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In short
The Honma Beres PP-201 Mallet (2023) is a mallet putter built for stability and easier alignment. It has mid toe hang, with a built-in alignment aid. It carries a $500 MSRP.
Honma's Beres line is where the company puts its luxury craftsmanship on display, and the PP-201 Mallet is the putter side of that story. It carries the same premium price tag and finish work you expect from Beres, but the real news here is how it plays. This is a mallet, but it doesn't behave like most of them.
Most mallets are face-balanced, meaning the face points to the sky when you balance the shaft on your finger. The PP-201 is different. It has mid toe hang, which puts it in the same balance category as a lot of blades. That single spec changes who should be looking at this putter. If you've been told a mallet will fix your stroke and it never clicked, the reason might be that face-balanced heads fight the way you naturally swing.
Add the alignment aid on top and you get a putter that's trying to do two jobs at once: give you the forgiveness and visual guidance of a mallet, while still rewarding a stroke that opens and closes through the ball. That's a specific combination, and it works well for a specific golfer.
The mid toe hang is the defining design choice. Honma built a mallet head but weighted and balanced it so the toe wants to drop when the shaft sits level. In practice that means the face rotates open on the way back and closes on the way through, matching an arc stroke rather than a dead-straight one. It's a deliberate move, and it separates the PP-201 from the pile of face-balanced mallets that dominate the category. The alignment aid gives you a clear reference to square the face at address, which is the part of putting most amateurs get wrong before the stroke even starts. Pair that visual with Beres-level fit and finish, and you have a head that looks calm behind the ball and holds its line off the face. It's a putter that assumes you have some feel and wants to work with your stroke instead of overriding it.
Honma brings a distinctive approach to putter design, focusing on quality materials, precision manufacturing, and performance-driven engineering.
| Brand | Honma |
| Model | Beres PP-201 Mallet |
| Year | 2023 |
| Type | Mallet |
| Toe hang | Mid toe hang |
| Alignment aid | Yes |
| MSRP | $500 |
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