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In short
The Bettinardi Antidote SB3 (2024) is a mallet putter built for stability and easier alignment. It is face balanced, with a built-in alignment aid. It carries a $450 MSRP.
Bettinardi makes its name milling putters in its own shop near Chicago, and the Antidote line is how that shop-cut quality reaches more bags without the flagship price. The SB3 is the 2024 Antidote mallet built for the most common stroke in golf. It carries the machined face and the tight build Bettinardi is known for, then sets it up with a shape and a balance point aimed squarely at forgiveness and a straight stroke.
The SB3 is a mid-to-full mallet, so the weight lives back and out toward the corners of the head. That is what keeps the face steady when you catch a putt off the sweet spot, and it is the whole reason to reach for a mallet instead of a blade. Bettinardi finishes the head cleanly and runs an alignment aid across the top, so you can square the face to your line before the stroke ever starts.
The spec that settles the fit here is the balance. The SB3 is face balanced, which means the face points at the sky when you rest the shaft on your finger. Built that way, the head wants to stay square through impact rather than rotate open and shut. If you take the putter straight back and straight through, the SB3 moves the way you already move. Players with a strong arc will feel it fighting the release, and that is the one group this putter is not for.
The mallet head does two jobs at once. It parks mass at the back and the corners for stability, and it clears space across the top for the sightline so your eye runs cleanly from the face to the hole. Bettinardi machines the face instead of bonding in a soft insert, and you feel that as firmer, more consistent contact with real feedback on where you struck it. The sound is cleaner and the hands get more information than a muted insert gives back. Face balancing is the piece that ties the head to the stroke. Bettinardi set the hosel and the internal weighting so the face resists rotation and holds square from takeaway to follow-through. You feel it most in the transition, where the head tracks straight instead of drifting open. Pair that stay-square balance with the corner weighting and you get a stable, forgiving mallet that rewards a straight motion, which is exactly the golfer this model targets.
Bettinardi is one of the few brands that still mills every putter in their own facility. Their signature honeycomb face milling and one-piece construction create exceptional feel and consistency.
| Brand | Bettinardi |
| Model | Antidote SB3 |
| Year | 2024 |
| Type | Mallet |
| Toe hang | Face balanced |
| Alignment aid | Yes |
| MSRP | $450 |
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