Hot List
Best Mallet Putters: Performance
The best clubs in each category of the Hot List reflect excellence across an array of criteria. For Performance in mallet 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 strikes roll out farther than expected?” and “Is the ball rotating end over end?” The mallets 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 mallets 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 mallets 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., the Ai-One family, Studio Style family).









