When it comes to putter royalty, it’s hard to beat T.P. Mills, the pioneer of hand-milled flatsticks dating back to the 1960s. With their unquestionable quality, creative designs and distinctive crosshairs icon, Mr. Mills’ putters helped pave the way for ...
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Question: What do David Feherty, Colin Montgomerie, Payne Stewart, Seve Ballesteros, Fred Couples and Kiawah Island—the site of this week’s PGA Championship—have in common? They were all players in the epic 1991 Ryder Cup match that hasn’t gotten its historical ...
Read More »Ernie Els Earns Odyssey Gold
Olympic athletes aren’t the only ones going for the gold this week. Indeed, Ernie Els just received a gold Odyssey White Hot XG #1 putter to commemorate his victory at the British Open, per Odyssey’s tradition of presenting gold replicas ...
Read More »Another White Hot Week for Odyssey
Earlier this week, we published a story on the remarkable and continued success of Odyssey Golf’s White Hot line of putters. So what happens five days later? Two Odyssey White Hot XG putters go down to the wire at the ...
Read More »Triangulate Your Putter
The SeeMore Putter Company this morning shared an interesting new video demonstrating the challenges of establishing perfect aim on the putting green— and how a unique putting aid can help put your putter on the straight and narrow. The lesson ...
Read More »Ghost Putters Reap Scary Profits
TaylorMade Golf this morning announced “huge” second quarter sales for 2012, with metalwoods, irons, putters and footwear “all recording growth rates above 20 percent.” Along the way, the company reported 29 percent growth in putter sales compared to last year, with ...
Read More »Get Your Groove On
Once upon a time, face grooves on putters may have seemed like a fad. But not anymore. A survey of the current putter landscape shows that grooves are as popular as ever. Putter grooves are grooved patterns on the face ...
Read More »Ernie Els’ Putter: Odyssey White Hot XG #1
Enie Els’ victory at the British Open adds another chapter to the long, strange and wildly successful “odyssey” of the White Hot putter family by Odyssey Golf. Keegan Bradley (major victory), Ernie Els (major victory), Graeme McDowell (major victory), Luke ...
Read More »Did Els Beat or “Cheat” the Competition?
Did Ernie Els “cheat” his way to a British Open victory today? Els, who was famously outspoken against the belly putter until he decided to use one himself, recently defended his switch by stating, “As long as it’s legal, I’ll keep ...
Read More »Putter Fitting: British Open Edition
At the Open Championship at St. Andrews two years ago, Tiger Woods dropped a bombshell by ditching his Scotty Cameron putter for a Nike Method putter. His reasoning? The Method putter got the ball rolling more quickly on the slow, ...
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