Last fall, Bettinardi unveiled their Bettinardi Workshop custom putter design program. This system positioned itself nicely between Bettinardi’s existing custom options.
Prior to the Bettinardi Workshop, you could customize the specs of a stock Bettinardi putter or go all-in with Bettinardi’s sky’s-the-limit full customization program.
Unlike the existing custom program, the Bettinardi Workshop enabled customers to design their own custom putters from their computer screens.
Naturally, Bettinardi is not the first putter company to offer a phone-to-porch putter design interface. Odyssey, TaylorMade and PING have had similar programs.
What makes the Bettinardi Workshop different is the unreal number of custom options.
Today, I’ll take you through my process of building a Bettinardi Workshop putter. We’ll explore the options and compare what you see on the computer screen to what you’ll be rolling on the green.
Wait, there are how many models?
When you first open the Bettinardi Workshop page, you’ll see the amazing number of models that you can choose from. For reference, the Odyssey/Toulon Garage in its prime maxed out the model count at about seven.
In the Bettinardi Workshop, there are 33 models!
This includes right- and left-handed models and does not take into account the fact that some of the models have multiple neck options. When you factor in the necks, you get really close to 50 possible putters to customize.
I would consider five choices to be an acceptable number of options. Fifty is borderline madness and is amazing for the consumer.
Bettinardi gives you so many choices and I love that. If you are going to spend the money to customize a putter, you should be able to pick the exact model you want.
A full palette of cosmetic design options
If you have trouble making decisions, you’ll find the Bettinardi Workshop even more challenging once you get into the cosmetic options. I’m not even going to attempt to calculate the number of possible combinations that one could create in the Bettinardi Workshop.
Even the most learned of mathematicians would be satisfied saying that there’s a shitload of options.
Pick your paint colors and mix up those colors as you wish. While the Cameron Custom shop limits you to four colors, the Bettinardi Workshop allows you to choose a different color for nearly every painted putter part.
You can also choose the colors for the putter itself and the rear aluminum section if you are choosing an Inovai model.
If you still have some energy left after choosing colors, then you’ll move on to choosing face stamping, the shaft, a shaft band, grip and headcover.
Don’t forget that Bettinardi also builds your Bettinardi Workshop putter to your loft/lie/length specifications as well.
If you are like me, you’ll probably drain your phone battery before you decide on the final configuration. I went through numerous permutations of putters before landing on my final design.
(Full disclosure: I did build some extras just for fun.)
Ranking the Bettinardi Workshop interface
While the number of choices to the consumer is industry leading, the actual interface is a little clunky and somewhat dated.
To its credit, the interface hits the basics very well. You can easily access the various options through dropdown menus and the rendering of the putter updates when you make your selections. That part is all good.
By itself, the interface is fine but other companies have done it better in terms of the visuals.
The king of putter rendering these days is the TaylorMade MySpider interface. Not only does the putter image update when you change options but you can rotate the putter in all directions to see how your options changed the look.
The Bettinardi Workshop lacks this rotational aspect. When you update an option, the rendering of the part of the putter with the new option updates.
In Bettinardi’s defence, their massive catalog of customizable putters probably limited what they could do in terms of technologies. Creating 3D rotational images of the 50 models would be time consuming and cost prohibitive.
TaylorMade just gives you a Spider Tour or a Spider X to customize and those two models each use two separate interfaces.
The rotational interface looks better during the design process but including something like that would probably result in Bettinardi including fewer model choices. If that’s the case, I’d rather see more models than spinning graphics.
Realistically, you’ll only look at your virtual Bettinardi Workshop putter on the screen for a few minutes but you’ll play your real Workshop putter for years. As long as the resulting putter is solid, the interface need not be perfect.
Why build a custom putter?
For putter lovers, that is a silly question. For us, going customized instead of stock is more of a “why wouldn’t you?” question. You use the putter more than any other club in your bag. Having it fitted and a little fancy is the obvious choice.
This time around, I had two customization motivations. Obviously, the first one was to see how Bettinardi’s on-screen options compared to the in-hand product. That is goal one for this kind of We Tried It article.
The other customization motivation was far more personal and not really golf related.
Last summer, one of my childhood best friends was diagnosed with stage four prostate cancer. I’m pulling for you, Bruce Campbell.
As my buddy started his treatments, I decided I would make a custom putter for him. He’s not much of a golfer. His claims to fame on the course are wrecking both a new driver (not his) and a golf cart (also not his).
In retrospect, maybe I shouldn’t be giving him anything that would cause him to return to the course.
In addition to being somewhat of a menace, he is also a huge Miami Dolphins fan. There were Dan Marino posters in his room growing up and he joins the remaining members of the 1973 Dolphins team in celebration when any undefeated team gets their first loss of the season.
Miami hasn’t won a Super Bowl since 1974 but my buddy remains a dedicated Dolfan.
I made this putter for him as a way for him to know I was thinking about him at this difficult time in his life. My hope was that some pink and teal would bring levity to the arduous process of chemo.
Fins to the left, fins to the right
Once I established that I was going with a Miami Dolphins theme, I got to work building the Bettinardi Workshop putter. Naturally, I selected the colors to match the Dolphins but some of the other selections were purely curiosity driven.
I chose the Bettinardi Inovai 6.5 head because I had never rolled that in person. Somehow, that one slipped by me.
I’m sure he won’t mind if I roll the putter a bit before I deliver it.
I also wanted to see what the metal shaft band looked like and to get a feel for the Bettinardi-branded KBS GPS graphite shaft. As with the Inovai 6.5 head, somehow this putter shaft has escaped my perusal. With graphite putter shafts being such “a thing” these days, I had to take the opportunity to take a couple of swings with this shaft.
Ultimately, this was to be a Miami Dolphins putter. Once I had the aspects in place, I hit the purchase button and began the waiting process.
The build will take some time
Since all putters in the Bettinardi Workshop are made to order, don’t expect your putter to get to you in a hurry. Bettinardi lists the production time at eight to12 weeks. For my putter, the delivery time was pretty close to the 12th week.
My guess is that the more complicated the build, the longer the production time. For example, an Inovai with a custom-colored rear section will take longer than an Antidote SB1 where most of the customization is just paint.
Three months will seem like a long time while you wait for the putter to arrive but you will quickly forget all of that waiting once you see the putter.
The Miami Dolphins Inovai 6.5
Bettinardi did a great job with this putter. As far as the Dolphins theme, the putter looks way better in person than it did on the screen. While I couldn’t rotate the computer rendering, I am happy with what I see at every angle with the actual putter.
The color pops and I’m glad that I had them add ‘FINS’ to the face. Obviously, I wanted the stamping to fit the theme but I’m also happy that the letters are a little inconsistent.
The heavy strike on the “I” tells me that a person, not a machine, hammered those letters into the face. Although I can’t really pinpoint why that matters to me, it does. I suppose that in these machines-do-everything days, I like having evidence that there was a real person involved in the build.
I do dig the metal shaft band. For demonstration reasons, this putter has both the shaft band and the shaft sticker. Were I not building this to share with you, I’d go with one or the other.
Were I to pick, I’d probably spend the extra $60 for the metal band since that is something you can only get from the Workshop program.
Although I’ve not had extensive rolls with the putter, I do like the feel of the KBS GPS shaft. Is it better than the steel shaft? That depends upon how you define “better.”
It looks super cool and feels good but I can’t definitively say that spending the extra $150 will help you or me make more putts. It sure catches eyes, though.
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The Bettinardi Workshop built a great putter for a great person
Although the Bettinardi Workshop’s computer interface is more functional than flashy, the resulting putter is fantastic. The renderings did a fine job of helping me select the colors of my Inovai 6.5 and providing me with a rough idea of what the finished putter would look like.
As soon as I had the finished putter in hand, I forgot all about the workings of the interface.
Pricing for the Bettinardi Workshop will vary depending on the options selected. Base price for the Inovai 6.5 is $425. My “add everything” plan resulted in a price just below $1,000. My guess is that you will fall somewhere in between the base price and the silly-Dave maximum.
Pay for what matters to you and skip what doesn’t.
When all is said and done, I used the Bettinardi Workshop to build a Miami Dolphins-themed putter that I can now send to my friend in Cincinnati who just rang the cancer-free bell a few weeks ago. Way to stay strong, my friend.
(I’m still not going to let him hit my new driver or drive the golf cart.)
Build your own custom putter in the Bettinardi Workshop at Bettinardi.com.
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