centre shaft putter anyne use one

Indeed I used to collect Bettis! And buying/using/selling was a hobby for quite a while too. The BB23 was my first and I would reuse one in a flash. Got schilled on Ebay buying it though, so a lesson learned there!

There is actually a guy in the States who is 'cornering the market' in BB43s - only made 500 from memory, though that may not have included the Offset ones and he had something like 120, including 3 I sold him, a few years ago.

The Baby Ben (one of 8 @ 33" made in his Studio B) has been my 'main' putter for 10 years now. The others have been 'pleasant diversions'. The fact that I've stuck pretty much to C/S should really say something. I've had plenty (couple of dozen?) of other types of putters - including a dozen or so more Bettinardis - the most beautiful being BB2 (2 of) that I used to go to practice with and think 'too beautiful to use'! I tend to flap Blades/Ansers styles so SBST is my style - and it seems to work. With 3 3-putts (2 - actually 3, because 1 should have been a 1-putt - of them stupid), the 33 putts I had on Sunday was one of my poorer putting rounds. 29-31 is my norm, depending somewhat on the course.