Bettinardi is a brand with a well established reputation for producing some of the best putters money can buy and you will find Bettinardi putters in the bags of Matt Fitzpatrick, Matt Kuchar, Jason Kokrak and Fred Couples amongst others. The brand has four lines of putters; the Studio B Series, the Queen B Series, the BB Series and the INOVAI Series, which along with the BB Series has had an update for 2024.
I recently tested the Bettinardi BB1-W which is one of the best blade putters I’ve tried this year, but the subject of this review is an interesting mallet putter from the INOVAI range. Of the four head options available in the INOVAI collection it was the 6.5 that really caught my eye due to its slightly unorthodox shape. It’s a fang design but not like any fang putter I’ve used, so I was excited to try it, especially as it’s a design that hasn’t been widely available previously.
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Until now the 6.5 had only been a limited-run putter but Sam Bettinardi tweaked the design to give it a sleeker, more compact look and it was added to the 2024 INOVAI range. The hexagonal shape and fangs are designed to optimize the putter’s MOI (Moment of Inertia) thanks to triangular vents that save weight, which is then distributed to the perimeter to help provide stability and forgiveness.
The head itself is comprised of two parts; a 303 Stainless Steel front piece and a 6061 Military Grade Aluminium back piece. The Midnight Armor and Titan Grey color scheme combined with the blend of different metals offers a nice visual contrast while also providing important performance benefits. The steel front features Bettinardi’s Roll Control face milling, which is a groove design that offers a soft feel and is designed to quickly get the ball into a true roll.
A premium quality shaft combined with a nice Lamkin grip and a stylish leather headcover completes the high end look and feel of a putter that sits near the top end of the price scale, but which certainly delivers on performance.
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All of the putters in the INOVAI series are available in a number of different length, loft, lie and neck options so you can have it set to whatever your preference is. While there are four heads in the range, the four different neck options available on each (spud, slant, mini plumbers and center shaft) essentially make it a 16 putter line up.
I had the standard option INOVAI 6.5 which is 35” long with 3 degrees of loft and in a slant…
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