Cleveland HB Soft 2 Retreve

2024

Cleveland HB Soft 2 Retreve

8.6 overall

The Bottom Line

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.

👍 Buy This If

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.

👎 Don’t Buy This If

✖︎ 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.

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  • rank
    6th

How we test

For Most Wanted Putter testing, we have 20 testers hit eight putts from three different distances: five, 10 and 20 feet. The putter with the fewest total putts is crowned the Best Putter.

Testing Pool

Details to come...

Notes from the MGS Testing Team

 

Rankings

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  • rank
    3rd

How we test

For Most Wanted Putter testing, we have 20 testers hit eight putts from three different distances: five, 10 and 20 feet. The putter with the fewest total putts is crowned the Best Putter.

Testing Pool

Details to come...

Notes from the MGS Testing Team

 

Rankings

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  • rank
    5th

How we test

For Most Wanted Putter testing, we have 20 testers hit eight putts from three different distances: five, 10 and 20 feet. The putter with the fewest total putts is crowned the Best Putter.

Testing Pool

Details to come...

Notes from the MGS Testing Team

 

Rankings

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  • rank
    1st

How we test

For Most Wanted Putter testing, we have 20 testers hit eight putts from three different distances: five, 10 and 20 feet. The putter with the fewest total putts is crowned the Best Putter.

Testing Pool

Details to come...

Notes from the MGS Testing Team

 

Rankings

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