Rolling to Victory: The Most Used Putter on the LPGA Tour (2024)
Concluding Golfing Focus’ complete guide to the most popular clubs on the LPGA Tour requires us to finish with the shortest club in the bag – the putter.
Although sometimes of course it is the longest club when it’s a broom handle putter we now turn our detailed attention to the most popular putters on the LPGA Tour.
Odyssey putters are the most popular on the LPGA Tour with 24% of the top 100 LPGA Tour pros choosing one of their models according to the available data. PING and Scotty Cameron putters are the next most common with 17% and 16% of this select group using them respectively. TaylorMade putters are only chosen by 8% with Betiinardi putters next on 6%.
A very small selection of one or two pros opt to put PXG, Tour Putters, Burke, Swag or T.P.Mills branded putters in their golf bags.
Choosing a putter is a very personal thing for all golfers and it is equally true for the best women players in the world. Nowhere in the golf bag is a club more likely to be changed on a whim in an effort to find that magic touch on the greens.
So in the remainder of this article we go deeper to explore:
- What is the most used individual putter on the LPGA Tour
- Whether there is a definitive preference for blade or mallet putters, before finally looking at
- The putter grips being chosen by the top women pros.
The Most ‘Used’ Putter on The LPGA Tour Is …. ?
Given the role endorsements play in professional golf it is probably better that we look to answer what is the most ‘used’ putter and brand of putters on the LPGA Tour rather than which is the most ‘popular’.
The big golfing equipment manufacturers spend a lot of money to make sure the best players on all the professional tours use their clubs and as such the results of our in-depth study need to be seen in that context.
Nevertheless there is always a lot to learn from the equipment choices of the LPGA Tour players despite this.
And among the 59 different models of putter being used on the LPGA Tour PING’s PLD Anser, Scotty Cameron’s Newport 2 and Bettinardi’s Studio Stock 3 DASS putters are the most common with three pros each of the top 100 using one.
Major champion Celine Boutier and six-time LPGA Tour winner Nasa Hataoka are the best known users of the Studio Stock 3 DASS mallet putter while three-time Solheim Cup star Ally Ewing opts for PING’s PLD Anser blade model.
Australia’s Stephanie Kyriacou is the top-ranked user we uncovered of Scotty Cameron’s Newport 2, the preferred choice of the legendary Tiger Woods through nearly all of his 15 major wins.
And what about putter choice of Nelly Korda who has dominated much of the latest golf season with her 5 successive LPGA Tour wins?
She currently games a putter whose nearest equivalent the general public would recognise is a Scotty Cameron Super Select Squareback 2.
This blade putter has been in and out of her bag over the past number of years and like many of the putters being used by the top pros on the LPGA Tour it is not one that is available to the general public.
“I dug into the history of putters, what Nicklaus, Snead and Jones putted with. I wanted mine to resemble a wedge, and I got to watch Scotty Cameron make this … I had an idea, then [he] sketched it out, and then all of a sudden my thoughts became real. He molded them, and then we spent hours, and I think it took days for him to make these molds … He eyeballed the center, and I cut the alignment line. Everything about this putter is gorgeous. He’s an artist.“
And that is because many of the putters used on the LPGA Tour are ‘prototypes’ whose specifications have been tinkered and tweaked to match the exacting requirements of the top women players on the planet.
The use of 59 different models of putter by the top 100 on the LPGA Tour, many of which are prototypes, points to the precision with which the best professionals select the ‘typically’ shortest club in their bag.
As a result although our in-depth research points to the following putters being the most ‘used’ the sheer variety of putters being chosen by this select group, often combined with their individual ‘prototype’ requirements, makes it difficult to say one individual putter or putter model is preferred above others on the LPGA Tour.
| BRAND OF PUTTER | % OF TOP 100 LPGA PROS USING BRAND | MOST USED PUTTER MODEL(S) |
| Odyssey | 25% (including ‘Ronni’ Yin, Minjee Lee, Allisen Corpuz, Yuka Saso, Alison Lee, Rose Zhang, Madelene Sagstrom, Olivia Cowan) | Toulon Design Atlanta Check eBay V-Line Tank Cruiser Check eBay White Hot OG 2-Ball View at PGA Superstore |
| PING | 17% (inc. Leona Maguire, Linn Grant, Maja Stark, Ally Ewing, Jennifer Kupcho, Azahara Munoz) | PLD Anser View at PGA Superstore |
| Scotty Cameron | 16% (inc. Lilia Vu, Nelly Korda, Hannah Green, Jin Young Ko, Danielle Kang, Lexi Thompson, Lyida Ko) | Newport 2 Check eBay |
| TaylorMade | 8% (inc. Charley Hull, Brooke Henderson. Maria Fassi, Ayaka Furue) | Spider Tour V |
| Bettinardi | 6% (inc. Celine Boutier, Nasa Hataoka, Georgia Hall) | Studio Stock 3 DASS Check eBay |
| PXG | 2% (inc. Megan Khang) | Battle Ready II Closer Brandon GEN 1 |
| Tour Putters | 1% (Gemma Dryburgh) | Evnroll ER-3 |
| Burke | 1% (Angel Yin) | AI-77 |
| Swag | 1% (Anna Nordqvist) | The Boss |
| T.P.Mills | 1% (Amy Yang) | Fleetwood |
| No Data | 24% | – |
Blade vs. Mallet Putters on the LPGA Tour
While the variety of individual putters being used on the LPGA Tour makes it difficult to confidently say one model is the most common above all others it is easier to be definite on the topic of whether the best women pros prefer blade or mallet designs.
When looking in detail at the blade vs mallet putters debate on the PGA Tour and Champions Tour we have seen a preference for more forgiving malllet style putters.
But is that matched on the LPGA Tour?
51% of the top 100 LPGA Tour players use mallet putters including world no.2 Lilia Vu, ‘Ronni’ Yin, Brooke Henderson and 2024 Women’s British Open Champion and Olympic Gold Medalist Lydia Ko.
2024 Player of the Year Nelly Korda and Charley Hull meanwhile are among the 37% of this select group preferring blade putters which also includes ‘wide blade’ models chosen by pros such as Georgia Hall who puts a Bettinardi Studio Stock 28 in her bag.
Data on this metric was not available for the remaining 12% of the top 100 however from these numbers it seems clear that the best LPGA Tour pros are the same as their male colleagues when it comes to a preference for mallet putters over blades.
“I played a Bloodline putter and liked it but knew I could improve it for my game. My clubfitter connected me with a putter maker. I sketched out the design, and this is what we made. The smaller mallet head shape was key for me.“
2024 US Women’s Open Champion, Yuka Saso
A good proportion of the top women players however clearly opt to stick with a more traditional and classic blade putter design and it was also interesting to note that our detailed study did not uncover any of the top 100 on the LPGA Tour using a long broom handle putter.
As with all golfers however, the best women players in the world are equally as susceptible to going through peaks and troughs of confidence on the greens which result in them switching between putters on occasion or even from tournament to tournament.
This can therefore lead to some such as three-time LPGA Tour winner and USA Solheim Cup player Ally Ewing to even switch between a blade and mallet design.
Talking to Golf Digest Ewing commented “I’ve played my entire professional career with a blade. Once, in college, I switched to a counterbalance mallet putter, but it didn’t last long. The look of the blade gives me confidence.”
So as we can see while some of the top women pros will experiment with different models and even different putter types many will simply stick with the style that looks the best and provides them with that confidence that can often be elusive to even the best players in the world.
What Putter Grips Do LPGA Tour Players Use?
In the modern game as much attention seems to be paid to putter grips as putters.
So to make Golfing Focus’ in-depth analysis of the putters used by LPGA Tour pros complete we knew it was important to unpick what putter grips they chose to play with.
Unfortunately, we could not find data on half of the top 100 but for the remaining fifty of this elite group we found 40% use Superstroke putter grips.
PING putter grips are the next most common chosen by 28% with Odyssey and Scotty Cameron grips used by 10% and 8% respectively of these fifty pros. Garsen Golf, Lamkin, Iomic, Bettinardi and Rosemark putter grips are used by the remaining seven pros Golfing Focus found data on.
In all, we found 17 different individual putter grips being used by the fifty LPGA Tour players we found information on with PING’s classic PP58 putter grip being the most common with 5 pros choosing it.
Allisen Corpuz and Ally Ewing are among the users of the PP58 grip while 2024 Chevron Championship runner-up Maja Stark opts for the mid-cord version of the PP58 putter grip.
And although the main manufacturers – Superstroke, PING, Odyssey and Scotty Cameron – appear to be the dominant brands on the LPGA Tour concerning putter grips as they account for almost 90% of the grips we analysed, Garsen Quad, Lamkin, Iomic, Bettinardi and Rosemark putter grips were also chosen by a small selection of players.
Charley Hull for example opts for Iomic’s Paddle putter grip while Brooke Henderson opts for Garsen Golf’s Quad Tour when gripping her putter in her preferred left-hand low style.
Long gone are the times therefore when what putter grip was hardly considered when it came to putter choices and the top women pros are very precise when it comes to selecting both their putter and grip.
Before You Go …
The best professional golfers are equally as susceptible to crises of confidence on the greens as any other golfer in the world.
So read our next articles to take a closer look to see how the best male golfers in the world on both the PGA and Champions Tours choose their putters and set them up.
What Putter Do Most PGA Players Use?
Behind Every Stroke: The Most Popular Putter On Champions Tour
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