BB43

The BB43 shipped in 2002 as part of Bettinardi's Millennium Series, a center-shafted design that sits within that early-2000s run of the line. That neck configuration is the defining detail on record for this release, distinguishing it from heel-shafted or face-balanced siblings that carried the Millennium Series name in the same period.

The clearest window we have into the 2002 BB43 actually comes from later in Bettinardi's own history. The maker's page for its 25th Anniversary Commemorative BB43, a 354-gram limited run, states plainly that the putter "draws from our Millennium Series from 21 years ago," which places the original release's design lineage on the record even though the anniversary piece itself, with its Tour Blast body, brass plugs, and "RJB" initials, is a distinct and separate build from the 2002 original.

Against the rest of the Millennium Series, the 2002 BB43 is defined here chiefly by its center-shafted neck, a detail the maker's site corroborates directly. The broader specs, finishes, and face treatments that shipped on the original 2002 head are not part of what's in front of us, so the record on this particular release stays narrow: a Millennium Series blade, center-shafted, dated to 2002, and later cited by Bettinardi itself as the reference point for a modern commemorative BB43.