BB43
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The Record
Written from the sources it cites · machine-drafted for the Community to correctThe 2014 BB43 shipped as part of that year's BB Series, according to pluggedingolf.com, with golfalot.com listing the head material as carbon steel. That's the extent of what the record holds on this particular release.
The maker's own page prose we have on file for the BB43 name concerns later Hive releases rather than the 2014 putter itself: a 354-gram 25th Anniversary Limited Run BB43 that Bettinardi's site describes as drawing "from our Millennium Series from 21 years ago," and a separate 355-gram DASS Hexperimental Proto Center Shaft version. Both of those postdate 2014 by nearly a decade and describe different builds, a Tour Blast body with brass plugs and bumper inlays in one case, a Wizard-milled proto in the other, so they can't be read back onto the original release. Worth noting for anyone tracing the BB43 across years: the maker's own 25th Anniversary copy points to a Millennium Series lineage for the head shape, which is a detail about the line's design roots rather than this specific 2014 putter.
What's on record for the 2014 BB43 itself stays narrow, a carbon steel build within that year's BB Series lineup, per the two outlets cited. Anyone weighing this release against the later Hive-era BB43 drops should treat those as separate products bearing the same model name rather than the same putter revisited.
Sources: bettinardi.com/collections (captured 2024) · bettinardi.com/collections (captured 2023)
No cited specs on record yet. Caddie tells you what IS known, honestly.
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The BB43 line
Releases of this line from the Putter Talk record. Similarly named models are separate putters with their own pages.
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