Hot List
Best Mallet Putters: Innovation
The best clubs in each category of the Hot List reflect excellence across an array of criteria. For Innovation in mallet putters, our editors and scientific panel meet with manufacturer R&D teams throughout the year to better understand what companies are doing and why and how important those efforts might be relative to the current standard. For example, the designs that earn our highest marks make meaningful progress in the areas of forgiveness, alignment, weighting and shaft design. Here you’ll see how our editors evaluated mallets based on their interpretation of the criterion of Innovation, with each putter earning a 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).














