“A Queen B mallet built for stability with a soft carbon-steel body and honeycomb face. Near face-balanced, so it fits a straighter stroke while keeping the softer Queen B feel.”
The QB9 is the mid-mallet of Bettinardi's Queen B line -- the shape for an arc-stroke player who wants more head than a blade without going to a full symmetrical mallet. Reviewers single it out for a genuinely distinctive, non-rounded silhouette that is 'beautifully executed' rather than another generic disc. Milled one-piece from stainless steel in Tinley Park and wearing the Caramel Copper PVD finish with the 8%-finer Mini Honeycomb face, its 362g head brings a touch more stability while keeping the muted-but-crisp Honeycomb feel. It sits between the family's blades (QB6/QB12) and its compact mallet (QB11), aimed at the golfer who arcs the stroke but wants a slightly more planted, alignment-friendly head.
Widely admired for its shaping in reviews (Plugged In Golf, Today's Golfer, Bettinardi UK), which is a design compliment, not cult status. It is a standard production mid-mallet on an annual refresh cycle -- no scarcity, tour legend or years-later hunt. Boutique brand cachet lifts the whole Queen B line to 'notable'; nothing about the QB9 specifically elevates it further.
For the arc-stroke putter who wants a distinctive mid-mallet with a bit more forgiveness and alignment presence than a blade while keeping premium milled feel and feedback. Best fitted to spec. Golfers needing maximum stability, straight-back-straight-through balance, or the most help on off-center strikes should step up to a full mallet or a zero-torque model such as the 2025 Antidote SB2/SB5.
A core Queen B mid-mallet carried through the 2023 Caramel Copper / Mini Honeycomb refresh, competing with premium mid-mallets like the Scotty Cameron Phantom (shorter models), Ping PLD and TaylorMade TP designs on feel and finish. It represents Bettinardi's 'feel-first, moderate-forgiveness' philosophy, distinct from the high-MOI, face-balanced direction the brand pursued separately with the 2025 Antidote zero-torque line.
Moderate. The mid-mallet body and 362g weight give more stability on mishits than the QB11 compact mallet or the blades, but this is still a toe-hang design for an arcing stroke, not a face-balanced high-MOI mallet. Plugged In notes the head is stable yet the honeycomb face makes off-center hits clearly heard and felt -- honest feedback, modest true forgiveness. A 6 places it a notch above the QB11 and well below a zero-torque or fang mallet.
Calibrated across the whole catalog — a tour blade scores low here on purpose; it means control, not ease.
MSRP $450 in 2023. Graded reconditioned-retail can approach $350-400; realistic 2026 private-party value is about $225-325 depending on finish wear and fitting spec. The distinctive shaping helps demand modestly, but as a standard-run mid-mallet it trades steadily rather than appreciating -- limited/Hive Bettinardi pieces are the ones that carry premiums.
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