2 putters tie as the most upright on record: Tour Edge Bazooka Automatic Putter and Tour Edge Hovercraft Putter, both at 80°.
All 552 putters with a lie angle are ranked below, along with 5 more lists: flattest lie, longest, shortest, heaviest head, lightest head.
Every putter this site holds a spec table for, whatever year it launched, whoever made it and whoever it was built for. It is the widest field for the category and the least comparable one, which is why the cuts below it exist.
Each figure is ranked from both ends — strongest and weakest, most and least — over the same clubs, and each list counts only the clubs that publish that figure, so the totals differ between them. Loft, lie, offset and bounce are fitting specifications — a stronger loft is a longer-carrying club of the same name, not a better one, and neither end of any list here is the good end. How this is worked out.
Most upright lie
— the top 25 of 552 clubs with a lie angle
The published lie angle, measured from the ground. Irons are read at the 7-iron; every other category at the most upright figure the model publishes. PING quotes putter lie from vertical rather than horizontal, so those figures are converted onto the common scale before comparison and the club’s own page still shows the number PING published.
Flattest lie
— the top 25 of 552 clubs with a lie angle
The published lie angle, measured from the ground. Irons are read at the 7-iron; every other category at the most upright figure the model publishes. PING quotes putter lie from vertical rather than horizontal, so those figures are converted onto the common scale before comparison and the club’s own page still shows the number PING published.
Longest
— the top 25 of 370 clubs with a length
Published playing length in inches. Irons are read at the 7-iron, so a set starting at a 3-iron is not credited with length a set starting at a 5-iron never had; every other category is read at the longest club the model is published in.
Shortest
— the top 25 of 370 clubs with a length
Published playing length in inches. Irons are read at the 7-iron, so a set starting at a 3-iron is not credited with length a set starting at a 5-iron never had; every other category is read at the longest club the model is published in.
Heaviest head
— the top 25 of 364 clubs with a head weight
Published head weight in grams. A putter’s head weight is the spec that most changes how the stroke feels, and it is the one putter figure enough makers publish to compare. Heavier is not better — it is a fit to a stroke and a green speed.
Lightest head
— the top 25 of 364 clubs with a head weight
Published head weight in grams. A putter’s head weight is the spec that most changes how the stroke feels, and it is the one putter figure enough makers publish to compare. Heavier is not better — it is a fit to a stroke and a green speed.
When they launched
Model year, where the record carries one — 355 of the 835 in this cut. A model year is when a club launched, not when it was designed or when it left the shops. Each year with enough clubs behind it links to that year's own boards.
| Model year | putters | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 1 | 0.3% | |
| 2004 | 0 | 0.0% | |
| 2005 | 1 | 0.3% | |
| 2006 | 0 | 0.0% | |
| 2007 | 0 | 0.0% | |
| 2008 | 2 | 0.6% | |
| 2009 | 1 | 0.3% | |
| 2010 | 1 | 0.3% | |
| 2011 | 3 | 0.8% | |
| 2012 | 0 | 0.0% | |
| 2013 | 4 | 1.1% | |
| 2014 | 4 | 1.1% | |
| 2015 | 2 | 0.6% | |
| 2016 | 4 | 1.1% | |
| 2017 | 0 | 0.0% | |
| 2018 | 0 | 0.0% | |
| 2019 | 13 | 3.7% | |
| 2020 | 13 | 3.7% | |
| 2021 | 25 | 7.0% | |
| 2022 | 49 | 13.8% | |
| 2023 | 45 | 12.7% | |
| 2024 | 80 | 22.5% | |
| 2025 | 60 | 16.9% | |
| 2026 | 47 | 13.2% |
Who makes them
The 16 brands with the most, of 20 with at least one putter on record. Each brand with its own boards links to them, where its line is ranked against itself and never against another maker's.
| Brand | putters | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Odyssey | 130 | 15.6% | |
| TaylorMade | 89 | 10.7% | |
| Wilson | 83 | 9.9% | |
| Bettinardi | 80 | 9.6% | |
| PING | 72 | 8.6% | |
| Cleveland | 68 | 8.1% | |
| Scotty Cameron | 58 | 6.9% | |
| Titleist | 54 | 6.5% | |
| Sub 70 | 41 | 4.9% | |
| Tour Edge | 37 | 4.4% | |
| Cobra | 26 | 3.1% | |
| PXG | 24 | 2.9% | |
| Honma | 19 | 2.3% | |
| Mizuno | 17 | 2.0% | |
| L.A.B. Golf | 15 | 1.8% | |
| Ben Hogan | 12 | 1.4% |
4 more brands have at least one putter on record and no board of their own — a brand needs 12 clubs publishing one figure before it gets one. Every one of them is in the club search.