BB28

The BB28 name has carried two releases on record, the Spud and the 2026 BB Series edition, and the maker's own product copy points to a line that has already been through at least one prior iteration by the time these pages were written. Bettinardi's page for the Slotback Armlock version notes that "after a successful debut in the last BB line, RJB took his BB28 back to the workshop for some artful and game-changing modifications," language repeated on the Slotback Center page as well, which tells us the BB28 shape existed before these particular Slotback variants and was deliberately reworked rather than simply reissued.

The Spud edition is where golfmonthly.com's editorial voice is most animated, calling it "the best looking putter on this list" with "the best name," while noting drily that "we do not think it's dedicated to the vegetable." That same outlet reports the Spud carrying a graphite gray finish, an aggressive Flymill face milling design, and a double-wide shape, though none of that is verified beyond the publication's own reporting. Community opinion gathered on the Spud runs in a similar direction: praise for it being the best looking of the bunch and unusually user-friendly for a blade, with a soft feel and good feedback, tempered by the criticism that it doesn't match the forgiveness of the mallets it shared a lineup with.

By the 2026 BB Series edition, pluggedingolf.com's reporting describes a 3/4 shaft offset and slight toe hang, figures that stand as that publication's own measurements rather than anything Bettinardi has confirmed. Set against the maker's own listed specs for the Slotback Armlock and Slotback Center variants, which show offset and toe hang figures of their own (1.5 shaft offset and 1/8 toe hang for the Armlock, no offset and 1/4 toe hang for the Center), the picture across the BB28 name is one of a single wide-body blade concept that keeps getting refit with different necks and shaft configurations rather than a fixed shape carried unchanged from release to release.