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Matt Fitzpatrick's recent victory at the RBC Heritage highlights the resurgence of blade putters, as he won using his Bettinardi BB1 Flow. This win comes after a brief switch to a mid-mallet putter earlier in the season.
Matt Fitzpatrick switched back to his trusty Bettinardi blade this season.Andrew Redington/Getty Images and Bettinardi
Just when blade putters were seemingly on the verge of extinction, Matt Fitzpatrick is single-handedly fighting the good fight to bring them back to relevance.
Fitzpatrick holed the winning 12-foot putt in his playoff against Scottie Scheffler at the RBC Heritage with his longtime Bettinardi BB1 Flow putter, the same blade heās used for all four of his PGA Tour wins.
But at the end of last season, Fitzpatrick decided to go with the major trend of professional golf and switch into a new Bettinardi BB48 prototype mid-mallet. HeĀ won with that wand at the DP World Tour ChampionshipĀ and used it for his first four starts of the PGA Tour season in 2026.
That prototype featured a double-bend shaft, but the same unique C-groove face milling as his gamer.
But Fitzpatrick lost strokes putting in all four of those events, so he switched back to the blade that won him the 2022 U.S. Open and immediately finished second at the Players Championship beforeĀ winning the following week at the Valspar.
Since going back to the BB1, Fitzpatrick has gained strokes on the greens in all four events and now has two wins, a runner-up and a T18 at the Masters. The two victories are the only two this season on the PGA Tour with a blade putter and the first two since last yearās 3M Open, when Kurt Kitayama won with a Scotty Cameron Newport 2 Tour Prototype.
Fitzpatrickās putter features the unique C-Groove face and is essentially a replica of the Yes! Golf Tracy II, he used in college, that Bettinardi took 30 prototypes to meet the 2013 U.S. Amateur champās exacting eye. Itās crafted from Bettinardiās unique Double Aged Stainless Steel (DASS), typically used in their Tour putters.
Matt Fitzpatrick used his Bettinardi BB1 Flow blade putter to win the RBC Heritage.
Blade putters are gaining relevance again due to players like Matt Fitzpatrick showcasing their effectiveness in high-pressure situations.
Before returning to the blade putter, Matt Fitzpatrick used a Bettinardi BB48 prototype mid-mallet.

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That wasnāt the only positive news for blade fans this week. Justin Thomas, who has become one of the poster boys for the mallet movement among users of Scotty Cameronās Phantom series, switched from his Phantom 5.5 to his Newport 2 GSS putter midway through the tournament last week.
Thomas was losing more than 6.5 strokes on the greens through the first two rounds (76-75) of his title defense at Harbour Town. He then brought the blade out for the weekend and quietly picked up 1.676 strokes putting, a more than eight-shot improvement as he finished with 70-66.
Turns out, reports of the demise of blade putters on the PGA Tour were greatly exaggerated.
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