Just when the bladers were seemingly on the brink of extinction, Matt Fitzpatrick is fighting the good fight alone to return them to importance.
Fitzpatrick made the winning 12-footer his playoff against Scottie Scheffler at the RBC Heritage with his longtime Bettinardi BB1 Flow putter, the same blade he has used for all four of his PGA Tour victories.
But at the end of last season, Fitzpatrick decided to go with the mainstream trend of professional golf and switch to a new prototype Bettinardi BB48 mid-mallet. it won with that bat in the World PD Tour Championship and used it for his first four starts of the 2026 PGA Tour season.
That prototype featured a double-twist shaft but the same unique C-groove face mill as its player.
But Fitzpatrick missed strokes in all four of those events, so he returned to the blade that won him the 2022 US Open and immediately finished second at the Players Championship earlier. winning next week at Valspar.
Since returning to BB1, Fitzpatrick has won strokes on the green in all four events and now has two wins, a runner-up finish and a T18 at the Masters. The two wins are the only two this season on the PGA Tour by a shot and the first two since last year’s 3M Open, when Kurt Kitayama won with a Scotty Cameron Newport 2 Tour Prototype.
Fitzpatrick’s putter features the unique C-Groove face and is essentially a replica of the Yes! Golf Tracy II, he used in college, which Bettinardi took 30 prototypes to meet the discerning eye of the 2013 amateur champion. It is crafted from Bettinardi’s unique stainless steel (DASS), commonly used in their touring machines.
Matt Fitzpatrick’s Shooter Specs
Bettinardi DASS BB1 Flow Prototype
Length: 34″
Attic: 2.5Ëš
Lie: 72Ëš
Face: C-Groove
Neck: Flowing
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That wasn’t the only positive news for blade fans this week. Justin Thomas, who has become one of the poster boys for the hammer swing among users of Scotty Cameron’s Phantom series, switched from the Phantom 5.5 to his Newport 2 GSS rig mid-tournament last week.
Thomas was missing more than 6.5 shots on the green through the first two rounds (76-75) of his Harbor Town title defense. He then took the blade out for the weekend and quietly took 1,676 strokes, an eight-stroke improvement as he finished 70-66.
It turns out that reports of the death of blade players on the PGA Tour were greatly exaggerated.
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