The Best Face Balanced Putters of 2022

Should you use a face-balanced putter? Well, that completely depends on your putting stroke. 

Face-balanced putters best serve golfers with a straight-back, straight-through stroke with little to no arc. If that sounds like you, then our list of the best face-balanced putters could help you sink more putts.

With any putter purchase, you should be confident in your flat stick. Your putter is the most-used club in your bag, so feel is important. That said, it can really benefit your game to evaluate the technology in your putter as well. Much like playing the correct shaft in your driver, a face-balanced putter helps you make a consistent, accurate stroke on each putt. To help marry your stroke and your putter, these are the 10 best face-balanced putters of 2022.

TaylorMade is several generations deep into Spider putters and this line performs beautifully. We had the current model, the Spider GT, in our top-15 of the best mallet putters, but it's our clear-cut No.1 face-balanced putter.

Once we tested the Spider GT on actual grass, it made complete sense to us why it’s one of the most popular clubs on professional tours. It’s incredibly stable throughout the putting stroke and assisted us with great distance control, even on putts we purposely missed on the toe and heel. Alignment-wise, just drop the head behind the ball and don’t second guess. This Spider is incredibly simple to get squared up, which gives you an extra boost of confidence.

Our only gripe is that the price of Spiders keeps going up, with this current edition standing at $350. It’s a little steep, but the performance of the Spider GT makes a strong argument that it could be worth every penny.

The Odyssey 2-Ball Ten is the first of three putters on this list from Odyssey. We really like this putter because it adds a touch of old school flair with the classic two-ball alignment, but it also has modern weighting and materials which make it lighter and more accurate.

The black-to-white contrast stood out to us and made it visually simple to get set behind the ball. Try testing this model with Odyssey’s Stroke Lab shaft, which is designed to further help with the straight path of the head and get you into a better position at impact.

If you’ve read any of our other “best of” putter articles, you’ll know that we really like Toulon Design’s offerings. These putters are the premium end of the Odyssey family and deliver the goods in every way.

The Toulon Design Las Vegas DB feels like a custom, one-of-one putter. It’s Toulon’s take on the popular winged design head, with craftsmanship that pays attention to every detail. The double bend model was really close to taking our best overall for this category had it not lacked, just slightly, when we tested it from the fringe and off-green scenarios. Nonetheless, the Las Vegas DB is no gamble if you’re shopping in the higher price range.

Not to be confused with the 2-Ball Ten, we bring you the Odyssey 2-Ball Eleven. If we’re playing favorites between the two, we’re giving the edge to the Eleven, but it’s close.

The 2-Ball Eleven has one of the sleekest head designs we’ve seen from Odyssey. The way that it’s rounded out in certain areas makes it easy on the eyes while also putting the main concentration on the 2-ball alignment aid, as it should be. The insert feels closer to the original White Hot insert, which is very soft and very responsive depending on how much speed you want to give it. As with other Odyssey models, we tested the 2-Ball Eleven with a Stroke Lab shaft, which made it incredibly easy to consistently keep on the line.

Tour Edge stepped up its putter game in 2022 with a huge expansion of its Wingman series. We even chose the standard model, the Wingman 701, as our most forgiving putter in 2022. In the face-balanced category, we’re all about the Exotics Wingman 706.

Admittedly, we’re not crazy about center-shafted putters. This putter, however, reinvented the shaft-to-head connection for us, which we didn’t expect. This is a mini-mallet design, and the smaller head paired together with the center shaft seamlessly. It rolled true and, like the 701, was deadly accurate. There are six putters under the Wingman umbrella and we suggest trying all of them to see which fits you best.

Sub 70 Golf continues to roll along in the golf industry, creating products that are as good as anything else out there. Combine that with direct-to-consumer pricing and Sub 70 is dangerous in the most awesome way.

The company produces fully milled putters that fly under the radar as far as value and performance go. In the face-balanced category, we loved the Sycamore 003 putter, which is offered in a double bend option and a toe-hang edition if you have some arc in your stroke. If you're shopping for a putter to match your straight back, straight through stroke, make sure you select the face-balanced, double bend edition of the 003 Sycamore.

The appearance of this putter is all business with a black head, black shaft, and black grip. The stark white alignment lines on the top of the putter pop off the club head and this was one of the best-performing putters we tested outside of 30 feet.

The only thing we felt could be better is just a byproduct of Sub 70 having insanely good pricing, and that’s the fact that, mostly, you can't just walk into a store and try it out. Sub 70 does, however, offer a demo program which we recommend if you’re not crazy about jumping in head first. 

More than any other putter brand, SeeMore is truly one you must try to fully appreciate. The company’s patented Rifle Scope Technology is a thing of genius. When the shaft hides the red dot at the heel of the putter head, voila, your face is square and your shaft angle is perfect.

The SeeMore FGP Black putter is based on the original SeeMore design, which Payne Stewart and Zach Johnson used to win major championships. It’s a fairly simple blade design but it is face-balanced to promote a much easier stroke. We love how all SeeMore putters feel exceptional at impact with the perfect combination of soft milling and responsive feel. If your stroke calls for a face-balanced putter but you're not crazy about mallet putters, give the SeeMore FGP Black a few rolls.

We finish our list of the best face-balanced putters with the Odyssey Tri-Hot 5K Triple Wide. We know it’s a mouthful, but you’ll be the one mouthing off to your playing partners when you’re dropping birdies.

This putter is the perfect blend of a blade and a mallet. It marries a traditional blade look with a wider body that covers more ground. Unlike other Odyssey putters on this list, we actually preferred the Triple Wide with a stepped steel shaft as opposed to the Stroke Lab shaft, which Odyssey also offers. Perhaps it was the additional weighting, but we felt it was much easier to avoid pushing and pulling putts with the steel shaft.

The $400 price tag is a bit much, in our opinion, because that puts it in the same ballpark as a Toulon Design putter and the likes.