BB1

The Bettinardi BB1 line stretches back to 1999, when Bettinardi released the original BB1 alongside a Tour Classic edition, milled from soft carbon steel with a plumber's neck hosel, per 2ndswing.com, and credited there to designer Robert Bettinardi. That first run set the template the line would return to for decades: a classic blade head, milled rather than cast, built for feel over forgiveness.

The 2010s saw the line multiply. Two separate 2010 releases carried the BB1 name, one of which orlandogolfblogger.com described as one piece technology with a traditional heel-toe weighted design, rounder and softer-edged than earlier blades, and reportedly sold only through green grass facilities. By 2013 and 2014 the family had branched further still, into the 2014 BB Series BB1, a Counter Balanced BB1 CB in more than one edition, and the BB1F with its flow neck, which pluggedingolf.com called an Anser-style putter with a precision-milled honeycomb face and a single sight line, priced at 349 USD by that publication's reporting. The 2014 BB Series BB1 itself was described by pluggedingolf.com as made in the USA with a polished silver face and satin silver body.

2016 brought the Hyper-Honeycomb face into the BB1 proper, which golfshake.com credited with enhancing feel, offered in Midnight Black PVD or Satin Silver finishes with a Red Pure Grip. The line then went quiet on our release rows until a run of BB Series entries in 2022, 2024, and 2026. Bettinardi's own site called the 2022 release the all-new BB1, and the 2024 edition carried a Black Pearl PVD finish, a Perpetual Flymill face milling, a custom electric blue Lamkin grip, and an MSRP of 450 USD, all per bettinardi.com. Outside the numbered releases, Bettinardi's site has also documented tour use of a related BB1 Flow putter, milled from Double-Aged Stainless Steel, in the hands of Matt Fitzpatrick, who won the RBC Heritage and the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship with it.

Across every era, the reviewer consensus has held remarkably steady: exceptional feel and high feedback, from the 1999 Tour Classic's tour-proven reputation through the 2026 model, which pluggedingolf.com described as leaving them over the moon about the feel. The complaints have been narrower and more physical: a grip some found too small or thin, a head that could scratch without a cover, and a face reviewers have consistently called less forgiving on off-center strikes than more game-improvement designs. It is a line that has changed finishes, milling patterns, and even neck styles across a quarter century, while reviewers keep returning to the same word for what stays constant in the hand.