With the shaft in line with the head’s center of gravity, the face angle stays square to the path of your stroke in this blade embodiment of the zero-torque technology.
The key to this design is how the weight is centered in the head using a lightweight, aircraft-grade aluminum insert in the pocket cavity.
The body on this wider-style blade is milled from 303 stainless steel.
The grooved milling pattern on the face displaces more than half of the steel from the surface, creating a responsive feel.
The blast finish reduces glare at address.
Available in a longer and heavier counterbalanced version to minimize hand action during the stroke. Also includes a 17-inch grip for proper hand placement.
Top 5 in Sound/Feel, low- and high-handicaps
Models: SB1 (plus counterbalanced version). Head weights: 360, 400 grams. Lengths: 33-40 inches. Loft: 1-4 degrees
Cobra
3DP Tour
$380
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Golf Galaxy
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Hot List Silver
$380
This slightly wider, notchback-style blade mixes a lightweight internal-lattice structure that’s made from 3-D printed nylon with the preferred heft and responsive feel of milled stainless steel.
The intricate grid, which provides stability and controls vibration for better sound, is produced from a material that weighs as much as 85 percent less than if that structure were made of typical stainless steel.
The complex latticework, which features an array of undercuts, wall thicknesses and angles, would be impossible to achieve through traditional manufacturing processes such as casting, forging or machining. On these blades it sits under the flange and fills out the bumper areas on the heel and toe.
With the latticework taking the place of what would be heavier steel, more mass can be distributed to the heel and toe and used for the customizable sole weights.
The result of that mass redistribution is a higher moment of inertia (stability on off-center hits) for all models compared to their 2024 versions.
The face features four lofts that increase from 1 degree at the bottom to 4 degrees at the top. The intent is to launch the ball at a consistent angle whether your stroke is level, moving slightly down, or moving slightly upward at impact.
Top 5 in Performance, middle-handicaps
Models: Grandsport-35. Head weights: 355-365 grams. Lengths: 34-35 inches. Loft: 3 degrees
Evnroll
Origin
$450
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Golf Galaxy
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Hot List Silver
$450
Evnroll putters feature the first significant change to their grooved face technology, compressing and changing the grooves from parallel lines to parabolic curves to improve consistent contact.
The new face treatment packs the grooves closer together as rows of wavy lines to reduce surface contact with the ball.
The new grooves and slightly thicker face design create a softer feel.
The groove depth throughout has been cut in half to create a higher resiliency, or what’s known as reducing “dwell time” of the ball on the face of the putter, for a faster initial roll.
Wider grooves in the center narrow toward the heel and toe. This helps heel and toe hits work their way back toward the target line.
More tightly compressed grooves also mean less chance of putts starting off target by catching the edge of a dimple on the ball.
Models: ER2. Head weights: 360, 375, 390 grams. Lengths: 33, 34, 35, 38 inches. Loft: 2 degrees
PXG
Battle Ready II
$390
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Golf Galaxy
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Hot List Silver
$390
These traditional shapes focus on custom-fitting with an array of hosel options from heel-shafted to armlock.
Like the company’s hollow-body irons, an internal polymer filling reinforces the center of the ultra-thin faces to enhance rebound, feel and forgiveness.
The face gets thinner than a penny, which saves mass that’s redistributed to the perimeter.
Rows of pyramid shapes on the face help modulate ball speed for consistency on mis-hits and for a softer sound at impact.
A new “darkness” finish features a blackout aesthetic to provide greater ball-club contrast to aid in alignment.
Heel and toe weights in the sole are designed to provide stability and to help dial in the swingweight for the putter length.
Top 5 in Look, low-, middle-, high-handicaps
Models: Brandon, Closer. Head weights: 325-415 grams. Lengths: 33-38 inches. Loft: 3 degrees