Post by Richie3Jack on Jul 29, 2010 13:30:41 GMT -5
THE BEST: The Anser
The putter that really started it all when it came to the putter LUV and people passing up on their kid’s orthodontia bills to shell out $300 for the next Scotty Cameron, who because this ‘brilliant’ putter maker while aping the ever loving shit out of Karsten Solheim’s work.
THE WORST: Doc12.5
Maybe John Solheim wanted to see if he could make a putter that had more steel than the entire country of Cambodia. Perhaps he saw Happy Gilmore and got an idea. Perhaps he just said ‘let’s see what these people will actually buy.’ Perhaps he saw the ’86 Masters on replay on the Golf Channel and saw Nicklaus’ MacGregor Response putter and decided to do his own version. Next up, re-making Izod golf shirts with the thick plastic collars.
MOST OVERRATED: Zing2
They usually lie very flat and they have a great look to them, but I haven’t known a lot of people to putt really well with them.
MOST UNDERRATED: A-Blade
A darn good putter with a nice design. I think Lee Buck had such issues with his putting that he found a Ping A-Blade in a pro shop in somewhere like Denmark and proceeded to bend the loft and lie the old fashioned way….by slamming it into the ground until it looked like he wanted. He then won the PGA and has kept it ever since. Usually I buy a putter off the rack and slam it into the ground after my latest missed 5-footer and it doesn’t look the way I want and then I physically abuse it for the next few months before the Department of Putter Services comes in and puts it away in a putter orphanage.
AGED THE BEST: B60
Every few years there’s some OEM that signs some putter maker with a neat name like Ronnie Crumbbiscuit and the entire world goes nuts over him remaking the latest Ping putter design and just milling it differently. Then they really wet themselves when Crumbbiscuit designs comes out with a B60 model, but names it something like ‘Savannah’ and thus the Crumbiscuit Savannah model putter is born. But, it’s for good reason because people usually putt quite well with these B60 knockoffs and back when I was a junior golfer I had a B61 (same as the B60, but the hosel was different) and I drained putts like Crenshaw in ’84 with that thing.
AGED THE WORST: A-1
I always get the feeling that Karsten also designed those really boxy looking Volvos as well. Actually, this isn’t a bad looking putter if the top was enclosed. But that’s kind of like owning a ’65 Mustang with no hood. It also made a sound that would let the world know that you are putting. But, this went from the hot putter when it first came out to more or less something we laugh at looking today. Much like myself :]
3JACK
The putter that really started it all when it came to the putter LUV and people passing up on their kid’s orthodontia bills to shell out $300 for the next Scotty Cameron, who because this ‘brilliant’ putter maker while aping the ever loving shit out of Karsten Solheim’s work.
THE WORST: Doc12.5
Maybe John Solheim wanted to see if he could make a putter that had more steel than the entire country of Cambodia. Perhaps he saw Happy Gilmore and got an idea. Perhaps he just said ‘let’s see what these people will actually buy.’ Perhaps he saw the ’86 Masters on replay on the Golf Channel and saw Nicklaus’ MacGregor Response putter and decided to do his own version. Next up, re-making Izod golf shirts with the thick plastic collars.
MOST OVERRATED: Zing2
They usually lie very flat and they have a great look to them, but I haven’t known a lot of people to putt really well with them.
MOST UNDERRATED: A-Blade
A darn good putter with a nice design. I think Lee Buck had such issues with his putting that he found a Ping A-Blade in a pro shop in somewhere like Denmark and proceeded to bend the loft and lie the old fashioned way….by slamming it into the ground until it looked like he wanted. He then won the PGA and has kept it ever since. Usually I buy a putter off the rack and slam it into the ground after my latest missed 5-footer and it doesn’t look the way I want and then I physically abuse it for the next few months before the Department of Putter Services comes in and puts it away in a putter orphanage.
AGED THE BEST: B60
Every few years there’s some OEM that signs some putter maker with a neat name like Ronnie Crumbbiscuit and the entire world goes nuts over him remaking the latest Ping putter design and just milling it differently. Then they really wet themselves when Crumbbiscuit designs comes out with a B60 model, but names it something like ‘Savannah’ and thus the Crumbiscuit Savannah model putter is born. But, it’s for good reason because people usually putt quite well with these B60 knockoffs and back when I was a junior golfer I had a B61 (same as the B60, but the hosel was different) and I drained putts like Crenshaw in ’84 with that thing.
AGED THE WORST: A-1
I always get the feeling that Karsten also designed those really boxy looking Volvos as well. Actually, this isn’t a bad looking putter if the top was enclosed. But that’s kind of like owning a ’65 Mustang with no hood. It also made a sound that would let the world know that you are putting. But, this went from the hot putter when it first came out to more or less something we laugh at looking today. Much like myself :]
3JACK
