Is A $1,000 Mallet Putter Worth It? We Tested It Against 28 Others To Find Out

Being shocked that a putter costs $400 or even $500 in today’s world isn’t realistic anymore. But every now and then, a club comes along that pushes past that threshold into four-figure territory. At that point, we think it’s worth asking some harder questions.

The Golfyr Maker Tour is $1,062 and it was part of our 2026 mallet putter test. Let’s take a deeper look at what it is, who it’s for and whether you can justify the money.

What is the Golfyr Maker Tour?

Golfyr is a Swiss golf brand that probably isn’t on your radar yet. The Maker Tour is their flagship putter co-developed with Sergio Garcia and built in Switzerland to specifications that Garcia reportedly signed off on personally.

The head is tungsten-weighted and has an MOI of 7,100 which is on the higher end of what you’ll find in the mallet category.

How we tested it

Every putter in this test was hit by real golfers across short, medium and long distances, generating 18,524 putts’ worth of data in total. We used PuttView’s tracking system to capture make percentage, average miss distance, speed deviation and directional deviation for every putt. The headline ranking metric is PuttView Handicap (PV HCP) which translates overall putting performance into a Strokes Gained-style number. The more negative a score is, the better the putter performed.

What the data shows

Short putts

This is where the Maker Tour makes its strongest case. With a PuttView Short Handicap of -5.0, it sits in the top tier of the field ahead of every Scotty Cameron, Odyssey and PING tested. The putters that outperformed it on short putts were the Bettinardi BB 7.0 (-7.4), Bettinardi BB 6.0 (-6.5), Sausage Golf Boudin Noir (-6.2), Tour Edge Wingman 800 Series (-6.0) and Cleveland HB Soft 2 (-5.8).

At four feet, it posted a 54.7 percent make rate which is the highest in the test against a field average of 49.5 percent.

Medium putts

The picture changes in the middle distances. A PuttView Medium Handicap of -2.0 keeps it on the right side of the ledger but a significant portion of the field outperformed it here. Putters like the Ben Hogan BHM03 (-5.9), Edel Array F-1 (-4.8) and Ben Hogan BHM02 (-4.0) pulled well clear.

Its medium-distance make rate of 25.3 percent sits just above the field average of 24.1.

Long putts

The long-distance data is the hardest to ignore at this price. A PuttView Long Handicap of -6.2 is a reasonable number in isolation but roughly half the field posted a more negative score from distance including several putters that cost a fraction of the Maker Tour’s price. Its make rate of 17.0 percent from long range fell just below the field average of 18.2. If lag putting is where you tend to drop shots, the data doesn’t support the $1,000 price tag.

Who is this putter for?

The data is fairly consistent in what it’s telling you. The Maker Tour is at its best on short putts and becomes less competitive as distance increases. If your short putting—the four- to eight-foot range—is where you’re losing strokes, there’s a real performance argument here. If your bigger issue is distance control and lag putting, the Maker Tour likely won’t solve that problem. There are options in the test that could at a lower price point.

Is it worth $1,062?

On short putts, the Golfyr Maker Tour outperformed the majority of this field including putters with significantly more brand recognition.

What you’re paying for beyond the performance is Swiss manufacturing, a co-development story with one of the game’s better putters and a putter that is genuinely distinctive in a market full of similar-looking mallets. Whether that’s worth the premium is a personal call.

Take a look at our full mallet putter results here: Best Mallet Putters of 2026.