Hot List
Best Blade Putters: Performance
The best clubs in each category of the Hot List reflect excellence across an array of criteria. For Performance in blade putters, players make an overall assessment of roll, consistency and forgiveness. They try to answer the questions: “Does the ball leave the putter face with purpose?” “Do off-center hits roll out farther than expected?” and “Is the ball clearly rotating end over end?” The blade putters with the best Performance scores are based on a combination of results on our 1-5 rating scale and include a second top-5 rating that a tester submits after hitting all the putters in the category. In the second step, the tester compiles a list of his or her top-5 rated models in order from 1 to 5. Here you’ll see how our 32 testers evaluated blade putters based on their interpretation of Performance, with each putter earning a minimum score of 4.5 stars. Note: The star rating is for the collection of models under a specific family (e.g., Ai-One family, Studio Style family).









