In this episode of the Club Junkie golf equipment podcast, we review the brand-new Bettinardi Antidote SB3 and SB5 putters. If you’re searching for an in-depth Bettinardi Antidote review, wondering how the SB3 vs. SB5 compare, or trying to find the best high-MOI putter for your stroke—this breakdown covers everything you need.
I take these putters on the course for real-world testing and discuss performance, feel, stability, alignment, and who each model is designed for. Bettinardi fans and gear junkies won’t want to miss this one.
⛳ In this episode:
First impressions of the Antidote lineup
SB3 vs. SB5 head shape breakdown
Performance & feel
Who should consider switching
Final thoughts for putter nerds everywhere
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Hey, welcome back to the Club Junkie podcast. Hope you’re having a great week. It’s another Thursday and uh we’re like a week away from Thanksgiving, which is really scary. So, but anyway, before we get into today’s episode, just want to let you know this episode is brought to you by Titalist. And Titus is always looking for ways to help you shoot lower scores. And the golf ball you play can make a big difference. Here’s something you should know about. Alignment integrated marking or AIM are alignment lines precisely printed on your titleless golf ball. AIM is available in a variety of different designs and colors like AIM performance is a tour inspired 105 degree line available in black, red, blue or pink. Now aim enhanced is a distinct threeline alignment system. Both aim performance and aim enhance are available on prov1x and prob left dash. Now titless AVX and titleless super soft balls. They get aim 360 aine design that wraps all the way around the golf ball. I’m a big aim enhanced guy. I use it on my Proby 1X. I’ve been using it for a couple years now. Really think that it helps me line up some of the shorter putts and things like that. So, that’s the one I choose. But, why use AIM? Aim technology has been found to help golfers be up to 35% more precise in lining up putts. AIM can also help with confidence lining up uh to the target off the tea. But you have to see aim designs to appreciate them. So, visit titles.com to see all the AIM markings today. So, anyway, we are back. It is uh it is Thursday and uh we’re back and uh yeah, last week what a great episode. Everybody was super excited. I know everybody’s waiting for uh the Scotty Cameron Zero Torque or OC putters uh for me to talk about them. Thankfully uh my friends at Title sent me the putters uh and I’ve been messing with them ever since as well. But really big fan, but you guys, you know, at episode was was awesome. Tons of listens between YouTube uh and the podcast platforms, all that uh was really really good. So, figured why not double down and we’re going to jump into zero torque putters again cuz we just had two brand new Zero Torque putters get uh released uh just on Tuesday, I believe. I’m recording this on Wednesday, so I think it happened yesterday was the embargo. I know it was right around that. Um, but I’ve had these for for a couple weeks as well, so it’s hard for me to remember, you know, the the announcement or the article went out yesterday or Tuesday. Uh, but I’ve had them for a little bit. But, uh, we’ve got two brand new putters, uh, zero torque putters from Betardi. Uh, yeah, they’re back out again. So, we’ve got, uh, the Bettonardi, the Antidote series gets two new additions. Um, one and two came out a little while ago. And, uh, now we have, uh, SB3, uh, which is kind of a number seven fang type model. Uh, and then we have SB5, which is kind of a half moon mallet kind of classic shape there. Uh, and yes, we don’t have a four. No idea where four is. uh it has not uh not come out. So, we’ve got three and three and five. Uh four, no clue. Not sure where it went. Uh maybe we’ll see it uh in the future or something like that. But, uh two brand new models uh out and uh both look really good. I think uh you know, as before, SB1 was of course like the blade, you know, just kind of a uh a blade model, very rectangular uh in terms of its look. And then we had SB2, which was like the big square mallet. And uh I like the the SB2 for a little while and then on course I just I didn’t putt as well with it as I had hoped. Uh but the one thing I do to say is that at Bettonardi has with these Zero Torque models, the Antidote models, they really nailed the feel. I mean they’re Bettonardy feeling putters. They they definitely have that feel to them and uh these are are definitely no different. But uh first we’ll start with looks. Uh I do have to say opening the box up uh I didn’t know what to expect. I knew there were new zero torque putters coming uh because just because you know my contact over at Bettonardy kind of said uh that there would be some uh some additions to the antidote lineup, but I wasn’t sure what they were going to look like, anything like that. So, opening the box uh right out of the box, I was like, “Oh, the first one I pulled out was SP3.” Uh kind of this fang, like I said, I like to call the number seven style cuz Odyssey kind of made that famous. But SP3 um has these fangs on them uh where you have the stain the silver stainless steel face in front and this blue colored stainless steel back. At first I thought it might be aluminum like the innov models. Uh but then on there there is a nice 303 SS uh marking on there. So 303 stainless on the face, 303 stainless on the rear kind of fangs on it. But overall looks really good. I think the contrast of blue and silver of course really works. And I love the fact that you’ve got two long sight lines that run down the fangs to working with a little straight line on the top line. So, really good overall look. Of course, the milling looks fantastic. Um, you know, on the back there, a little, you know, interesting little uh uh kind of huzzle as you call it as it’s like milled out there and you can see some of the milling lines in the little pocket and everything. Super detailed. Uh, but as usual, Benton already killed it with the milling department. Uh, face looks nice as well. Of course, we’ve got the the fit face back on this one, which is those horizontal lines uh to add a little softness to it. Uh but these things here really really nice and uh yeah, I think they came out really really well. Uh the heads on these uh 360 g on the SP3 uh and on the SP5 is the same. So 360 g a little bit heavier uh than like the 350 that’s kind of become standard on a lot of, you know, regular balance putters. Uh but these of course, if you’re not familiar with the Antidote, uh they’re toe up design. So when you hold them, if you’re watching this on YouTube, you can see like I’m just holding it, letting it rest on my fingers. And when you do that, the toe points straight in the air. And what that does, it makes the face point towards your target. So the theory is with putters like this, you don’t have to get the putter back to square at impact. It’s it wants to be square. It wants to be pointed to the target. Uh and it’s just eliminates one part of the uh of the equation of putting because putting is difficult. Let’s be be honest. So uh really like kind of the little details, you know, little honeycomb milling in the little fangs in there. uh they milled that in there and uh yeah, just overall a really really nice looking setup here for the SB3. And then SB5. Um so SB3 was one. When I pulled it out, I was like, “No, like this is like my jam. Like I’m I’m this guy.” And then I pulled out SB5 and SB5 is this kind of half moon kind of, you know, half circle mallet. Uh kind of really classic and traditional. I love they did the again same thing. Little, you know, pocket back there with some some honeycomb milling. Uh but SB5, same thing. 303 stainless on the back. just has this nice kind of classic shape to it. And I like the fact that when you look down on it, it just kind of looks like a classic little, you know, half blade, half, you know, half half mallet, half blade type of design. Uh, and it’s just kind of nice and clean. Like there’s nothing too crazy, nothing too fancy. I think people are a little bit more traditional, uh, will like the look of this. Uh, you know, the milling lines and stuff that when you start looking really closely, you can kind of see them on some of these, uh, the some of these shoulders and stuff up on the top. Uh but a really nice kind of big wide flange right there in the cavity. Two blue lines that run down that uh to frame the ball and then again a small uh sight line on the top. Now the top the front face portion of these I I think is almost identical. They look exactly the same. I’m pretty sure the way they’re designed you could in theory uh it’s not meant to happen, but you could take these apart and swap the backs and that would work. So um I believe the faces are all identical between these two putters. So really good look on this one. And and then it’s funny because like this is not a shape I typically gravitate towards from any brand, you know, like this just is not a shape I and the more I’ve been rolling both these putters, the more I do like the look of this. I think they did a really nice job uh on the look of this putter. Uh this SB5 looks really clean, really classic. And while none of these uh tow up or zero torque type putters are truly classic looking, when you have a shaft that goes in uh you know to the center of the club head, uh I think Benton already did a nice job with it. It is a little closer to the face. Like the the shaft on some of these putters is like way back and there’s a ton of face uh before you get to the shaft. This one they pushed it forward a little bit. And I do have to say that does give it a little bit more of a traditional look and maybe a little easier on the eyes for people who are maybe just looking into this style of putter uh and going from there. But uh really like it behind the ball. I think it looks really really solid. And the yeah, they finished off just you know stock steel shafts and a Lamin deep edge grip on here. So, uh, they do have an option on the website for an oversized grip, uh, that you can get on here. Uh, I typically play pretty standard grips, so I went with that, uh, instead, and that is what they sent on both these putters. So, a classic, really good look. Um, I like what they did with both these putters, but uh, again, you know, fit face on this one. Um, so a really nice job in terms of looks and and it’s funny cuz I keep putting with them and every time I grab one, I always kind of grab SB5 in terms of the looks. I just really like it. Uh, and it just it looks really good. So, uh, interesting because, like I said, not a a putter shape that I’ve been massively into over the years. Uh, and then the head covers, which I left on the other side of the room, are the same as the antidote cutters before. So, navy blue, honeycomb on the top. Uh, they say the antidote on them. So, th those are the the same as the SP1, SP2 that were out. They didn’t really change those, but overall clean, classic, very bentardy, uh, great milling, and really really nice looking putters. So, yeah, I like the looks of them. I think they did a nice job there. Uh, when it comes to feel, uh, feel on these is, as you would think, very good. Made out of stainless steel. Um, I know some of these putters out there, they have inserts, they’re made out of aluminum, they’re whatever. Like the they’re they’re just a bunch of stuff. So, the the the the range of feel in this zero torque uh, arena varies greatly. And I think that’s a good thing because I think there’s different feels. Everybody’s idea of good feel is subjective. So, whatever you like, the next person may not like. and and vice versa. So, uh the feel here is is subjective, but this is much like the previous antidotes, very very classic, very very stainless steel, very very bent nardy. So, to me, bent nardies are always uh just a slight they lean a slight bit more on the crisp side. And I say that in a good way uh because I think they have a softness to them that also also lets them be very responsive. Uh so, you hear a little bit of click, you feel a little bit of that impact. Uh, and I think as your impacts change, uh, those things, you know, that sound changes and stuff like that, but the feel on it, uh, really, really solid. Now, interesting enough, at first I was kind of hitting balls and I was hitting I have two golf balls that I typically use down here on my putting mat. One’s a Prov1 uh, and one’s a Prov1 X dash. And there’s no rhyme or reason to why I have them. They’re just two golf balls that have just they came out of a bag once, they sat on my my workbench, and they ended up on the putting mat. no reason other than that. But with the ProB1, um, I thought these two felt pretty similar. They were soft. Ball came off the face well. Uh, when you hit them dead center, they had, uh, you know, a nice little kind of like low pitch click to there. It’s almost like I wouldn’t call it a knock, but it’s, you know, low pitch click. Ball came off. Really, really nice. Really pleasant. Very familiar. Uh, if you’re someone who plays a lot of like steel face putters, uh, the Fit Face here, uh, I guess does soften it up. Definitely doesn’t make it too soft. Doesn’t make it too mushy. Uh it’s not going to be something where you hit it and you don’t even feel like you hit it. I know some of the insert putters like like an Odyssey AI1 duel, the new one uh for the tryhots and that one like I almost feel like if you hit it dead center like you almost don’t know you hit it and these here definitely give you that feedback that yes, you hit it and for some players that’s massive in terms of distance control of being able to feel and hear that ball come off the face and they kind of equate, you know, that feel and that sound with how hard they hit the ball and they can kind of adjust throughout the round and things like that. Uh, so I really do think it’s a good thing. Uh, and again, everyone’s different on what they consider good and good feel and you know what they like, which is which is great. But these here, really good, really classic. The Fit Face doesn’t soften it up too much. Uh, you definitely can feel that bulk come off the face. Now, the Prob1, I was like, “Okay, they both feel pretty similar.” Um, with the Prob 1X Left Dash, they you can definitely tell there’s a slight slight difference between the two heads. Uh, to me SB5 feels a touch firmer than SP3. So, my theory, because I’m no engineer, I’m no club designer, is that the maybe the the the fangs on here uh on the back of this uh SP3, maybe they kind of have some type of vibration resonance that soften it up just a touch or maybe it’s the way uh you know, the head connects into the front of the face. Uh, but when you’re hitting a really firm golf ball like a Prob 1X Left Dash, uh, I feel like SP5 is a just a hair firmer, uh, and gives you just a touch more sound off the face than SP3 does. So, they’re both very, very close. And I think you play a soft ball like a chrome soft or something like that, you’re probably not going to notice a difference. Uh, but if you’re playing a really firm uh, ball like that and you’re hitting them side by side, you may be able to tell. And again, if you’re in a like kind of a wide open kind of loud uh pro shop or or golf store, again, you might not be able to tell the difference. I feel like if you’re in, you know, I’m in my basement. It’s kind of small. It doesn’t have a tall ceiling. Like things are a little louder down here than they even are out on the course. Um and I think you will you can notice a difference. I I definitely I just kept going back and forth and literally just I grabbed a couple more left dashes and I would just hit one after another and just switch between putters back and forth, back and forth. And uh to me the SB3 feels just a little bit softer than SB5. So nothing crazy. Uh nothing wild. Uh but it did, you know, just slightly different. And when you’re It’s one of those things, too, like when you hear it and then you like get into it and then you’re like hyperfocused on it. Um I started doing it more. But even came down uh again today before I started recording, hit a few butts. I still think uh SP5 is just a hair firmer. And again, it could just be like the back design, something like that that makes it feel and sound that way. Um, but it is to me just a slight bit different. So, uh, nothing that would sway me like out of one putter and into the other or something like that. Like it’s not that big of a difference. Uh, it’s just again being able to put them side by side like that. Uh, they they they definitely sound and feel just a a hair difference. So, feel is good. Uh, impact center impacts are really good. I feel like heel impacts don’t fluctuate as much with both models, you know, SB3, SB uh 5. Uh, I feel like when when you hit it down in the heel, you still get uh a little bit more of a similar feel to a dead center strike. It’s a little bit more solid. Uh, you don’t get that that little bit of vibration kicked up in the hands uh that you get. Now, you do feel it on the toe uh on both putters. You get it out a little bit on the toe and you will feel it and you’ll you’ll hear a little bit of sound difference, but on the heel, I feel like that is muted a little bit. It almost feels like, you know, the sweet spot moves a little bit further uh into the heel uh from center into heel just a touch. And on both putters, I kind of felt that way. So, getting on the toe, you’re going to know right away. I hit it off the toe. You’re going to feel it, hear it uh off the heel a little bit. You might be just slightly uh you know, slightly confused or or not confused, slightly tricked uh by that. Um but it feels pretty solid in the heel. Now, if you get a little further out, you’ll definitely get into the you know, more audible click, more audible sound, little firmer feel. You get that vibration. Uh but just a hair inside heel, you will uh you will, you know, not feel that. And it might be just something with the design of the of the hoszle in there. I mean, there is, you know, it’s on an angle, so maybe that upper mass uh that that floats kind of more towards the heel. Uh maybe that gives it uh that little bit of uh of extra there. But um really good feel. Uh very responsive. Uh just like you think stainless would. And uh you know, if you’re playing a softer ball, definitely really pleasant. Uh you know, definitely zero click to it. It’ll be more of like that that little bit of a knock as it leaves. And if you play a really firm ball, then you’ll get that touch of click to it. So depending on what you play, uh that could vary the uh the feel on that, the sound on that a little bit. So, uh sound and feel really really solid. I think these things, uh, you know, like you’d expect from Betark. I mean, a fine mil putter, uh, it’s going to, you know, sound and feel really, really good. So, big fan of that. Um, I think they did a nice job. And then, uh, when it comes to, you know, performance, uh, I think both these are really, really good. Now, I did to me think that these were slightly unique in terms of the way they puted for me. Um, you know, everybody’s a little bit different. Now, this whole zero torque toe up style, whatever you want to call it, uh, you know, a lot of people like I think a lot of the industry kind of touts it as this like the end all beall, like this is the way putting to be and this is for everyone and it just flat works and whatever. And and, you know, from a physics and engineering standpoint, I get it. you know, getting the face back to square uh at impact could definitely help with help people with what they’re doing. You know, it could make them more consistent, but it is not for everybody. I know a lot of people who have tried zero torque putters. They’ve tried different ones and none of them are something that they love or something that works for them. And that’s fine, man. Like, there’s going to be both, you know, both style putters for a long forever, you know, not not one putter is going to take over and and just be the best cuz there’s people who this just doesn’t work for, and that’s cool. Um, but these two to me slightly different in terms of how they performed. Uh, with the sound and feel thing aside, I found for me, um, I lined up, uh, the SB uh, 3, the Fang one, I lined it up better to my target and I started it on a slightly more consistent center start line. And when I did miss that line, I tended to miss it right. And then with SB5, I would hit the ball pretty center, but I would be more consistently left. And I wouldn’t hit center as much. much like if I was to chart it out and say, you know, like, oh, out of, you know, a 100 putts, you know, how many did you hit online, you know, with SP3 or whatever, I think the percentage would be slightly higher that I started more percentage of putts online with the SP3 as opposed to SP5. Now, that could be an alignment thing. Uh, because like I said, I did feel immediately comfortable lining the SP3 up. I think those white those long white sight lines and even the cavity in the middle, it just frames the ball really well. And I felt like it was really comfortable, easy to get lined up to my target and then just swing and it was really good. Um, SB5 I felt like I had to kind of ensure I was lined up at my target a little longer. And it might just be, you know, different contrast. You know, you’re going light with dark lines as opposed to dark with light lines. Uh, they’re a little bit opposite. And then the this is, you know, shorter as well. Shorter with a little more roundness. This is a lot more straight angles. And I think over the years I’ve found that more straight angles tend to work better with my eye. Um, but I think both these are different in that sense where there’s going to be some people who set down SP5 and go, “This is the one. This is it.” Uh, and they have no problem, you know, lining stuff up, whatever. And there other people who may lay down three and say, “No, this is the one.” Uh, so I think there’s a little difference there. But yeah, SP3, uh, I found I was on starting line all a good majority of the time. I’m not an amazing putter. I’m no Ben Crenshaw or whatever like that. Um, so most of the time I was getting this thing started online. And my my mat is kind of that uh it’s a a putt out mat uh that has some lines on it and stuff like that. So I kind of watch where the ball goes uh as it goes down that mat. And if SB3, I would get that thing started online and then when I did miss I would tend to miss it a little bit right and that would be kind of the shot and and that was it. And I didn’t really ever hit it left unless it was a total kind of a club path thing or something like that. Uh but everything was a little bit straight to maybe even just slight right. The percentage on on straight was much higher. Um, and then with SP5, I felt like majority of my misses or majority of my misses were left. Uh, but I tended to start balls more left with that compared to straight when I compared them to the shots with SP3. So, I don’t know exactly what that is. It could just be design. Maybe it’s the shape. Now, to me, uh, I feel like SB3 has a little bit more of that like stable feel. Uh, not as much as SB1. SB1 I thought was very stable. Like it it had that feeling of the face wanting to go through impact. like it just it pulled the the the putter into the ball and it wanted to stay online. It didn’t want to be manipulated. I feel like SB3 is pretty close to that, but not quite. Um, and SP5, I think, is a little bit more neutral. Uh, when it comes to that, I feel like it’s got a little less of that feel of it pulling through. It lets you manipulate it a little bit if you want to. Uh, and again, like I’ve said this before, I think I think it’s great for both of those because I think players with a lot of arc in their stroke may put down SP5 and say, “This thing feels really comfortable because I can kind of bring it uh, you know, through the my normal arc uh, in my stroke and it matches up well where more straight back straight through players may pick up an SP3 and say, “Yeah, this works because I’m I’m trying to bring it straight back and straight through and it kind of works with that.” So, I think both these putters are really good at what they do. it just might be for slightly different golfers and I think that’s the reason why there’s two of them. Uh but yeah, the both putters just kind of reacted differently there and I think depending on the type of golfer you are and what I think one of these may lend more towards you know your style, your stroke, all that uh more than the other. Um now stability on both putters is really good. When you did hit it off the toe, the heel uh they want to stay pretty darn stable. like you know some putters some of these these zero torque if you kind of even just like tap the toe like they want to fling open and these I mean unless you’re hitting it way out here on the toe if you’re hitting it pretty close to center and on there it it stays pretty stable. Uh toe misses I I tended to see them go maybe just a little bit more right if you hit on the heel it would stay online pretty darn well. Uh and then I know the fit face is not designed to put a bunch of forward roll in the ball but that roll does is is pretty smooth and consistent. And even if you do catch it a little up the heel, a little up the toe, you’re not getting anything that hops or skids any extra. It still gets rolling. That that the forward roll happens pretty quickly. Um, but SP3 definitely really stable. I thought SP5 was really stable. I thought the same thing when you hit it on the heel. It would kind of want to stay there. On the toe, if you got it further out, the toe would want to uh maybe miss a little bit, right? But again, overall pretty stable for the style, the size, all that. I think they did a nice job adding some stability in there. So, you don’t have to be perfect. Don’t have to hit it dead center. take it a little off the toe, a little off the heel, and you’re still going to get a good ball out of it. And the distance control for those when you did miss it was really, really solid. You know, it definitely got to the hole. Uh, you know, on my putting mat, you have that little like, you know, that little fake cup cuz it’s not regressed, just a mat just printed on there. Uh, and you pretty much always got that ball to the hole, even on those misses. So, nothing really came up short, uh, or felt like it was coming up way short. Everything got pretty much to the hole. Um, I would just say yeah, LTO miss there might kind of just leak a little bit more, right? Um, than maybe say like a standard innov, you know, high MOI mallet. Um, those might stay on a touch better than these, but I think overall, you know, with that that face forward design, that zero torque design, uh, the consistency is there anyway. But the misses were actually really solid. Uh, better than I kind of expected. I always feel like with these zero torque putters, I think cuz I remember when I saw the original DF1 or DF2, uh DF2.1, whatever it was, the original one, um back in the day, uh there was a lot of things about, you know, the the the ball hitting the face and the face wanting to kind of rotate really badly. Um and I think that’s always been kind of like burned in my my brain. Uh but these actually held up really really well in terms of uh of stability there. they really were pretty uh pretty darn forgiving and and I like the feel. So yeah, between these two, I mean, I’ve liked SP SP3 a little bit more. Um just because I I feel like I do line it up a bit better. Um but SP5 is really good. Now, now in terms of roll, like I said, roll is solid. Um you know, coming off the face, again, fit face isn’t necessarily designed. It’s more of a feel thing. Uh but these horizontal grooves on every every face tend to put pretty good roll in the ball. uh good center strikes just kind of come off the face and just have a good forward, you know, uh good top spin on them. They come out quick. Uh very minimal kind of skidding or anything like that. Uh they kind of take their little one hop and they get rolling pretty fast. So maybe not as as fast and as hot as say like a Tailor- made pure roll. Uh they don’t come off like that, but they do come off with some good spin, you know, good forward spin to them. They’re definitely not skidding or or kind of like, you know, coming back or anything like that. So, uh a really good roll on them there. But overall stable, overall really good uh performance out of them. I think both these putters are really solid. Uh I like the fact that uh they’re pretty, you know, pretty classic design. I mean, five for sure. And and again, I still love five when I look at it. Uh it just looks really, really good. But SP3 I putt a little bit better with uh out there. So I think SP3 right now uh leads uh five in the in the clubhouse at the moment. But in terms of looks, five is uh is definitely the the the kind of winner at that point. But overall, I think both these putters are really solid. Um, I think they’re good additions to the line that’s already there, the SB line, the antidote line. Um, because I think you have one, you have the blade, you know, the pure blade looking one. Looks really good, feels really good. Um, probably the most traditional out of all of them. Uh, and then you have SB2, the super high MOI kind of big square mallet that, you know, people will say is ugly or whatever, but it is what it is. It’s a it’s a really stable one. Uh, and then you go to three, which I think is definitely better looking, not quite as heavy stable as two, uh, but it’s pretty close with a little better look. And then you have five again for that more traditional player who wants something a little bit more than one in terms of the blade, uh, but they don’t want to go, uh, but they want something a little bit more and and then it’s there. So, it’s uh, I think it’s a good blend. I think there’s four models here that will fit different golfers. And I think there’s some golfers that there’s some overlap, you know, that that two of these would would work well and you can kind of, you know, go in between them. Uh but uh overall, I’m pretty impressed with uh with both putters. So yeah, I like both of them. Uh if you go to betnardy.com, you can go in there and jump in and and you know, they’ve got all the antidote putters. Uh the one downside of these is that there is no loft and lie uh changes on them. So you know, you can pick like your length and then you go to the loft is 3°, lie is 70. Um, and that’s just what they are. There’s no there’s no bending them or anything like that. And it’s probably because the way they uh kind of mill uh this huzzle in there. Uh, you probably would have to just mill another hoszle or a different angle on it. And I don’t know if that’s uh something that’s just not easy to do or probably cost effective or uh in terms of uh fast to do anything like that. So that is the one downside. Uh you can definitely custom order stuff uh you know with them in terms of length and grip. Uh but yeah, getting different lofts and Y’s is not something that uh is available at the moment. And looking at it, I don’t know, I don’t know if you would, you know, could do it in a bending machine. I mean, I guess you could kind of bend the shaft a little bit uh and do it, but uh Bettoni is not doing it straight from the factory. So, two really cool putters. Um again, if you said, “Hey, you got to pick one. You got to go play right now. Which one are you going to grab?” I’ll probably grab an SB3. Um, I was just a little bit more consistent and I felt like I got a few more balls on uh on that center start line, but I like both of them a whole lot. Uh, so both really good. Uh, it’ll be exciting to see what they do with the Antidote line. If they add to it more, will we see an SB4 in the future? I hope we will, but uh, these things were really, really solid. So, big fan uh, of the Antidote putters. Uh, glad I got to roll them a little bit. They’re definitely going to get more time uh, as uh, you know, I’ve uh, it’s cold here. I’m not getting out as much. Uh so I I definitely got to find time to get out there and play a little bit more and these will these will make some rounds with me to a couple trips and things like that that I have on the books already. So we’ll bring uh bring these down and play them. But yeah, really exciting for uh for Betardi to add this on. So uh you can check out the the launch article on on golfx.com. Right on the front page there’s an article kind of showing off a lot of the tech whatever. Go to betnardy.com check that out. Uh and then uh yeah that’s uh that is it. That is it. So, thank you to everyone uh for listening. Thank you to everyone who did uh my Q&A today on Instagram. If you’re not following me on Instagram, codejunkiepod. Every Wednesday, I try to do a little Q&A thing where I answer you guys’ questions on equipment and all that jazz. So, thank you all for asking questions and uh sometimes even go live. I might even go live tonight. I’m recording this Wednesday night. I might go live after this for for a little bit and uh see what’s going on. And then uh yeah, if you follow me on social, all that. than if you’re watching this on YouTube or wherever you listen to your podcast, whatever. Please like, subscribe, follow, all that stuff. It really does help and uh you know, makes me want to do more of this. So anyway, thank you guys. Appreciate it. And uh yeah, that’s all I’ve got today. So have a good weekend. Uh and we’ll chat next week. I know that I think my show will come out like on Thanksgiving. Uh if I’m looking at this correctly in terms of uh of the uh the old schedule there, uh I think this will come out on Thanksgiving Day. So, I don’t know if anybody will watch it or listen to it, at least not on Thursday. Maybe listen to it Friday, whatever. But, uh, yes, it will come out next week on Thursday. So, maybe you can listen, uh, while you’re traveling to friends, family’s house, whatever you’re doing. But, uh, anyway, have a good weekend. Enjoy it. And, uh, we’ll talk next week.

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Wondering if you ever put that graphite shaft on the phantom oc. And if you could tell me the tip size. Thanks
Great review and both these putters look great, the SB1 is one putter which I have been keen to test out but haven't had the chance yet, it was interesting that you were saying the SB1 was super stable so when you tested that putter how would you compare it with the SB3 and SB5 in terms of how soft / click they feel especially off a firmer golf ball like Left Dash and did you have any alignment issues with aiming and starting the SB1 on the intended start line since you mentioned that may have been the reason that you tended to miss the SB5 left?