BB43

The BB43 shipped in 2003 as part of Bettinardi's Millennium Series, a center-shafted design that has held its place in the maker's own record ever since. It's a blade that Bettinardi itself would return to two decades later as reference material, which tells you something about where the head sits in the lineup even without a contemporary review to draw on.

What the record holds directly on the 2003 release is the neck type, center-shafted, confirmed on Bettinardi's own site. The rest of what's documented about the BB43 comes from later Bettinardi product pages describing commemorative and proto runs built off this original, not from materials describing the 2003 putter itself. Bettinardi's page for its 25th Anniversary BB43 says that limited run draws from our Millennium Series from 21 years ago, dating that reference run back to the original 2003 BB43 and confirming the Millennium Series lineage supplied here. That page describes the anniversary piece as a Tour Blast body with a Micro Honeycomb face, a high-toe topline, and bumpers that step down into brass inlays, all specification detail belonging to the 2023 tribute rather than the 2003 original.

Bettinardi's Hive Archive listings also describe a DASS Hexperimental Proto BB43, a Wizard-faced, center-shaft build finished with Chicago stars and colored paint fills, again a later one-off built on the BB43 shape rather than the Millennium Series release itself. Between the 2003 center-shaft fact and these later maker pages built in its image, the throughline is clear enough: the BB43 has stayed a reference point in Bettinardi's own catalog long after its original run, even where the details of that original run beyond the neck itself aren't laid out in what's in front of us.