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USA Today
20-05-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
2025 Putters: The best putter for every style and budget
2025 Putters: The best putter for every style and budget Whether you prefer a classic blade, mid-size mallet or a modern zero-torque putter, there is a club out there that can help you improve on the greens. Putting is the great equalizer in match play — and it can save strokes in every format. While driving the ball 300 yards takes speed and skill that most recreational players don't have, learning how a ball rolls, reading greens, and building a repeatable stroke are realistic skills any golfer can acquire. We're not saying it's easy. But becoming a strong putter is achievable, and the right putter helps. One that fits your natural stroke — and is the right length and lie angle for your body — can make a big difference. There are plenty of great heel-toe weighted blades and mallets on the market. But in the past year, zero-torque putters have gained traction. This new category resists twisting and stays square to the path of your stroke. That can help if you struggle to return the face square or start putts on line. The best move when it comes to buying a new putter? Work with a good fitter. Try different shapes and styles, keep an open mind, and let the performance of each club determine which could earn a spot in your bag. Below, you'll find putters released in 2025 and a few standout 2024 models that are still easy to find. Bettinardi Antidote Series putters Price: $430 each - Shop now Specs: Milled 303 stainless steel head with 6061 aluminum Who It's For: Golfers who struggle to start putts on their intended target line and players who struggle to square the face at impact. What You Should Know: The Antidote putters are Bettinardi's first zero-torque putters and are designed to keep the face square to your stroke's path and help golfers get putts started on their intended target line more easily. At the same time, they were designed to deliver the soft feel and responsive touch that Bettinardi putters are known to produce. Read the full review. Shop Bettinardi Antidote putter Bettinardi Queen B 2025 Series Putters Price: $450 each - Shop now Specs: Milled 303 stainless steel head with Mini Honeycomb face milling, Royal Rose PVD finish, 362-gram head weight Who it's for: The Queen B 2025 series is designed for golfers who appreciate refined aesthetics and demand precision on the green. What you should know: The Queen B line offers four head shapes that feature precise milling and classic design to give players tour levels of feel and control. If you are looking for flashy alignment systems or hottest trends, look elsewhere; the Queen B Series is all about traditional looks and feel. Read the full review. Shop Bettinardi Queen B putter Cobra 3D-Printed putters Price: $349 each with KBS CT Tour 120 shaft and SuperStroke Zenergy Pistol 1.0 grip Specs: Carbon fiber crown with 304 stainless steel body, milled 6061 aerospace grade aluminum face insert and 3D-printed features. Who it's For: Golfers who want extra stability and modern design with enhanced alignment features. What you should know: By blending carbon fiber, aluminum and 3-D printed areas, Cobra designers shifted more weight to enhance performance while the variable-loft face encourages a more consistent roll. Read the full review. Shop Cobra 3D-Printed putters Cobra LIMIT3D putters Price: $599 each with KBS CT Tour Putter 120 shaft and SuperStroke Zenergy 2.0 PT grip Specs: 3D-printed 316L stainless steel heads with multi-loft hitting area Who it's for: Golfers seeking cutting-edge design and precision performance in a limited-edition putter. What you should know: Cobra is expanding its use of 3D printing with a new line of limited-edition putters, combining internal, stainless steel lattice structures created by 3D printing techniques with multi-loft face technology to give players more consistency and control on the greens. Read the full review. Shop Cobra LIMIT3D putters Evnroll Zero putters Price: $449 each - Shop now Specs: Milled 303 stainless steel with tungsten and steel sole weights and grooved face (Z2s, Z5s); Milled 6061 aluminum with tungsten weights and grooved face (Z1) Who it's for: The Zero putters are designed for golfers seeking maximum stability and consistency along with enhanced distance control. What you should know: Evnroll's Zero putters are designed to look like traditional putters but greatly reduce face rotation and torque during your stroke. In the address position, they also reduce the forward press some zero-torque putters create. Read the full review. Shop Evnroll Zero putters L.A.B. Golf OZ.1, OZ.1i putters Price: Starting at $599.99 each - Shop now Specs: Aluminum (OZ.1); aluminum body with stainless steel face insert (OZ.1i), with customizable lie angle, head weight, alignment markings, and grip options. Who it's for: Golfers who want the benefits of zero torque and more consistency on the greens combined with a more traditional putter shape. What you need to know: L.A.B. Golf teamed with Australia's Adam Scott to create a mallet-style putter, the OZ.1, that retains the company's Lie Angle Balance benefits while offering a more conventional shape. The OZ.1i has the same shape but features a milled face insert. Read the full review. Shop L.A.B. Golf OZ.1 putter L.A.B. DF3 putter Price: Starting price $449 - Shop now Specs: 6061 aluminum with steel weights. Who It's For: Golfers who struggle to square their putter face at impact or start putts on their intended target line. What you should know: Using a unique weighting and balance system, the DF3 putter is designed to keep the face square to the arc you create when you set up to putt and help you start your putts on your intended line more easily. Read the full review. Shop L.A.B. DF3 putter Mizuno X putters Price: $399 - Shop now Specs: Forged 1025 stainless steel face and neck, milled 7075 aluminum back section and adjustable sole weights. Features 3 degrees of loft and a 70-degree lie angle. Available in 34-inch and 35-inch lengths. Who it's for: Golfers seeking a highly customized putter with extra stability on mis-hits. What you should know: The updated X putters feature interchangeable face and body components, allowing custom fitters to create personalized putters. Adjustable sole weights enhance balance and feel, while the classic mallet shape provides a traditional aesthetic. Read the full review. Shop Mizuno putters Odyssey Ai-One Square 2 Square Max 1 and Max 1 Stripe putters Price: $399.99 - Shop now Specs: High-MOI center-shafted mallets with AI-designed urethane insert, forward press shaft lean and toe-up, zero-torque balance. Who it's for: Golfers who struggle with face rotation and consistency during the stroke and want more stability, easier alignment and dependable roll across the face. What you should know: Odyssey's most stable zero-torque putters to date, the Max 1 models pair extreme MOI with AI-designed inserts and multiple alignment aids in a center-shafted design meant to help keep the face square throughout the stroke. Read the full review. Shop Odyssey Ai-One Square putters Odyssey Ai-One, Ai-One Milled Putters Price: $299.99 (Ai-One), $349.99 (Ai-One 2-Ball Jailbird Cruiser), $449 (Ai-One Milled) - Shop now Specs: Milled stainless steel head with co-molded aluminum insert with grooved urethane coating (Ai-One) or milled titanium face insert (Ai-One Milled) Who it's for: Golfers seeking precision and forgiveness with improved distance control on off-center strikes. What you need to know: Odyssey released the first AI-ONE putters in late 2023 and brought out more head styles and shapes in 2024. Like the previous offerings, the Ai-One and Ai-One milled feature face inserts designed using artificial intelligence to enhance distance control. Read the full review. Shop Odyssey Ai-One putters Ping Scottsdale putters (2025) Price: $270 each - Shop now Specs: Stainless steel heads with elastomer insert and SuperStroke grip Who it's for: Golfers who want a soft feel at impact that still delivers responsiveness in a traditional Ping shape. What you should know: The latest generation of Ping Scottsdale putters features an elastomer insert designed to soften the feel of impact while still returning energy from your stroke into the ball for predictable distance and roll. Read the full review. Shop Ping Scottsdale putters Ping PLD Milled Price: $485 each - Shop now Specs: Milled 303 stainless steel Who It's For: Golfers who want tour-inspired looks and elite levels of feel and precision in their putter. The Skinny: Using feedback from tour pros, Ping is expanding its PLD Milled putter family with new blades and mallets while also expanding the personalization and customization options. Shop Ping PLD Milled putter PXG Bat Attack ZT putter Price: $449.99 - Shop now Specs: Hollow-bodied 303 stainless steel head with polymer injection, S-hosel with 2-degree forward press, Pyramid Face Pattern with dual adjustable sole weights Who it's for: Golfers seeking a stable mallet putter that reduces face rotation and enhances stroke quality. What you should know: This is the second putter in PXG's Zero Torque series, coming on the heels of the Allen putter release in 2024. It blends the company's popular Bat Attack shape with new anti-torque shaft and hosel technology. Read the full review. Shop PXG Bat Attack ZT putter PXG Tour Series Brandon, Brandon II Putters Price: $499.99 each - Shop now Specs: Milled 303 stainless steel with adjustable sole weights Who it's for: Purists and accomplished golfers who appreciate the classic look and feel of a milled, heel-toe weighted blade. What you should know: The Tour Series Brandon and Brandon II putters are milled from a solid black of 303 stainless steel and cater to golfers who prefer traditional styling and performance over modern high-tech features. Read the full review. Shop PXG Tour Series Brandon putter Scotty Cameron Studio Style putters (2025) Price: $499 (standard length), $549 (long design) - Shop now Specs: Milled 303 stainless steel heads with carbon steel insert, aluminum sole plate, and adjustable sole weights. Available in 33-, 34- and 35-inch models, as well as 38-inch counterbalanced, extended-length versions. Who they're for: Golfers who want a classic-looking blade or mid-size mallet putter that offers a softer feel and sound than a traditional milled putter. What you should know: Each of the Studio Style putters has been designed with a classic shape and carbon steel insert crafted with a new chain-link pattern that is designed to soften the sound and feel at impact. Read the full review. Shop Scotty Cameron Studio Style putters Scotty Cameron Phantom X putters (2024) Price: $$449 and $499 (Phantom 11 Long) - Shop now Specs: Milled 303 stainless steel and 6061 aluminum chassis with steel/tungsten weights. Who It's For: Golfers who want a mallet that is easy to align and aim while still getting the sound and feel of Scotty Cameron's milled blade putters. What you should know: The Phantom putters for 2024 have been subtly tweaked so the entire head acts like an alignment aid, while the dual-milled face design enhances sound and feel in each of the five different head shapes. Read the full review. Shop Scotty Cameron Phantom X putters TaylorMade Spider Tour X L-Neck putter Price: $349.99 - Shop now Specs: Stainless steel and aluminum body with a grooved urethane face insert. 34- and 35-inch clubs for right-hand players only. Who It's For: Golfers who want a putter that can help create a more consistent roll while also helping the player aim and align the face more effectively. What you should know: This is the putter used by Scottie Scheffler and Nelly Korda. Like the previously released Spider Tour putters, the L-neck hosel is designed to be easy to aim and to create forward roll quickly. Its moderate toe-hang makes it ideal for golfers with a slight-arc stroke. Read the full review. Shop TM Spider Tour X L-Neck putter TaylorMade TP Black putters Price: $199.99 each with KBS 120 Chrome Stepped shaft and Lamkin Sink Fit Skinny grip - Shop now Specs: Milled 303 stainless steel heads with grooved Surlyn insert Who It's For: Golfers who love classic-shaped putters and want help creating a more consistent roll. What you should know: These are dark-finished versions of traditional TaylorMade TP putters, with a Pure Roll insert designed to reduce skidding and encourage the ball to start rolling sooner. Read the full review. Shop TM TP Black putter Tour Edge Wingman 800 putters Price: $169.99 each with Golf Pride Pro Only Midsize Pistol grip - Shop now Specs: Cast 304 stainless steel body with 431 stainless steel face, aluminum sole plate, internal vibration-dampening system, and high-visibility alignment stripes. Available in 34- and 35-inch lengths, right-hand only. Who it's for: Golfers who want maximum stability and enhanced consistency on mis-hit putts. What you should know: Tour Edge placed a greater emphasis on feel with the updated Wingman series, switching to a milled face and adding an internal Vibrcor piece, while keeping the stability and forgiveness high. Read the full review. Shop Tour Edge Wingman 800 putters Wilson Staff Model putters Price: $349.99 each - Shop now Specs: Milled 304 stainless steel heads available in 33-, 34- and 35-inch options Who it's for: Golfers looking for putters with classic, time-honored shapes and an especially soft feel. What you should know: Wilson knows how to make putters that are as elegant and timeless in shape as any in golf, and with the Staff Modsel Series, it showcases looks that are familiar to nearly every player along with a blend of precision milling and the soft feel of 304 stainless steel. Read the full review. Shop Wilson Staff Model putters
Yahoo
12-05-2025
- Yahoo
Afghan restaurant can now deliver food until 4am at weekends
An Afghan restaurant can deliver food until 4am at weekends after councillors granted the premises a late-night refreshment licence. Nawab, in Western Road, Hove, was granted the late licence by a Brighton and Hove City Council licensing panel made up of three councillors. The panel held a hearing last month but the outcome has only just been published, with Nawab being granted permission to deliver food until 3am during the week and 4am at weekends. Nawab's owner, Ahmad Faisal Nasseri, known as Faisal, told councillors that he had no plans to sell alcohol. He can serve food to customers dining in and for takeaway until 1am daily. Sussex Police and the council licensing team objected to Mr Nasseri's application for the licence, saying that a late-night venue would encourage people who had been drinking to stay in the area. Claire Abdelkader, from Sussex Police, said that more than 1,100 crimes were recorded within half a mile of the premises over the past year. The vast majority were thefts or offences involving violence or breaches of public order – and midnight to 1am was a peak period for offending. The council licensing team and the police said that the council's own policy had identified the area as 'saturated with licensed premises'. New applicants were expected to have exceptional reasons or to be able to show that they wouldn't add to the area's existing problems. Mr Nasseri, 41, said that he had operated for seven months without any problems – and he had no links with the previous operators, The venue was formerly Antidote and previously the Back Beat Bar. The site landlord Ritan Enterprises Limited terminated Antidote's lease after significant traces of drugs were found during licensing inspections. Surfaces throughout the venue were contaminated with 'bulk' contact levels of cocaine on four occasions – and traces of ketamine and heroin were also found. A decision letter from the council said: 'As there are no plans to use the outside area, there should not be any additional noise. 'We welcome the applicant's agreement to the police conditions and the acceptance of a condition requiring the premises to be closed for takeaways and dine-ins after 1am.' The panel members – councillors Tobias Sheard, Lucy Helliwell and Kerry Pickett – asked for a smoking management plan as part of the conditions.
South China Morning Post
07-05-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
Your Hong Kong weekend drinks guide for May 8-11
Hong Kong continues to get warmer as spring slowly changes to summer, so this is the weekend to check out The Daily Tot's summer menu, sans alcohol for that beach bod – or if you're looking for a cold one, Hong Kong Beer Co looks to launch an exceedingly hoppy double IPA at The Globe. Rounding out the weekend, The Aubrey plays host to Antidote from Seoul as they bring tasty Korean signatures to Hong Kong this weekend. Thursday, 8 May The Aubrey x Antidote Owner Joseph Lee of The Antidote in Seoul. Photo: Handout What: Start your weekend at The Aubrey as the Mandarin Oriental's Start your weekend at The Aubrey as the Mandarin Oriental's izakaya and cocktail concept hosts Seoul's Antidote. Owner Joseph Lee will bring several of his bar's signature-style cocktails to Hong Kong, inspired by Antidote's approach to spotlighting Korean ingredients. Expect tipples similar to the Omija, a gin and tonic with strawberry and the eponymous magnolia berry, or the Peach, which combines white rum, peach, sparkling wine and Bokbunja, a Korean black raspberry wine. Advertisement Where: The Aubrey, Mandarin Oriental, 5 Connaught Road, Central When: 6pm-10pm Friday, 9 May Sober Stars – The Daily Tot Zero ABV Summer Menu The Daily Tot x Crossip Zero ABV Summer Menu – The DryCaprio. Photo: Handout What: If health is your priority this summer, look no further than the Daily Tot's recently announced Zero ABV Summer Menu. Hong Kong's rum outpost partners with Crossip 0 per cent Spirit to serve four flavour-packed concoctions for a wide range of palates. The 'Guilt-Free' Gaga combines the Crossip Dandy Smoke, lemon, honey, candied ginger and egg white, whilst the 'DryCaprio' combines Crossip Fresh Citrus with non-alcoholic cane spirit, lime, banana and sorbet. Where: The Daily Tot, LG/F, Felicity Building, 58 Hollywood Rd, Central When: 5pm-2am Saturday, 10 May Hong Kong Beer Co's Double Double Launch
Wall Street Journal
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Wall Street Journal
‘Antidote' Review: Opposing Putin on PBS
Those familiar with recent films about the lives and deaths of the Putin opposition—the Oscar-winning 'Navalny'; 'Citizen K'; several 'Frontline' exposés—will also be familiar with Christo Grozev, credited in the new 'Frontline' installment 'Antidote' with developing 'a new form of journalism that takes human sources and their personal agendas out of the equation'; Mr. Grozev calls it the 'art of reconstructing a crime based on digital breadcrumbs.' While he has appeared in several of these documentaries about the regime of Vladimir Putin, 'Antidote' casts Mr. Grozev as the lead. By every indication, he'd much prefer being a supporting player. The longtime PBS series 'Frontline' usually devotes itself to disseminating events in plain-spoken, sometimes hurried fashion, the news always threatening to outrace the reportage. By contrast, 'Antidote,' directed and produced by the British documentarian James Jones ('Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes'), is far more ambitious cinematically and in the scope of its time frame, its historical resonance and its portrayal of a journalist confronting a dictator. The threats are real; deaths occur. 'Being on Putin's kill list has led to me being separated from my family,' says Mr. Grozev, who also left his longtime outlet Bellingcat for other pursuits: In one hair-raising scene, he organizes the escape of a Russian whistleblower 'determined to tell the world how the state makes deadly poisons and targets political opponents.' The escapee has to run across a farm field and dive into a car driven by a Grozev associate. James Bond it is not. It's far more nerve-racking.
Yahoo
10-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Frontline Acquires ‘Antidote,' Documentary Thriller On Investigative Journalist Caught In Kremlin Crosshairs
EXCLUSIVE: A new documentary about Christo Grozev, an investigative journalist put on a Kremlin 'kill list' for exposing Russian assassination plots, will make its broadcast debut on Frontline. The long-running series produced by GBH in Boston has struck a deal to air the film directed by James Jones the night of May 6 on PBS stations, as well as Frontline's YouTube channel and the PBS Documentaries Prime Video Channel. The documentary will become available that same evening (at 7 p.m. Eastern/6 p.m. Central) at and through the PBS App. Prior to the Frontline, Antidote will have a limited theatrical release in Los Angeles. More from Deadline He Exposed Kremlin Assassins, Now Putin Wants Him Dead: 'Antidote' Explores "Rock Star Journalist" Christo Grozev Elephant In The Room: CPH:DOX Defends Democratic Values, Confronts Reality Of Trump Administration "Trying To Change The World Order" Hulu Sets Docuseries On Mommy Vlogger & Convicted Child Abuser Ruby Franke Grozev rose to international prominence by uncovering Kremlin schemes to poison Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and Russian British activist and journalist Vladimir Kara-Murza. While that work earned him the sobriquet 'rock star investigative journalist,' it didn't endear Grozev to Russia authorities who slapped him on a 'most wanted' list in 2023 and allegedly put a network of international spies on his tail with instructions to kidnap or kill him. Jones (On the President's Orders, Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes) focuses his documentary both on Grozev — as he tries to keep a step or two ahead of would-be assassins – as well as on Evgenia Kara-Murza, the wife of Vladimir Kara-Murza, as she tries to free her husband from a Russian prison. 'The feature documentary lays bare the grave consequences that come with speaking out against the Putin regime,' notes a release, 'revealing the threats Grozev, Kara-Murza and their families face as they seek to expose the actions of the Kremlin to the world.' 'I am so thrilled to be working with Frontline again, more than a decade since we made our first film together,' Jones said in a statement. 'Frontline has always been the gold standard of documentaries and they've become pioneers of cinematic investigative journalism. At this critical moment in history we could not have better partners to work with to bring this film to American viewers.' Frontline earned an Oscar for its 2023 documentary 20 Days in Mariupol, directed by Mstyslav Chernov and over the years has won 108 Emmy Awards and 34 Peabody Awards, among numerous other distinctions. 'We are proud to share this important feature documentary with American audiences on Frontline,' said Raney Aronson-Rath, Frontline's editor-in-chief and executive producer, 'and to continue offering in-depth journalism on Putin's Russia on air, online and in theaters.' Antidote is a Passion Pictures and Bellingcat Production for Frontline in association with Impact Partners, Channel 4 and M4 Studio. It held its world premiere in March at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen; an earlier iteration of the documentary debuted at Tribeca Festival in New York, where it won an award for editing. Antidote is directed and produced by James Jones. The production executive is Tom Cross; the co-producer is Vivien Jones. Dan Edge is senior producer. The executive producers are Jim and Susan Swartz, Nina and David Fialkow, Maiken Baird, Jens Von Bahr, John Driscoll, Molly and Kevin Efrusy, Jenny Raskin, Geralyn White Dreyfous, Joanna Potts, Nevine Mabro, Louisa Compton, Hamish Fergusson, Andrew Ruhemann, Fiona Stourton, and David Moulton. Co-executive producers are Lauren Haber and Kelsey Koenig. Deadline spoke with Jones and Grozev at CPH:DOX in March. The Bulgarian-born journalist used a term associated with fundamentalist Iran to describe the Kremlin move to hunt him down. 'I called it a fatwa,' Grozev said. 'And I called it that on purpose because of that being the closest analogy at the time. Because the way it was announced by Russia, it had no other pragmatic purpose than to make others that would like to deliver a favor to Putin, to potentially go after me.' By the time the Kremlin 'fatwa' was published, Grozev had left his home in Vienna for the relative safety of New York. Now with Donald Trump in the White House, and in sync with Putin's Russia, America may no longer offer much security. 'Now there's no question the U.S. is not safe anymore,' he told Deadline. 'Everything, all assessment of risk, is relative.' Best of Deadline Which Colleen Hoover Books Are Becoming Movies? 'Verity,' 'Reminders Of Him' & 'Regretting You' Will Join 'It Ends With Us' 'The Last Of Us' Season 2: Everything We Know So Far Book-To-Movie Adaptations Coming Out In 2025
