JohnnyDee
Tour Winner
A lot of golfers seem to change putters more regularly than other clubs in the bag, with the possible exception of drivers as far as I can see, and it always amazes me that some of the Pros in particular do this a lot.
Not sure what Mickelson is using currently although I think it's pretty "normal", but when he used to have that Klingon Battle Cruiser thing on a stick and those other weird and wonderful ones a few years back my flabber was well and truly gasted.
One of my regular partners has enough putters to open a putter shop and always swears that his most recent acquisition "is the one. Oh yeah, deffos! he asserts" So far though it never has been.
The putter has always seemed to me to be a lot less 'sciency' than some other clubs because of the relative gentility of the mechanics of what we ask it to do. We don't slosh it around at 110mph and its movement during the stroke is calm and slow. Surely highfalutin NASA style aerodynamics and other high-tech considerations aren't as important as we are told by the manufactures that they are with the other bats we carry.
My own putter, a simple blade Ping Sedona, was bought for me by herself when I took up the game seriously 16 years ago, and although when I'm getting a bit iffy on the greens sometimes I think of maybe changing it, so far I have not succumbed to temptation. Not even when last year I won a Scotty Cameron Newport in the Pro's raffle. At a list price of nearly £300 quid then such a thing of glamorous slickness and the zenith of sporting engineering could never miss the hole, could it? It was close and I was tested to the limit but in the end I left the cellophane on and chopped it in for £200 which went a long way to funding my Callaway X2 Hots instead.
Me and the Ping have been through a lot good times and some bad. But on the whole it's seen me right and holed one or two biggies for me. I believe that it's rarely the club (any club really) that's at fault. It's more likely to be the person on the other end of it.
Do you allow your head to be turned by temptation or are you in a long-term relationship with your own short stick? (not a euphemism btw)
Not sure what Mickelson is using currently although I think it's pretty "normal", but when he used to have that Klingon Battle Cruiser thing on a stick and those other weird and wonderful ones a few years back my flabber was well and truly gasted.
One of my regular partners has enough putters to open a putter shop and always swears that his most recent acquisition "is the one. Oh yeah, deffos! he asserts" So far though it never has been.
The putter has always seemed to me to be a lot less 'sciency' than some other clubs because of the relative gentility of the mechanics of what we ask it to do. We don't slosh it around at 110mph and its movement during the stroke is calm and slow. Surely highfalutin NASA style aerodynamics and other high-tech considerations aren't as important as we are told by the manufactures that they are with the other bats we carry.
My own putter, a simple blade Ping Sedona, was bought for me by herself when I took up the game seriously 16 years ago, and although when I'm getting a bit iffy on the greens sometimes I think of maybe changing it, so far I have not succumbed to temptation. Not even when last year I won a Scotty Cameron Newport in the Pro's raffle. At a list price of nearly £300 quid then such a thing of glamorous slickness and the zenith of sporting engineering could never miss the hole, could it? It was close and I was tested to the limit but in the end I left the cellophane on and chopped it in for £200 which went a long way to funding my Callaway X2 Hots instead.
Me and the Ping have been through a lot good times and some bad. But on the whole it's seen me right and holed one or two biggies for me. I believe that it's rarely the club (any club really) that's at fault. It's more likely to be the person on the other end of it.
Do you allow your head to be turned by temptation or are you in a long-term relationship with your own short stick? (not a euphemism btw)
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. Have tried the new counterbalanced putters in the shop but dont want to change.
