Cleveland HB Soft 2 Retreve is our pick for best value in the 2024 Most Wanted Mallet test. It finishes 10th overall and performs extremely well from 10 feet. At 10 feet, we traditionally see the biggest separation in performance between putters. For the HB Soft 2 Retreve, it was present in our Top 5 percentage metric for 30% of our testing pool from 10 feet.
► You want efficiency from 10 feet: Cleveland HB Soft 2 Retreve ranks 3rd overall fro 10 feet. Putting from 10 feet is where we see the most differential in performance. This distance makes or breaks a putter’s performance in our testing.
► You like being able to pick the golf ball up without bending over: Seriously, who enjoys having to exhaust energy to pick the golf ball up? Well, the “Retreve” allows you to retrieve the golf ball due to its design. Quite clever if you ask us.
✖︎ You want balance in performance: Outside of its performance from 10 feet, Cleveland HB Soft 2 Retreve is lacking from 5 and 20 feet. Its performance from 10 feet propels it up the leaderboard and rightfully so. However, if you want balance on the putting green, you might need to work extra hard with this mallet putter.
Cancer Survivor. Amputee Golfer. Essentially, a OneLeggedBoss. When he isn't facilitating testing or analyzing data, Phillip enjoys his family time, practicing and playing golf, unwinding with video games, capturing photos of nature, or devouring pretzels.
| Driver Titleist TSR3 | 3 Wood Titleist TSR3 |
| Driving Iron Titleist U505 | Irons (5-6) Titleist T200 |
| Irons (7-PW) Titleist T150 | Wedges (50, 56, 60) Titleist Vokey SM10 |
| Putter L.A.B. Mezz.1 Max | Ball Titleist Pro V1x |
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